10 Craziest Unique Religions In Video Games
6. The Dark Brotherhood (The Elder Scrolls Series)
Who doesn't love the Dark Brotherhood? As well as providing the best sidequests of every Elder Scrolls game they appear in, they also hold some of the series' best characters (admit it - we all loved Lucein Lachance back in the day).
Granted, said characters are ruthless assassins-for-hire who worship a serial killer-turned-godess, but hey, we all have our flaws.
Even by the standards of Elder Scrolls' most misanthropic gods (this is a series that has Gods of Schemes, Destruction and Pestilence), the Dark Brotherhood's Night Mother is in a league of her own. According to Dark Brotherhood scripture, the Night Mother was a kindly-looking, rosy-cheeked old woman who used her appearance to great effect in her line of work as an assassin.
Sithis - God of the Void - apparently saw the Night Mother about her work one day, liked the cut of her jib and wound up having five children with her. Being something of a control freak, Sithis promptly ordered the Night Mother to kill the children to prove her loyalty to him.
Presumably not wanting to spoil the honeymoon, she did as her infernal groom asked and slaughtered the children without hesitation. Doing so won her Sithis' eternal admiration, and she now exists as an immortal spirit who tells the Dark Brotherhood who to murder.
So yes, joining the Dark Brotherhood does bound you to the whims of an infanticidal ghoul married to the world's most misanthropic god. But hey, it's cold out in Skyrim and those black leather robes look awfully warm...