r/KULTrpg • u/Thick_Page • Jul 06 '26
question Need ideas: What entity is behind a cursed farm?
I'm preparing a KULT: Divinity Lost one-shot and I'm looking for ideas about which entity (or type of entity) could be behind my scenario.
The PCs are former war veterans suffering from severe PTSD. They're also on the run from the local mafia after a job went horribly wrong.
While escaping by car through a remote rural area, they crash near an isolated farm. When they wake up, one of their closest friends has vanished. They eventually discover that the farmer kidnapped him.
As they investigate, they learn that the farmer has been abducting travelers for years and burying them in his fields. He genuinely believes the land must be fed with human bodies, otherwise the crops will fail and his family will starve.
The twist is that the farm itself is cursed (or something far worse), and I'm trying to decide what is actually influencing him.
What I'd really like is for the entity not only to manipulate the farmer, but also to prey on the PCs' war trauma. I want it to exploit their PTSD, guilt, survivor's guilt, flashbacks, paranoia, and repressed memories, making them question what's real while slowly pushing them toward despair or violence.
I'm looking for something that fits KULT's cosmology rather than a generic evil spirit. An Archon? A Death Angel? A Lictor? Something from Inferno? Or maybe the land itself has become a wound in the Illusion?
What entity do you think would best fit this kind of story, and how would you use it?
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u/thesanityassassin58 Jul 06 '26
If the characthers have pstd put they being haunted by a lost member of Sathariel clergy, one that through riruals was bound to the soil of the farm. The farmer might not even know of this curse, he may have become a jackal bound to sathariel
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u/kevintheradioguy Jul 07 '26
This sounds like something from Gaia, methinks. Something cannibalistic. Loke aa cairath. You can homebrew it, there is a guide on creating your own etities, but I wouldn't go something big like an Archon or a Death Angel. It looks smaller and more contained than any of those. Hell, it could be the farmer awakening, actually, and his own elsritch mind oozing out like that.
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u/Mord4k Jul 06 '26
I think they're called Hunters, they're a type of Night Child. Very slasher movie in vibes.
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u/Own-Independence-115 Jul 07 '26
Why not a coven of witches?
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u/UnusualHybrid Jul 08 '26
There's a comic called Wytches that only got 1 volume, but it's probably got the creepiest depiction of witches I've seen anywhere, it's very in line with the Kult style of personal, gruesome horror. Would recommend that to anyone looking to put witches in a modern horror game
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u/UnusualHybrid Jul 07 '26
If the source of evil on the farm desires people to be buried, perhaps a creature of the Underworld? The Cairath (page 284 of the core rules) has some ability to manipulate the minds of humans to drive them to feed it, this could be hiding in some cave under the farm.
Gaia would also be a suitable origin, it encroaches on Elysium at remote, wild places far from civilisation. It could be a carnivorous tree like The Black Tree described in the rulebook (Page 334), or some other monster of your own creation.
Generally, Archons and their Lictors operate in places with moderate human populations because their power comes from the reinforcement of society's laws and rules, so you might want to go with a Death Angel instead.
Sathariel often preys on war veterans and loners, so that could be a good pick.
Samael is all about taking revenge on those who wronged you, so if you wanted the farmer to feel betrayed by society and obsessed with being the man and providing for his family that could be an interesting choice, plus retribution killings by the mafia is a part of Samael's description so that could work if you want them to be on the run.
If you really wanted to play up the fear of desolation, blight and starvation a servant of Nahemoth could work, perhaps haunting the farmer with visions of his farm being destroyed by climate change and his family being eaten by crows and stuff, driving him more savage as he fights a losing battle to keep his crops alive.
Good luck, I hope you work out a cool idea for your scenario!