Harmonium

All right, you berks. listen up. You’ve just made the best choice of your lives. By joining the Harmonium, you’re on your way from berk tg blood. Universal harmony’s the goal. It may not be the goal of the multiverse - though the powers know it should be - but it is our goal, and it is the correct goal. Things get accomplished better in an atmosphere of peace and harmony. Got it? Now, some berks resist peace. But members of the Harmonium believe in peace so much, we’re willing to fight for it. Accept peace, or consider yourself at war with the Harmonium. Our might will make right.

History

The Harmonium’s been around a couple of centuries, maybe more. It depends on who a basher listens to. According to the faction itself - and any member’ll tell a body the same thing, ’cause it’s drummed into them at indoctrination - the group was founded about 500 years ago on a prime world called Ortho. There, a group of adventurers went off to “rid the country of chaos and bring peace to the land.” Simple enough goal, right? Many aspire to the same thing.Thing is, this group actually went and did it.
They brought peace and harmony to their land, so they started calling themselves the Harmonium. And then they moved on to other lands, and spread some peace and harmony there too. It was tough work, sometimes, because they had to force the peace on some poor berks who didn‘t know what was best for ’em. But the Harmonium willingly took on these difficult jobs. Eventually, they delivered their whole world into peace and harmony. Naturally, spreading peace throughout the world required the Harmonium to eliminate a lot of nasty types - all those wrong-headed, free-thinking folks who love to cause trouble. Those who journey to Ortho today say it’s a very rigid place, where dwarves, orcs, beholders and humans all work together under the Harmonium’s law. There’s not an elf or a pixie to be seen anywhere, though.
The Harmonium ruled their world, and their world knew peace and harmony. (If not exactly happiness. - Ed.) Then the problems started. Seems that every once in a while, chaos and discord managed to rear their ugly heads. The Harmonium leaders got tired of this occasional disorder and got together to discuss the matter. The high-ups decided that the chaos must originate somewhere else - it couldn’t come from within their own perfect world, after all. Suspecting the culprits came from the Outer Planes, the Harmonium mounted an expedition and journeyed to the Abyss. After getting their rumps kicked from the Plain of Infinite Portals to the Caverns of the Skull Goddess and back again, they decided they needed another plan. So, the Harmonium expedition relocated to Sigil, to establish a beachhead of sorts.

And here they have remained. The faction found some like-minded folks in Sigil,folks like the Guvners and the Lady of Pain seems to approve of the order they bring to the Cage. They also found targets for their war for peace in the numerous folks of other factions. A lot of those groups regard Harmonium members as playground bullies, a bunch of berks who want to spoil the fun for everyone. But ask a Hardhead, and he’ll tell you he’s absolutely right about the Way it Should be
Oh, the Harmonium’s made some mistakes in its time, though the members’d never admit to it. Just ask a high-up about the recent Arcadia “incident” and watch him twitch while be hies to come up with some kind of answer. (The Harmonium accidentally allowed the third layer of the plane to slip into Mechanus, as recounted in the Planes of Law boxed set.) Or mention the town of Fortitude on the Outlands; that’s also a sore spot with the Hardheads that know about it. in response to the loss of the Arcadian layer, the faction fried to shift this town to Arcadia in the adventure Fires of Dis. - Ed.)
There’s also the matter of the world of Athas, the prime planet that’s home to lots of giant, psionic bugs, among other things. It seems that a few thousand years ago, a hunch of bashers called the “Champions of Rajaat” went about waning on others to eliminate chaos and bring peace. Sounds familiar, right? Well, the Harmonium wasn’t around back then, so the faction couldn’t have been involved - although time does some funny things between planes, once in a while. Or maybe the Harmonium took some inspiration from the Champions. Thing is, bashers who’ve been to Athas call it an awful, dry world wrecked by magic. Almost anything would eat a body just for walking by, they say. Is that what the Harmonium wants? ’Course, the Hardheads deny it. Present-day Athas resulted from the actions of right minded barmies, who didn’t know when to quit, they claim. The Harmonium knows to back off before that point. So they say

our way is the right way

Type

Political, Faction / Party

Alternative Names

Hardheads

Demonym

Hardheads

Leader

Sarin

Controlled Territories

• City Barracks

Notable Members

• mof chekresk
• Sarin