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Sage Letter to the Monger

• The Sage wants Brasidas dead.

Peloponnesian symbol on Skylax's breastplate

• The Sage is a person of great wealth.

Letter to Stentor

• The Sage plans to recruit Stentor to the Cult.

Sage Letter to Kallias

• The Sage is afraid to look weak within the Cult.

Letter to the Chimera

• Merchant ships near Salamis have ties to the Cultist.
• Chimera,<

>Kosmos and our Sage, the Illustrious Wise, are pleased. The slave rebellion in Attika's silver mine is stamped out, the bodies are due to be hung from posts, and we let the whole affair grow violent and bloody enough to send fear into the hearts of every peasant in the land. For this, we are to be rewarded. About time. I say we owe ourselves a good drink.< >Let the world be in your debt.< >Silver Griffin Letter from the Sage of the Eyes of Kosmos

• Sotera is in her warehouse in Megaris.
• Sotera's ships see all, circling Salamis like a hand around a throat. She has been instructed to call those ships home. I have secured her a warehouse in Megaris where they shall convene. There she waits. Open. Vulnerable.<

>My Eyes see all.< >Your Sage Slaver's Gift

• The Silver Griffin is on Prasonisia in the Silver Islands.
• Overseer,<

>For your help with our little slave problem, a gift. I collected this from Epiktetos's things after Deimos was done with him. A bit of a trophy, the way I might mount a lion's head on a spike. Take it. It's yours. I'd love to see you in it. Come to Prasonisia Island... alone. < >Let the world be in your debt. < >Silver Griffin Instructions for Midas

• Midas the Banker is in Argos.
• My Eyes,<

>Efforts by the Worshippers to resurrect the first true servant of Kosmos, Agamemnon, have failed. All traces of their dark rituals must be hidden by shadow. My eyes in Argos are led by a cunning little banker named Midas. He will clean their mess.< >The Eyes see all. N/A

• There's information about the Cultist in an Attika silver mine.

Letter to Brison

• The Cultist is a Leader facing rebellion on Delos. Help people nearby.

Lover's Letter to Hermippos

• Hermippos is near the Hephaistos temple in Athens.

Sage's Note to the Centaur

• The Centaur has a mine in Euboea.
• Centaur,<

>The job of the captains transporting slaves to your mines in Euboea is to scare them, not kill them. If one more arrives starved, sick, or dead, we'll cut off your captain's balls and feed them to you. < >Let the world be in MY debt.< >Your Sage Dead Man's Note

• Machaon the Feared is in the Port of Patrai in Achaia.
• Machaon - Port of Patrai, Achaia.<

>Order - 8 triremes for Sparta. 12 triremes for Athens. 6 merchant ships for the Eyes of Kosmos to surveil the ports of Salamis and Athens. 1 heavy trireme for the Shark. 3 black-sailed biremes for the Silver-Skinned C.< >Latest mission report: the Spartans of the Silver Islands fell for it, and sailed right into our trap. 3 Spartan ships destroyed. 2 Athenian ships destroyed. Both are expected to order more. On the other child of the bloodline: the Athenian blockade in Megaris was broken, as promised. This should be the start of a profitable relationship. Declaration to the Heroes of the Cult

• Belos The Beast of Sparta is a champion in the Pephka Arena.
• I am the Beast of Sparta, not some common dog! I demand challenge. Years of training in the shit fighting pits, killing weakling after weakling... Pephka already trembles when I enter the Arena. I want to taste the blood of a god as they die under my foot. My time has come. The trap for the other child of the bloodline is set. I have dreamed of the day I would face them in battle. <

>When all fall, we stand.< >Belos Note Found in the Sanctuary of Kosmos

• A Cultist owns a quarry and a slave operation in Attika. Help people nearby.
• On political unrest:<

