#they're very similar in premise to the dark rings when it comes to the effects on void critters

[hivemindomega]

Another void cult au question: what exactly are they going to do to ghost to “purify” them from PK’s influence? (Tbh feel really bad for ghost, eldritch horror just wants to take a nap and a foreign cult ends up kidnapping them))

Good question!

They are erasing Little Ghost’s identity from the Shade Lord to reduce them to a merely elemental nature. :)

I guess it’s not very obvious from the sketches, but the blue chains are meant to be more than actual chains- they’re more like brainwashing and mind control devices in the form of physical restraints.The Shade Lord (as well as partial void entities like vessels) is too powerful for the chains to have any effect on them other than just keep them chained. By erasing the source of their willpower -their identity, the Ghost of Hallownest- the cultists hope to contain their God from turning against them.

(This does not end well for the cult, but more on that later.)