# [[Kremlo Pamphlet.pdf|The Church of Kremlo Trifold]] This was a design project for my Theories of Technical Communication class, where we had to take a non-fiction book and create a project to showcase what we learned from it. You could do anything you wanted to (and I mean anything), the only requirement was that it wasn't an essay. The book that I chose was *Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism* by Amanda Montell. This book takes a deep dive into the language and tactics that cults use to lure people in and trap them into their system. The book was intended to be a way to teach people what to look out for and avoid it, but I decided to use it as instructions for making my own cult. Originally, I wanted to make a conspiracy board (you know, the thing with all the notes and images linked together with yarn), but there was someone else who wanted to do the same thing for their book on conspiracy theories, so I switched gears and decided to just make a cult instead. This allowed me to really flex those creative writing skills again and use them towards a new challenge of designing something that would be distributed. One of the main ways cults will try to get you is by having free things to give you that give some basic and (usually) innocent-looking info on the cult, so I wanted to capture that vibe of a strange religion pamphlet. The deity I have chosen to base this cult around is Kremlo (he came from space!), who is a relatively niche character from the tabletop game, *Warhammer Fantasy*. The link on the pamphlet goes to a scan of the only official lore I could find on the character, and to show just how niche this character is, I had to find it from a random person's blog called Awesome Lies (You can find it [here](https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/start-here/)). I originally heard about the character from two content creators named Tom and Ben, and they had a running gag of just saying he came from space. I don't know why they started this bit, but it became influential enough that it is now one of the top autofills on Google when you type "Kremlo". My knowledge of general Warhammer lore is practically non-existent, so I really just went with whatever I wanted to when coming up with the lore for Kremlo (he came from space). I knew that chaos was usually used as a term to describe evil in the Warhammer universe, so I focused on that being the villainizing factor for the cult (something you see in pretty much every cult out there).