The World of the Kerboros Club
The Knights Templar
The name Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici means Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon in latin, we know them commonly as the Knights Templar. Officially endorsed by the catholic church in 1129 they were almost wiped out in 1307. The few remaining knights fled to catholic strongholds still loyal to their cause. Officially disbanded by Pope Clement V in 1312 they managed to hide their organization within the church itself. When Pope Clement V dies in 1314 the new pope, John XXII, came to power. He secretly endorsed the Knight Templar and reorganized their organization, creating loyal hardliners of knights hidden within the structure of the the church. Unknown to most the Teutonic Knights of Germany was lead by Templar Knights and most of its members were in that order. While still active the Teotonic knights last battles were as leaders for the Hapsburg Monarchy in the Ottoman wars. After that the Templar Knights began operating in small cells, as catholic secret police or inquisitors striking at evil with thunderous effect. Of late the Knights Templars have had an infusion of members. The reason? The Inquisiton was officially disbanded 1814 and many of its members joined the ranks of the knights templar, heavily influencing the order with more radical vies and doctrines.
They are also heavily involved in the collecting of rituals. Especially the rituals dealing with angelic forces, many created by Solomon himself many centuries ago.
The modern version of the Knights Templar are cells or individuals dedicated to the eradication of evil. They have hidden enclaves in many Catholic churches but few real stronghold fighting evil as they see fit, only seeking guidance in Hesse, headquarters of the order ( Disguised as an order of Freemasons ) when they need it. They are hardliners are many are extreme in their ways and this has led to many unneccesary deaths over the years. Many of the major cities, filled with vice and debauchery, are prime targets of the Knights Templars eradications.
They are also heavily involved in the collecting of rituals. Especially the rituals dealing with angelic forces, many created by Solomon himself many centuries ago.
The modern version of the Knights Templar are cells or individuals dedicated to the eradication of evil. They have hidden enclaves in many Catholic churches but few real stronghold fighting evil as they see fit, only seeking guidance in Hesse, headquarters of the order ( Disguised as an order of Freemasons ) when they need it. They are hardliners are many are extreme in their ways and this has led to many unneccesary deaths over the years. Many of the major cities, filled with vice and debauchery, are prime targets of the Knights Templars eradications.
Der Kult des Unsprechlige
Der Kult des Unsprechlige is a widespread cult devoted to satanic worship. Its headquarters was located near Freiburg, Germany. Some years ago they fled their headquarters as it became comprimised, but having relocated to an unknown place have only strenghtened the cult. Its agenda is clear, they want to rule through the dark entities of hell, hoping to create a new hell on earth with them as the servants of Devil overlords.
As they prepare for hell on earth they seek ancient artifacts, long lost rituals and persons touched by demonic evil. They have gathered some dark rituals and but demons are notoriously hard to control and prefer to use them as needed and with a banishment ritual ready if things get out of control. They have on the other hand been known to kidnap "chosen", people somehow touched by demonic forces and use them as focus for their rituals. They believe that the "chosen" enhance their rituals and are the key to their overall goal, Hell on Earth (Hölle auf der erde).
Their rituals are held in secret and regularly involves human sacrifices and debauchery of all sorts and led by the leader of the cell, Draconis Major. Other titles include Draconis Inferior (lesser leaders), Draco Infernalis (higher member) and Draco Ignan (common member). The real names of especially leaders are among the greatest secret and very few members know the real name of their leaders. That being said one of the names of the leaders surfaced when the Nürnberg cell was exposed and destroyed, the name Josef Gasburg.
As they prepare for hell on earth they seek ancient artifacts, long lost rituals and persons touched by demonic evil. They have gathered some dark rituals and but demons are notoriously hard to control and prefer to use them as needed and with a banishment ritual ready if things get out of control. They have on the other hand been known to kidnap "chosen", people somehow touched by demonic forces and use them as focus for their rituals. They believe that the "chosen" enhance their rituals and are the key to their overall goal, Hell on Earth (Hölle auf der erde).
