ONI
The Herald looked at him for a brief moment, then he laughed.
...for almost half a minute.
Once he had calmed down, he looked at him again.
"Would you believe, that in all my years in this galaxy here, I have probably not been asked this question, even once?"
He lifted both his eyebrows at Randall and nodded.
"Not even once has anyone asked me directly, 'What do they even want?'. Curious, isn´t it?"
He paused and continued.
"Well, I will have to disappoint your prejudices, there is no ritual, at least, none in the common archaic-occultistic manner. Technically, the Bloodcult isn´t even a proper cult,, it´s just a name they have been given, because trying to express their actual name would just cause people headaches... not that anyone ever asked, but oh well...
Anyways, there is a number of reasons for these raiding procedures, I will have you take a guess first you may take... three I´d say and I´ll tell you wether you´re wrong or right. Maybe I´ll give you the correct answer afterwards, maybe not, depends on how well you can use your head, we´ll see."
The Herald sat back and waited...