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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4764753" data-attributes="member: 54707">IV-B. The Consociatio The Consociatio, or Society, is a group of NPCs who operate throughout Western Europe, North Africa, the Near and Middle East, and parts of the Byzantine Empire. Formed by the Dragoons, and composed mostly of Dragoons or their Agents, the Consociatio has several goals: 1. To hunt down and murder any possible surviving Cavaliers, 2. To hunt down and kill all descendants of the Cavaliers, such as the Paladins, Palademes, Rangers and Vigilantes, 3. To increase their own power and wealth, especially political power 4. To destroy the current Pope and to establish their own Anti-Pope in the Papacy, 5. To enlist every ally possible in the pursuit of their other goals, including if necessary dealing with the Caleedam.The Society is vicious, murderous, ruthless, cunning, treacherous, conspiratorial, and are expert saboteurs. They see the Paladins and Rangers as their chief adversaries in achieving their goals. In addition most of the members of the Society believe themselves to be righteous in their cause, therefore they are fanatical in the pursuit of their goals. The Society is the chief nemesis of the Basilegate and seeks to eliminate the Legate by any means necessary.CONSOCIATIO (The Society)Leticus Cambrius Antipaladus - an Ebone Dragoon whose family was wiped out during a Germanic raid into Northern Italy, he was the only member of his family to escape the massacre. He was taken in by an Italian nobleman at Ravenna who was secretly of the Dragoon order. Raising the boy as his own and renaming him he enrolled him under the tutelage of a famous black Dragoon who gave him the nickname Antipaladus after he killed his first Paladin by ambush at the age of thirteen. Since that time Leticus has become a devoted, almost fanatical slayer of Paladins, mainly by treachery.Seth ben Hamar - an Hellenic Jew and thief from Alexandria, his background is secretive. He seems to hire out his services in a mercenary manner to the highest bidder. He has been in the employ of Leticus for nearly six years. Many also suspect him to be an assassin.Semius - a Latin Argent Dragoon, Semius is older and more experienced than anyone else in his party, having lived through two wars, several battles and numerous raids. Since the Dragoons are no longer an official or sanctioned group under the pope he has served his masters by infiltration of various military units where he has acted as both a spy and an agent of sedition.Cedred - a Spanish Negro and former friend of Edomios, who helped free him from slavery, Cedred is also a secret member of the Hispanic clan of the Crimson Dragoons, for whom he has been employed since his first year of freedom. Cedred sees the Dragoons as a method of assuring his freedom for the rest of his life, and fears to detach himself from their service.Austranul - a young Emerald Dragoon whose distant ancestor, Stranius, helped to establish the original contingent of Dragoons in Rome and who helped to persecute the original Cavaliers. Austranul is determined to make a reputation among his masters as a vicious and ruthless hunter of all of the offspring of the Cavaliers. He most desires to hunt down any direct descendants of the Cavaliers, as he still believes that the Cavaliers exist as a secretive group in exile somewhere in Byzantium or in the Balkans.Galtostelain - with Christianity under Charlemagne threatening to convert or tame most all of the Germanic tribes and the descendants of the Celts, Galtostelain, a Germano-Frank who considers himself one of the last of the Druids, hopes to both take vengeance on the Christians and most especially the Paladins, and to follow the ancient migration of the Celts to Galatia. Once in Galatia he hopes to lead a new pagan rebirth of Druidism and desires to raise an army to return to the West and crush Charlemagne and the Latin Church.Mucheria - an Italian Stregas (Witch) known for her great beauty and cunning, as well as her Ilurgic skill, she has sworn vengeance against all holy men of the Church. While still a small girl she was abducted and violently raped by a traveling heretical monk who eventually tired of her and abandoned her, believing he had strangled her to death. She survived and vowed vengeance. Eventually she located an old pagan witch to teach her Ilcraft and has used her charms to lure many monks and priests into her bed where she has then used magic to kill them and disgrace their parish. She eventually left Italy and briefly became the lover of Seth ben Hamar in North Africa before going to work for Leticus.<img src="http://www.visualstatistics.net/East-West/aFrontispiece/Witch.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Cargis and Tellos - two Macedonian brothers and highwaymen, taught to murder and steal by their father and uncles. They have lived most of their short lives as Barbarian mercenaries and robbers and have gained a vicious reputation for torture, rape, and murder.<img src="http://www.en.utexas.edu/Classes/Moore/gothic/images/paint/small/GP_bris_west_045.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Iodamas - not attached to any particular party this strange creature (who some believe to be a monster form the other world) nevertheless despises Christian clerics and their soldier champions, the Paladins. Said to be the offspring of a woman who was raped and carried away by a hideous and vile, but extremely cunning monster or spirit, she often wanders deserted cliff areas or wilderness caves where she lures men to death with her song and illusions. She is said to be able to use her formidable powers of soul to appear as a ravenously beautiful woman or handsome man until a person is close enough to look into her eyes, and then the person realizes he is looking into the misshapen face of a horrid, daemonic countenance with hair and mouth covered by the tentacles of a sea creature. Some swear that she is none other than the half-sister of the ancient Greek goddess Athena (Iodamas having been born of a strange, vein-laced great stone that Zeus cast away from himself and shattered in agony as Athena sprang from his forehead), and that she was (re)turned to stone when she accidentally saw the head of the Gorgon, Medusa. But that Athena begged Zeus to bring her back to life, and that when he refused Athena went to Plutus who did resurrect her, but only as a hideous monster who could mimic the illusion of her former beauty, not as her real self. Because of this, or perhaps because of the fact that she is said to engorge herself on the flesh and blood of her victims while they still live, eating the hapless soul alive, she is called “the Gorge” by those who know of her.</blockquote>

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