The Cult of Nkisi

The peoples of the ride have come to know of the ghost god, Nkisi, who promises an eternal rest.
Nkisi's priests say their god has 3 aspects, the white aspect representing the ancestors, the red aspect
representing the world of the quick, bound as it is in temporal entropy, and the black aspect
representing finality, the endless winter that will always come for the world.
Most common are the red priests, who seek favors in exchange for prayers and sacrifices made to nkisi.
These priests often are found among the desperate who cling to life, feeling they can do more working
with the living than they can among the dead. The red priests keep beaded necklaces and bangles with
two red bead for every black bead on it, and often use red paint to paint their faces and mark the area
with skulls and sigils like snowflakes. Their holy symbols are skulls filled with chiles and brass
shavings, sealed with mirrors in the eye sockets. They make “holy water” from bottles of spiced rum,
and use tobacco and swamp weed as incense.
The white aspect priests are the second most populace, found among morticians, grief councilors,
Hospice nurses, and battlefield doctors, they find it easier to give council to the dead, and to help ease
the suffering of those who have not escaped the world of the living. They know they should die, but
these martyrs often remain living to assist others in finding their place among the ancestors. Many of
the white priests deal exclusively with the fledgling spirits of the dead, helping them to adjust to their
new way of (un)life and make a place for themselves among the dead. The white priests wear beaded
necklaces with white beads placed two to one with back beads. They keep white chalk and use it to
place sigils of skulls and snowflakes around their “holy space,” and keep a simple human skull filled
with coffin nails as a holy symbol. They make holy water from herbs and spices that produces a
fragrant perfume, and burn pine pitch as incense.
The black priests are the east populace and the most feared of Nkisi's faithful. They dwell among the
helpless and forgotten who wish to watch the world crumble. They look to the time when endless
winter will come to swallow the world, freeing the stubborn mortals from their prisons of flesh. These
dark priests are almost always evil ghosts who have grown to hate the world. The take pleasure in
capturing the living and peeling them to resemble their god, using their corpses as the dark altar where
they venerate their god. For them Nkisi's holy symbol is a freshly flayed skull, they make use of the
body in other ways as well, using the blood to make (un)holy water, using the fat to make candles, and
drying the skin to make incense. The Black priests are known to claim to be the judges of Nkisi, and
often punish beings by forever taking their chance to return as a spirit, forced to remain forever in this
prison world meant for the living, transforming them into wights, vampires, mummies, or some other
kind of corporeal undead that naturally retains its intelligence. These unfortunates are often then forced
to accompany the priest in hastening the endless winter.

Divine leadership 21
Level Number of followers
1. 60 (40 red clerics, 20 white clerics)
2. 6 (2 red cleric, 1 white cleric, 3 black robe cleric ghosts)
3. 3 (1 red cleric, 1 white cleric, 1 black robe cleric ghost)
4. 2 (2 black robe cleric ghosts)
5. 1 (1 Red Robe Cleric)
6. 1 (1 black robe cleric ghost)

Necropolitans make up the bulk of the peoples sentenced to live forever in the world of the suffering.
They are kept in a prison of flesh and pain within a small cube kept by Nkisi (yes, a hellrazor world)
where they are forced to labor for Nkisi for some unknown purpose.