The Ascendency of the Cult of Hessetal

Cultural event

The cult of Hessetal takes root amongst the population of the Yulan-Tai Empire, with the nobility adopting the cult heavily.

The cult of Hessetal takes root amongst the population of the Yulan-Tai Empire, with the nobility adopting the cult heavily. The cult is known to have promoted hedonistic and excessively individualistic values in its citizenry, and encouraged callousness, cruelty, and excess in its practitioners. These values struck a chord with the powerful of the society, who established personality cults around themselves, and hosted lavish events to invoke worship of them.    The rise of the cult of Hessetal coincides with "moral decay" that is documented by Yulani scribes, with hedonistic festivals, exhibitions of cruelty, and eventually, the start of mass human sacrifices being linked to the adoption and spread of the hedonistic cult. It also marks a definitive end to the Pax Yulanis, with the growing