>M., formerly of the Vein, is a known Eye, and a terrifying one at that. Ruthless in his oppression. Cruel in his revenge. We must use him to our advantage. Attika is large, and its people are a problem - let him deal with them. From his control of the quarry and slave trade there, he will be our eyes and ears. In his place, we welcome E. to the Vein. His expertise in building deadly - and expensive - naval vessels will serve his Sage well. And Kosmos, of course. Letter to Asterion

• Weakening the Obsidian Islands will draw Sokos into a naval battle.
• Asterion, <

>The Sage sailed ashore to see my ship. He was impressed. It's been rebuilt. Stronger. Faster. Even Poseidon is less deadly than I. We disembark from Melos tomorrow. What I long for is battle, a chance to crack open the hulls of my enemies. What I need is a reason... someone to make an example of. < >We are the waves. < >Sokos Letter to the Silver Griffin

• A Clue to the Cultist was lost in a cove on Scavenger's Coast, in Achaia.
• Silver Skin,<

>Word is Deimos came to you to help your little problem - we need him. Klitos, a dockhand, stole plans from my office. He knows everything. How we're forcing the Athenians and Spartans into ship battles. How we're selling ships to both sides. He even knows the Sage's identity, and the fort he's in. Deimos has to find him and stop him before he tells anyone. Tell him Klitos was last seen heading to Shipwreck Cove in Achaia. Tell him to be fast. And brutal.< >Let the world be in your debt. < >M. Demand for More Troops

• A Clue to a Cultist can be bought in Korinthia.
• My troops need fresh meat! We need more after some defected. Malákes cowards all of them. Stole some supplies and set off in the night. They were overheard saying they're going to Korinthia to sell the goods on the black market. <

>When all fall, we stand. < >P. Letter to Chrysis

• A Cultist is gathering Followers of Ares.

Letter to Diona

• Information on the Cult is in Pephka. Help people nearby.

Letter to Harpalos

• There is a Cultist on Kythera island. Help people nearby.
• Worshipper H. <

>May the Chosen Blood guide you. The whispers say you are following the trail of the other child of the bloodline. Draw the bloodline to us. Come to Kythera - The Sage J. has been gone so long, and my gentle students yearn for a cruel hand. No hand is as cruel as yours. Worshipper Z., after she fed a priest to her wolves, was driven from Phokis. I cleansed her of her stains, and I can do the same for you. < >Blood will last. < >D. N/A

• Looting high-level mercenaries will reveal the Cultist.

Letter to Podarkes

• Fighting in the Arena will draw out the Cultist.

Letter to Melanthos

• The Cultist's ship was sunk on a ruin north of Thera.

Letter to the Octopus

• The leader of Messara is the father of the Cultist.

Letter from a Rogue Cultist

• A rogue Cultist is preparing for battle in Messara. Help people nearby.

N/A

• A Cultist profits from the ship trade.

Letter to Okytos

• The Leader of Boeotia has information on the Cultist.
• Okytos, <

>Where did you find this idiot? The leader of Boeotia is a coward. I'm a fighter, not a doll. I'm here to battle. To kill. To fuck. A good life, a good death, and nothing more. Time to break out my baby - got a mace just like our Sage. Not as good at breaking heads, but sure does make them squirm. < >When all fall, we stand. < >D. Letter to the Master

• An Attika Fort Polemarch knows the Cultist. Find him or continue your Odyssey.

Letter to Sokos

• The Octopus sails north of Krete near Anaphi.

Leader's Note from his Son

• Melanthos roams the waters west of Messara.

Sunken Goods

• The Mytilenian Shark sails around the Southern Sporades.

Defector's Note

• Pallas is the Spartan champion fighting in Achaia.
• This flag was white. Now it is stained with the blood of my brothers. My sons. I will fight for this "Kosmos" no more. Our hero, Pallas, is bloodthirsty. He doesn't fight for glory. He fights to cause pain. Someone stop him. Anyone. When he marches on Achaia, someone stand against him. I've tried. I failed...

