The Cult of Infernos (Guild)

## The Cult of Infernos

**The Cult of Infernos** was one of the top Guilds of YGGDRASIL, second only to Ainz Ooal Gown, with only three members in its prime. Consisting of hardcore roleplayers and immersion gamers, the guild rose to prominence through excessive purchase of cash items and massive raids.

The guild was infamous for its powerful members, its powerful NPC standing army, and its possession of a treasury full of god items and even ten world items; the second most of any other guild in the game, and its creation of The Church of Infernos, often called the 'most unfair dungeon in the game'.

## Background

The biggest reason behind the gathering and creation of Infernos was because of the rampant presence of holy and angelic guilds, which would often lead raids on smaller demonic guilds. Simply because of a negative alignment, it was seen as natural and even righteous for players to kill demons over and over. Because of this, the small group that eventually became the Cult of Infernos decided to show holy guilds what true monsters were.

They were the kind of guild which focused on such a monstrous theme that no atrocity was too great, and two of them were even admitted sadists. In the beginning, five people came together, forming a clan for the sake of protection against being PKed by other players. Eventually, they went down the path of villains, with two of them splitting off to do their own thing due to a dispute between members.

Infernos was the type of PvP/PK guild that kept its membership limited to a select few of high standard, as shown when they only had three guild members at any one time. For a new member to join, they would be vetted and tested extensively, and it simply wasn't worth it for most players. Very defensive of its members, if anyone was attacked, Infernos would gear up for war and crush the aggressors without mercy.

### The Pentagram

Prior to the guild's formation, there were five demonic players who founded a clan called the Pentagram. It occurred during the age where demonic players were being ruthlessly exterminated by other groups of players and especially holy guilds. As they became friends, it came to the point where they decided to form a clan together with Azazel as their leader.

After Azazel had become the clan leader, he was unwilling to restrict their ambitions and branched out into other realms. Mocked by humanoid players and hated by demonic players for bringing unnecessary attention, the members of the Pentagram only grew in power. The clan became more respectable among players after taking out several raid bosses and pooling massive amounts of gold between themselves. Despite this rise in popularity, there was a great disagreement amongst the five that led to two of the members leaving and possibly quitting the game.

### Becoming a Guild

After this disagreement, Azazel dissolved the Pentagram and formed an official guild, Infernos. Azazel remained the Guild Master through unanimous vote and led Infernos to conquer what was then called the Cathedral of Vice. This would become the Church of Infernos, the Guild Base of Infernos. When the guild came into possession of the Church, they learned that it was an underground dungeon built to be wide, but not deep. However, Infernos then came to the decision that they would make this the most evil lair possible by greatly expanding it in size and strength. Infernos managed to turn the dungeon into a legendary desecration of the holy guilds' beliefs and values that none were able to successfully conquer.

To do this, Infernos conquered and bought numerous mines and forests that would generate rare materials and make the guild fantastically rich, making them the richest guild in the game by far. These mines also generated a small amount of Caloric Stone, which Mephisto made into jewellery so the guild members would have infinite stamina.

During the final days of YGGDRASIL, the Church had been abandoned by the other two guild members, who had moved on with their lives, leaving only Azazel. They had given their equipment and items to Azazel before quitting the game for good.

## Strength

Infernos' member were all demons who possessed monstrous strength and ability. The strength of Infernos as a guild was their specialty with PK, as well as controlling the Church. In its early days, the guild flourished and thrived off of PKing and on several occasions eradicated entire guilds because they had caused some offence. Infernos often used methods that involved bait and traps and other similarly insidious methods. There was a high chance of the bait being killed, but that was seen as a necessary sacrifice.

At one point, Infernos was ranked 4th most powerful guild in the entire world, which was right after their defeat of the Sun Beast. However, they later dropped further down in the guild's ranking, finally stopping at a fairly constant 19th place. The reason for their guild's ranking being so high was not solely due to the efforts of the guild members, but because of the ten World Items the guild held in their possession.

### Current World Items

1. **Thought and Wisdom:** A masquerade half-mask that allows the user to see everything happening across the world. There is no penalty or limitation to where the user can see, but the user may only use the item for an hour at a time before there is a cooldown of two hours.
2. **Sacred Obi:** An elaborate sash made of golden fabric depicting a red bird, a blue dragon, a white tiger, and a black tortoise. Grants the wearer full and free elemental control and immunity. Currently held by Azazel
3. **Brisingamen:** An elaborate golden necklace inlaid with red rubies that grants the wearer full mastery of all craft skills. Originally found and held by Mephisto, now held by Azazel.
4. **Pouch of Morpheus**: A brown leather pouch that contains sand that force logs a player out of the game for two hours. In the New World, it can put any- and everything to sleep. The sand may only be removed from the pouch by hand.
5. **The Emerald Tablet**: A monolithic tablet carved from emerald and engraved with numerous hieroglyphs and cyrillic that allows the user to learn and use the highest tiers of magic no matter their job classes with enough study. Used by Azazel to learn magic up to the Super-Tier, requiring frequent, regular study for real life years.
6. **Eye of Ra**: An amulet that allows the user to increase their perception and their wisdom. In the New World, it allows the user to read and speak every language and even grants some limited foresight (hunches and bad feelings).
7. **Draupnir**: A ring that produced infinite amounts of gold coins and every ninth day, only produced platinum coins. Kept in the Treasury.
8. **Bifrost**: The ultimate teleportation item, the Bifrost can ignore almost any teleportation wards and form a doorway that teleports the user to any place they desire.
9. **Caloric Ring**: Worn on Azazel's pinky, this ring is set with Caloric Stone, a massively rare and valuable material which can only be gained by using massive amounts of rare metals from the Hidden Mines.
10. **Anansi's Spindle**: A golden spindle that can create powerful illusions and spin ensnaring webs. In the New World, it has the side effect of making the user an excellent tailor. Currently held by Belphegor.

## Membership

In YGGDRASIL, there had been an endless stream of applicants seeking to join Infernos. Most of them wanted to do so for the sake of their own personal gain, thinking that they would profit from joining Infernos, one of the richest, highest-ranked guilds in the game. Furthermore, there were those who wanted to infiltrate the guild in order to steal its valuable information and rare items. Because of this, Infernos did not bother to increase their numbers much beyond its founding members.

Nonetheless, there were some criteria for joining their guild:

1. They had to be a hardcore roleplayer.
2. They had to be some form of demon.
3. Their alignment had to be at least Evil.
4. They had to prove themselves by completing three tasks, one from each of the guild members in turn.

Most never succeeded at these tasks, and either gave up or died trying.