Tales of Maj'Eyal: Forbidden Cults

The greatest Rogue of all time just got the D&D equivocal of the Underdark & Menzoberranzan added to the already immense world of Maj'Eyal. A World that already has deep dungeons, explorable aquatic depths, outer space, & extra planar dimensions akin to the heavenly & hellish, has gotten larger still. To get an expansion this large, this late in the game (after Embers of Rage was made semi-standalone), is a pleasant punishment from the DarkGod, indeed. Two more classes and thousands more ways to die?! Rapturous. I sacrifice my free time to you for favour. Hail~! The Cultism was already a plot linchpin for most of us (spoilers aside), causing the player to make ethical decisions based on skill and worth. The results can be very upsetting. There are worse things than death in Maj'Eyal. To delve deeper into this storyline is both exciting & horrific. The macabre lore is astounding, well written &/or translated. The rhetoric and magic is arcane, to say the least. To dig back this far in literature one might look to Beowulf or perhaps the Silmarillion; but one would also require astranged books of mythology, forbiddon magics, hidden histories, & most notably angelology & daemonology. For this sort of mysticism & lore one must transcribe the Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic mysteries, Sumerian legend, and further, much further back to Animism & the origins of cultism. Herein lies the roots of many mystic tranditions. Mayan styled ritual, savage ceremonies, insane mystery cults, rites out of the Book of the Dead, & many things most would rather pretend never existed in our crazed world history. This is powerful writing on par with some of the greatest loremasters of all time, if very humorous, tongue-in-cheek with a sardonic sensibility that might throw some, it's truly subversive in nature. Nothing is what it seems. Your choices matter more than any of us might ever know or fully understand. The game is too massive and the AI, which springs to life at times via the DarkGod, is too intelligent to comprehend with thousands of us playing for years now to little avail. Now, go forth & spend thine reincarnations attempting this mad puzzle called Maj'Eyal. Enjoy your deaths.