Cult of Karul-Bethek

The Cult of Karul-Bethek was a group of fanatical ettins worshipping the great wyrm black dracolich of the same name, based in the Twinpeak Mountains. Whilst Karul-Bethek is not a spellcaster and does not themself give spells, the faith of the ettins has allowed them to tap into clerical and occult magics.

History
Karul-Bethek was born long ago in the Age of Chaos, but since the Age of Gods, they have resided on the peak of Mount Klinrash. The Cult began when a group of ettins aided in the fell ritual which turned Karul-Bethek into a dracolich in 836 AG. Since then, these ettins have worshipped them as a god, based on the heretical belief that the union of Pheros and Nex’il did not produce Amar, but instead fused the two deities together into some unholy ettin-like being known as Karul-Bethek, a god of lust, horror and misery, the utter antithesis of Amar. In return, Karul-Bethek gifted certain honoured ettins with the blessing of a draconic head - the ettins themselves instead suggested that the great elemental energy at the moment of Pheros and Nex’il’s union released draconic power into Karul-Bethek’s chosen, which actually isn’t entirely illogical given the origins of the dragons. One such ettin, Lokan-Idrix, who possessed black dragon lineage, rose to power in the cult, and gathered the ettins under one banner. With this unprecedentedly unified power, the giants were able to subjugate the rock gnomes on the Twinpeaks, to whom they had previously only provided occasional inconvenience. However, in time, Took Tuckerbee and Carlin Galdor rose up with an army, and knocked the cult out of their primary stronghold at the top of Mount Hridin. Since then, the cult has be disparate and unorganised.