Factions

10,000+

The courts of the ancient fae, exiled/fled out of Tír na nÓg as they were of the belief that the only way to avoid the coming destruction of the fairy lands was to invade the human world.

Hill of Tara, Meath, Ireland

~The Emerald Court of Spring

Unknown

Vigorous, creative, and more than any other court interested in manipulating mortal affairs, Clíodhna the Banshee Queen alone walks among the mortal ken. (1910)

Hill of Tara, Meath, Ireland

~The Crimson Court of Summer

Unknown

Passionate, fiery, and violent, the changelings of Summer follow the lead of their master, the dreaded Crom Cruach the Crooked King, sponsoring ancient pagan rites and bloody cults across Albion. (1910)

Hill of Tara, Meath, Ireland

~The Ashen Court of Autumn

Unknown

Straddling the veil between the living and the dead, the Ashen Court of Autumn is governed by the ancient Manannán mac Lir. (1910)

Hill of Tara, Meath, Ireland

~~The Motley of the Tyburn Lost

Unknown

The autumn-sworn court of the ancient river hag Jenny Greenteeth maintains the local loyalty of the changelings of London to the High Court of the Hill.

Tyburn Brook, Reagents Park, London, United Kingdom

~The Onyx Court of Winter

Unknown

Cunning, secretive, and hidden in the shadows, the changelings of Winter pay whispered reverence to The Cailleach, the Hag Queen of Winter. (1910)

Hill of Tara, Meath, Ireland

Unknown

Dwellers from the dark places beneath the North Sea, the rumored return of the Fomorian chaos could lead to untold death and destruction on an apocalyptic scale. (1910)

Somewhere beneath the Irish Sea, Ireland

Unknown

An ever shifting network of castoffs, runaways, fugitives, and changelings too extreme for even the madness of the High Courts all bend knee before the terrible Jack of Hearts, King of Fools. (1910)

Wandering, but often Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom

25,000

The "Old Guard" of vampires, organized into a peerage of nobility. Heavily European; ultimately based in an ancient Egyptian cult of Apep, the Serpent.

~Realm of Columbia

5,000

Vampires of the United States and Canada. Reorganized after the American Revolution; formerly under the Realm of Britannia.

~Realm of New Spain

7,000

Vampires of Latin and South America.

~Realm of Europa Universalis

6,500

Vampires of Europe and parts of the Near East. Reorganized after World War II, and again after the Silent War.

~~Princedom of Brittannia

820

Powerful out of all proportion to their size, the vampires of the court of Britain have controlling tendrils throughout the levers of Imperial governance.

~Realm of Cathay

4,000

Vampires of Asia, excluding a few Western-leaning enclaves. Despite its large geographical size, it is a relatively minor faction within the Court, as many eastern vampires are not of the same strain as the European-centric parent faction.

~Realm of Africa

1,500

Formed in the 20th century, with the release of European imperial occupation of the continent. Vampires are sparse in Africa, thriving only in dense urban environments.

~Realm of Oceania

1,000

Comprised primarily of a strain from the Philippines which has adapted to ply the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

~Realm of Africa

1,500

Formed in the 20th century, with the release of European imperial occupation of the continent. Vampires are sparse in Africa, thriving only in dense urban environments.

Unknown

Formed in the 19th century, this secret fraternity within the vampire covens owes fealty to their near mythical founder Vlad Dracul and espouse dangerous, radical ideas.

Distributed (Unknown)

Unknown

The Church of the Lance and the Chalice traces its mythological religious underpinnings to the Lance and Chalice of the crucifixion. The vampiric dark knights of the Lanceam see themselves as "God's Wolves" and part of the divine plan.

Distributed (formerly Acre, Palestine).

25,000

A network of wizardly traditions from all corners of the world, unified by the High Council.

~Order of Merlin

2,000

An ancient order claiming the legacy of their namesake, and the druids of old.

~Seekers of Serapis

4,500

Rooted in ancient Alexandria, the Seekers based their ways on the reclaimed knowledge of the Great Library. A loose network of master-student relationships centered on their Secret Vault.

~Ordo Templi Orientis

3,500

A newcomer to the scene, reorganized by Aleister Crowley to succeed the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and ultimately the original Illuminati. Bulk of members are non-wizards, unaware of the reality of Magic.

