A shady group
The boss noticed them first, drinking in a corner at the Underground Library and talking about the end of the world. At the time he was more interested on the theory itself, but when he saw them again he noticed that they were interested in many dangerous theories about shards and granting.
For a couple of years the group keep meeting, a few new members came and several left. The boss observed them once in a while, from the corner of his eye when he visited the library for entirely different reasons, and they seemed harmless at first. But one day their conversation started to become more... let's say grounded.
The boss informed Gael, the admin, just in case. Studying their background and have security employees observing them was a low priority operation meant to confirm that they wouldn't become a danger. At most, the expectation was to lecture some of the team members, maybe even prompting one of them presenting his renounce.
But when they suddenly abandoned the library as meeting place, and instead interacted (to each other and with other employees) in a suspicious way, Gael saw a bigger threat and changed his methods, going as far as getting Witnesses involved, but getting little to no progress.
We only have some names (mostly people who was part of the group when they seemed to be just friends talking in the library), information about their beliefs and the smallest of hints about how they interact with each other. The boss is sure that they keep meeting, but if they are, they do it without traces we can follow to figure out where it is.
On a more concerning note, is not just that they could be conspiring, they occasionally exchange conjured items and s, or talk about attempts on casting magic themselves.
It could be just a small group of people with a shared belief meeting on the library every five days for a few years until their schedules didn't allow it anymore, and now talk about their ideas with anyone willing to listen in the most random of times and places.
We don't think so. The Granter worries about they can get themself, or others, in trouble. Gael is convinced that they will try to seize power sooner or later. I'm sure they are already doing both of those things.
I have no evidence, of course, and Gael has yet to crack their secret code... if there is a secret code. Maybe they are just a little crazy and when they say thinks that don't sound reasonable, it's because they aren't reasoning.
But, if there is a secret language and their leader's orders need to be said in code, that's probably because they are up to something bad.
Structure
It seems, so far, that someone they call Presage give direct orders to all the members of the group that we have detected.
They might work in groups (everything leads to think that), that might or might not be temporary. It seems that there are no permanent team leaders.
Tomorrow
Founding Date
The granter suspects decades.
Type
Secret, Occult
Demonym
Apparently they call each other "awaiters", Gael calls them "potential traitors" and the boss calls them "suspicious". I usually call them stupid.
Location
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Beliefs
This guys have nothing in common, and even some of their beliefs clash, but they are all convinced and moved by certain ideas about the shards and the granter's power. Mostly nonsense like:They think they practice some form of magic, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
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