A cloak of mystery and horror lies around his cult. Bhaal. Few
dare utter his true name, call him rather the Nameless One, or
the Great Demon, or other names. Legends have it he created the
moon, and hurled it at Xyllomer to destroy what Rokoon had made,
and the weak-spirited believe that if he ever truly manifests
himself in the world, it would have been better for all souls
not already his if he had not missed.
Rumours and stories of all kinds connect Bhaal with the dark art
of necromancy, some implying that Bhaal is its creator, others
that he merely brought it into Xyllomer as a terrible gift to
his faithful followers and as a scourge to the world.
Whatever the true source of necromancy may be, the cult of Bhaal
guards this dark knowledge jealously, and those who possess it
rarely choose pupils to pass it on, but revel in its power.
Shrouded in the darkness of the night, his followers meet in
secret to worship, or plot and scheme for the destruction of the
current world order, to assume rule and enslave it under his will.
Vile demonic creatures summoned from the lower planes of Bhaal's
creation and corpses driven into undeath by evil forces rise
from the ground to terrorize the living, cruel forebears of
unimaginably worse nightmares to come should they ever succeed ...
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