Their rituals are held in secret and regularly involves human sacrifices and debauchery of all sorts and led by the leader of the cell, Draconis Major. Other titles include Draconis Inferior (lesser leaders), Draco Infernalis (higher member) and Draco Ignan (common member). The real names of especially leaders are among the greatest secret and very few members know the real name of their leaders. That being said one of the names of the leaders surfaced when the Nürnberg cell was exposed and destroyed, the name Josef Gasburg.
The Kerberos Club
Kerboros of the Myths
To the outsiders it is a Gentlemans club with a seedy reputation, accepting women and lower class citizens among its members. It is based in London in a huge Gothic Building.
Its members know better. There are things in the dark! Ancient mad gods from forgotten times, Witches, things that prowl and stalk human flesh, blood drinking magi, creatures more dead than alive. The Kerberos club protect the innocent, blessed by queen Victoria herself, and by any means.
Their motto is Malus Necessarium, Latin for the Necessary Evil.
Its members know better. There are things in the dark! Ancient mad gods from forgotten times, Witches, things that prowl and stalk human flesh, blood drinking magi, creatures more dead than alive. The Kerberos club protect the innocent, blessed by queen Victoria herself, and by any means.
Their motto is Malus Necessarium, Latin for the Necessary Evil.
Britain
The homeland of the Club is a strange variant of The Victorian Age 1861. London is the worlds biggest city and a true metropolis of varied ethnicities and cultures, all nestled in an ancient city filled with dread and wonders.
Londons first subway stations opened in 1861. Zeppeliners dock at tall Sky towers, connecting major cities of the country and beyond.
The Crimean war ended in 1859, Russian and Bulgaria was defeated by the british, but unrest still prowls in Eastern Europe.
Gaslighting became a norm in London in 1860, only in the richer areas though.
The dark alleyways of London proper are considered the most dangerous areas of any city in the western world. Crime is at an all time high. Burglers, robbers, killers and more then 16.000 prostitutes proves this point.
Steam Technology soars. Marvels, both benign and benevolent, have been invented. Steamdriven Automobiles and other wonders are beginning to be a common sight on the streets. London is the place to seek out rogue inventors, mad scientists and acedemic wisdom.
Ireland have lost more then 3 million people to migration and the great famine 1845-1852 when a blight hit the potatoes.
As England grows more and more advanced, Scotland does the opposite. The Nation to the North is getting wilder and wilder, people leave the cities for a rural life in the rugged nature of the scots.
Londons first subway stations opened in 1861. Zeppeliners dock at tall Sky towers, connecting major cities of the country and beyond.
The Crimean war ended in 1859, Russian and Bulgaria was defeated by the british, but unrest still prowls in Eastern Europe.
Gaslighting became a norm in London in 1860, only in the richer areas though.
The dark alleyways of London proper are considered the most dangerous areas of any city in the western world. Crime is at an all time high. Burglers, robbers, killers and more then 16.000 prostitutes proves this point.
Steam Technology soars. Marvels, both benign and benevolent, have been invented. Steamdriven Automobiles and other wonders are beginning to be a common sight on the streets. London is the place to seek out rogue inventors, mad scientists and acedemic wisdom.
Ireland have lost more then 3 million people to migration and the great famine 1845-1852 when a blight hit the potatoes.
As England grows more and more advanced, Scotland does the opposite. The Nation to the North is getting wilder and wilder, people leave the cities for a rural life in the rugged nature of the scots.
SteamTech
Steam Carriage
Since the creation of the Brunel Boiler, a smaller hotter boiler than the standard, things went quickly. Steam Technology quickly entered the mainstream and of course the military.
Carriages, wagons, ships even the mighty zeppeliners are among the many marvels driven by the Brunel Boiler. The rich and the poweful of course use steamtech but as the prices fall more and more are able to purchace the marvels of the 19th century.
