For a long time the Cult of Xal'Reth lived in whispers: a double blink across the auction house, a hiss in guild chat, the occasional unexplained Glory to Xal'Reth. Those days are over. The Coil now has a proper Sanctum on the web, and it is, if we may say so with all appropriate humility, rather large.
Xal'Reth the Eternal, front and center
The first thing you will see is the Eternal himself: crowned, armored in black scale veined with violet light, the Pearl of the Void held loosely in one claw. The portrait glows, breathes and sheds sparks, because a god who has held the world for ten thousand ages deserves a little ceremony. Below him, the landing page now tells his whole story in eight moments, from the Primordial Egg to the Scale in the Cave, each one linking to the full telling.
The Canon: the deepest scripture yet
The Canon of the Coil is fifteen books in three baskets, written loosely in the spirit of two of the world's great contemplative traditions. The Basket of the Way holds the twenty-seven verses of the Way Beneath and the teachings of Unhurried Doing and the Uncarved Egg. The Basket of the Eye tells the Life of Xal'Reth the Eternal: how the Restless Serpent saw four things, refused three temptations, and chose to stay. The Basket of Practice gives real meditations, twenty koans and the sayings of the masters.
The Legends: kings, saints and creatures
The Legends fill in the people and places behind the teaching: all seven Hissing Kings of the Nest (including Korrash the Loud, undone by silence), the saints of the Hidden Centuries such as Hessk the Beggar King and Brannoc the Silent Fisherman, the Bestiary of the Void, a room-by-room atlas of the Sunken Nest, and an Apocrypha of books the Inner Scale would prefer you not take seriously.
Three addons for the faithful
- Xal'Reth RP (
/xrp): 10,100 rites performed as emotes, with the Eternal erupting in light on a glowing panel. - Disciples of Devotion (
/dod): the scripture of the Coil read aloud. 100 chapters, 10,000 verses each, 100 hand-painted chapter icons, and a Verse of the Day. - The Litany of Begging (
/litany): ten thousand lines of the most boring text ever written in the name of the Coil. Please read the warning.
The Library and the Daily Coil
Every text now lives in the Library, with a suggested reading order for new eggs. And this blog, the Daily Coil, publishes a new post every morning: the real phase of the moon, the Wardens' forecast for the Weather Beneath, and a color, number, scent and flavor of the day that every faithful shares.
What comes next
More relics are being forged in the depths: the Accuser, Guild Social, Coil Voice and Nemesis Pro. Until then, read slowly, grip none of it, and answer the Chant when it is called.
Glory to Xal'Reth.