The Pilgrams of the Putrid Queen
Legends tell of a mercenary army moving south of Ashenfeld to do battle with the tribes worshipping the demon gods. As with any army on the move, an assortment of camp followers would tag along, with one such woman being named Franzi Edwards. She was a prostitute, and like other working girls would follow the soldiers trading "company" for gold as the soldiers marched. It made decent enough money for Franzi, but when the army made contact with the enemy, they were routed, and Franzi was separated from the fleeing camp followers. However she accidentally ran into a plague warrior of Mozras. It is said that the evil warrior tortured the poor woman for a week straight, subjecting her to diseases and plague that cannot be named, and after this she was sent off to go spread what she had learned from her pain. She wandered aimlessly, and pleaded for someone to make the pain stop, and Mozras ever graciously answered. She gave her followers, her saw her as their savior and worshipped her. However the plagues constantly keep mutating her, and eventually she was so mutated and diseased that she could no longer easily move. However her followers bore her on a palanquin, and now carry her around to villages to spread the gift of disease to those who would but listen.
Worship
The Pilgrams worship Franzi as a sort of personification of Mozras. She is the representation of perfect plague and yet learning to accept the pain of the plagues that tear her body apart and reform it all over again. She is the perfect lifeform, and her putrid, festering form is said to be so beautiful to these deranged cultists that to gaze upon her is an honor.
Priesthood
Typically the pilgrims recruit from places recently hit by disease, with most of these diseases being of their own making. They impart onto those suffering in the pains of the diseases that wrack their body with the promise of a light at the end of the tunnel. They promise understanding of ones own condition and how to find joy and acceptance in it. Those they recruit are usually too mentally broken to resist, and so always fall for this.
Sometimes however they also recruit from healthy people who are similarly in bad situations, such as the poor and homeless. They like to stick to small villages for this reason, where they bear the palanquin of their Putrid Queen and have the new initiate gaze upon the woman and accept her offerings. Those who witness her go mad, and are wracked with a thousand different plagues at once.
Type
Religious, Cult
