**Name**: Bishop Bishop Bishop **Appearance**: A pale, balding man in his mid-twenties to early thirties with clammy looking skin and a patch of scraggly black hair set upon his scalp. His skin seems to be pulled tight to his bones, but he has a perfect set of teeth. Wears a long black robe, of course with a hood, fastened on by at length of metal belt buckles each bearing the symbol of a different esoteric order. He carries a sliver shovel upon his shoulder and moves as though there's a tune in his heart only he can understand. **History**: As his name might suggest, Bishops mother and father had very much decided what he was going to be well before he was born. Devout members of the Aphrodite church, Goddess of love, they spend his formative years grooming him for a position in it. At twelve years old, having been thoroughly spoiled on the idea of unconditional love by sheer exposure, he did what anyone who wants to stick it religious parents would: he ran away from home and joined the first cult that would take him. This happened to be the Cult of G'Narrel, a minor goblin deity know for punching humans in the trousers. Though he was human, his fellow goblin members saw how great his enthusiasm for the Cult was and he excelled, rising through the ranks of the church until a group of adventurers showed up, killed his fellow cult members, and returned him to his loving parents. They had believed him kidnapped in the night. Undeterred, Bishop again ran away and joined a new cult; "The Esoteric Order of GhARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!", called such because no one ever made it past the first syllable of its gods name. He quite enjoyed himself in this cult as well, until he stood to close to the door the day they were going to sacrifice the princess of a neighboring Kingdom. The door that conveniently slammed him into the wall when the adventurers kicked it open, knocking him out and saving his life as the rest of the cult was slaughtered and the princess rescued. Refusing to be cowed by this, he joined the Serpent Riders later that same day. Less than a month later they had been killed to a man while raiding a castle, except for Bishop because his serpent had choked to death the night before. He joined up with the Astral Society of Tallbrook and partook in their mass suicide to summon their Star God, except he had accidentally gotten sawdust instead of the poison powder he was suppose to inhale. The god was still summoned in a weakened state and was finished off, along with the rest of the Society, by adventurer as he walked off in a huff. He put on a wig and joined the Night Sisters and did pretty well there until he was discovered, chased out of their secluded hot spring retreat by the entire gathering, and watched as a sudden rock-slide send them tumbling down into a ravine. This kept happening until Bishop developed a sort of reputation, and cults started baring him entry out of fear. It was at this point any sane man would have called it quits and gone home. Bishop, however, was not quite a sane man due to all the esoteric knowledge he had rattling around in his head. He determined that, if no cult was going to let him usher in an age of darkness with them, he would his own one-man cult and bring about the destruction of the world himself. His journey has taken him far and wide across in search power and knowledge to bring this about, and now his wandering bring him to....hmm? Where was this place again? **Personality**: Despite his look Bishop is actually a very sunny, polite, courteous, generous man because some things you learn as a child just stick. He doesn't see anything wrong with giving away his earthly possessions and time to those less fortunate because it doesn't matter. The planet is going to be destroyed sooner or later, what do the dark forces care that he's helped an old lady carry her bags. She asked him after all, to refuse would have been rude. He is jittery though, energetic, and throws himself 120% into whatever task is at hand. He has the sort of focus that only the insane develop, shutting out everything else once he engages something. **Abilities**: Bishop has been a member of more cults and secret societies than most people can name, and is likely the last surviving member of every single one of them. His mind is an amazing sponge for rituals and secret arts, and he can bring to bare the strangest of magic if he can get it out of his mouth properly. Being a veteran of many secret societies has made him very good at ciphers and codes. He's shock resistant, as he's built up an immunity to sanity destroying effects by exposure. [Theme Tune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA)

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