A group of natives who have proclaimed me to be their leader. They started following me around when I first arrived here, claiming I was the one they had been waiting for. I was very suspicious given my experiences in the previous town. The people there acted kindly for the first month and my guard was down. Then they drugged me, sewed me to a dead animal, and tried to burn me alive as they lit a building on fire with me inside.

[Granted, that experience hadn't turned out to be all bad given it was how he'd met his lover Reaper, but it had certainly had colored Maul's opinion on any natives that appeared to be kind or helpful right off the bat.]

I kept telling them to leave me alone but they were persistent. After several months went by and they showed no signs of stabbing me in the back, I consented to teaching them and becoming a leader for them to follow.

[Maul makes having his own cult sound so benign, doesn't he?]