Cult of the Canker

The Cult of the Canker originally was a collection of librarians, caretakers, and scribes, this loyal staff stubbornly kept working after Belcorra died, focusing their research on finding a way to restore their leader to life. When food stores ran low, rather than risk alerting Roseguard by making potentially public forays to the surface, the researchers turned to cannibalism. There were plenty of other servants to eat, after all, in the conveniently nearby servants' quarters. The onset of ghoul fever tore quickly through their ranks, but the researchers were so obsessed that they barely noticed. The scholars' research now has a distinctly ghoulish bend: they work to gather enough "cankerous flesh" to fuel Belcorra's resurrection. The fact that the ghoul's hunger often compels them to feed on the flesh they're trying to collect has certainly slowed their progress, but it hasn't slowed their zeal.