The leaders, to maintain their harsh and pervasive authority over the people, sent torturers to infiltrate the gathering place and brutally murder the worshippers.
However, they were eventually discovered. This group met regularly in cellars, and focused their energies on worshipping witches, whom they believed could deliver them from their seemingly endless subjugation. In an attempt to overthrow the oppressive regime, an illicit spiritual group was founded.
For generations, the isolated townspeople of Heorgen survived under tyrannical rulers.