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==== Damian Kildare ====
The head of Project Cassandra, Kildare was one of its founders and most ardent supporters of the Deceiver. As Project Cassandra became riddled with opportunists disloyal to the cause, he became one of the most bloody-handed members of the cabal, purging and slaying in a desperate effort to stem the tide of the loyalists slowly losing their majority. After the fall, he fled to the Anaconda's patronage, but only nominally. While obeying his patron's commands, he continued his work, treating the Anaconda more as a protector and patron rather than overlord. He continued the publication of the books of Project Cassandra, still using the misinformation to further his goals of bringing stability to the Mansus. More alarmingly for the Anaconda, he kept in contact with his oldest friend, who after the dissolution, served a very different Hour...
==== Ioannes Metzapoulos ====
The top scholar and archivist of the Deceiver,Ioannes too was one of the most devoted members of the cabal. He focused on the accumulation of knowledge and power, for when the 'Hour' had to flex its muscles to continue proving its existence. A reclusive, retiring old man, he only kept close relations with Kildare. Knowledge was a vital part of this false Hour's existence, and he was behind every act of blackmail, every ancient truth that drove an investigator mad, every powerful invocation dropped as a tantalizing hint. But when the Deceiver dissolved, it went with a very strange master: the Tail. Each found benefit in the other, the Tail seeking a more human representative to engage in diplomacy when absolutely necessary, the war of the Fifth History teaching it grudgingly its value on occasion and Ioannes receiving the Tail's protection and knowledge. But while for the moment his serves the Tail, his correspondence with Kildare raises questions about his loyalty too...
==== Martin Chang ====
FNORD: Leader of the free-loyalists, later joined the Assemblage then fled it.
=== The Opportunists ===
=== Books ===
==== Die Werkzeuge des Machens (fake)====
German, gives edge lore
Elizabeth von Metterstein, a minor German aristocrat and disciple of the still-pseudonymous ‘John Smith’ wrote at great length upon the inefficiencies in her master’s works, the whole time muttering arcane mechanical esoterica. She writes with a certain force, giving absolute instructions and orders to the reader, who certainly does feel like a hapless apprentice afterwards
It’s hard to see Elizabeth as a protege rather than rival of ‘John’ after this. She constantly curses the crudeness with which his machines were constructed. In between the tirades, she makes remarks regarding how all this is a foolish endeavor, that massively more power is required to shift the walls of the House. But possibly, with these invocations…
====The Golden Tantra (fake)====
Gives Winter lore
The florid descriptions of the Tower of Treasures had never been translated in accordance to their original glory, but the Tantra remains widely popular amongst the secular masses to this day.
‘The Sight of the Tower of Treasures some say is itself a treasure. But it is not a treasure, rather, it is a tribute, from a certain place-beyond-the-Mansus, an origin it shares with the strangest of the Serpent’s children...’
====The Golden Tantra, (fake, prepublication)====
does something idk yet.
This is the third such book you’ve come across, but strangely, this one is without a cover, and the insides are filled with scribblings in red ink on the margins and the text blotted out
“Kildare, I need to know who wrote this. Your Project Cassandra has yielded magnificent results so far, but this could cause serious harm. We may have a traitor among us”
“Metzapoulos, I’ve dealt with it. Don’t worry. But we will have to keep a tighter eye upon our own ranks from now on. We can’t risk our deception being revealed…”
=== Rites ===