Leader's Note from Deianeira

• Deianeira is a Boeotian Champion.
• You weakling. You coward. I was born a Champion of Boeotia. I don't need to prove it by dressing up like one. I don't parade through the streets. I don't wear feather hats. I kill. That's all I do. And if you send me another piece of armor to wear that makes me look like an idiot, the next person I kill is you.<

>Deianeira Donation note

• The Abantis Islands' leader Skylax is a member of the Cult.

Cultist Expedition Notes

• The Chimera is heading an expedition to Andros.
• I've found it - in Andros rests the greatest, most ancient forge in the known world. I demand slaves, guards, ships, drachmae, and metal. In Kosmos's name, we shall build the greatest armory in the world. I set sail soon. Who sails with me?<

>Let the world be in your debt.< >The Chimera

Bios

Kleon

• Kleon made his fortune in anonymity until Kosmos called on him - Perikles was refusing to go to war, and peace would be profitable for no one. The Cult commanded Kleon to rile the masses, and force Perikles into battle. Despite Kleon's extreme efforts, he failed. Left with no alternative, Kleon took matters into his own hands and began his bloody, violent ascent to power.

Iokaste the Seer

• Iokaste the Seer, the Gods' Breath, the Mystic Sage, held the world by its heart. It was Iokaste who fed the Oracle of Delphi her lies to tell. It was Iokaste who instructed Chrysis to abduct Deimos and raise the child as her own. Iokaste perverted every prayer, every religious rite, turning every act of worship into an offering for Kosmos.

Nyx the Shadow

• The Eyes saw all, but were lead by a woman few had ever seen. As one would expect, "Nyx" was only one of countless names worn by The Shadow. With these came entire personalities, lives, and histories. The Cult needed a nobody, a faceless agent who could be anywhere, and The Shadow was that agent.

Exekias the Legend

• Exekias the Legend fought under no one's banner, and so was able to go where no soldier or hero could. This afforded the Cult great flexibility: where there was struggle against their will, Exekias would appear, as if by coincidence. He drank and celebrated and sang songs with those who opposed Kosmos's will. And then, when the celebration settled, those people were never seen again.

The Hydra

• Hydra the Many-Headed caught the eye of Kosmos through sheer viciousness. Recruited to be a simple ship's captain, the young Hydra instead took command, slaughtering and sinking any who opposed. He united the Cult's fleets and its so-called "gods" of the Aegean, until those sailors who knew them knew to fear them more than Poseidon's wrathful tempests. This fear was Hydra's gift to Kosmos.

Pausanias

• The Cultist King of Sparta had infiltrated the highest position in the Peloponnese, and from that position the Cult sank these lands into war. Not since the Persian invasion had such suffering been felt, and yet the people loved him for it. This was his true power: with the Cult's support, he could send troops marching to Athens's walls, painting the world red, and the people would sing his praise.

Polemon the Wise

• Life's greatest tragedy was that one could know the world and do nothing to change it… A rule that applied to all but Polemon. The Wise was the true architect of the war between the Delians and the Peloponnese. The Cult's reason for the war was simple: control through chaos. Polemon's was simpler: he wanted wealth and would stoke the fires of this war until every Greek son had died in battle.

Aspasia

• Aspasia, daughter of the mighty Axiochos of Miletos, came to wealth and power in the most unlikely of ways: by falling in love. But even having dominion over Perikles and the hearts and minds of all Athenians would not be enough. Her ambition demanded more. To know all. To rule all. Anything less would not be good enough.

Deimos

• A god. A warrior. A hero for Kosmos. This was the image Deimos conveyed. Yet, behind the heroism was an aching pain from a lifetime of suffering. Flung from the cliffs of Mount Taygetos, raised and tortured by the Cult, forced to fight or die, the humanity in Deimos had died long ago. What remained was a weapon. A glorious, deadly weapon that even the Cult could not control.

