Cult of Transcendent Ecstasy

This religion is oft thought the most debased of all. Followers ignore obligations, merely seeking sensory pleasures. They are known for drinking to excess, sleeping long hours, and days and nights of endless debauchery.

Amusingly, the Cultists are uniformly condemned by women, but men seem to accept (some say encourage) female cultists. Every city seems to have some den of iniquity where cultists meet. As soon as one is closed by the Church, another opens.

The philosophy behind their hedonism is simple. They say the Lord of the Springs created certain things which cause pleasure, and others which cause anguish and pain. This was obviously because the Lord of the Springs wanted us to seek out pleasure and avoid pain. If, at death, the amount of pain in one's life outweighs pleasure, one descends to the Abyss. Otherwise one ascends to Heaven. Such is their view, simplistic though it be.

The Path of Fire and the Cult of Transcendent Ecstasy are oft at each others' throats.