The Santa Muerte

The shaman brought back from death a lowly member of one of the warring cartels as an undead creature. With one foot in the land of the living and the other on the road to Mictlan, the Nahua underworld, this man had an uncanny understanding of the power of Death.,The first thing he did after killing the shaman was to reunite with old comrades and persuade them to worship him and his powers.
This was the beginning of the cult of the Santa Muerte, or the Holy Death. It spread like a vile infection as an alternate religion for drug traffickers, thugs, murderers and other criminals whose lives were so close to death, they decided they might as well worship it.
The cult is now an organization onto itself. Its cultists worm their way into the rank and file of criminal organizations and subvert them slowly, thus creating the largest, but least identifiable cartel in Mexico. Agents of the Santa Muerte have clashed with practically every Mexican hero, and they even confound Tlacaelel despite his best efforts to manipulate them. On the other hand, they’ve stopped SHADOW's return from the south, even if they’ve only done so to protect their own turf.

Type

Illicit, Other