Elpenor

• Aside from profiting from both sides of the war, Elpenor served Kosmos in one way - destroying the chosen's bloodline. He did, after all, find Deimos's sibling on the dusty roads of Kephallonia, and rumors quickly spread that he was the mastermind behind what happened to the Wolf in Megaris. For a time, it seemed he'd accounted for everything and was unstoppable.

The Master

• There were those among us who had no sense of what was right or good. Take the man known only as The Master - a horrifying abomination in the shape of a man. He did not oversee his quarry or slave trade for financial wealth, but for the wealth of information that could be used by the Cult. Every merchant who traveled to him brought truth he could use and left with the lies he chose for them to believe.

Sotera

• Sotera's many eyes saw all. Idle sailors trolling the sea, beggars meekly begging for coin - all might've been her agents. And all were deadly. Through this network, there was hardly a conversation that went unheard by her ears, or an opportunity that went unseen by her eyes.

Midas

• The Cult sought out what was old, looting tombs and ruins like petty grave robbers. Few knew what they were looking for. With the looting done, they tasked Midas of Argos with destroying all traces of these ancient sites from history. By day, he was known simply as a wealthy, if ruthless, banker. By night, everything Midas touched turned to fire.

Hermippos

• Hermippos, son of Lysis and brother to Myrtilos, sought to undermine Athens's fragile democracy at every turn. He was a vile, impetuous man, using the theater to accuse Perikles of cowardice, and to coerce Athenian voters to demand war. Secretly, he was much the same, working from the shadows to force Athens to fight Sparta head on.

Peloponnesian League Skylax

• Skylax knew what others in the Peloponnesian League did not: where force failed, drachmae always won. In this way, with a massive fortune at his disposal, Skylax bribed the weaker puppet leaders in the League. For this service, Skylax prayed to Kosmos to return his lost children and wife to him. It was a prayer that would go unanswered.

Silanos

• For ages, Silanos searched out the origins of the bloodline, until he found it - Myrrine was ruling Naxos. As a gift for his discovery, the Cult "disposed" of the leader of Paros, Naxos's sister island, and gifted it to Silanos. To avoid suspicion, Silanos posed as an Athenian polemarch, plotting his next move: one day, he'd have Myrrine's island, and her head.

The Monger

• One did not need to see the Monger in the streets of Korinth to feel him there. His brutes had taken over. The city, once the richest and most prosperous port in all the Greek world, now wallowed in corruption. The Cult would use this thug, with a small mind and a firm grip, to do their bidding.

Kallias

• Kallias grew to be a formidable Olympic champion, and from then, his victories became legendary. All in Olympia who knew him, loved him. None would have suspected he'd tamper with the Olympic results. No one but the Cult.

Lagos

• This war made nations wealthy overnight, including Arkadia. Its grain fields kept Sparta's armies fed, making it a ripe target for the Cult. But Lagos, Arkadia's benevolent figurehead, was no ordinary Cultist. He longed for a world of peace in which he could raise his family... until his family disappeared from his home. He became a puppet leader, hoping obedience would return them to him safely.

Brison

• As was always the case with young men who were too pretty, too rich, or both, Brison lived as a weakling easily exploited by others. In the Cult, he saw an opportunity to change all that. He would be strong, feared, and respected. In exchange, his pledge to Kosmos was this: he would torture and kill every person who stood against the Cult.

Podarkes

• After generations of control and dominance, the Silver Islands' influence waned. Perikles led Athens to become a center of power. This was a change Podarkes the Cruel would not tolerate. The Cult gifted him a formidable army. With it, he would squash the brewing Delian rebellion, and pledge to the Cult to burn Athens to the ground.

Kodros

• A crueler little man than Kodros of Lesbos, there was none. Having been a fighter himself, he knew to stock his forces with prize fighters from the arenas and pits. Their glory would be his. Though he marched them out under the Delian League's banners, and though they were feared, none knew he offered their lives in battle as sacrifice to Kosmos.

