From a01e39b988bd20a68df83eea46153d9efe630241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MortenGM Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:19:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal --- HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html b/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html index c5e65b1..5209a1e 100644 --- a/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html +++ b/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: The Castigian Cabal description: published: true -date: 2023-06-29T22:13:22.219Z +date: 2023-06-29T22:19:35.508Z tags: game-master, castigian cabal, cabal editor: ckeditor dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z @@ -139,9 +139,11 @@ dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z

The Cabal is acutely aware that they stand little chance in reaching their goals should all of the other influential factions in Marcandria decide to unite against them. They thus place great emphasis on maintaining secrecy, and go to great lengths to make sure their plans and schemes remain unknown and their existence remain unnoticed. The acts they commit may cause a lot of reaction within Marcandrian society, but they always make sure that no evidence points back to them, and that there are no indicators that an event is part of a larger scheme. Maintaining secrecy is thus a goal in and of itself for the Cabal, one that they go to great lengths to maintain. The Cabal also strives to keep their adversaries divided and in conflict with one another. This aims tie down and expend their adversaries' resources, both to reduce the risk of discovery, and to prevent them from being able to interfere with the Cabal's schemes.

The Cabal constantly aims to recruit influential individuals from other factions, and often entice them with promises of prominent positions in their envisioned future to help persuade them. Those who are approached but refuse to join the cause are either killed off or forced to cooperate through the use of coercion and threats. Anything the person holds dear, be that possessions, reputation, or loved ones, may be threatened—with the Cabal having both the means and a history of following through on such threats if necessary.

The Cabal seeks to control those who cannot be swayed through infighting or conflicts with other factions. By weakening adversaries or diverting their resources, the Cabal aims to usurp their positions or render them too preoccupied to interfere with their plans. Each of the major faction presents a unique scenario, due to organization and how deep the Cabal is able to infiltrate their existing ranks, thus requiring tailored strategies from the Cabal to achieve their objectives for each of these factions effectively.

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Many of the members seek to place themselves as high up the social hierarchy as possible in the Cabal's envisioned future, with the Cabal leveraging promises of specific positions in their envisioned future as a way to entice potential recruits.

 

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Individual members do of course have it as their personal goal to make sure their rightful place is as high up in the social hierarchy as possible. The Cabal often uses promises of granting people a specific position in their new envisioned future as a way to help convince them to join their cause. This most typically takes the form of promising them the position of the superior which the individual believe to have unjustly denied them something they see themselves as having rightfully deserved. The Cabal is in constant need of recruiting new members to expand their reach and influence, and thus always have numerous schemes ongoing that aim to either convince someone to join them as a faithful member, or force someone to serve the Cabal through coercions and threats.

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Individual members do of course have it as their personal goal to make sure their rightful place is as high up in the social hierarchy as possible. The Cabal often uses promises of granting people a specific position in their new envisioned future as a way to help convince them to join their cause, with those who feel they have been unjustly denied advancement by their superior often being offered their superior's position in the envisioned future.

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This most typically takes the form of promising them the position of the superior which the individual believe to have unjustly denied them something they see themselves as having rightfully deserved. The Cabal is in constant need of recruiting new members to expand their reach and influence, and thus always have numerous schemes ongoing that aim to either convince someone to join them as a faithful member, or force someone to serve the Cabal through coercions and threats.

 

Shar, their enigmatic and mysterious guide, possess an entirely different set of goals than those the Cabal have. She has grown tired of the others deities' ploy - who sought to isolate the world from the realms beyond, leaving all of the deities unable to interfere with the world. Luckily for her, the seal is imperfect, and slowly deteriorating, with more and more cracks slowly appearing. Shar seeks to undo the seal those deities placed upon the world, in a way that is favorable to he, by making sure the biggest cracks that appear when the seal shatters are linked to where Shar herself is strong - the Shadowfell. With this, she aims to have an upper necessary to make the world fall to entropy - to crumble and succumb, leaving only disorder, darakness, and loss, where all are ultimately forced under her sway.

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