HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Castigian_Cabal.html

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 title: The Castigian Cabal
 description: 
 published: true
-date: 2023-06-29T23:14:54.821Z
+date: 2023-06-29T23:08:29.791Z
 tags: game-master, castigian cabal, cabal
 editor: ckeditor
 dateCreated: 2023-01-23T20:52:16.031Z
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   <li>Life in the current system is meaningless. To continue existing in this corrupt reality has no meaning. Better to die trying to fix it than live in it. So long as we succeed, then it'll all be worth it.</li>
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-<p><strong>Shar's aliases/titles:</strong> The Veiled Mistress, The Mistress/Lady of the Night. The Unseen Hand. Our Guide (through the Darkness). Nightsinger.</p>
+<p><strong>Shar's aliases/titles:</strong> The Veiled Mistress, The Mistress/Lady of the Night. The Unseen Hand. Our Guide through the Darkness. Nightsinger.</p>
 <h4>Beliefs</h4>
 <p>The Castigian Cabal comprises individuals who worship, devote themselves, or follow (depending on their level of devotion) an enigmatic goddess known as Shar—whom even they themselves hold next to no knowledge about. To them, Shar represents the revealer of hidden truths and the patron of hidden wisdom, and to be the one who opened their eyes and exposed the flaws and hypocrisies of the world and its existing power structures. It was through her subtle machinations and manipulative words that the Cabal was formed. Their ultimate goal is to topple the existing power structure and replace it with their envisioned future—a future they believe to be fair and just, albeit one where they must hold the most crucial positions of power to maintain this supposed fairness and justice.</p>
 <p>The Cabal firmly believes that the current system, encompassing both society and the world's workings, is deeply flawed and unjust. They perceive it as a pervasive corruption that plagues all. Many members of the Cabal harbor a personal sense of injustice, believing themselves to have been unjustly denied something they rightfully deserved. This denial could manifest as the denial of a prominent position, the struggle of a hardworking individual who remains impoverished while their superiors thrive in wealth, or any other situation where they feel the status quo denies them what they perceive to justly deserve. In their eyes, the current structure perpetuates inequality, injustice, exploitation, and widespread suffering, for all except those who created and perpetuate it. Only by first completely dismantling the current status quo can the construction of a new structure be built—one that is brighter, more just, and more fair. Through her masterful machinations, Shar has convinced the Cabal to place blame not only on those they perceive as upholding the current societal order but also on the very deities they worship. According to the Cabal's belief, society is seen as a reflection of the deities' wills and teachings. As such, the root cause of the festering injustice that permeates society is attributed to these deities. Consequently, the Cabal regards other deities, including the Diostri, as architects of the corrupt status quo.</p>
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 <p>The Cabal is acutely aware that they stand little chance in reaching their goals should all 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 the organization's existence 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—be that accidentally or intentionally.</p>
 <p>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. Recruits who believe they have been unjustly denied advancement by their superior are often offered their superior's place. 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. They do have to remain careful though, as too much blood in too short a timespan could cause the other major factions to start investigating. 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.</p>
 <p>The Cabal seeks to control those who cannot be swayed through covertly instigating 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.</p>
-<p>Most of the Cabal's schemes aims to either increase the position of one of their members, or decrease that of one of their adversaries. This may refer to both the position and influence they hold, or the resources they have available. It could be as simple as securing their member a higher position in whichever other faction they are also a member off. It could also be bringing an adversary to ruin in order to open up such a position in the first place. All of these schemes aim to increase the Cabal's relative influence and available resources in order to achieve their overall goal of bringing about &nbsp;their envisioned future.</p>
+<p>Most of the Cabal's schemes aims to either increase the position of one of their members, or decrease that of one of their adversaries. This may refer to both the position and influence they hold, or the resources they have available. It could be as simple as securing their member a higher position in whichever other faction they are also a member off. It could also be bringing an adversary to ruin in order to open up such a position in the first place.</p>
 <p>Individual members also have their own personal goals, which most often entails securing themselves as high a position as possible in the Cabal's envisioned future. A decent chunk of the Cabal's recruits thus initially join due to opportunism, with the Cabal perpetually engaging in schemes to persuade new recruits into becoming truly faithful and committed to the Cabal's cause.</p>
-<p>In contrast to the Cabal's aspirations, Shar, their enigmatic guide, harbors distinct goals. Discontent with the other deities ploy to seal off the world from the realms beyond—thus making beings from these places, like the deities themselves, unable to enact direct influence upon the world—she aims to exploit the seal's imperfect and deteriorating nature to inflict a great breach to a place where she is strong—the Shadowfell. She aims to use this breach to exert dominion upon the world: to make the world fall to entropy - to crumble and succumb, leaving only disorder, darkness, and loss, where all are ultimately forced under her sway. Shar aims to use the Cabal to help her make this breach. Shar holds no love for her servants in the Cabal, seeing them as little more than tools to be discarded when no longer needed. It is ironic that, just like they covertly manipulate people to serve their interests, so does Shar manipulate the Cabal to serve hers.</p>
+<p>In contrast to the Cabal's aspirations, Shar, their enigmatic guide, harbors distinct goals. Discontent with the other deities ploy to seal off the world from the realms beyond—thus making beings from these places, like the deities themselves, unable to enact influence upon the world—she aims to exploit the seal's imperfect and deteriorating nature to inflict a great breach to a place where she is strong—the Shadowfell. She aims to use this breach to exert dominion upon the world: to make the world fall to entropy - to crumble and succumb, leaving only disorder, darkness, and loss, where all are ultimately forced under her sway. Shar aims to use the Cabal to help her make this breach. Shar holds no love for her servants in the Cabal, seeing them as little more than tools to be discarded when no longer needed. It is ironic that, just like they covertly manipulate people to serve their interests, so does Shar manipulate the Cabal to serve hers.</p>
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 <h3>Organization</h3>
 <p>Core, Inner Circle, Middle Circle, Outer Circle?</p>