Factions
Factions, organizations, political powers, alliances, and institutions.
28 published entriesThe Argent Table
The Argent Table is an influential circle of strategists, logistics experts, officers, fortification planners, intelligence specialists, and veteran Core guardians. It is not formally the government, but few governments ignore it. The Table believes survival is first a problem of preparation. Food,
The Ascendant Faculty
The Ascendant Faculty is the most influential old-school Genevolver research establishment. Its members believe forced biological advancement remains one of civilization's greatest tools and that excessive ethical restriction risks freezing life in whatever imperfect form history happened to leave i
The Beard's Children
The Beard's Children are an engineering society devoted to Dieselbeard's practical tradition. They sponsor invention contests, preserve old machines, fund apprentices, publish failures as proudly as successes, and believe nearly every problem deserves at least one attempt involving tools. Their work
The Black Vein Consortium
The Black Vein Consortium represents mine owners, refinery families, industrial investors, transport interests, and engineering concerns obsessed with securing Diesel resources. Since rich mining territory fell outside the shield, the Consortium funds prospecting, reclamation plans, frontier infrast
The Closed Hand
The Closed Hand believes the Open Circuit learned only half the lesson of Technobeast history. Information can free people, but it can also enable surveillance, manipulation, weaponization, and control. Closed Hand cells specialize in encryption, privacy, compartmentalization, secure identities, res
The Common Lattice Institute
The Common Lattice Institute studies hybrid magical and technological principles first proven during construction of the Core. Aquarians, Demians, Genevolvers, Technobeasts, Diesel Dwarves, Prosperiticer funders, and independent researchers participate. The Institute develops shared power systems, s
The Continuity Engineers
The Continuity Engineers are technicians, network planners, repair crews, power specialists, and infrastructure rescuers dedicated to keeping the surviving Technobeast network alive as territory shrinks. They rebuild relays, maintain redundant routes, recover damaged data, and enter places other peo
The Core Compact
The Core Compact is the multinational body coordinating the Core itself. It includes engineers, mages, scientists, military representatives, guardians, technicians, maintenance chiefs, and specialists from every tradition required to keep the shield functioning. The Compact is not supposed to be a g
The Deepworks Brotherhood
The Deepworks Brotherhood is a network of miners, engineers, tunnel crews, refinery workers, mechanics, and heavy-labor specialists. It functions as professional guild, union, and mutual-aid society. The Brotherhood certifies apprentices, maintains safety standards, investigates collapses, supports
The Eleven Watch
The Eleven Watch tracks Zompire deaths and expected returns. It is part funeral service, missing-person bureau, legal registry, prison administration, and investigative organization. When a Zompire dies, the Watch records the death, helps secure property, monitors the eleven-week absence, and confir
The Final Hunger
The Final Hunger is an umbrella name for religious movements that worship Xanaras as the possibility of a true ending. Zompires form the largest share because permanent death has obvious appeal to people cursed to resurrect forever, but membership is not exclusive to them. Mortals join too: nihilist
The Finalists
The Finalists are Zompire scholars, occultists, physicians, Genevolver collaborators, and reckless volunteers dedicated to discovering permanent death without sacrificing the rest of An'kor. They test curses, magical annihilation, extreme destruction, Xanaras tissue, biological procedures, and dimen
The Gilded Restoration
The Gilded Restoration is a movement dedicated to reclaiming lost Prosperiticer territories, estates, collections, monuments, and family holdings beyond the shield. At its best, it preserves claims, supports displaced communities, and prepares for future reclamation. At its worst, it asks why soldie
The Great Houses
Prosperiticer politics also operates through a shifting collection of Great Houses: wealthy extended families with old reputations, patronage networks, military traditions, collections, commercial interests, and political clients. The Houses are intentionally not exhaustively defined yet. Some back
The Green Communion
The Green Communion gathers Demian priests, naturalists, healers, mystics, and magical practitioners who study the living-world traditions that contributed to the Core. They agree that nature can answer. They do not agree on what that means. Some believe An'kor itself possesses a form of consciousne
The Houses of Measure
The Houses of Measure are a Prosperiticer political coalition built around the Steward's Argument: abundance creates obligation. They fund hospitals, refugee districts, roads, fortifications, schools, archives, and public works. Supporters see proof that wealth can become responsibility rather than
The Keepers of the Current
The Keepers are Aquarian magical ecologists who study relationships between water, minerals, weather, living systems, magical flows, and long-term environmental change. They advise governments and frequently oppose industrial projects whose consequences are poorly understood. They are not anti-techn
The Open Circuit
The Open Circuit is both an institution and an ideological movement arguing that useful knowledge should be distributed widely enough that no individual Alvas can monopolize what others need to remain free. Its members promote open standards, shared designs, mirrored archives, repair knowledge, and
The Open Depths
The Open Depths is an Aquarian humanitarian movement operating shelters, clinics, evacuation routes, legal aid, and safe settlements for refugees, persecuted Demians, escaped Mutamons, displaced scholars, and others with nowhere reliable to go. Its members are idealistic and occasionally exhausting.
The Open Door
The Open Door grew from the Demian custom of marking homes willing to shelter people fleeing persecution or abandonment. It is now a decentralized network of safe houses, escorts, healers, forgers, sympathetic officials, transport workers, and families willing to make someone disappear for a while.
The Reclaimers
The Reclaimers are not one institution so much as a cross-cultural political movement built around one demand: the surviving world must eventually expand outward again. Refugees want homes. Diesel Dwarves want mines. Aquarians want archives. Technobeasts want relays and data. Prosperiticers want est
The Recovery Concord
The Recovery Concord is the largest organized effort to recover knowledge lost when the great Aquarian archives were destroyed. Its historians, mages, divers, linguists, archivists, diplomats, and expedition leaders search lost cities, bargain with collectors, interview ancient Zompires, and reconst
The Restraint
The Restraint is a Genevolver reform movement advocating consent, subject protections, experimental law, transparent review, and limits on what researchers may do to unwilling bodies. Traditionalists mock it as timid and dishonest about how many breakthroughs came from practices modern reformers con
The Retrieval Companies
Retrieval Companies are licensed or semi-licensed expedition groups recovering people, records, equipment, biological samples, historical objects, and intelligence from dangerous frontier regions and, when possible, beyond the shield. Some are government sponsored. Some work for universities, famili
The Shieldwardens
The Shieldwardens are a multinational frontier military and civil-defense organization stationed along the shieldline. Their ranks include soldiers, scouts, medics, engineers, magical specialists, observers, Feeder hunters, evacuation officers, and researchers. Shieldwarden identity often becomes st
The Unforgotten
The Unforgotten is a Demian political and historical movement dedicated to preserving evidence of persecution and preventing post-Xanaras unity from becoming an excuse to erase older crimes. Moderate members pursue legal reform, memorials, compensation, anti-discrimination law, and education. Harder
The Unmade
The Unmade is a predominantly Mutamon underground network helping experimental subjects escape Genevolver control and survive afterward. It moves fugitives, steals medical records, acquires stabilizing drugs, recruits sympathetic healers, and maintains hidden communities. Cells within the Unmade are
The Witnesses
The Witnesses are historians, archivists, refugees, artists, old Zompires, Aquarian scholars, teachers, mapmakers, and recordkeepers dedicated to documenting what existed before Xanaras erased or occupied it. They collect oral histories, songs, maps, family records, images, legal documents, recipes,