Whatever the religion of evil worships will generally be the Bigger Bad, with demon lords, archdevils, Eldritch Abominations, gods of evil, Satan and 'Evil' itself all being likely candidates. If a genuinely 'good' religion is being twisted into evil, it's the Corrupt Church. Sometimes a Cult of Personality evolves (or is deliberately turned) into one of these. Also contrast with Path of Inspiration, where an evil religion masquerades as a more ordinary faith. This trope is the polar opposite of the Saintly Church. You can expect the High Priest to emanate a Cross-Melting Aura. Members of the Deadly Decadent Court may attend, either in search of power or just for the thrill.īecause Religion Is Magic, devout practitioners and high ranking clergy will have powers, magic and other forms of The Dark Arts. In the rarer cases when it exists openly in a 'good' nation, it tends to be treated as a legitimate minority faith, perhaps worshiping the evil members of the pantheon. In the latter cases, most of the time the masses will follow the religion out of fear rather than any genuine religious devotion. The Evil Counterpart to a good religion, whose deity is not so much worshiped or prayed for rather than appeased and bribed towards leaving mortals alone.

The state religion of Mordor or The Empire.A small Secret Circle of Secrets (known more generally as a mystery cult or mystery religion).Any time a temple's decoration involves lanterns made out of the skulls of their Human Sacrifices, it probably qualifies here (but see Sedlec Ossuary for a counter-example). Quite often it'll be a Card-Carrying Villain that refers to itself as evil sometimes it won't say that word straight out, but its tenets and actions will be such that its followers are necessarily evil. Most often a Fantasy trope, the Religion of Evil has no pretenses of being anything other than.

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