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 title: The Castigian Cabal
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-date: 2024-10-05T18:57:02.480Z
+date: 2024-10-05T19:06:05.158Z
 tags: game-master, castigian cabal, cabal
 editor: ckeditor
 dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z
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 <p>The Cabal's enigmatic guide, the Nightsinger, has her own aspirations, for which the Cabal is but a tool. She is dscontented with the other deities' ploy to seal off the world from the realms beyond, rendering beings from those places, including the deities themselves, unable to directly influence the world. T<strong>he Nightsinger seeks to exploit the seal's imperfect and deteriorating nature, aiming to create a significant breach in a location closely aligned to a place where she holds great strength—the Shadowfell—with one such place being conveniently located in the ruins of the old Concalian capitol of Sion, just south of Marcandria's borders</strong>. Through this breach, <strong>the Nightsinger intends to make herself the dominating influence in the world, causing it to fall into entropy—to crumble and succumb, leaving only disorder, darkness, and loss, where all are ultimately forced under her sway</strong>. This goal is entirely unknown to both the Cabal and the Nightsworn Concalians who aid them as Shades and Veiled Enforcers, with all ultimately being nothing but puppets in the Nightsinger's grand scheme, to be discarded when no longer of use.</p>
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 <h2>Organization</h2>
-<p>The Castigian Cabal operates under a strict hierarchical structure, where each member is expected to dutifully carry out the orders of their superiors without question. Deviation from these orders is only permissible when the requested actions contradict the Cabal's core interests and could be considered treasonous. The Cabal places great importance on the unwavering commitment and loyalty demonstrated by its members, especially when executing morally challenging tasks. Successfully completing assigned missions, as directed by the Cabal, is regarded as a testament to one's competence, dedication, and eligibility for advancement. Advancement when it comes to the Cabal is almost entirely based on merit. The Cabal will reward good service by improving and expanding on what the person's been promised in the Cabal's new world order, operating as a motivator where ultimately those who have aided the Cabal the most are promised the most prestigious positions. The Cabal will likewise reward those who serve them well by facilitating events so that they're given a more prestigious position within current Marcandrian society, typically close to what they've been promised in the Cabal's envisioned new order. This acts both as further motivation to stay loyal to the Cabal, and to place the member in a position where they're well equipped to be of use to the Cabal itself.</p>
+<p>The Castigian Cabal operates under a strict hierarchical structure, where each member is expected to dutifully, and without question, carry out the orders of their superiors. Deviation from these orders is only permissible when the requested actions contradict the Cabal's core interests and could be considered treasonous. The Cabal places great importance on its members demonstrating unwavering commitment and loyalty, especially when asked to execute morally challenging tasks. Successfully completing assigned missions, as directed by the Cabal, is regarded as a testament to one's competence, dedication, and eligibility for advancement. Advancement within the Cabal is based almost entirely on merit. The Cabal will reward good service by improving and expanding on what the person's been promised in the Cabal's new world order. The Cabal thus use the promise of such rewards as motivators, where those who have been of most aid to the Cabal ultimately ending up as those promised the most prestigious positions. The Cabal will likewise reward those who serve them well by facilitating events so that they're given a more prestigious position within current Marcandrian society, typically close to something they've been promised for the future order. This acts both as further motivation to stay loyal to the Cabal, and to place the member in a position where they're well equipped to be of use to the Cabal itself.</p>
 <p>Members within the Cabal hold the titles of Veiled Initiate, Veiled Magistrate, and Veiled Hierarch. In addition are the Shades and the Veiled Enforcers, primarily Nightsworn Concalian servants of the Nightsinger who have been sent by her to serve as specialized operatives for the Cabal. They are thus not part of the Cabal's main hierarchy, but rather forces at its side that performs specialized tasks on behalf of the Cabal's members. The Shades act as the Cabal's information network, while the Veiled Enforcers act as its military force. Lastly there's the Nightseer, the de-facto leader of the Cabal whose responsible for leading the discussions held the Veiled Hierarchs, and whose responsible for acting as the Nightsinger's voice when the Veiled Hierarchs discuss and coordinates the Cabal's future plans. Initiates, magistrates, and Hierarchs may all have their own servants, employees, and mercenaries, typically connected to the individual's position outside of the Cabal. These will rarely have any insight into the Cabal's existence. They'll often have a varying degree of knowledge into the specific member they serve's endeavors, as the Cabal member will rarely be able to perform all aspects of the schemes they've been assigned personally, though these servants are never told anything tangible about a larger force being behind it all.</p>
 <p>All new members start out as a Veiled Initiate, who work under a Veiled Magistrate or directly under a Veiled Hierarch, whom in both cases they very rarely know the identity off. When the execution of one of the Cabal's schemes have been delegated to the Initiate's Magistrate or Hierarch superior, that superior will delegate out tasks to themselves and their subordinate Veiled Initiates in accordance with each person's position and suitability for each aspect of the scheme. An Initiate may also be assigned a scheme the Veiled Hierarchs directly if they are particularly suitable in meting out a scheme. This is most commonly the case for Initiates with notable influence in Marcandrian society, and in cases where the scheme is directly connected to why the Cabal recruited said individual. he Cabal will evaluate an Initiate's competency, i.e. their value to the Cabal, and their loyalty through how they execute the tasks assigned to them. While all members start out as Veiled Initiates, those who already hold much resources and influence will typically rise up to a Veiled Magistrate a lot quicker simply due to all the means they have available to mete out the parts assigned to them. The Cabal simultaneously sees their already existing levels of resources and influence as proof of their competency. As the criteria for advancement is competency and loyalty, they've thus effectively already fulfilled the competency requirement, meaning the only hurdle left for them to rise beyond the rank of Veiled Initiate is for them to prove their loyalty. The Cabal will typically ensure that a person's been tasked with, and have dutifully executed, at least one morally difficult assignment as proof of their absolute loyalty and devotion to the Cabal's cause and beliefs before their advancement to Veiled Magistrate.</p>
 <p>Veiled Magistrates will typically have at least a couple of Veiled Initiates as their subordinate, and are responsible for meting out small to medium sized schemes delegated to them by the Veiled Hierarchs. The Magistrate will typically hold some knowledge of what type of position their Initiates hold, but the Initiates' exact identity will be kept hidden where possible. The Magistrate may thus, for instance, know that one of their Initiates work at a specific establishment, including what type of information they can access and what strings they can pull within the establishment, but the Magistrate may not know which specific employee the Initiate is. Orders and reports between the Magistrate and their Initiates are instead handled by the Shades, to ensure that even if one member of the Cabal is compromised, they'll be able to contain it and maintain secrecy for the rest of the organization. Veiled Magistrates will have a Veiled Hierarch as their superior, with communication between the Magistrates and the Hierarchs occurring through Shade in the same manner as through Magistrate and Initiate.</p>