lot of them come down personal preference.
Practicaly all of them, yes.
Im not convincing you, just offering alernative point of view.
In real life, cults actually DO try and make themselves appealing.
Yup ... bcs we dont have luxury of tadpoles that will work both as killswitch, and brainwashing machine.
In real life cults nees to persuate you to join them, since they WANT you to join them ...
I would say that the Absolute is more like Freemasons ... or some different secret society, than actual cult when compared to real world ... their members are in important places and only them know full scale of their plans (or they at least believe they do
) ...
While they have masses of followers, willing to do anything for them to stay on their good side.
They offer themselves as a solution, a temptation that promises something to its members, even if that something is as simple as peace of mind and community, or something like the chance to amass riches and power.
Like when they lured that Drow Male to society where his gender will no longer mean that he is lesser creature compared to woman?
Or like when they lured those Goblins to the same, by promising them riches and power while they will conquer the world?
I dunno, seems pretty appealing to me, we just usualy dont fit their target group.
(from character creation only Drow Male, and maybe Half Drow might be interested in my opinion)