The military quickly saw Steam Tech as a way to better kill their enemies. With larger more powerful engines the first armored vehicles (Tanks) emerged on the battlefield in 1841. In the following years all navy ships were armored and refitted with Steam engines and armored hulls.
The weapon factories were slower to adjust to the new technology but as weapon smiths began experimenting with one chamber miniature boilers opportunity arose. The first steam driven Gatling gun were seen in the U.S in 1847 and its 1500 rounds pr. minute were more than 3 times the velocity of the standard Gatling gun.
Carriages, wagons, ships even the mighty zeppeliners are among the many marvels driven by the Brunel Boiler. The rich and the poweful of course use steamtech but as the prices fall more and more are able to purchace the marvels of the 19th century.
The military quickly saw Steam Tech as a way to better kill their enemies. With larger more powerful engines the first armored vehicles (Tanks) emerged on the battlefield in 1841. In the following years all navy ships were armored and refitted with Steam engines and armored hulls.
The weapon factories were slower to adjust to the new technology but as weapon smiths began experimenting with one chamber miniature boilers opportunity arose. The first steam driven Gatling gun were seen in the U.S in 1847 and its 1500 rounds pr. minute were more than 3 times the velocity of the standard Gatling gun.
Special Branch
First Top Hats, Carlton Abbey 1836
Victorias secret police Special Branch is a true power in England and greatly feared. They were created to protect the queen and England from foes, domestic and foreign. They are enlisted from the best the army can produce and indoctrinated (some say brainwashed) in Carlton Abbey in Sussex. Feared for their ruthlessness they have the rights to make every citizens life a nightmare, unlawful arrests, incarceration without a trial, torture.
Its history is linked with the reformation of the police force in 1829, by Sir Robert Peel. The first years were hard but his visons gave way for a newer more stable police force. Recognizing his talents Victoria gave him the task to create a secret police to monitor the more insidious foes of the nation. Special Branch was created in secret in 1836 in Carlton Abbey in a ceremony some say more resembled a cultist meeting. Now 20 years later the public are aware of its long arm and fear the rightly.
Robert Peel became Prime Minister in England from 1841 to 1946, clearly backed by Special Branch. He retired to Carlton Abbey in 1858 , age 70 and still oversees the indoctrination of new members.
The Top Hats as they are known have clashed with the Kerboros Club on many occasions, but Victoria herself dotes the Club and the Top Hats hates the fact that she protects the club. If it were up to Special Branch all Kerberans would be arrested and locked up for life, but Victoria believes both have their place in protecting England.
Its history is linked with the reformation of the police force in 1829, by Sir Robert Peel. The first years were hard but his visons gave way for a newer more stable police force. Recognizing his talents Victoria gave him the task to create a secret police to monitor the more insidious foes of the nation. Special Branch was created in secret in 1836 in Carlton Abbey in a ceremony some say more resembled a cultist meeting. Now 20 years later the public are aware of its long arm and fear the rightly.
Robert Peel became Prime Minister in England from 1841 to 1946, clearly backed by Special Branch. He retired to Carlton Abbey in 1858 , age 70 and still oversees the indoctrination of new members.
The Top Hats as they are known have clashed with the Kerboros Club on many occasions, but Victoria herself dotes the Club and the Top Hats hates the fact that she protects the club. If it were up to Special Branch all Kerberans would be arrested and locked up for life, but Victoria believes both have their place in protecting England.
The Otherworld
Fey forest
Of the known realms, the Otherworld is the best known. It is commenly known as Faerie, Tir Na Nog, Emain Ablach and the Twillight Realm. This is the place where the Fey races live and originate from. Humans that venture in to the Otherwolds seldom come back, but the few that returns tell of a land with deep bogs, tall spired cities, ancient forests and rolling hills, all cloaked in perpetual twillight and thick fog.
