Infested Chapel Ornaments | Church of the Acarid

LORE & BACKGROUND

The pews of the Church once organized the faithful into ordered rows, guiding movement and gathering bodies within the nave. After the fall, many of those bodies never left. They remain slumped across benches or collapsed between splintered planks, fused to wood and stone by chitin, wax, and hardened residue.

The forms are no longer recognizable as individuals. They have become part of the structure itself, anchoring nests, blocking passages, or marking areas the brood repeatedly uses. The now-rotting pews persist as little more than barricades and platforms shaped by decay and infestation.

Among them lie bowls and chalices once used in ritual handling of offerings and sacramental substances. Now they sit overturned or half-buried, filled with congealed fluids, ash, and fragments of bone. Some cradle eggs or residue left behind by feeding parasites, their function altered without ceremony.

These objects now define the interior of the ruined church. The arrangement of worship remains, but its purpose has been replaced. The nave still gathers bodies and vessels, only now in service to the brood rather than the faith that raised the walls.

Infested Chapel Ornaments | Church of the Acarid

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