Cults

In Formin especially, multiple nomadic groups roamed and raided and killed. Norman Philips brought deliverance from their false deities and delivered the human race into a free new world.

Truth and Falsehood
The mutant humans in the gateway universe were closer linked to Hafthure's demon universe than the Abyss. Nonetheless, most subjects of their groups were based of characters from the Abyss. The Grotesque and his Smiling Mask, It, the insatiable Tempest, the Sickly Child, and the Fiend of the Abyss (also know as the Abyssal Fiend or just Fiend) were all involved. The Kindred group originally were followers of the time traveling Sklegge Laccosante. The Tempest Warlocks, of course, followed the Tempest beast. Huganan, Crimonyst, Opjomp, these are mostly believed to be misguided.

War
The clans and tribes constantly raided each other and the other people in the gateway universe. With the arrival of Norman Philips, war was already waged between the Huganan and the Kindred. When Lord Edgar defied the occupying groups, the Crimonysts, Huganan and Kindred joined their armies to assault the castle. All Kindred, Huganan and Crimonysts who survived the battle were condemned by Lord Edgar to suffer with Lord Maydros. Not long after the Exodus, the Tempest Temple was sacked by the Black Riders, followers of the Hunter, who wiped out any Warlocks they found there. The surviving Warlocks fled to our universe. The Riders gained possession of the Black Stone and stashed it in an unknown location. The last known Tempest Warlock was spotted as a disembodied spirit merging with Gerald Rowan's dying body, effectively reanimate get him into an infant form again.