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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
The Path of Nonexistence does not necessarily lend itself to apocalyptic cults, as it makes impossible things possible and possible things impossible. So, practitioners could use Lesser Destroy Nonexistence to preempt the physical laws that prevented an impossible entity from existing from this point on (effectively allowing it to come into existence) or Greater Destroy Nonexistence to preempt the physical laws retroactively that prevented an impossible entity from ever existing (effectively always allowing it to exist). For example, a practitioner could use Lesser Destroy Nonexistence to bring a nymph into existence in the present and Greater Destroy Nonexistence to have a nymph who assisted the Native Americans of New Jersey against the European invaders from the 16th century on.
The question becomes then, what impossible things would a cultist want to bring into existence (or what possible things do they want to remove)? For example, a businessman might want to use Lesser Create Nonexistence to remove one of their coworkers from consideration for a promotion or a victim of childhood abuse may want to use a Greater Create Nonexistence to remove their abuser from existence before they were abused (be careful of paradoxes). I imagine that everyone has something that impossible that they want possible or something possible that they want impossible, so anyone may find the cult attractive (even if they do not support the end goal of making the Lords of the Last Waste possible).
In fact, such a cult could actually be quite sympathetic, as its members may be trying to reverse the injustices of their past, though such attempts may start unraveling local existence. Such a cult would likely start off with small effects of nonexistence, perhaps creating a cryptid, but they would likely start messing with large effects after a while. The first indication of that happening would be the PCs hearing a radio advertisement for the new Bigfoot exhibit at the local zoo.
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This cult is only concerned with magic that drains energy, destroys matter or otherwise causes loss, physical, psychological or metaphysical.
About the most benign examples of their magic are Charms and ritual that end consciousness or light and sound, largely because the ones encountered so far were only temporary.