The Slumbering One (Cult)

Deep in the dead forest in the far northern wastes of Vasterion lie a cult who know the truth, a dangerous and terrible and unfathomable truth. The forest isn't really dead but rather it is the remnants of a slumbering creature, beyond the fathoming of the mortal minds who worship it. Those who endure the northern wastes know not to go near the forest for it knows. When you cut down a tree people swear the other trees flinch, when you burn the planks the other trees weep sap in agony. The rumours are true. Deep beneath the earth, the roots and bodies of the trees lies the sleeping body of Sungirex, the Worldly One. Deep  beneath the surface lies the underdark, a web of cities and caverns where evil lies but deep beneath that, where the drow feel chills and the Illithids dare not explore lies small traces that you are now within his body. Sungirex was put to sleep many millenia ago as they lay waste to continents and seas with a single stare. A conclave of twelve of the strongest wizards came together and forced the beast underground. Each driven mad by the sights they saw as they dragged the beast deep within and lay him to rest. It is said that the cultists mine and search for the tombs of these twelves wizards for if they are br0ught to the surface and their corpses destroyed Sungirex will rise again