Imperium Affiliations

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IMPERIUM AFFILITATIONS

Brotherhood of Redemption
Calasper Crime Family
Chorrun Char
The Church of the Dark God
City Watch
Delver's Guild
Dreaming Apothecary
The Fallen
The Forsaken
House of Black and White
Inverted Pyramid
Killraven Crime League
The Magi
Order of the Dawn
Praesidio Arcanum
The Red Lotus
Sisterhood of Silence

General Note: When requisitioning scrolls, potions, etc., the CL for the item is the minimum for a spell of that level.

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BROTHERHOOD OF REDEMPTION

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Symbol: A nesting pelican.
Background & Goals: An order of monks who believe that no evil is irredeemable, the Brotherhood of Redemption seeks to give any evil creature a chance to repent. Its members do not believe in “inherent evil.” Specializing in rehabilitation, they operate in the Dungeon out of the Fortress of the Redeemed but maintain a surface headquarters in the Guildsman District. They make it known that they willingly accept any prisoners who are not of the major races—in fact, they’ll pay a small bounty (5 gp per Hit Die) for evil creatures with a modicum of intelligence (in other words, an Intelligence score of 3 or above). The Church of the Dark God tolerates the existence of the Brotherhood since they do not espouse a particular religion, though members of the Brotherhood often find themselves on the losing end of disputes.
Type: Temple
Members: Members of the Brotherhood are religious ascetics of all races (though usually humans, elves, and dwarves).
Scale: 6 (City)
Membership Requirements: Must be of good alignment.

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Diplomacy, Heal, or Sense Motive	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Diplomacy, Heal, or Sense Motive	+1/skill
Ability to cast divine spells	+1
Has levels in Paladin, Apostle of Justice, Emissary of Barachiel, Whiteguard, or a good-aligned Outsider racial class	+1/class
Alignment changes to good from evil through the character's own volition	+3
Alignment changes from good or neutral to evil through the character's own volition (first time)	–5
Multiple-Use
Redeems an evil creature, taking significant part in its change to a good alignment	+1 + creature's CR/4
Redeems an evil creature, taking significant part in its change to a neutral alignment	+ creature's CR/6
Prevents the corruption of a good creature to evil	+1
Knowingly aids in the fall to evil of a good-aligned creature	-3
Unknowingly aids in the fall to evil of a good-aligned creature	-1
Alignment changes from good or neutral to evil through the character's own volition (each time beyond the first)	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	Acolyte: The Brotherhood recognizes your piety, and invites you to share in their good works.
4-10	Brother: +2 circumstance bonus to Diplomacy checks against evil creatures.
11-20	Friar: protection from evil (CL = character level) as a spell-like ability 3/day.
21-29	Deacon: Atonement (CL = character level) as a spell-like ability 1/day, no xp cost, redemption only.
30 or higher	Redeemer: Once per day, spend a standard action to daze a single evil creature within 30 feet for 1d4 rounds; the creature receives a Will save (DC equal to the result of your Diplomacy check) to resist the effect.

Executive Powers: Beatify, Gift

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DELVER’S GUILD

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Symbol: A spiked helmet.
Background & Goals: Over the last fifty years, the Delver’s Guild has grown in influence, becoming both popular to join and wealthy. The Delver’s Guild offers its members information about job opportunities and events pertaining to the exploration of regions below Gratis. The guild also maintains the city’s most extensive collection of maps of the underground realm and an impressive library for research. Members receive passwords that allow them to access secret chambers within the underground regions. These secret chambers, called waystations, are stocked with food and simple supplies. High-ranking members gain retrieval insurance, which guarantees that, if they should die while exploring, guild members will retrieve their bodies and have them raised if possible (retrieval and raising paid for out of a special guild account funded by the insured). The guild’s membership hovers around eight thousand. In addition, there are said to exist at least four thousand delvers not affiliated with the guild. At any given time, about one-fifth of this total is exploring the Dungeon. It is estimated that for every ten delvers who go down each day, one does not come back. About one hundred new adventurers come to Gratis and some twenty-five are raised from the dead every week. Since the Delver’s Guild began keeping records three years ago, about eight-teen thousand adventurers have died permanently while exploring the Dungeon. Another two hundred thirty have permanently retired, either in the city or elsewhere.
Type: fighting company.
Members: The Delvers welcome anyone and everyone who wants to participate in the exciting world of dungeoneering.
Scale: 7 (city).