Iobates

• Calculating and mysterious, everywhere and nowhere, none were as feared as Iobates of Lemnos and the bloodthirsty mercenaries fighting in his name. Under his careful planning, these rogues become a force for terror and oppression across the lands, and as mercenaries knew no borders, he was able to attack where other soldiers simply could not.

Rhexenor the Hand

• From a sudden swing in a vote to go to war to a stubborn politician found dead in the streets, the scars the Cult left on democracy became unmistakable and feared by all. Those were the scars. Rhexenor was the blade. No matter how resilient Athenians were, his subtle hand would always usher their votes back to war, and to serve Kosmos's will.

The Chimera

• Where some knew passion, or love, or warmth, The Chimera knew only cold calculation. The world was hers to exploit, and exploit it she did in the name of Kosmos. Her next target would be the artifacts hidden away in an ancient forge. Her slaves would unlock its hidden secrets, or face her wrath.

The Silver Griffin

• Under Kosmos there was a unique man known now as The Silver Griffin. Unique not for his cruelty, but for his ability to make others carry out his cruel will. Those who knew him said he considered himself a teacher, of all things. He taught control to slavers, and to slaves, he taught submission. His tool in both classes was the same - the fear of death.

The Centaur of Euboea

• The Centaur of Euboea pledged to Kosmos the wealth amassed from his copper trade. To trade in copper, however, one needed slaves. Many slaves. And so the Cult sent the ships of lost souls to his mines... and to their doom.

Epiktetos the Forthcoming

• Epiktetos the Forthcoming's ship building taught him one lesson, if no other: waging a war is always more profitable than winning one. He stood to make a fortune from the tragedies of war… until Deimos made a bloody, horrifying example out of him at the Cult's mysterious gathering.

Machaon the Feared

• Machaon the Feared started simply enough - he sacrificed his wealth to Kosmos, but the god did not listen to Machaon's prayers. On a dark night, he sacrificed his only child. Then his servants. Nothing. So now, Machaon aimed to sacrifice all the Greek world. Kosmos would not be listening. A cunning spy in his midst, however, would be.

Chrysis

• In Chrysis's bedchamber was written "Hera's abomination." Although thought to be the writing of an angry worshipper, some say Chrysis wrote it herself, as a reminder of her role in serving Kosmos. She spent a lifetime abducting children, and raising them to be servants of the horrid Cult. A part of her did love those children once, though that part died long ago.

Harpalos

• In those dark days, none were safe from Kosmos's reach, even other cults. The Followers of Ares had become intoxicated by Harpalos's passionate preaching. He promised them blood and flesh to eat. In return, they would be his army of monsters.

Diona

• There was a certain seductive demeanor to Diona of Kythera. She was admired by all, or so the people said. And yet, something dark hid behind her inviting eyes and coy grin. With careful plotting, allies turned into enemies, and calm into chaos, if it suited the Cult's whims.

Melite

• The Cultists' many goals allowed some to hide their true motivations. So it was with Melite, the cunning young Cultist who called no one place home. His teams of servants scoured the earth in search of the origins of Deimos's bloodline. That much was known. What he hid was that he intended to find the source and use it to harness the powers of the gods themselves.

Zoisme

• What was known of Zoisme the Mad was only legend, told among the peasants and drunkards of Phokis. One went that she tied priests who opposed her to trees, then left them to be fed upon by her wolves. Another said that she slept in the dens of bears, emerging only to snatch pilgrims to the Oracle for supper. All these were sacrifices to Kosmos, whose appetite for flesh was never sated.

Asterion

• After Asterion lost his parents to the Persian invasion, his wife to a tempest, his children, his friends, his shipmates... he no longer sailed for a love of the sea, but a desire to avenge their deaths. But how many dead were left to float in Asterion's wake? Hundreds? Thousands? And when would those dead rise up, avenge themselves, and pull him down to sleep with those he loved?