~Disciples of Elijah

1,500

Scholars of Kabbalah, reviving an ancient legacy of holy magicks.

~Eternal Brotherhood of Immortal Philosophers

6,000

Commonly known as "The Immortals' Club", its leadership is exclusive to those who have obtained true immortality--who are bound never to reveal the secret, and slay any who do.

~Gothic League

500

(Götiska Förbundet), a secret society officially dissolved in 1844. Dedicated to the revival of a romanticist view of Vikings and the Norse faith. Members and writings would go on to infiltrate the Volkitsch movements of the early 20th century, leading to the mythological underpinnings of Nazi occultism.

~Ordo Atlanteana

500

A small, new order, rapidly growing; they claim to hold the secrets of lost Atlantis, and it's "higher" magical knowledge.

Undisclosed

~Ordo Mysterium

800+

A powerful and ancient British order grown immensely strong on the arcane wealth plundered from hundreds of ancient sites within the reach of the British Empire. (1910)

~~Order of the Seventh Seal

50+

A well organized voting cabal within the Ordo Mysterium dedicated to militant security and the consolidation of arcane power. (1910)

~~Diogenes Lamp

3

Cabal composed of younger members of the Talbot clan, charged with protecting and adding to the Mysterium's collection of knowledge and artifacts within the Ordo's vaults in Montague House. (1910)

20,000

A network of practitioners formed to balance the Academia Universalis Arcana composed of various shamanistic and Earth based traditions from all corners of the world whose legacy is passed down through familial ties.

~The European Coven

5,000

Also known as the Cunning folk, they have ties back to ancient Judaic mysticism but are also strongly tied to the black forest of Southern Germany

~The North American Coven

5,000

One of the first groups of witches to migrate to the New World they were once an offshoot of the European Coven but with the revolutionary war they severed official ties with the Old world Witches

~The Voodoo Traditions

5,000

A very loose associations, which includes Haition Vodou practitioners , New Orleans/Louisiana Voodoo and West African Voodoo. They are much harder to track down than the larger covens and often use old slave methods of communication.

~The Southern American Coven

2,500

Includes the Chilean and Mapuche traditions and well as the Witches of Chiloé

Santiago,Chile.

~African Traditions

500

Incredibly unorganized association of the Continent of Africa and their various shamanistic practices.

~The Australian Aboriginal Society

2,000

The unified counsel of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and Tasmania.

250

Loose network of redeemed holy warriors.

1,000

Followers of an ancient shamanic tradition...of werebirds.

5,000

The "last, true believers" in Christ

5,000

An order of the Catholic church responsible for rounding up and converting or killing supernaturals. Quietly excommunicated in 1966 by Pope Paul VI for heresy, which they simply took as an official disavowal of their methods and encouragement to go underground with God's Work.

150,000

Oh, just some church

~Society of St. Gilles

X

Commissioned in the early 12th century under the Dominican order during the founding days of the Inquisition, the Society is a secret brotherhood that exists to pursue and fight supernaturals. They are a major threat to every group of supernaturals because of their extensive knowledge, training, equipment, preparation and fanatical zeal.

~~Brotherhood of St. Pilitus

30?

Unacknowledged splinter religious order tracing its lineage to the "apocryphal" martyred Saint Pilitus of Veneto in 1658 AD.

250,000

All official, government functions, not including the rogue, former U.S. military operation in the Middle East

~The State of Nevada

10,000

The state, and the independent block it constitutes.

~The State of Arizona

2,500

The state, and the independent block it constitutes.

~Union of the Pacific

75,000

California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska.

~The Grand Union

75,000

Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont.

250,000

All official, government functions, not including the rogue, former U.S. military operation in the Middle East

~~City of Las Vegas / Clark County

8,500

All city/county government authority (some sub-factions are corporate, rather than government).

~~~City Council of Las Vegas / Clark County Commission

500

City/county government legislature and executor.

~~~Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

500

LVPD and Clark County Sheriff

~~Reno / Carson City

1,500

Remainder of state/local government authority in Nevada, sans Clark County

250,000

Massive super-conglomerate, power base in 3rd world, fused with civic governments and militaries worldwide.

50,000

Conglomerate of energy and utility companies, applying successful Chinese mega-project methodologies to local crisis spots worldwide.

10,000

10,000