>defeat an ancient death cult that sets all the rules and controls entire nations and economies with its time-tested sorcery.
The sorcery is about control of the mind, 'All Is Mind' is an occult precept, but memes walk into the same mental territory with ease. That's why they fear them. The King being mocked as merely naked and shrivelled, when his friends think he's skyclad at the rite, and everyone else is too afraid to say his robes are not magnificent…