individual orders vary by region but can be divided into two primary types: Proto-Sarkic
and Neo-Sarkic.
These do not appear to represent divergent beliefs so much as environmental adaptations.
Practitioners of Proto-Sarkicism do not operate in the open unless a location is significantly
isolated.
Such sects display acute technophobia and eschew modernity, willing to go so far as
destroy or disable advanced electronics when encountered
Foot Note 36: Communication devices appear to be considered especially abhorrent.
Proto-Sarkic cults generally value humility and self-sacrifice.
GoI-0246: The Solomonari
The ancestors of the Solomonari37 likely settled in the Carpathian Basin between 1200 to 600
BCE.
foot note 37: Also historically recorded as the "Zgrimțieș", or "Hultan".
It is presently hypothesized that the Sarkites assimilated the local proto-Thracian people,
eventually becoming the Dacians - a people recorded by Ancient Greek and Roman sources.
A Sarkic stronghold, since classified as SCP-████, was discovered in the Southern Carpathians
and is believed to have once been the heart of the Solomonari cult.
foot note 38: Corresponding with the given location of the legendary Scholomance - a
school of "black magic" in Romanian folklore.
It has been hypothesized that the Solomonari are related to (or one and the same as) the
Dacian Cult of Zalmoxis, having culturally melded with the ancient proto-Thracian people.
Documents discovered at SCP-████ and SCP-2191 suggest that the Solomonari remained
highly influential, albeit secretive, until the 15th century - possibly destroyed by John
Hunyadi, a leading Hungarian military and political figure.
Several boyars of Wallachia and Moldavia, most notably the Gutkeled clan of Hungarian
nobles, are now believed to have been under the control of the Solomonari; an influence
that would lead to the development of Neo-Sarkicism and it's western expansion.
It remains debatable whether modern practitioners should be considered true Solomonari, in event
of what has been learned at SCP-████.
Most are located in isolated pockets throughout the Carpathians, with little to no connection
with one another.
The religion, in its current state, is an amalgam of local folk traditions and Solomonari
blood rituals.
GoI-0074: Church of the Red Harvest
The Church of the Red Harvest were discovered at SCP-2133 in 1936 by GRU Division "P".
The Foundation became aware of the sect shortly after gaining control of SCP-2133 following
the dissolution of the USSR.
SCP-2133 is an unnamed village located in the northern Ural Mountains whose denizens
are the only known members of the Church of the Red Harvest.
The church practices a regeneration ritual, their recent dead harvested as newborns from
the turnip fields found throughout SCP-2133.
Members refer to the regenerative process as a part of an "old covenant", one that cannot
be broken and is to last until the return of "paradise" (Adytum).
It is currently believed that the Church of the Red Harvest is directly controlled by
a Karcist ("Karcist Alka") located in a subterranean dwelling beneath the nearby mountains, connected
to the village by a series of tunnels accessible via the village church.
GoI-0041: The Vātula
The Vātula (Sanskrit: वातुल) were initially mistaken for Aghori due to several,
superficially similar rituals.
foot note 39: Ascetic Shaiva sadhus known to engage in post-mortem rituals.
Known to the Foundation since 1969, a Sarkic connection was only established in 2010 through
extensive research.
The Vātula command fear and respect among the rural poor in the Indian states of Rajasthan,
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab, and Gujarat.
They trace their origins to Karcist Vaski, who they claim arrived from the northwest
- granting them his blessing and spreading a virulent plague to their enemies.