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Hail be to the demiurge and light of the Glory!

performs all necessary sacrifices and incantations to have a correct reading of the augury

O great Demiurges, impart upon me this truth! Is our character in Cultist Simulator really, really incompetent? It seems that his/her/its primary means of acquiring lore and learning and power is largely stealing the accomplishments of others, reading books others wrote, plundering their tombs for their artefacts, and the like, never doing much primary-source research, as it were. So... are we all playing imbeciles? And how would a cultist in the time before all those things happen receive lore?

Also, a fair quantity of cannibalism-words seem to have originated from the Factory. If you could eat any one human being, who would it be?

Edit because of debate in Discord: That is, given that all lore's already present and my character never really found anything new, is he/she/it/aaaaahno dim?

I have witnessed heresy against Neville. I must flagellate and cleanse my eyes in blessed water that I do not fall to vile Enidism or Anevilleism.

If my haruspicy is enough to warrant a few other questions:

What kind of ecosystem does the Wood have? Are the trees evergreen or do their leaves fall off when a Winter Hour pops over for a visit? Are there little eldritch squirrels and birbs?

Also, in relation to a certain edible Master, if one were to try eating a dead or subdued Hour, what would happen? What would it taste like?

Sure, but you've really got no 'primary sources' as it were, no discovering your own lore. It's the difference between learning biology from a textbook and dissecting a new species, I suppose.

I enjoy a good insanity dammit. And it seemed there were quite a few mortals capable of getting the stuff and writing it down. Someone vaguely functional must have written the books.