Church of the Peacock Angel

*Just as those who serve the Archons debate over the finer points of the Archon's intent for the Free Peoples and how we can best honour their legacy and enact their plan, those who bow to Malik Nous similarly are divided amongst themselves about how best to carry out the Only God's will. Does this surprise you? If anything it is astounding that the Dark Creator's followers have the unity that they do. After all, the Archons took great care to leave their testimonies to their worshippers when the went into occultation. It is true that, for all the inspired thought and heroic effort the Archons committed to these texts, over the centuries many events and developments have transpired that their texts do not provide an unambiguous guide to navigating. But however gnomish and enigmatic the Archon's teachings are, at least the exist. Malik Nous has never provided any such testament or teaching to those who believe it is he, not the Archons, who is entitled to the highest duty in the human heart. That is not to say that his followers have not attempted to create such testimonies, perhaps even in some sort of blasphemous attempt to emulate the Archons. But these testimonies do not have the authority of the entity they are directed towards. In fact, it is perhaps amazing that the followers of Malik Nous have any unity at all...*

...*teachings among the great golden books of the Minotaurs and the oral histories of the barbarous Unmen, most interesting are those who were born among the Free Peoples but instead turned their faces toward the Sun Eater. Who knows what dark drive can create in one born under the protection of the Archons, an urge to submit instead to he who wishes nothing for them but slavery, pain and terror? But although we can pray we never understand this drive, we know it happens. And those who do choose to commit this horrific parody of worship have equal need of teachings, a philosophy, a liturgy, even a Church...*

*...the Church of the Peacock Angel perhaps most closely resembles the Churches of the Archons in that it organises itself as a spiritual hierarchy with prayers, ecclesiastical ranks, ceremonies, teachings and even, it is believed, an administrative structure, albeit an underground one. Its followers depict malik Nous as a rigid and domineering father/leader figure, something akin to an Emperor but imbued with divine power. The Church is led by an Archbishop and has an unbroken chain of leadership by which each member is in communion with a leader who in turns follows a higher leader and so on until they reach the Archbishop, who is believed to receive instructions directly from malik Nous. The Church's preferred term for the deity is the Peacock Angel, as they see the Peacock as a magnificent reflection of the lordly, aristocratic, commanding aspect they use to describe the King of the Nine Angles..*

*Even though they are blasphemers one must acknowledge there is some truth to their teachings - as the Eternal Emperor did indeed create life purely so that he would have autonomous beings to subject to his dominance, it must be acknowledged that the concept of Malik Nous as a lordly, imperious entity seeking rulership and control is accurate, in as much as we can know anything of the nature of the Unnameable.*