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Knowledge (Dungeoneering) or Survival	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Knowledge (Dungeoneering) or Survival	+1/skill
Base attack bonus +5 or greater	+1
Track, Endurance, or other exploration-related feat	+1/feat
Character has darkvision, tremorsense, blindsense, blindsight, or a burrow speed	+1
Maintains a waystation within the Dungeon for guild use	+2
Consistently causes friction between the Delvers and the City Watch, Church, or Magi	-3
Multiple-Use
Clears the majority of dangers from a previously unknown section of the Dungeon, making it safe for mapping or further exploration	+1
Thoroughly maps a previously unknown section of the Dungeon	+2
Recovers the remains of a high-ranking Delver for raising	+2
Actively inhibits exploration of the Dungeon	-4
Falsifies information about the Dungeon to the Guild	-1
Fails to aid another Delver in need	-1
Intentionally destroys a map of part of the Dungeon	-1

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-10	Stiff: The Delvers recognize (with some amusement) that you're interested in exploring the Dungeon. You may make use of the Guild's waystations.
11-20	Rookie: Requisition one 1st-level potion or scroll per month. +2 competence bonus on Knowledge: Dungeoneering and Survival checks while in the Dungeon.
21-29	Guide: Have remains recovered & benefit of raise dead if killed while delving; must pay 500 gp per month dues & insurance. Purchase spellcasting from fellow Delvers at 2/3 standard price.
30 or higher	Deepguide: Have remains recovered & benefit of resurrection if killed while delving; must pay 1000 gp per month dues & insurance. Borrow equipment up to 15,000 gp from Delver stores once per month for 2d4 days.

Executive Powers: Plunder, Raid, Trade

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INVERTED PYRAMID

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Symbol: Downward-facing triangle with a dot in the center.
Background & Goals: The Inverted Pyramid is a mysterious and ancient guild of arcanists. Their membership roll remains shrouded in mystery, but it most likely includes most of the Venerable Magi, as well as their disciples. For years they have wielded considerable influence in the city. Their headquarters is said to lie somewhere hidden from normal sight by powerful spells. In days past, the Inverted Pyramid was the seat of opposition and friction with the Church. Within the Inverted Pyramid, the members of this guild meet, store their valuable books and supplies, and craft magic items and other creations. The Inverted Pyramid concerns itself with preserving magical lore and all things arcane from those it believes would eradicate such knowledge.
Type: Cabal
Members: The true membership of the pyramid is unknown, but all are certainly spellcasters of high competence, dedicated to collecting and preserving knowledge (for some ends or other...). Archivists, wizards, and cloistered clerics in particular would likely be found among the Pyramid's halls.
Scale: 7 (city)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Autohypnosis or any Knowledge skill	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Autohypnosis or any Knowledge skill	+2/skill
Knowledge domain, or Lore, Bardic Knowledge, Dark Knowledge, or Sacred Knowledge class feature	+2
Any feat which grants a bonus or new use to a Knowledge skill	+1/feat
Ability to produce magical effects of two or more different types*	+2
No ranks in Spellcraft	-2
Reveals the location of the Pyramid to a non-member	-5
Multiple-Use
Discovers a previously-unknown source of magical knowledge at least 300 years old	+1
Convinces a high-ranking member of the Magi, Church of the Dark God, or City Watch to change their position on an important issue	+2
Destroys a magical text or spellbook	-5

*Different types include arcane spells, divine spells, psionic powers, invocations or other spell-like abilities, rituals, formulae, residuum, mysteries, and the like.

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-10	Student: You are granted knowledge of the Pyramid's location, and a +2 circumstance bonus to Knowledge checks while within the Pyramid.
11-20	Librarian: Purchase spellcasting from other Pyramid members at 3/4 standard price. All divination effects you create are at +1 CL or equivalent.
21-29	Researcher: Once per day use suggestion as a spell-like ability (caster level equal to half your affiliation score). Divination effects targeting you must succeed on a CL check, as per the nondetection spell with a caster level equal to your character level.
30 or higher	Teacher: Once per week, gain a mind blank effect for 1 hour as a supernatural ability (caster level equal to your character level).

Executive Powers: Craft, Research, Shadow War

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CITY WATCH

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Symbol: A gladius and shield.
Background & Goals: To police the streets, the Commissar of the city commands a force of more than ten thousand troops and City Watch guards, including a few hundred elite individuals (captains, mages, clerics, etc.). While the constables in many of the Empire’s cities are considered glorified street-sweepers with little competence or desire to actually enforce the law, this is not true of the experienced and well-equipped guards of Gratis, particularly those known as the Commissar’s Men. Nevertheless, this well-trained and well-paid force has its hands full maintaining order in the city. However, neither the city guard nor the Sisterhood of Silence is willing to go down into the Dungeon and fight monsters. Nor are they likely to help against such well-known and influential noble families as House Calasper, or such powerful groups as the Church or the Forsaken and the Fallen. Of course, those groups would never break any laws, so there’s surely nothing to worry about...
Type: Government
Members: From the lowly constable to the elite Commissar's Men, the Watch is filled with fighting folk.
Scale: 6 (city)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Diplomacy or Knowledge (Local)	+1/skill
Base attack bonus +5 or greater	+1
Base attack bonus +10 or greater	+2
Lawful alignment	+1
Investigation or Urban Tracking feat	+1
Member of the City Watch for 3+ years	+1
Member of the City Watch for 10+ years	+1
Participates in at least 60 hours per week of patrolling or other active duty	+2
Routinely causes friction between the Watch and the Magi or the Church of the Dark God	-3
Routinely causes friction between the Watch and any other affiliation with scale 5 or greater	-1
Multiple-Use
Receives commendation from a high-ranking watch officer	+2
Receives commendation from the Commissar himself	+3
Turns an informer from within the Killraven Crime League, the Calasper Crime Family, or the Red Lotus	+1
Causes the Watch public embarrassment	-2
Discovered to be aiding significant criminal enterprises	-5
Discovered to be aiding the rebellion	-10
Directly causes the death of a fellow Watch member of equal or lower rank	-3
Directly causes the death of a fellow Watch member of higher rank	-5

