Talk:Cult of the Outsider/@comment-1500935-20170924115350

I feel there's a huge plot hole about this cult, which I can only address through conjectures, so i'm dumping this here.

I don't think the original cult members (the Envisioned) and the cultists in DotO are the same original group. If that cult existed for 4000 years, it sure would have counted a lot more Envisioned than that and would not even need to research the Void at this point. My thought on this is, the cult ceased to exist after the ritual although members remained in the Void, becoming the immortal Envisioned and guarding the Ritual Hold.

When Shindaerey North Quarry became an access to the Void (around 1840 if I'm not wrong), it brought with it the Eye of the Dead God and the access to the Ritual Hold. One miner found the Eye, got her eyes opened to the Void, discovered the Envisioned and found anew the Cult (Lost Days at Shindaery: A Memoir). With the quarry being abandoned, she used the silver to upstart the group, seeking financial backup from influential members of Karnaca's society. The Eyeless gang was created so that the Cult could act outside their place of pilgrimage and without resorting to possessions other than their knowledge. They needed to research the Void again because the Envisioned do not speak.

TL;DR: The current Cult of the Outsider got their objective of protecting the Ritual hold from the Eye of the Dead God after it reappeared in the Isles around 10 or 15 years before DotO. They still needed to research the Void because the Envisioned didn't leave much behind before their transformation.

EDIT: the Spector Club was founded in 1841. I'm sure it serves as a way to get financial backup from would-be members, so I doubt the creation of the current Cult would be far older than that year.