diff --git a/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html b/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html index f92bc4d..fad9abc 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: 2024-08-31T19:24:53.318Z +date: 2024-08-31T19:51:38.521Z tags: game-master, castigian cabal, cabal editor: ckeditor dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z
  1. The actual Cabal members themselves, who have accepted an invitation into the organization and is partaking in their schemes. They have typically joined after the Cabal promised some specific reward that the member will receive once the Cabal has reached its goal usurping the positions of power in Marcandria, to bring the nation under their control. This promise could be a title, political position, a position in another faction, land, wealth, or something else entirely. The promise can be non-power based, such as promising revenge on someone the member holds a grudge over. Cabal members hold the titles of Veiled Initiate, Vailed Magistrate, Veiled Hierarch, and Nightseer, creating a hierarchical organizational structure.
  2. Those the Cabal has coerced into cooperation, typically by threatening their lives and livelihood, as well as the lives and livelihoods of those they care about. They may be people who denied an invitation into the Cabal, or be people the Cabal has deemed not worth even trying to recruit but who hold key positions the Cabal wishes to control. The Cabal is very thorough in their handling of those they coerce, quick to make an example out of even the slightest sign of disobedience, and always making sure they maintain control over weaknesses–things the person holds dearest–to make sure they are kept in line and do the Cabal's bidding.
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  3. Servants of the Nightsinger, sent to aid the Cabal's endeavors and assist where necessary to ensure the Cabal's goals are reached. These are Shadowsworn Concalians, loyal to the Nightsinger, and are referred to as Shades and Veiled Enforcers by the Cabal. Veiled Enforcers act as the Cabal's military force, performing services such as assassinations and security measures. The Shades perform surveillance and intelligence gathering, and additionally act as the Cabal's information network. Communications between Cabal members goes through these Shades, with a system set up so that each Cabal member, and each Shade, only knows the minimum information about other Cabal members, typically limited to each member only knowing exactly what they need to fulfill their role. The Cabal knows very little about the origin of these servants, not even what they are or whether they have motifs beyond assisting the Cabal. For the Nightsinger, these servants are a way for her to subtly steer the Cabal, with the Nightsworn Concalians that serve these roles having been given their own promises by the Nightsinger for fulfilling these roles (General motives for the Nightsworn Concalians, as well as their motives for assisting the Cabal's endeavors, can be read about on their faction page.).
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  4. Servants of the Nightsinger, sent to aid the Cabal's endeavors and assist where necessary to ensure the Cabal's goals are reached. These are Shadowsworn Concalians, loyal to the Nightsinger, and are referred to as Shades and Veiled Enforcers by the Cabal. Veiled Enforcers act as the Cabal's military force, performing services such as assassinations and security measures. The Shades perform surveillance and intelligence gathering. The Shades additionally act as the Cabal's information network, being responsible for relaying orders and reports between superiors and subordinates within the Cabal discreetly and secretly--ensuring that each Shade, and each member of the Cabal, know the identity of as few other members as possible. The preferred setup is for each individual to only know the bare minimum information about other members necessary to effectively fulfil their own role. The Cabal's members knows very little about the origin of these servants, not even what they are or whether they have motifs beyond assisting the Cabal. For the Nightsinger, these servants are a way for her to subtly steer the Cabal, with the Nightsworn Concalians that serve these roles having been given their own promises by the Nightsinger for fulfilling these roles (General motives for the Nightsworn Concalians, as well as their motives for assisting the Cabal's endeavors, can be read about on their faction page.).

The actual Cabal members, particularly those with the title Veiled Magistrate and upwards, will typically also have servants or mercenaries working for them. Depending on the situation, these may be kept entirely in the dark regarding the Cabal's operations, acting as a convenient front to avoid suspicions. They are alternatively given a very limited insight into that particular member's endeavors, being given generous pay in return for loyalty, and for not asking unnecessary questions. Those in the latter group are also rather openly told that any lapse in loyalty or secrecy will be retaliated against harshly. These servants, and the Cabal members themselves, are fully made fully aware that even the slightest betrayal or lapse on secrecy is punished harshly, with the Cabal having no qualms with murdering entire families and burning their holdings to the ground in order to avoid being exposed publicly.

Those who are coerced into serving naturally assist in the Cabal's endeavors because they are forced to do so. The Nightsworn Concalians have their own reasons, connected to their people's current predicament. As for the Cabal members themselves, they are people who believe themselves to have either been wronged by, or unjustly denied something they believed they deserved, by the current status quo of the world. The Cabal will subtly approach them and start fostering the person's sense of injustice and grievances with the current power structure, often exploiting the person's personal grievances, to slowly indoctrinate the person into aligning with the Cabal's beliefs, before being officially invited to the organization. By the time they've become a member, the Cabal aims to have them fully believe that the current system, encompassing both society and the world's workings, is deeply flawed and unjust, to the point where only through first completely dismantling the current system can one build something better. The Cabal refers to this procedure as opening the person's eyes to “the hidden truths”, which they themselves fully believe in.

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Organization

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.

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Members within the Cabal hold the titles of Veiled Initiate, Veiled Magistrate, and Veiled Hierarch. 

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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.

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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. The Cabal will evaluate their competency, i.e. value to the Cabal, and 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.

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needs to wield a certain amount of influence in Marcandrian society to be eligible for a higher rank.

 

Going up in rank, practically speaking, means you get entrusted with more important schemes, which means you can become more valuable to the Cabal and thus be granted further promises, or have the Cabal facilitate for you to be given a better position in Marcandrian society.

Rank is also hierarchical, meaning if you get promoted to Veiled Magistrate, you'll get Veiled Initiates that you control, and get more resources, shades etc, to find new members for the cabal.

 

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Going up in rank, practically speaking, means you get entrusted with more important schemes, which means you can become more valuable to the Cabal and thus be granted further promises, or have the Cabal facilitate for you to be given a better position in Marcandrian society.</p>

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<p>Rank is also hierarchical, meaning if you get promoted to Veiled Magistrate, you'll get Veiled Initiates that you control, and get more resources, shades etc, to find new members for the cabal.