Brotherhood of the Basalt
The Brotherhood of the Basalt is a group of humanoids in Renelestre who have forsaken life above ground to follow and investigate the clues to the "ancient powers" that indwell the city. Many of these powers seem by description to have geological/magmatic themes to them. They primarily reside in the sewer system of the central city mount, as well as the innumerable caverns and tunnels which honeycomb the ancient volcanic mount.
They have what could be terms a home city (or at least large village) known as Redpool caverns: a large series of open caverns surrounding a massive central dome which is warmed by hot springs bubbling up from below.
The brotherhood is ruled by a council of Elders who attempt to communicate and ascertain the will of these great powers, as well as guide the cultic structures of worship with which the brotherhood engages their belief. Central to this belief system is the need to make pilgrimages to different important sites, all of which exist at different points around the city of Renelestre. Oftentimes these pilgrimages involve sacrifices and other cultic worship practices.
Important pilgrimage sites that were mentioned include Emberhome, the Hearth Door, and the Lava Throne. It has also been said that they have at different times run into and been stymied by The Rat King and his minions from performing their religious practices, particularly as it comes to making sacrifices at the deepest pilgrimage sites.
Structure
A clan organized under different religious elders who choose among themselves a head elder or Patriarch.
Type
Religious, Cult
Leader Title