The Brackenbridge Collective

Tier III, Strong Hold

The Brackenbridge Collective is a loose, defiant alliance of outcasts, mystics, and survivors who have made Brackenbridge their home. Drawn together by necessity and shared hardship, the Collective seeks to reclaim the tainted land, breathing life into its poisoned soil and fostering a community that values independence and resilience.

Turf

The Brackenbridge Collective’s power is centered in Brackenbridge, and emerges from Deephearth Refuge (HQ).

Notable Assets

• Deephearth Refuge: A secluded haven of resilience and resistance.
• Fungal Agriculture: Hybrid fungal crops adapted to the poisoned soil—used for sustenance, trade, and even crafting ritual elixirs.
• Hidden Paths: Knowledge of secret ways through Brackenbridge's dangerous marshes and underground networks, giving them tactical mobility.

Quirks

• Spiritual Isolationists: The Collective places deep cultural value on "listening to the land" and seeking spiritual counsel from ruins, storms, and dreams. Bridgers often wear charms woven from reclaimed rope and bramble.
• Tainted Symbiosis: Despite the poisoned landscape, Bridgers have begun to thrive through strange symbioses with the land—growing fungal crops, refining marsh gases, and finding health in unlikely places.
• Reverence for the Broken: Broken structures, half-dead trees, rusted machinery—all are treated as vital parts of Brackenbridge’s living spirit, mended and repurposed rather than abandoned.

Allies

The Undertow, The Derelicts, The Weight

Enemies

The Hooks, The Argent Accord

Bound in the Broken

Type

Alliance, Cultural

Controlled Territories

• Deephearth Refuge