Heresies in Tamous

Primal Spirits

Worship of the Primal Spirits is put down violently wherever it is found. For the most part, though, this isn't considered an element of Tamousan culture - it is the blasphemies practiced by the shifters and elves of the Delannwood. That said, there are constant rumors that some among the southern settlements that abut the Ilandor Mountains occasionally fall to the debased worship of some kind of powerful mountain spirit that haunts those deadly peaks. Popular stories talk about entire hidden communities of these perverse, inbred hillfolk.

Dark Powers

Over the years, the Faith of the Throne has become aware, time and again, of strange cults dedicated to a figure who is only called Dancer in Shadows. Her cultists give themselves over to a dark passion, to intoxication by strange mushrooms that come from the Shadowfell, and to unholy passions of the flesh that are as indiscriminate as they are sinful. Those aware of such things know that a Dark Lord by the same name rules the Shadowfell lands that abut Tamous. The priests of Khoro in the Faith have taken it upon themselves to hunt down these debased cultists.

Vestiges of Power

The Faith has records of generations of witches found in Tamous. Some are native, but just as many claim to have followed dreams that led them there. All have spoken of binding their pacts with an entity that they call the Nightmare Hag, a terrifying witch-spirit who chokes the life from the living, blasts pregnant women and livestock barren and sours milk. These servants of the Hag do not form cults, but are always secretive and hidden, often remaining part of communities for generations.