Really fun to learn how the outer/fear cults attract people
(Learned all entity names before starting the series)
Reached when Peter Lukas comes to the institute, and his line of how bonds matter little, as "we only really have ourselves." The lukas go from what I'd agree to be comfortable peace and quiet to an extreme isolation and denial of human warmth, and at least for Peter this comes from a strong cynicism and rejection for people, which would explain their worship of the Lonely.
Then we have the Corruption, with its worship manifesting through attachment even as it rots you and others. An attachments that poisons. The cults of the dark seem to embrace a world that exists inside darkness, in a form of escapism. A friend told me >!they reject light as something that stains the primordial world, or embrace ignorance to escape the horrors of life!<
The desolation has cultists embrace cruelty and destruction just to feel alive, being willing to hurt even people they care about to escape monotomy and stagnation
The eye seems simpler. Knowledge to feel safer or to understand this confusing world, yet leading to further fear and confusion