WHY ARE THERE SO MANY WEIRD CULTISTS?

• All butchers must give up their firstborn, in service to the blood god.
• All haberdashers are in secret alignment with the gods of fate. The seams will hold or fail as they must, not as they should.
• Children in bad homes know but one sure way to escape: swear yourself in service perpetual to the Jolly Queen of Sugarplum Fairies. This has long been her readiest supply of mortal servants.
• Almost all itinerant tinsmiths and sharpeners of shears swear secret oaths to peculiar gods.
• Widows sometimes hear the whispering of things long dead.