#I am just writing it down in case it's useful to have a prewritten cult for later
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"All over the city, the masked cultists of the death god" It's quite benign, really; the adherents of the death god hold that each person's death is their sacred own death and it is a dishonourable thing to give someone a death that wasn't intended to be theirs. As such, devotees tend to wear masks and gloves to ensure they don't spread any diseases, because they absolutely cannot, in their devotion, risk being responsible for someone else dying of their own illness
They're amazing at safe sex because death god forbid you give someone a potentially serious STI - that's your illness to live or die with, not your partner's!
Once you get past all the skulls and ossuaries they're also super into civic planning because one person's careless match or gas fire shouldn't result in dozens of other, wholly unrelated, people's deaths. Creepy fucks, to be quite honest, but nobody maintains a safe gas line or designs adequate sewerage systems quite like them.
The flipside is that they do rather venerate suicides and heart attacks, because those are so much more personal, and yes their civil engineering is amazing but they're very casual about workplace accidents. Wonderfully clean water and a distinct lack of guardrails for anyone who has to climb up to do maintenance. Sometimes death god has decreed that your own personal death is you falling from a great height into superaerated water.
They run a great end-of-life hospice but there is a concerted effort by every single other faith and most of the faithless to prevent them getting involved with hospitals unless there's an epidemic on.
#zi does worldbuilding#death and relationships to it#they have a complicated relationship with adherents of the trickster god#the stage perfomer side is great because nobody wants a death due to someone else failing to properly secure stage lighting#but they have had outright street battles with the multilevel marketers over miracle cure scams#this is not for anything in particular#I am just writing it down in case it's useful to have a prewritten cult for later
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