Many Fey races live there, from the brutish Fir Bolc to the tall regal, but arrogant, Sidhé, the stewards of the Fey Lands. The fabled city of Tuathe De Danann lies somewhere in the Otherworld of Ireland, where Queen Titania and her consort Oberon holds court.
Most fey hate leaving their realm but some do anyway, lured by power, opportunity, or desire. As immortal beings (in their realm) , most fey prefer to avoid "lesser" races such as mankind, but some are drawn to them like moths to a flame. Those Fey that do stay, survives in our glamour starved world, by feeding on human emotions. The Arrogant Sidhe for instance, must feed on the emotion of submissiveness, a feeling they love to stir up in people, using arrogance and veiled threats. The brownie feeds on thankfulness and are among the more accepted fay in our world. Trolls feed on fright, not fear itself but a good scare.
All fey are beings of glamour, a mystical magical energy of the Otherworld. When they enter our world their glamour prevents us from seeing their real appearence, Mankind instead sees another human with some of the qualities of the Fey in question. Special devices allows us to see them, but sometimes we pierce their glamour veil by accident. This could be a reflection in a window, a dog barking at an innocent looking old lady, a young woman screams as she sees a foul reflection in a puddle of water, a child screams and points at "the ugly man" are all examples of fey sightings, or are they??.
The Fey have their boogeymen as well, they are called the Lost or the Unseelie. They are Fey creatures that live of hate, death, pain and other similar dark things. Luckily they are few and far between, as their presence seldom bodes well for humans. Sidhe knights hunt down these fallen fey and do not accept mercy, if you come between a cadre of Sidhé knights and their quarry.
Many Fey races live there, from the brutish Fir Bolc to the tall regal, but arrogant, Sidhé, the stewards of the Fey Lands. The fabled city of Tuathe De Danann lies somewhere in the Otherworld of Ireland, where Queen Titania and her consort Oberon holds court.
Most fey hate leaving their realm but some do anyway, lured by power, opportunity, or desire. As immortal beings (in their realm) , most fey prefer to avoid "lesser" races such as mankind, but some are drawn to them like moths to a flame. Those Fey that do stay, survives in our glamour starved world, by feeding on human emotions. The Arrogant Sidhe for instance, must feed on the emotion of submissiveness, a feeling they love to stir up in people, using arrogance and veiled threats. The brownie feeds on thankfulness and are among the more accepted fay in our world. Trolls feed on fright, not fear itself but a good scare.
All fey are beings of glamour, a mystical magical energy of the Otherworld. When they enter our world their glamour prevents us from seeing their real appearence, Mankind instead sees another human with some of the qualities of the Fey in question. Special devices allows us to see them, but sometimes we pierce their glamour veil by accident. This could be a reflection in a window, a dog barking at an innocent looking old lady, a young woman screams as she sees a foul reflection in a puddle of water, a child screams and points at "the ugly man" are all examples of fey sightings, or are they??.
The Fey have their boogeymen as well, they are called the Lost or the Unseelie. They are Fey creatures that live of hate, death, pain and other similar dark things. Luckily they are few and far between, as their presence seldom bodes well for humans. Sidhe knights hunt down these fallen fey and do not accept mercy, if you come between a cadre of Sidhé knights and their quarry.
Magic and Rituals
Ritual of summoning
Magic is present in the world. It is a hidden raw energy around us and a few can manipulate it, creating wondrous effects. It is a flowing free energy but can be shaped into energies and effects by a selected few. Those that wield the energies are a varied bunch each using their own ways to harness the energies.
Rituals on the other hand are arcane formulars that are dangerous to enact. The summoning or banishing of creatures from beyond our world, must be completed with a ritual.
Energies of death itself is also something rituals can summon, and lay to rest.
The opening of Doorways, Pathways and Portals must be done with a ritual.
But as powerful as they are, they too are dangerous. Every ritual can fail and in doing so, the violent powerful energies are released, to often dangerous and deadly effects.
