Cult of the Elevated Ancestors

The **Cult of the Elevated Ancestors** is a cult of Warped Peras that first arose on the Mars, the Red Planet. Its members are highly religious and zealous fanatics who revere the Spectral Ps seeing them as honored ancestors deserving of reverence.

## Known Sects

### Exalted Sons

The Exalted Sons are an all-male sect of the Elevated Ancestors cult.

### Deep Clergy

The Deep Clergy are a small sect that inhabit the deepest passageways of the Cavern of the Sacred Ancestors. Chosen as keepers of the cavern, the oldest of them granted eternal life, yet as an profane form being a result of a dark ceremony.

### Nylok Sect

The Nylok Sect is a sect of Elevated Ancestors cultists known particularly for its members' violent tendencies.

### Giving Children

The Giving Children sect are some of the most zealous of the Elevated Ancestors cult, willingly offering not only themselves but others to the Spectral Ps.

### Anointed of the Change

A little known sect of the Elevated Ancestors cult. Many of these cultists are afflicted with severe deformities, leaving them resembling little more than walking monstrosities.

### Mythic Truth

The Mythic Truth are obsessed with the prophecies spoken by the Spectral Ps. The oracles and seers of the sect perform divination through ghastly rituals to read truths in sacrifices as a means to gain clarity into the will of their ancestors.

### Faithful Kin

A sect that conduct brazen attacks and acts of terror as a means to garner their ancestors' attention and potentially receive their gifts from them.

### Eight Daughters

An all female conclave of powerful cultists, each consider themselves foremost practitioners of the ways of the ancestors. Membership of the group is restricted to just eight individuals at any time.

### True Heirs

The True Heirs sect assert that they are the true heirs of the Spectral Ps, desiring to inherit their ancestors' legacy and continue their work.

### Seeker Sect

A sect of the Elevated Ancestors cult that using every method they posse to search for the means to permanently unseal and liberate the ancestors from their prison.

### Ancestors' Call

The quasi-mystics of the Ancestors' Call sect are considered blessed, for they have been driven utterly mad by constantly hearing of the Spectral Ps' whispers which are referred to as "the Call". Sect members can amplify and utilize it as a means to open up minds to the horrors of the Warp.

### Ush and Kaul

A sect that are fond of ritual sacrifices. Divided into two sub sects; the Ush and the Kaul. The former preform lengthy and outlandish ceremonies, the latter however prefers a simple and quick cut to the throat and blood shedding.

### Mutator Sect

A small sect that reside in isolation within the badlands, operating out of the abandoned Facility Two. The sect toils away at breeding, mutating, twisting and warping life into producing new and horrifying creatures to serve the ancestors.

### Devoted Believers

The Devoted Believers sect are known for they revere blessed unity in their shared belief in the ancestors above all else.

### Pain Bearers

A sect that values pain and suffer to show their faith to the ancestors. even preforming scarification with its members all marked by ritual scars that are carved onto their bodies.

### Necromorticians

In their devotion to the Spectral Ps, the Necromorticans took steps to ensure that the faithful would continue in service to the ancestors, even in death. They developed the means of which to bind the souls of deceased cultists in their bodies for all eternally.

### Host Kindred

A small sect that worships the ancestors in the form of parasites, believing in the shared origin of their genesis from which they all sprang from. The sect members host a plethora of parasitic life and other vile things within themselves,

### Transpectra Sect

A sect of the Elevated Ancestors cult. The Transpectra Sect preach of striving to follow the ancestors' example, with the ultimate goal of becoming like them.

### Cleansing Hand

The Cleansing Hand believe that the Ipsens are a disease upon the universe. The sect's adherents hold firm in this belief which tells that the ancestors have left the material realm due to Ipsens's stench. Only when the taint of the Ipsens and all who follow them are purged will the ancestors return and usher in a new age.