[phiwum]

I must not be very good at this. The only "cult" to be found in my game is a bunch of back-to-the-land halflings who've been persuaded of a very suspect history and just may not make it through the winter.

Not quite the scary and ill-considered attempts to bind Gemshimmer (who or what?) nor the cult with secret, powerful and fearful magical knowledge. On the other hand, their leader can spin quite a tale, as long as you want the moral to be: halflings good, to hell with the rest of the bums.