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	Civilian: The Watch is your police force.
4-10	Constable: +2 circumstance bonus to Knowledge (Local) checks within the bounds of Gratis. Gain a 100 gp/month income if on-duty (patrolling and the like) for 30-40 hours per week.
11-20	Sergeant: Gain a +2 bonus to attack and +1d6 damage vs any creature you witness breaking the law. Gain ability to deal nonlethal damage without suffering -4 penalty to attacks.
21-29	Lieutenant: Remove charges against 1 citizen per week. Gain a +1 morale bonus to AC and saves for every two other member of the Watch within 30 feet, to a maximum of +3.
30 or higher	Commissar's Man: Receive magic equipment up to 30,000 gp value as a 1-time gift from the Commissar.

Executive Powers: Crusade, Terrorize, War

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SISTERHOOD OF SILENCE

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Symbol: A white dove in a black circle.
Background & Goals: Founded in Gratis more than two hundred years ago, an all-female order calling itself the Sisterhood of Silence established itself as a major force for law and defense. These nonspeaking female monks patrol the streets and apprehend criminals, even though they are not—strictly speaking—sanctioned to do so officially. A male eunuch always accompanies a small unit of the Sisters of Silence to speak on their behalf. While the order has since spread to other cities, the Priory of Introspection in Gratis remains the central headquarters of the entire Sisterhood. As their name suggests, the Sisters of Silence do not speak. Instead, they employ a cadre of devout eunuchs to speak for them. Among themselves, they use a complex set of signs, postures, and expressions to convey vast amounts of information quickly.
Type: Temple.
Members: All Silent Sisters are female ascetics with some martial background, usually monks, clerics, or swordsages.
Scale: 11 (multiregional)
Affiliation Score Criteria: All Silent Sisters must be female.

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Bluff, Search, or Sense Motive	+1/skill
Base attack bonus +5 or higher	+1
Lawful alignment	+1
Knowledge of a maneuver or stance of 3rd level or higher	+1
Knowledge of a maneuver or stance of 5th level or higher	+1
Tactical feat or Improved Unarmed Strike	+1/feat
Telepathy, the ability to manifest mindlink, or other similar abilities that allow nonverbal communication	+2
Chaotic alignment	-2
Breaks Vow of Silence	-10
Sullies the reputation of the Sisterhood	-2
Multiple-Use
Prevents a crime or disrupts one in progress	+1/4 CR of highest CR criminal in the group
Captures all perpetrators of such a crime alive	+1/4 number of criminal perpetrators
Allows accompanying eunuch to die	-2
Commits a crime	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-10	Novice: Gain Vow of Silence (see below) as a bonus feat. The Sisterhood begins to teach you its special sign language, granting you Speak Language (Sister Sign).
11-20	Daughter: You gain a +2 bonus on Intimidate checks, as well as a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls against anyone observed to be breaking the law.
21-29	Sister: You gain a eunuch as a cohort, as per the Leadership feat, who is your personal valet and translator.
30 or higher	Mother: You can claim audience with the head of the City Watch or the Church of the Dark God within 1d4 hours once a month.

Executive Powers: Beatify, Crusade, Gift

Vow of Silence
You give up the ability to speak.
Prerequisites: None.
Benefit: You no longer speak. You give up the ability to communicate verbally, which prevents you from using your voice to activate items, class features, feats, etc. You gain a +8 competence bonus on Listen checks, as giving up speech allows you to become a more effective observer, as well as a +8 competence bonus on Concentration checks and a +4 bonus on Will saves. You can communicate nonverbally using a Bluff check, using the same rules as delivering a secret message; you gain a +4 bonus to Bluff checks for this purpose, and suffer a -2 penalty on all other Bluff checks.

  You can cast spells with verbal components by substituting an extra somatic component. All spells you cast are affected as if by the Silent Spell feat; however, applying the Still Spell feat to a spell costs +2 levels, not 1; if you're grappled or otherwise restrained you can't cast spells with somatic OR verbal components; and ASF chances are double for any armor you wear. This allows you to cast spells with verbal components even while silenced.

  If you ever break your Vow of Silence, you lose the benefit of this feat until granted the benefit of an atonement spell. If you break your Vow of Silence due to a compulsion effect, you instead lose the benefit of this feat for 24 hours. Communicating via the Sister Sign language to another creature who understands it does not break your vow.

