Welcome to the Wicked Church Blog
The Wicked Church is a idea that I've had for like 2 months. It used to be a Minecraft thing that spiraled from there inspired by the mod Neepmeat. here it's a world with a bunch of various religious cults and deities. It's heavily inspired by Cult of the Lamb, the first cult/religion hasn't been named yet but just spitballing a name for convenience to refer to them due to their bio-punk inspired aesthetics let's call them the Bleeding Hearts.
Ok so let me explain the photos, the titan and the heart is a refrence to the home of the Bleeding Hearts, a giant corpse of a deity, just not continent sized like the Boiling Isles, maybe like 1/16 of the size or something, but the main point is that the chest and ribs have a giant cathedral built into it with 5 stained glass windows, the most important one is at the back of the Cathedral, where chains and arteries connect the giant heart to the ceiling and walls near it, and the stained glass behind the heart is a hooded figure wearing a blood red robe and hood with a gold trim. Let's call him the Apostle.
Now the other stained glass windows 4 represent the four cardinal directions and the "No Evil" things, like from Cult of the Lamb. Each of them represent something as the 4 Cardinals. Each of them, like in Cult of the Lamb, represent their "No Evil" things with brutal wounds, scars, and bandages. They don't however, represent the 4 Horsemen like the bishops do. Here is what they represent:
- North/Hear No Evil
"Be Deaf to the Non-Believers, This is the Only Way for Progress"
He has scarred over ears that have been ripped off
- South/Think No Evil
"Trying to Understand Non-Believers Will Only Lead to Madness"
He has a grievous wound in the head that has scarred over
- West/See No Evil
"To See the Light of Our God You Must First be Blind"
She has bandages over her eyes, they are slightly bloody
- East/Speak No Evil
"Speaking Vile Things Will Lead Your Voice to Rot"
He has a very bloody bandage over his throat.
The 3rd Picture is just like a cathedral that I think is a good image to represent a decent Cathedral to represent the possible Cathedral, just darker and made with ashy gray bricks. Also maybe with patches of flesh and rarely in those patches there will be a eye or a mouth
The Leader of the Bleeding Hearts - Akephalos
The leader is related to the 4th image. He is highly inspired by the One Who Waits(Design, Robes of white, red, and gold), Emperor Belos(Design, simplified gold wolf mask, with ram horns that secretly looks like wolf ears, and Demeanor, except he actually is that religously zealous), and overall the character type of Cult Leaders who are extremely fervent in what they are preaching. Yes I know what Akephalos is/means if anyone is wondering, that's why I named him that.
Symbol
The symbol of the Bleeding Hearts is the Defiled Sun, a background of blood red with a black sun with a red outline, this is unapologetically inspired by the Defile Mod by Doctor4t
Other Religions in the World of the Wicked Church
That's up to everyone else, just make it up, you don't have to use bio-punk, in fact, I say it would be more interesting if each of the Religions had a different theme. Make sure to give them a theme, a color. a thing they worship, and a symbol to represent them. Hell it could even be a faction of heretical scientists who despise gods and goddesses.
Art & Stuff
Art of various characters, locations, symbols, and OCs for the Wicked Church world are more than ok, it's encouraged. For Characters like The Apostle/Akephalos and the 4 Cardinals, I would love to see everyone's interpretations and ideas of what they look like.
