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PDFClerics of the Order of the Holy Rest do not worship Crom. “Slumbers” know that he is a sleeping god and when he is stirred, times of great chaos and destruction follow. The order is dedicated to maintaining his slumber, which has been relatively undisturbed for the last 300 years.
They derive their daily blessings of spells and wisdom from their predecessors, the deceased heads of the Order, who have passed on to higher planes where they sit in council and reveal the Great Plan to keep Crom asleep. These revelations are officially sent only to the High Dreamer, who spends most of his time sleeping to receive instructions. The Order is not guided by any set of morals; the end justifies the means if it keeps Crom’s waking chaos below the Earth.
There are, from time to time, upstart prophets in the countryside and in the cities espousing the will of the Sleepers to the masses. Some of these heretics are known to go on noisome adventures, delving underground and risking a profound disturbance to Crom’s rest.
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I really like this idea. It reminds me of a story (or an essay?) by the occultist Aliester Crowley who described a scene where one magician is invoking Shiva, trying to get the slumbering god to open his eyes and destroy the world. A priesthood singing lullabies to dangerous sleeping god is fairly awesome. Having him sleep beneath the earth, where dungeon delvers may risk waking him, is very cool too and adds a lot of possibilities of conflict between the players and the cult, or missions, and so on. Well done!
Glad you like it, Mike. Look for some other cleric ideas next week.
In Lord Dunsany’s ‘The Gods of Pegana’ there’s a god called MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI who has to be kept asleep or the world will end. Although this is done by a god-like creature called Skarl, not by a group of mortals.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395.txt