Sokos

• Youthful and brash, Sokos was a remarkable young man. He commanded respect. Yet the self-proclaimed Protector of the Obsidian Islands sailed for one reason alone - to earn glory in the eyes of Kosmos. Any who stood in the way of the Cult's ambitions found themselves in Sokos's wake, sinking to the bottom of the sea.

The Octopus

• All that was known of her was myth. Sailors told the tale of a captain killed by Erinyes and resurrected as an apparition known only as The Octopus. She commanded the elite guard of the Cult with a heavy hand and a mighty devotion.

Melanthos

• Young men of any nation were united in one way: they were driven by two goals. The first, to outlive their fathers. The second, to surpass them. Melanthos sought to achieve these goals at any cost, even if it meant sacrificing his own life for Kosmos. Of course, his preference was to sacrifice the lives of others.

The Mytilenian Shark

• The Cult demanded many things, but mostly it demanded secrecy. To hide its deeds away, The Mytilenian Shark went to any length. Lucky for him that a great many things - weapons, writings, even the bodies of enemies - could be erased from history by hiding them at the bottom of the sea.

Okytos the Great

• Brutal, brutish, horrible - these were the kindest words ever used to describe Okytos the Great. The truth was that he was much, much worse. How fitting, then, that he was tasked with training young mercenaries to become guards and soldiers for Kosmos. Those who did not meet his standards in baseness made fine sacrifices instead.

Swordfish

• A tale goes that the one known as Swordfish drank wine from the same cup, the hollowed out skull of his first sacrifice to Kosmos… the skull of his father. But time wore on the man as time wears on us all. After a life of malice, he sought to free himself of the Cult. He refused to meet them in Delphi, and never bowed to the one known as Deimos. Old habits, however dark, would prove hard to break.

Belos the Beast of Sparta

• Sailing toward the shores of Pephka, screams could be heard. Softly at first, then louder. Then deafening. These were the sounds of men and women gasping for their last breaths in the fighting pits, before the Beast snuffed them out. His endless training in the name of Kosmos rendered him bored, but he couldn't know that a real challenger would soon meet him there and finish his reign as champion.

Pallas the Silencer

• Pallas served the Cult only to feed his lust for carnage. They called him the Silencer as a heinous joke - on the battlefield he brought cries of pain, of fear, of madness, of death. And when the battle was won, only Pallas's guttural laughter could be heard.

Deianeira

• In their time, the Champions of Boeotia inspired people across the nation. Songs were sung in their name. Now, the Champions were abominations who frightened and terrorized any who opposed them - even Boeotia's own people. At the center of that terror stood Deianeira, the fiercest fighter Kosmos had ever known. So long as she fought, Boeotia would stand.

Cut Gear

Mask of the Sea Gods

• Not so much hideous as horrifying, this mask strikes fear in all sailors who gaze upon it.

Mask of Kosmos

• What dark thoughts, and what evil deeds, are plotted behind this horrible mask?

Greaves of Kosmos

• Found on Hermippos, these greaves shimmer like the formless void between the sky and earth.

Armguards of Kosmos

• With their armguards stolen, the Eyes of Kosmos must not be watching closely enough.

Waistband of Kosmos

• What remains of Sotera now is simply this, and even that is too much.

Breastplate of Kosmos

• Elpenor won't be needing this breastplate anymore.

Breastplate of the Cult

• This armor saved the life of Okytos, a member of the Cult of Kosmos, more than once.

Mask of the Cult

• The Cult of Kosmos marks its loyal followers with this mask. They have been chosen.

Armguards of the Cult

• These gauntlets once belonged to Pallas, a member of the Cult of Kosmos.

Greaves of the Cult

• Bearing the symbol of the Cult, these once belonged to Deianeira.

Breastplate of the Delian League

• Brison himself wore this breastplate. How the mighty have fallen.

Mask of the Delian League

• It would come as a shock to no one that this mask comes from the Delian's most dastardly sort.