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THE MAGI

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Symbol: 5 stars forming a pentagon.
Background & Goals: The Imperium has ruled Gratis for more than 4,000 years, and the Magi are the rulers of the Imperium. Legend says that the current Elder Magi are the same five who founded the Imperium, that their dark master granted them immortality, and certainly there has been no change of regime in living memory to disprove it. Many times in the history of the Imperium, rebellion has sprung up like weeds among the tamed grass of the populace of Gratis. Each time, it has been quelled quickly and viciously by the Imperium's Praesidio Arcanum, the Magi's secret brotherhood of enforcers who operate independently of the City Watch. To cement their stranglehold monopoly on the powers of creation, every year the Elder Magi hold the "High Arcana", a series of games in which the winners are inducted into the Magi. These "games" are magical contests between groups of fledgling spellcasters of various talents and specialties, and the losers of each contest are carted away to the cemeteries (if there's anything left of them at all). In this way the Magic cull the weaker talents from the populace and recruit the stronger into their doctrines.
Type: Cabal
Members: The Magi are made up of the most powerful arcane spellcasters in the land, and their apprentices.
Scale: 16 (empire)
Affiliation Score Requirements: Members of the Magi must be able to do at least one of the following:

• Cast arcane spells
• Trace minor rituals
• Shape formulae
• Implement Residuum techniques
• Use invocations

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) or Spellcraft	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) or Spellcraft	+1/skill
Can cast 3rd level spells, trace lesser rituals, shape 3rd level formulae, or use lesser invocations	+1
Can cast 5th level spells, trace greater rituals, shape 5th level formulae, or use greater invocations	+2
Has 10 or more Residuum points	+1
Has 25 or more Residuum points	+2
Has a metamagic or equivalent feat	+1/feat
Has researched previously-unknown arcane spells	+1 + 1/2 highest spell level created
Caught using unlicensed magic of 3rd level or higher	-1 per level of highest spell level used
Has no metamagic or equivalent feats	-2
Discovered to be aiding the Red Lotus	-20
Multiple-Use
Member of the winning team of the High Arcana Games	+8
Sponsored the winning team of the High Arcana Games	+5
Publicly defeated a member of the Red Lotus in a crusing or humiliating manner	+1/4 CR of creature defeated
Openly criticizes the Magi	-3
Causes public embarrassment to sponsor	-2
Causes public embarrassment to a Venerable Magus	-5
Causes public embarrassment to an Elder Magus	-20, likely fatal

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-8	Child: You are expected to run errands for your sponsor, an Old Magus. You are exempt from prosecution by the City Watch for breaking laws, though severe transgressions will cause embarrassment to your sponsor.
9-13	Young Magus: You are given permission to study in the great Library of the Magi, granting you a +2 bonus to Knowledge: Arcana checks while doing so. You become Apprenticed to your sponsor (see below).
14-18	Prime Magus: Your sponsor has begun to recognize your worth, and is teaching you what he thinks you need to know. You gain a +2 bonus to Spellcraft checks, and can acquire one arcane scroll of 1st-level or lower for free each month.
19-23	Old Magus: You are now allowed to sponsor your own members into the Magi, taking responsibility for their actions. You are no longer an Apprentice, and acquire one of your own (see below).
24-29	Ancient Magus: You can sponsor a team in the High Arcana games. You gain a +4 bonus to Charisma-based checks within the Imperium. You can purchase spellcasting from other Magi at 1/2 standard price.
30 or higher	Venerable Magus: You gain any metamagic or equivalent feat as a bonus feat.

Executive Powers: Craft, Law, Research


APPRENTICESHIP
This works very similarly to the Apprentice/Mentor (Spellcaster) feats from DMGII, with the following exceptions.

• Your mentor is automatically an Old or higher Magus, chosen by the DM
• You do not "surpass your mentor" until reaching Old rank yourself, regardless of your character level
• When you become a Mentor, you retain the class skills granted by your apprenticeship
• You may build your apprentice, using the elite array for ability scores. The character must be no more than 3rd level and must qualify as a Young Magus (and not a Prime Magus)
• Your apprentice only graduates when they reach Old rank, regardless of character level

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PRAESIDIO ARCANUM

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Symbol: Sword with two stars.
Background & Goals: The P.A. is the Magi's secret brotherhood of enforcers who operate independently of the City Watch, and is also responsible for ferreting out rogue spellcasters who are operating without the licensure of the Imperium. Their reputation is one of fear and efficient brutality. The only marks on the P.A.'s otherwise unblemished record are the recurrent rebellions, which they have never been able to suppress entirely despite the fact that the rebels do more damage to themselves by channeling magic raw, without sanction from the Magi.
Type: Cabal
Members: Members of the Praesidio Arcanum are extremely secretive, with aliases and normal (usually unpleasant) occupations for cover. They are skilled and deadly with both magic and weaponry; most are Nullblades, Duskblades, and Battle Sorcerers.
Scale: 15 (continental)
Affiliation Score Requirements: Members of the P.A. must be able to cast arcane spells, trace rituals, use invocations, implement techniques, manifest powers, or shape formuae, and must be proficient with at least one martial or exotic weapon.

