#zaun is the kind of place ripe for cults to form

[mollysunder]

Remember how during Progress Day we saw some Zaunites giving away eyeballs to a giant turtle vastaya?

Based on the vastaya's eye tattoo, I assumed this had to do with Silco (Eye of Zaun blah blah blah). After I read more League stories, I came to realize this might be an early iteration of the Church of the Gloriously Evolved. In Camille's story, The Weakest Heart, we learn of the First Assemblage of the Gloriously Evolved. On Progress Day, members of the Church, following an old Zaunite tradition, sacrifice something personal in the hope that something better will come to them. In Gloriously Evolved fashion that usually means removing diseased (bordering necrotic) body parts. One of the more commonly preserved organ in the church were eyes, jarred like pickled eggs.

Obviously, you'd assume that the Church of the Gloriously Evolved can't exist without Viktor's Glorious Evolution. That's doesn't seem to be the case in League though, because the Church more draws inspiration from Viktor's ideology and does its own thing with Zaunite traditions. They even have a whole patron saint separate from Viktor, the Gray Lady. It seems more like that instead of Viktor's ideology amassing a cult following from scratch, he and this organization's ideology built up separately and managed to converge.

Thus is just me spit'ballin tho. It could still be a cult related to Silco, to Void worship, who knows.