Cult of Mithras
Introduction
The Cult of Mithras, also known as the Mithraic Mysteries, is a blood cult centered around the fourth-generation Ventrue Mithras.
History
Roman Era
The vampire Mithras took over the existing Persian cult, passing himself off as the physical incarnation of the warrior-god, and followed that cult westward to Rome. The cult spread rapidly among Rome's military, and from there to every corner of the Empire.
In 71 CE, Mithras arrived in Britain, tired of the political infighting of Rome. He joined in efforts to pacify the Celts, exterminate the Lhiannan, and drive the Picti and their Lupine allies north. His cult became one of the principle religions of Roman Britain, with Cainite and mortal worshipers alike. The cult, and Mithras' temporal rule, were centered at the Mithraeum in what is now called Walbrook, outside Londinium.
However, the growing influence of Christianity in the Empire gradually eroded the cult's influence, and the collapse of Roman rule over Britain in 409 further reduced its prominence. Mithras himself went into torpor at this time, in the mithraeum of Vercovicium, leaving the cult without their god and leader as Anglo-Saxons flooded into the British Isles. The cult persisted for some time without him, and even made some inroads among the newcomers. Mithras' childe Cretheus attempted to spread the cult in Byzantium, to little effect.
Dark Ages
