History Characters / CultistSimulator

* DropTheHammer: Their creation involves taking a hammer to the corpse.

* PosthumousCharacter: We only know of them through fragments of lore, such as Songs of the Carapace Cross, and from memories and visions on the Medium or Priest path.
* {{Precursors}}: The Carapace Cross predate the rise of humanity.

* LoopholeAbuse: This is why the Apostle has to be the centerpiece of the Vitulation. To ascend as a Name of the Grail, your Delight has to eat their own child ''without'' committing the Crime of the Sky. The Apostle is not directly related to the Delight, so the Delight doesn't commit the Crime of the Sky by eating them, but because they drink the Delight's blood to survive, they can count as the Delight's child for the purposes of the ritual.

The Apostle of a Forge Long, seeking to aid their ascension as a Name.

The Apostle of a Lantern Long, seeking to aid their ascension as a Name.

The Apostle of a Grail Long, seeking to aid their ascension as a Name.

* ImmuneToBullets: The Foe is immune to profane weapons, which include guns as the weapon icon suggests.
* ImplacableMan: The Foe will never stop chasing after you and he outpowers you easily, having 7 wounds, being able to wound you twice every attack, is immune to ordinary weapons, can also break your sacred weapon when they are used against him, and he will follow you anywhere. It takes a lot of preparation in order to be able to properly challenge him and even then you may lose everything and still lose.

* SinisterMinister: Your congregation is nothing but a tool to advance your ambitions, and they love you for it. Partially subverted, [[spoiler: as fulfilling your ascension leaves your congregation with a means for their own ascension.]]

* AdventureArchaeologist: If you manage to recruit her she is very effective in this role. Forge defeats environmental barriers and destroys sealed doors, while Lantern locates hidden ones. [[NonActionGuy She needs a partner if any fighting or cursebreaking is involved though.]]

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Part of his dynamic with the Lionsmith. The Colonel cannot be wounded, and cannot be denied.

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Part of his dynamic with the Colonel. The Lionsmith [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter is stronger, and becomes stronger still.]]

* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: The Arrogant God.

* ChevalierVsRogue: The Rogue

* TigerVersusDragon: The Dragon

* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: The Raging Monster

* ChevalierVsRogue: The Chevalier

%%* SoldierVsWarrior: The Warrior to the Colonel's Soldier.%%How?
%%* TheStarscream: The Lionsmith knows the secrets of betrayal.%%Meaning what?
%%* TigerVersusDragon: The Tiger. Well, Lion.

%%* WarGod

%%* ALessonInDefeat: [[ArcWords "All scars are weapons."]]

%%* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: The Arrogant God.

%%* ChevalierVsRogue: The Rogue
%%* ColonelBadass: The epitome of the concept

%%* ImplacableMan

%%* TigerVersusDragon: The Dragon

%%* WarGod

%%* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: The Raging Monster

%%* ChevalierVsRogue: The Chevalier

%%* ForceAndFinesse: Force

* HiddenDepths: If recruited he has great strength in both Winter and Lantern, representing a chilly insight.

* AmbiguousSituation: What exact state he's in after being defeated is unclear. He's probably not dead, exactly, but whether he's simply given up or has been more permanently taken out of the picture is unclear. It's apparently even debated InUniverse, according to some flavor text of a painting of him found in ''VideoGame/BookOfHours''... although he does have the potential to show up in person during Numa, which suggests that he simply gave up trying to stop you.

* EveryoneDies: Doesn't much mind dying, [[IDieFree as long as they're free]] and [[NotAfraidToDie it is on their terms.]] This is a sharp contrast to other paths, where the player is obsessed with immortality. If there's one thing their time with the Reckoners taught them, it's that no matter how many years you have they always run out.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: They start off as a fairly ordinary person; at most, an heir to a moderate fortune or a doctor. From there, they can become a HumanoidAbomination and attain immortality.
** Even without the eldritch aspect, they can garner a following of a couple dozen fanatical followers who are perfectly willing to kill, steal, and abduct at their word.

* ImAHumanitarian: On both the Enlightenment and Sensation paths, the only way to increase your Marks (and thus get closer to victory) is to consume people. Spiritually and psychologically for Enlightenment, physically for Sensation.
** The Medium eats the dead to obtain their memories.

* BrickJoke: The default name of the benefactor who gets you started is J.N. Sinombre. A later bit of occult lore mentions in passing that this name, or synonyms of it in other languages, [[GenericName is an incredibly common alias among occultists]] to the point of being a cliche.
** Also ''sin nombre'' is [[PunnyName Spanish for "unnamed."]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Longs and other immortals are compelled to devour their offspring as soon as they become aware of their existence. This is known as The Crime of the Sky. Usually it's the mother who ends up doing the deed as she's, well, right there. Those who commit the Crime of the Sky become Alukites]].

Julian Coseley was a 16th-century occultist, the author of ''The Six Letters on Necessity'' and an owner of books stored at the Gwaer Inn library. Now he's your enemy.

* AmbiguousSituation: What exact state he's in after being defeated is unclear. He's probably not dead, exactly, but whether he's simply given up or has been more permanently taken out of the picture is unclear. It's apparently even debated InUniverse, according to some flavor text of a painting of him found in ''VideoGame/BookOfHours.''

* PretentiousLatinMotto: A plaque in ''VideoGame/BookOfHours'' reveals the Suppression Beaureau's to be "ALLIS LICET TIBI NON LICET." "To us it is permitted; to you it is not permitted."

!! The PlayerCharacter

!! The Cultists

!! The Patrons

!! The Hunters

!! Other Mortals

!! The Hours

!! Summonable Spirits

!! Names, Long, and other supernaturals

!! Hostile Long

!! Exile Characters

* GivenNameReveal: Her first name is unknown in ''Cultist Simulator''. However, ''BOOK OF HOURS'' reveals it to be "Margot".

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Heart Cultists can defeat almost all Curses, some of the most annoying and destructive obstacles in the game. They can also manage your reputation, keeping your notoriety down because no one ''that nice'' could be involved in anything shady. They can also help you cross stormy seas.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The Sister side of the Sister-and-Witch is quite strong in Heart, and uses it to her advantage.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Very good at resisting curses.

* MultipleChoicePast: There are several different accounts of her ascension. The Colonel, with the help of a mortal priestess, slayed the Seven-Coils, but from there things get complicated. One version says the Colonel baptized the priestess in the Coils' blood to make her into the Mother of Ants, another that she drowned in it, and a third saying she arose from the Coils' blood. Perhaps all are true. Or perhaps none are.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Consider how heinous Crime of the Sky is regarded normally, the fact that the Ligeian Club members aren't hunted down can be surprising. This is because they're the Keyholders necessary to elevate a Long higher.
* EatsBabies: All of them are Ligeian Club members, who are all Alukites, which means that they had committed Crime of the Sky at one point.

* GivenNameReveal: If you try to bewilder him with eldritch lore he has a chance to instead become a Rival, and then it gives him the name "Douglas."

* ExcitedShowTitle: The Percussigant! It's basically not pronounced right unless you say it with an exclamation point.