Keidor gave a smile in return. "It is indeed good to have a family without him, I sought that for a long time, my people are like a family to me a well, but that is not the same as having your real family among you." He answered
He then thought for a moment.
"You mentioned cults, but perhaps I should explain it in better detail, you see..." He sat down as he started to talk, he knew alot on the subject since he had lived among them for many years.
"While their society is called the *Blood Cult*, it is not really a cult at all, but rather, it consists of many clans, some very big, and some smaller. But don't let their size fool you, because...
"They are powerful, while most people utilize magic, they utilize something entirely different, allow me to show you..." Keidor then started to gather some sort of purple powers in his hand, and a bunch of sand started to gather, to form some sort of person, though after a while the sand itself started to morph into clay, and then into some form of skin, although it was very crude.
Eventually, it had taken the shape of a person, but what was shocking was that it seemed alive, although it acted more like an automaton.
"It is said that these powers are even capable of creating true sentient life, but that is not entirely true, the person that you see here is like a puppet made out of transformed materials, and shaped into a new form. But let's go a bit higher, shall we?" As he took it a step further and blasted the puppet person with a burst of his powers, but instead of destroying the puppet, it transformed slightly from the inside, and now, it was truly acting alive...
It started to act like a monkey, and walked around, picking up bits of sand sniffing it.
"You see, these powers that the Blood Cult members utilize is the same type of thing that a soul would consist of. But these powers are not in our own bodies, no, we draw them from another dimension, or rather, we draw it from a living entity, some call it the Devourer since essentially it grows from the souls of others, and as you may know... many of the Blood Cult see the Devourer like some sort of deity that they own their entire existance too, which is plausible to assume."
"To become a member of the Blood Cult, you must give up your own life, where your soul will be consumed by the Devourer, and an exact copy of your soul will be placed in your body, which will grant you the ability to bend these powers to your will, which you are essentially bending part of the Devourer itself if that makes sense," Keidor explained.
"Now.. You might wonder how many people of the Blood Cult out there, they're not just a few, it is plausible to say they are the size of an entire race, around 46 million of them are out there. Many of them consist of the ancient Raukan empire, which is long ago." Keidor explained.
"But hold on a sec, what you just explained does not add up with one thing, how are you even able to bend these powers? You are NOT part of the blood cult at all, either that or you are very good at hiding it." Terisha retorted, growing more interested in the conversation
"Hm, very smart of you to notice Dear, because I am not one of them, or atleast I would have been, but I am cursed," Keidor responded.
"Cursed? Cursed as in how?" Terisha asked
"Their Clans often kidnap children in order to convert them and make them one of their own, hoping to breed killing machines to turn againts their fellow clans for a sense of power and territory, I was about to become one of them, but something had apparently gone wrong, because the conversion was interrupted midway by an attack from a fellow clan, and I managed to escape however.."
"As it turns out? I am no longer a Raukan, I am no longer the part of a Unicorn that I had within me, I am something else now... A new type of race you could say, something is able to bend these powers, yet I still have a claim on my soul." Keidor explained.
"Hold on... You mean that you did not... get converted during the process? I have NEVER heard of that happening." Therisha muttered
"Indeed, I would like to explain but I am sadly not allowed to if I would then that Clan would come not only after me but the bunch of you as well since they do not want their closely guarded secrets to getting shared just like that."
"Oh right, their ridiculous stance on their personal secrecy, right... Gotcha, I was about to ask you what happenend to you since Windphaser did not ask." Therisha pointed out.
"Reason I mainly brought them up is that there was Blood Cult activity going around recently, you mentioned this one guy called Xicor correct? The faceless one wearing a mask?" Keidor asked her.
"Oh yes that creep, at first we presumed he was friendly since he had been around in the city for a long time, but during one of our tournament when his masked got knocked off he went all aggressive out of the sudden, but I guess he started to act like that because everyone else realised that he was part of the blood cult seeing that faceless head of his," Therisa explained.
"I see, well, it is true that my father has aid from one of the clans that have been doing some concerning activities here, but he is not part of that clan," Keidor said.
"He isn't? Huh... That still feels off, since he has been trying to outright murder Karthspire, claiming that he had run his mouth too far, saying things that he was not supposed to so or something." Therisha mentioned
"Just another reason why you should not anger them. But it turns out that this Xicor is part of clan Geigor, a clan which has started to grow a particular interest in Equestria it seems." Keidor responded.
"Right... So what clan is doing that strange activity here then?" Therisha asked.
"Clan Sabertorn, they are out there for a couple of individuals, but if there is one thing for certain, they are going to kill Karthspire." Keidor mentioned.
"Damn... I was already afraid something like this was going to happen... Because he ran his mouth?" Terisha asked with worry.
Keidor gave a nod. "He is presumably going to get killed in 2 days, but I am not certain with what method, all I could feel was tremors in the void, which tends to indicate that there are lots of powers being used in a nearby area." Keidor mentioned.
"So... How can we stop this? It will be fighting like a ghost, since we do not know what they look like, where they are, at what time they will come.." Terisha said with a deep sigh.
"Hard to say dear, keep in mind that it might not be 100% since I only felled tremors, but if that Xicor person was around, then you can bet then chances are likely. Best thing I can advise you to do is to stay away from them in the future, if you do not know them, you are not going to have many chances going up againts them." Keidor said as he shook his head.
"This is so SCREWED! First, we have all these enemies chasing us, but now we also have an entire clan to stalk and haunt us? Forgive me for my current discomposure, but nobody and I repeats NOBODY could deal with those things at the same time!" Terisha exclaimed, before burying her head in her hands
"Those armies can be dealt with accordingly, but that Clan? All I can say is, if you don't know who they are, don't bother to attack them, because you will not get anywhere." Keidor again advised because he knew one thing, not bothering to do research on your enemies will only come back to bite you back.