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Gather Information, Intimidate, Spellcraft, or Use Magic Device	+1/skill
Can cast 3rd-level spells, trace lesser rituals, shape 3rd-level formulae, manifest 3rd-level powers, use lesser invocations, or has at least 10 residuum points	+1
Can cast 5th-level spells, trace greater rituals, shape 5th-level formulae, manifest 5th-level powers, use greater invocations, or has at least 25 residuum points	+1
Base attack bonus of +5 or more	+1
Base attack bonus of +10 or more	+2
Ability to cast spells or equivalent in some sort of armor or while using a shield without suffering arcane spell failure chance	+1
Double agent planted within the Red Lotus for less than 1 year without discovery	+2
Double agent planted within the Red Lotus for at least 1 year without discovery	+4
Discovered to be a member of the Red Lotus	-20
Destroys an Old or higher-ranking Magus (first time)	-5
Consistently uses unlicensed magic	-3
Multiple-Use
Destroys or captures a Red Lotus cell	+1/4 CR of highest-CR cell member + 1/4 total members of cell
Uncovers a traitor within the Praesidio Arcanum or the City Watch	+2
Reveals an unlicensed spellcaster capable of casting 3rd level or higher spells	+1/3 of highest level spell the unlicensed spellcaster can cast
Openly criticizes the Magi	-3
Destroys an Old or higher-ranking Magus (each additional time)	-2
Is defeated in combat by a member of the Red Lotus	-1
Unwittingly aids the Red Lotus's plots	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation
4-10	Malus: You are given a special mark which grants you near immunity from interference by the Watch, the Sisterhood of Silence, and the Knights of the Dawn.
11-20	Securus: You gain Urban Tracking as a bonus feat, and gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Gather Information checks.
21-29	Gladius: You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and +1d6 bonus damage against members of the Red Lotus. You gain a +2 bonus to Caster Level or equivalent when casting an Illusion or Transmutation spell, or any other effect (except those which originate from items other than staves) which duplicates that of an Illusion or Transmutation spell.
30 or higher	Praetorius: You gain a Gladius cohort as per the Leadership feat, and can detect Red Lotus members as a paladin's Detect Evil.

Executive Powers: Assassinate, Shadow War, Terrorize

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THE CHURCH OF THE DARK GOD

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Symbol: A pentagram surrounded by black flames.
Background & Goals: The Church of the Dark God is the most powerful, and only official, religion in the Imperium, and thus in Gratis. So closely tied are the Imperium and the Church that the head of the religion’s hierarchy is known as the Emperor of the Church. Alongside the traditional Elder Magi of Gratis, he rules over all Imperial lands and citizens. The Emperor of the Church normally lives in a far-off city in the Tarsis empire but of late has been in Gratis staying with his son, the Prince of the Church. In general, the Church seeks to root out heretics and reward the faithful. Far more than typical organized religions, the Church remains involved in day-to-day government administration and the making (and sometimes enforcing) of laws. The priests serve as judges and officials in the government of the Empire.
Type: Temple
Members: Members of the Church range from layman worshippers, to ordained clerics, all the way up to the Emperor himself.
Scale: 16 (Empire)
Affiliation Score Requirements: Must outwardly worship the Dark God

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Intimidate or Knowledge: Religion	+1/skill
Able to cast divine spells or use Prayers	+1
Can cast divine spells of 3rd-level or higher, or Pray for Fortune	+1
Can cast divine spells of 5th-level or higher, or Pray for Power	+2
Lawful alignment	+1
Chaotic alignment	-1
Good alignment	-3
Worship a deity other than the Dark God	-10
Consistently cause friction between the Church and the Magi	-3
Multiple-Use
Reveals and destroys a heretic	+1/4 creature's CR
Slay a good outsider	+1/4 creature's CR
Slay the divine emissary or an aspect of a deity other than the Dark God	+1/2 creature's CR
Re-consecrate the shrine of another deity in the name of the Dark God	+2
Convert a heretic to worship the Dark God	+1
Intentionally cause another creature to worship a deity other than the Dark God	-3
Cast a spell using your domain slots which belongs to a domain which is not offered by the Dark God (and is not a general cleric spell)	-1/2 spell level

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	Layperson who pays lip service to the Dark God
4-10	Congregate: The Church recognizes you as a worshipper of the Dark God, which grants you some legal protection from heretics. Gain a +2 bonus to Knowledge: Religion checks.
11-20	Novice: Gain a +2 bonus on Charisma-based skill checks used with members of the Church. Purchase spellcasting from Church members at 3/4 standard price.
21-29	Priest: Claim audience with one of the Emperor's advisors within 1d6 days once per month. In addition, you are able to identify heretics by reading their aura; you can sense the alignment of all creatures within 30 feet by spending a full-round action to concentrate. This is a supernatural divination effect with a caster level equal to your character level.
30 or higher	Commander: Gain a personal honor guard of 6 7th-level clerics or paladins of the Dark God (paladins of tyranny).

