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+title: The Castigian Cabal
+description: 
+published: true
+date: 2023-04-06T17:45:05.986Z
+tags: game-master, castigian cabal, cabal
+editor: ckeditor
+dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z
+-->
+
+<h1>The Castigian Cabal</h1>
+<h1>THIS PAGE HAS MAJOR SPOILERS AND IS THUS OFF LIMIT! FUCK OFF!</h1>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Goals:<ul>
+      <li>Usher in new age<ul>
+          <li>Mages want it because it makes magic stronger - making them capable of doing things they've never been able to do before.</li>
+          <li>Politicians/Leaders want to exploit this new reality to claim greater titles and power. After all, they can prepare for it, while all others are oblivious to the coming change.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Description</h3>
+<p>asd</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Members</h3>
+<ul>
+  <li>with visual identifiers</li>
+</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>The Cabal is built through layers upon layers of secrecy, the closer you are to the center, the closer you are to the truth about the organization.</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Closest are those fully dedicated to Shar and her mission<ul>
+      <li>End goal of breaking Seal, usher in a new age for Marcandria and the world, with Shar having the upper hand due to location.</li>
+      <li>Most here believe that they'll have a position of power in this new age.</li>
+      <li>The most devoted among these here are clerics. Others serve roles such as assassins or messagers (who deliver orders to different cliques and info from them, since people are supposed to know as little as possible about other members)</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>Then those who are aware of the end goal, and support it due to being promised a better position in the aftermath.</li>
+  <li>Then those who are unaware of the true goal, and basically believe the goal to simply be a coup, but who again support it due to being promised more in “the coup's" aftermath.</li>
+  <li>Then it's those who have refused to become members of the Cabal, but that the cabal decided would be useful to keep alive, and are thus being extorted into cooperating and serving the Cabal.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>Hierarchy:</p>
+<ol>
+  <li>Clerics - masterminds and leaders</li>
+  <li>Assassins, messagers, etc - serve directly under Clerics to help control the Cabal and those they have influence over.<ol>
+      <li>Prob look out “why do people join Cults” to give some example motivations here. Prob something along the lines of people who have lost their place and have been slowly brainwashed into being true believers of the cause.</li>
+    </ol>
+  </li>
+  <li>Those devoted to the Cabal's true end goal. Most from her and further down know very little about the identities of other members, save those they are directly involved with.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Members list</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Beliefs</h3>
+<p>Commitment, loyalty, servitude.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>NOTE FROM FORUM:&nbsp;</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>worshipping Shar comes very much from a place of being disillusioned with the World, only being able to see the worst in other people and his/her own insecurities</li>
+  <li>My perspective on Shar worship is that it’s a religion existing pretty much in opposition to most other widespread faiths. As such, I can think of one possible reason to worship Shar: resentment or complete disillusionment. A person who used to believe in some sort of cause, but was left feeling betrayed, or feeling that all their labors were for nought, seems like a possible Shar worshipper. Resentment and fatalism replace all the positivity, and someone trying to change things for better becomes a subject of loathing. Individual Shar worship can be a result of personal trauma (see Vikonia example), on a wider scale it can be done in opposition. Say, if a small country suffered a devastating defeat from a larger nation whose main deity is, say, Selune, the people of that smaller nation could turn to Shar in great numbers - to spite and oppose their conquerors, and maybe because Shar’s bleak worldview corresponded better with country suffering from afterwar depression.</li>
+  <li>List from another person:<ol>
+      <li>Pure power. Evil power.</li>
+      <li>Political gains, likely as a secret sympathizer</li>
+      <li>Truly evil interests, sadism, psychopathic tendencies, etc</li>
+      <li>Revenge. Need some useful other evil people to achieve individual goals.</li>
+      <li>tricked into it, dont realize the extend of the evil.</li>
+      <li>Just along for the ride and the sense of belonging, probably wouldnt be evil on their own.</li>
+    </ol>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>Shar gains power from every lie told; from every betrayal; from every apology left unsaid. etc. (Greater Deity after all)</p>
+<p>“She is said to have the power to make folk forget their pain or become inured to a loss, and many people in distress pray to Shar for such a blessing.” - Many who follow Cabal have lost something dear. They dulled the pain, and in many cases being released from said pain has made them loyal - as they don't want to go back to feeling the pain</p>
+<p>Nihilism - “life is meaningless” - in this case, life in the current system is meaningless. Continue living in this false reality has no meaning. Better to die trying to fix it than live in it. If they succeed fixing it, then it's all worth it after.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>Nobody in the organization has any notion of what Shar wants with the world after its been “fixed”, only that she seeks to fix it, and be the dominant force in this fixed world. She's the goddess of lies/deceit, so everyone in Castigian Cabal are also being lied to in aa way - even the leadership.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>SEE ORGANIZATION AND TITLES FROM HERE: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Church_of_Shar&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Goals</h3>
+<ul>
+  <li>Shar:<ul>
+      <li>Shar desires to bring all humanoids under her sway by promoting general lawlessness and strife.</li>
+      <li>Shar seeks to break the Seal placed upon the world after the Great Disaster. Marcandria is close to the Shadowfell due to how the Angelic Court banished the Concalians. Shar's influence is dominant in Shadowfell. By breaking the seal here, the breech will be largest to a place where she has dominance, and this will thus give her the edge when the otherworldly powers once again approach the world.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>Clergy:</li>
+  <li>Devoted:</li>
+  <li>Member:</li>
+  <li>Extorted:</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Organization</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Activities</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Locations</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Relations with other factions</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Stance on succession crisis</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>NOTES:</p>
+<p>DND:</p>
+<p>- Grandmother Hag is a servant of Shar</p>
+<p>- Concalians pulled into/banished to Shadowfell.</p>
+<p>- Night horror/night herald, or something similar is what killed Ari's sister</p>
+<p>- Cabal who gave islander the resources he needed to have some of the captains do coup. They gave funds to bribe enough people and weapons to get rid of the rest.</p>
+<p>Deal was for the pirates to start exclusively attacking Marcandrian vessels, increasing the dangers of sea-trade and thus making things more expensive, and thus reduce living-standard. I.e. sow dissent towards governing figures as people blame them.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>Sure, here are some more examples of minions and servants of Shar that are unique to specific settings or editions of Dungeons &amp; Dragons:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>The Night Parade: In the Ravenloft setting, the Night Parade is a group of powerful undead that serve Shar as her elite guards and assassins. They are known for their ability to move silently and strike quickly.</li>
+  <li>The Night Kings: In the 4th edition of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Night Kings are a group of powerful undead that serve Shar as her elite guards and assassins. They are known for their ability to command legions of undead.</li>
+  <li>The Nightwalkers: In the 5th edition of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Nightwalkers are a group of powerful undead that serve Shar as her elite guards and assassins. They are known for their ability to summon and control shadows.</li>
+  <li>The Night Horrors: In the 4th edition of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Night Horrors are a group of powerful demons that serve Shar as her elite guards and assassins. They are known for their ability to warp reality and summon other demons.</li>
+  <li>The Night Heralds: In the 4th edition of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Night Heralds are a group of powerful undead that serve Shar as her elite messengers and spies. They are known for their ability to intimidate and control other undead.</li>
+  <li>The Nightscape : In the 4th edition of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Nightscape are a group of powerful demons that serve Shar as her elite guards and assassins. They are known for their ability to manipulate shadows and summon other demons.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>