The walls and caves of the Nether hold many mysteries and secrets, one such detail conveys of a small group of Piglins who worship death. They ritually gouge out their eyeballs and part the flesh of their spines upon each other while blind.

It's theorized the removal of their eyes allows them to see the black emptiness of death, while the pain teaches them to endure such loneliness. Prolonged meditation of being visually impaired heightens their other senses and teaches them to not fear death for they always see it. Darkness.

The constant pain of their spines exposed furthers their tolerance and patience, teaching them the understanding that pain does not last, especially before death.

They've become so ritualized of their cult, they believe their way of death and pain is transcendence, and they wish to share it with you...