Executive Powers: Excommunicate, Inquisition, Law.

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CHORRUN CHAR

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Symbol: A stylized dragon.
Background & Goals: The Chorrun Char is a secret organization in the Imperium. Officially called the Conciliators, the Chorrun Char consists of inquisitors dedicated to converting infidels, destroying unsanctioned magic, and stamping out evil. The group is headquartered in the Temple District, and is a highly selective group within the Imperium, comprised entirely of Dragon-kin.

However, this is just a clever front -- the Char's true headquarters lie deep below the city. An ancient order, the Chorrun Char has remained alive through the extreme devotion of its members and their descendants. They secretly oppose the Imperium in all its forms, although they have a particular hatred for the wicked House Calasper. They revere the mysterious Dragon pantheon and serve as a focal point in the re-introduction of those gods into society. The order has dedicated itself to combating supernatural threats of the Imperium, particularly demons and spellcasters. To be accepted into the guild, one must be a half-blood dragon at least; a select few are the full-bloods. Only dragon-blooded and dragonkin are allowed into this group, and usually only spellcasting ones, at that. Many members of the Char are old dragonwrought kobolds, and lesser true dragons.

The full-bloods have all been branded with a scalding claw of Chorrun, to mark them as full-bloods. The guild believes that one day, a draconic apocalypse will come, and turn the full-bloods into the overlords, the Half-Bloods into their servants and citizens, and the Non-Bloods into slaves. Although in theory the guild is ruled by Chorrun, Chorrun is an old and senile dragon, numbering around 6000 years, although legends claim that he fought alongside the elder Magi when they took power, and the Char was founded by his anger at the refusal of the Magi to accept him as a member of the High Council. Now, however, Chorrun can scarcely remember much more than eating and sleeping. Thus the guild is ruled by the 11 true ones, who are 5 Dragons (currently a Silver dragon leader, a Brass Dragon, two Red dragons and a Green dragon), and 6 Fullbloods.

A seat among the true ones is for life; assassination within the guild to get such a seat is not uncommon, but few dare attempt it on the dragons, meaning a kobold's life among the true ones is often short. Very few, even guild members, know that the leader is a black dragon -- even when the full-bloods are branded with his mark, they are blindfolded. There are many discussions whether "the old one" is still alive, but even if he is, he seems to have lost the ability to speak to the Char.

At the moment the group is in an almost open war with the Calasper syndicate, and some say the Chorrun Char are losing this war. They are at a peaceful standing with the KillRavens, often have dealings with the Fallen, the Delvers and the Brotherhood of redemption. The order has enjoyed a long tradition in the city, but many say its day has passed in light of the growing power of other, broader criminal organizations.
Type: Cabal (racial).
Members: Members of the Chorrun Char are dragonbloods or dragons of all sorts.
Scale: 7 (city and outliers)
Affiliation Score Criteria: The Char screens prospective members very carefully for purity of bloodlines. Every member must have either the Dragon type or the Dragonblood subtype.

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) or Knowledge (History)	+1/skill
Can express draconic ideals, use draconic invocations, or shape formulae	+2
Has the Dragon type	+1
Is a True Dragon	+2
Has a draconic, metabreath, metashaper, draconic prophecy, or ideal feat	+1/feat
Has Frightful Presence or racial spell-like abilities	+2
Lacks a breath weapon or a fly speed	-1/each
Multiple-Use
Discovers a True Dragon egg and nurtures it to hatching	+3
Discredits, destroys, or otherwise neutralizes a member of the Calaspers	+1/4 CR of creature defeated
Destroys a creature with the Dragon type	-5
Destroys a True Dragon	-3
Reveals the secret of the Char to a creature with no draconic blood	-4

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-14	Tooth: You are taught how to use your draconic abilities more effectively. You gain Ability Focus as a bonus feat.
15-22	Scale: Your natural defenses have developed more fully, granting you DR 5/magic or increasing your existing damage reduction by 5/magic.
23-29	Wing: You are a fully-accepted member of the Char, granting you access to the Hoard, the Char's communal vault of treasures. You can requisition items up to 30,000gp in value at a time, as long as you return 150% of the value you take out within 1 month (you cannot requisition more items until you've contributed).
30 or higher	Heart: You can call upon the Char for temporary assistance. Once per week, you can use dragon ally as a supernatural ability with a caster level equal to your character level. The dragon requires half of the normal indicated payment, but you may not request a long-term task.

