Factions
The following is a list of Factions (System 7 concept).
Supernatural
Fae
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description | Base |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tuatha De Danann | 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 |
| The Fomorian Ionradh | 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 |
| Knave's Court | 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 |
Vampires
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description | Base |
|---|---|---|---|
| Court of the Long Night | 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. | Vienna, Austria (formerly Constaninople |
| ~Realm of Columbia | 5,000 | Vampires of the United States and Canada. Reorganized after the American Revolution; formerly under the Realm of Britannia. | Charleston, South Carolina |
| ~Realm of New Spain | 7,000 | Vampires of Latin and South America. | Bogotá, Colombia |
| ~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. | Geneva, Switzerland |
| ~~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. | London, United Kingdom |
| ~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. | Kabul, Afghanistan |
| ~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. | Lagos, Nigeria |
| ~Realm of Oceania | 1,000 | Comprised primarily of a strain from the Philippines which has adapted to ply the waters of the Pacific Ocean. | Manila, the Philippines. |
| ~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. | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Order of the Dragon | 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) |
| Ecclesiam Cálicem Lanceam | 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). |
Wizards
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description | Base |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academia Universalis Arcana | 25,000 | A network of wizardly traditions from all corners of the world, unified by the High Council. | Venice, Italy |
| ~Order of Merlin | 2,000 | An ancient order claiming the legacy of their namesake, and the druids of old. | Greenfield, Massachusetts |
| ~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. | Athens, Greece |
| ~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. | Prague, Czech Republic (actual magical HQ) |
| ~Disciples of Elijah | 1,500 | Scholars of Kabbalah, reviving an ancient legacy of holy magicks. | Jerusalem, U.N. Protectorate |
| ~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. | Lhasa, Tibet |
| ~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. | Athens, Greece |
| ~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) | Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom |
| ~~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) | Highgate, London, United Kingdom |
| ~~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) | Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom |
Witches
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description | Base |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Coven | 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. | Salisbury, England |
| ~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 | Trier,, 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 | Salem, Massachusetts |
| ~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. | Cape Town,South Africa |
| ~The Australian Aboriginal Society | 2,000 | The unified counsel of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and Tasmania. | Queensland,Australia |
Religious
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mission of the Risen Knights | 250 | Loose network of redeemed holy warriors. |
| Paiute Nation | 1,000 | Followers of an ancient shamanic tradition...of werebirds. |
| Church of the Last Harvest | 5,000 | The "last, true believers" in Christ |
| Ananthemata Curialis | 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. |
| Roman Catholic Church | 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. |
Government
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The United States of America | 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. |
| United | 250,000 | All official, government functions, not including the rogue, former U.S. military operation in the Middle East |
Las Vegas Concerns
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ~~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 |
Economic
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ATLAS | 250,000 | Massive super-conglomerate, power base in 3rd world, fused with civic governments and militaries worldwide. |
| The Aquarius Group | 50,000 | Conglomerate of energy and utility companies, applying successful Chinese mega-project methodologies to local crisis spots worldwide. |
Las Vegas Concerns
| Faction | Legitimacy | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Harrah's MGM | 10,000 | |
| Mandalay Park Entertainment | 10,000 |