The Black Thorns

The Black Thorns was a cult of witches who were worshipers of a dark elder god beyond the stars. This horrifying entity is Kurval, a Primordial from a distant world that ultimately failed to bring about life, a dead planet. Due to their efforts in the Hungering Thorns Arc, Kurval was successfully resurrected, and even almost made its way to the world in which the story takes place but was ultimately stopped.
Almost every single member of the cult would be eradicated by the Demon King Trauma in a frantic, final desperation act by Ilona to stop them, but it took the combined might of multiple Elemental forces to keep the dark god from entering their world.
== Members ==
=== Higa ===
Lady of Thorns, leader. Willingly infested herself to the point of where she was more alien than Human. Killed by Trauma.
===Grandma Retra===
A member of the cult since before even Higa's parents, Retra was at one point the Lady of Thorns, and was the first person to make successful contact with the dark god Kurval. This however, shattered her mind, making her an exceedingly eccentric woman clearly off her rocker. While still participating in major rituals and even harboring power herself, Retra was simply too far gone, and the cult for the most part simply ignored her. Due to being a Lich, she was the only survivor of Trauma's massacre.