Executive Powers: Pariah, Research, Terrorize

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KILLRAVEN CRIME LEAGUE

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Symbol: A black raven.
Background & Goals: Kevris Killraven arrived in the city only recently, but in that short time this mysterious woman has created the second most powerful criminal organization in Gratis. The league deals in extortion, prostitution, and illegal drugs. A number of nonhumans work for Killraven—troglodytes, ogres, and many other creatures. Although early on Killraven was rumored to have ties with the Praesidio Arcanum, most now dismiss such tales as nonsense.
Type: Thieves' Guild
Members: Any bravo who would rather cut someone's throat then give them the time of day has a place in the Killraven league.
Scale: 6 (city)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Bluff, Hide, Intimidate, Open Lock, or Sleight of Hand	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Bluff, Hide, Intimidate, Open Lock, or Sleight of Hand	+1/skill
Sneak attack +3d6 or higher	+2
Base attack bonus +5 or higher	+1
Improved Feint, Imperious Command, or [Ambush] feats	+1/feat
Swift Demoralization, Demoralizing Shot, or Staredown class features	+1/feature
Acrobatic Backstab, Group Fakeout, Never Outnumbered, or Timely Misdirection skill trick	+1/trick
No ranks in Hide or Move Silently	-2
Licensed spellcaster	-2
Multiple-Use
Implicates a Calasper in a major crime	+2
Acquires a new, lucrative enterprise for the Killravens	+2
Recruits a new member to the Killravens	+1
Recruits a spy for an opposing faction into the Killravens	-12
Participates in an unsanctioned job while a member	-8
Requires the Killravens to bribe the Watch to have you released	-2
Fails at attempt to kill a higher-ranking member	-4

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation or junior member with no benefits.
4-10	Sparrow: Your jobs are sanctioned, so you do not incur the affiliation score penalty for an unsanctioned job.
11-20	Hawk: Receive a 100 gp/month income. Gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls against members of the City Watch.
21-29	Crow: Gain a +4 bonus to Intimidate and Gather Information in Gratis. Command a crew of 4 Sparrows (Rogue 4).
30 or higher	Raven: Command a crew of 4 Hawks (Rogue 8). Claim audience with head of Calaspers within 1d4 weeks once every 3 months.

Executive Powers: Assassinate, Plunder, Raid

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CALASPER CRIME FAMILY

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Symbol: A black dagger.
Background & Goals: Probably the most powerful crime family in the city, the Calaspers are certainly the oldest. Agrethonn Calasper is the aging head of the organization, with his son, Mesven, serving as his second in command. The family funds a number of criminal endeavors, gaining profit from theft, extortion, smuggling, illegal gambling, assassination, and trade in slaves, drugs, and evil magic items. With a history extending back years, the Calaspers are synonymous in the common vernacular with any underhanded business. Some say that at times in the past, the family has even managed to infiltrate the Magi.
Type: Thieves' Guild
Members: Where the Killravens are the kings of the nasty, violent underbelly of Gratis, the Calasper family is far more subtle and ambitious -- and some would say more dangerous.
Scale: 10 (multiregional)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Bluff, Diplomacy, Disguise, Forgery, or Sense Motive	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Bluff, Diplomacy, Disguise, Forgery, or Sense Motive	+1/skill
Lawful alignment	+1
Second Impression or Social Recovery skill trick	+1/trick
Skill Mastery, Motivate Charisma, or Opportunist class features	+1/feature
Levels in Cat Burglar, Dark Lantern, Merchant Prince, or Spymaster	+2
City Slicker, Extra Contacts, Inside Connection, Master Manipulator, or Wanderer's Diplomacy feat	+1/feat
No ranks in Gather Information or Knowledge (Local)	-2
Affiliation score higher than 5 in any other affiliation	-2
Multiple-Use
Extorts money from a member of another affiliation	+1/1000 gp
Destroys a member of the Chorrun Char in combat	+1/4 creature's CR
Starts a profitable illegitimate business controlled by the Calaspers	+2
Is convicted of a crime	-4
Sells out higher-ranking member of the Calaspers to the Watch	-12
Shows blatant disrespect for a higher-ranking member of the Calaspers	-1
Does not repay a debt or loan in a timely fashion	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation or junior member with no benefits.
4-10	Thug: You are brought along on jobs as protection for a higher-up, but you aren't told anything of importance. Gain a +2 morale bonus to Intimidate when in the presence of at least one other Calasper.
11-20	Hire: You're given some responsibilities as a collection agent, and people want to keep in your good graces. Receive 100gp/month in bribes and kickbacks, and gain a +2 bonus to Gather Information and Diplomacy checks.
21-29	Boss: You are in charge of an area; everyone lower down on the food chain answers to you. You gain an honor guard of 5 Thugs (Fighter 3), and can call in 1 favor per week from another Calasper of your rank or higher, which permanently lowers your affiliation score by 2.
30 or higher	Don: You're in charge of an entire ward of the city. At all times you are accompanied by an entourage of 6 elite guards (warblade 7). The Watch considers you untouchable, and you can gain an audience with a Venerable Magi or a Commander of the Church within 1d4 hours once a month.

