diff --git a/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html b/HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html index 6e5c02a..22d38ff 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: 2024-09-21T19:09:06.576Z +date: 2024-09-21T19:18:58.759Z tags: game-master, castigian cabal, cabal editor: ckeditor dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z

While they would describe themselves as the grand puppeteers, they are ironically only puppets themselves. The Nightsinger funded the Cabal through her machinations, secretly placing the High Priest of the Nightsworn Concalians as the Cabal's Nightseer. This Nightseer believes the Nightsinger is guiding him on the path to ultimately let his people return to the material plane and escape their curse. Though, while he sees the Cabal as his puppets, he himself is also but a puppet of the Nightsinger herself. To her, both the Cabal and the Nightsworn Concalians are but puppets, which she fully intends to discard once they are no longer of use.

 

Members

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The Castigian Cabal is comprised of individuals from diverse backgrounds across the entirety of Marcandrian society. Members can be found in various positions, such as nobles, merchants, artisans, including individuals from other factions and organizations. Membership in the Cabal is an additional commitment that individuals undertake alongside their existing roles and positions. A noble will continue to fulfill their noble obligations, and a mid-ranked member of another faction will carry out their duties within that faction without relinquishing their responsibilities. Their value to the Cabal lies in utilizing their existing influence and resources to further the Cabal's agenda. They strategically leverage their positions to subtly manipulate events and people in favor of the Cabal's agendas. 

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The Castigian Cabal is comprised of individuals from diverse backgrounds across the entirety of Marcandrian society. Members can be found in positions such as nobility, merchants, artisans, and includes individuals from other factions and organizations. Membership in the Cabal is an additional commitment that individuals undertake alongside their existing roles and positions. A noble will continue to fulfill their noble obligations, and a mid-ranked member of another faction will carry out their duties within that faction without relinquishing their responsibilities. Their value to the Cabal lies in utilizing their existing influence and resources to further the Cabal's agenda. They strategically leverage their positions to subtly manipulate events and people in favor of the Cabal's agendas. 

The Castigian Cabal can be divided into three groups:

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  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.
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  2. 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 also 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.
  3. 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.
  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.).