

Religion of Evil: The Cult is much more organized than in the previous installment.Malevolent Masked Men: Except for the Cherubs, the Cultists all wear chrome metal skull masks adorned with five pointed crests, which is the Arc Symbol of the game.Much like the original game, the Cultists use shadowy powers to inflict stress, debilitate your heroes, and even empower themselves. The Cultists in this game have fleshy mutations that resemble cephalopod limbs like vampire squid legs for the Evangelists or octopus tentacles for the Deacons, Cherubs, and Cardinals. Lovecraftian Superpower: The Cultists of course use powers bestowed to them by whatever new eldritch deity they now follow to impede your heroes.Large and in Charge: The Deacons and Cardinals are quite big, towering over most humans and occupying two enemy slots.The enemy formations are are particularly challenging and your party pretty much needs to be at optimal health, stress level, and power to get through them. Gate Guardian: There are two Cultist fortresses situated in front of the Ziggurat in the Mountain, meant to prevent the party from reaching the Brain of Darkness.Evil Wears Black: All the cultists wear black robes with dark blue trims, although it is completed with a sleek chrome helmet.Elite Mook: They're far tougher and have a wider movepool than other enemies, quite deliberately: The rank and file of the cults were already culled, so the survivors are brutally effective veterans.

Which a lot of their other moves give them. Combat Medic: Evangelists and Cherubs have a nasty habit of healing their tankier allies whenever they acquire the Worship status effect.The most human-like are the Cherubs, which resemble winged big mutated babies, while the rest are even less human for starters, their lower limbs have become fleshy cephalopod-like tentacles. All of the Cultists are horribly mutated and barely keep a humanoid form. Body Horror: Whereas in the last game, they only really developed this in the Darkest Dungeon itself, now all Cultists have mutated sufficiently for this.