Everyone schooled in the occult can perform a ritual as a dramatic task, but rituals must be found and can only be reproduced with great difficulty.
Example: Banishing the elder evil of Yoh-Zhoor requires the occultist to find a banishment ritual, translate/deschipher it, fullfill the requirements and succeed on a dramatic task when facing the great evil. Simple and deadly (if you fail and draw clubs)...
Rituals on the other hand are arcane formulars that are dangerous to enact. The summoning or banishing of creatures from beyond our world, must be completed with a ritual.
Energies of death itself is also something rituals can summon, and lay to rest.
The opening of Doorways, Pathways and Portals must be done with a ritual.
But as powerful as they are, they too are dangerous. Every ritual can fail and in doing so, the violent powerful energies are released, to often dangerous and deadly effects.
Everyone schooled in the occult can perform a ritual as a dramatic task, but rituals must be found and can only be reproduced with great difficulty.
Example: Banishing the elder evil of Yoh-Zhoor requires the occultist to find a banishment ritual, translate/deschipher it, fullfill the requirements and succeed on a dramatic task when facing the great evil. Simple and deadly (if you fail and draw clubs)...
The Celestial Choir and The Demonic Hosts
Kenzial, the Nothern Fury welcomes a travellar
According to the blind prophet of Delphi, a war was waged on our world eaons ago. Millenia after the fall of Lucifer and his host of angels, earth was the battlefield of which heaven and hell fought for supremacy. Vast energies was unleashed by both sides, cosmic in scale. The war shaped the world we now inhabit, and clues can be found in the oldest of places.
What changed is uncertain, some say a bargain was forged, with Lucifer sticking to his realm, Hell, and the angels staying put in the Celestial Realms. Others say a progenitor race sacrificed their entire race to bar our world from the ascended creatures. Others say a race of godlike elder gods cut of the gateways to our world.
Whatever the cause, Angels and devils cannot enter our world on their own accord. This has not stopped mankind from devising ways to summon these creatures. Ancient rituals from fallen civilizations sometimes surface and they can be used to gate the ascended to our world.
Angels and Devils are very different, but share some similarities. Both are aloof, uncaring and share a single minded determination. Thats where the similarities stop.
The Celestials are beings of the purest thoughts, eradicating evil, lesser and greater, whenever encountered. That looks allright, but punishment is harsh for even the slighest transgressions, making them an unwelcome guest in most (depraved) major cities where the lesser vices are plentiful.
Devils on the other hand are something different. Their goals is to further evil in all its forms. Some are towering killing machines. Some are manipulative, some corrupts ideals and thought, using malign intelligence to further bad behavior. Some of the worst are those that seek to gather cultist around them, sometimes converting entire villages to the cause of evil with gifts and promises of power.
What changed is uncertain, some say a bargain was forged, with Lucifer sticking to his realm, Hell, and the angels staying put in the Celestial Realms. Others say a progenitor race sacrificed their entire race to bar our world from the ascended creatures. Others say a race of godlike elder gods cut of the gateways to our world.
Whatever the cause, Angels and devils cannot enter our world on their own accord. This has not stopped mankind from devising ways to summon these creatures. Ancient rituals from fallen civilizations sometimes surface and they can be used to gate the ascended to our world.
Angels and Devils are very different, but share some similarities. Both are aloof, uncaring and share a single minded determination. Thats where the similarities stop.
The Celestials are beings of the purest thoughts, eradicating evil, lesser and greater, whenever encountered. That looks allright, but punishment is harsh for even the slighest transgressions, making them an unwelcome guest in most (depraved) major cities where the lesser vices are plentiful.
Devils on the other hand are something different. Their goals is to further evil in all its forms. Some are towering killing machines. Some are manipulative, some corrupts ideals and thought, using malign intelligence to further bad behavior. Some of the worst are those that seek to gather cultist around them, sometimes converting entire villages to the cause of evil with gifts and promises of power.