Executive Powers: Assassinate, Pariah, Shadow War

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THE FORSAKEN

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Symbol: A laughing human skull.
Background & Goals: Those who value death and undeath more than life are called the Forsaken. Necrophiles, necrophages, and necrophiliacs, these disgusting people worship dark god and consort openly with undead and the Fallen. They base their activities in the Necropolis, and rarely venture forth into Gratis proper for fear of running afoul of the Magi and the Church. Some of the Forsaken are living people who consort with the undead, while others are actually undead themselves. They particularly revere ancient undead called the Silversouled, who reportedly built their headquarters, the Dark Reliquary. If any of the Silversouled still exist, no one in the city knows about it.
Type: Cabal
Members: All of the Forsaken have some connection to undeath. Many are necromancers and their brood, though using necromantic powers to control another Forsaken is expressly forbidden.
Scale: 5 (city)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
Ability to command or rebuke undead	+1
Undead type	+1
Has the Lichloved, Necromantic Presence, Undead Wild Shape, or Undead Leadership feats, or the Corpsecrafter or Tomb-Tainted Soul feats or their derivatives	+1/feat
Access to any of the Death, Undead, or Deathbound domains	+2
Levels in Bone Knight, Death Knight, Master of Shrouds, Pale Master, or True Necromancer	+2
Levels in Dread Necromancer, specialist Necromancer, or Death Master	+1
Has created one or more mindless undead creatures	+1 + highest CR undead creature's CR/6
Has created one or more intelligent undead creatures	+2 + highest CR undead creature's CR/4
Channels positive energy	-2
Worships a deity which grants the Sun domain	-3
Multiple-Use
Kills a living creature of own CR or higher via negative levels	+2
Turns, commands, or rebukes a member of the Forsaken	-5
Destroys a member of the Forsaken	-10
Casts consecrate or hallow	-1

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-10	Lost: The Forsaken welcome you into their unpleasant fold. Mindless undead treat you as one of their own. If you already have a similar ability from a different source, you gain a +2 bonus to Charisma-based skill checks when used against undead.
11-20	Gravetouched: You require only 75% of the normal material components for creating undead. Additionally, you can gain the Necropolitan template (if you are not already undead) without losing a level (however, this still costs 1000xp).
21-29	Graveborn: You gain turn resistance +4.
30 or higher	Immortal: You gain the Evolved Undead template once without an LA or CR increase. The spell-like ability you gain may be no higher than 2nd level.

Executive Powers: Plague, Raid, Terrorize

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THE FALLEN

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Symbol: The skull of a bull.
Background & Goals: The Fallen are fiends also known as the “young demons,” though few people care to dwell long on the question of who the “old” demons might be. The Fallen live in the Dark Reliquary of the Necropolis with their allies, the Forsaken, and follow the leadership of two demons whose names are only whispered: Daelyon and Lusilith. Most people wish the Fallen were not in Gratis but, for demons who dwell within the city’s walls, they actually cause surprisingly little trouble. Few speak of them, but when they do, they often claim these demons are either waiting for something or quietly looking for something.
Type: Cabal (racial)
Members: Fiends of all types are welcomed into the Fallen.
Scale: 5 (city)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Bluff, Intimidate, or Knowledge (the Planes)	+1/skill
Immunity to fire or Outsider type	+1/each
Ability to cast any planar ally or planar binding spell	+1
Ability to use invocations	+1
Levels in Blackguard, Demonbinder, Nar Demonbinder, Demonologist, Diabolist, or Hellfire Warlock	+1/class
Demon Mastery, Fiendish Summoning Specialist, Infernal Bargainer, Fiendish Heritage, Fiendish Bloodline, Infernal Sorcerer Heritage, Abyssal Specialist, or Abyssal Heritor feats	+1/feat
Ability to rage or frenzy	+2
Good alignment	-4
Multiple-Use
Corrupts a good-aligned Outsider to evil, taking significant part in its change to an evil alignment	+1 + creature's CR/4
Captures a good-aligned Outsider alive and delivers it to the Fallen for whatever unspeakable rituals they may have in store	+ creature's CR/6
Banishes or dismisses an evil outsider from the Material Plane	-2
Uses a conjuration (calling) spell to call a non-evil outsider	-2
Is defeated by a good-aligned Outsider in combat	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-14	Upworlder: The Fallen consider you an outsider, but worthy of their notice. You receive a special mark which grants you free passage among many intelligent undead and monsters in the Dungeon, as well as a +2 bonus on Intimidate checks against any non-evil creature that sees it.
15-22	Midworlder: You gain a +2 bonus to saves against spells and abilities of good-aligned creatures.
23-29	Downworlder: You gain the Evil subtype if you did not have it already. You gain an Imp or Quasit cohort (your choice) who gains abilities as per the Wild Cohort feat (including how to regain the cohort if the original dies); if you already had the Wild Cohort feat, you lose the normal benefit. The cohort only follows your directions if they further the ends of the the Fallen. You can convince the cohort that a particular mission helps the Fallen with a successful Bluff check, or to go along with a mission which does not directly help the Fallen with a Intimidate or Diplomacy check (the cohort's attitude towards you is Ally [-5]).
30 or higher	Fallen Lord: You can contact the deep creatures of the Lower Planes, and they will grant you aid. You can use summon monster VII as a spell-like ability (with a caster level equal to your character level) once per week, but only to summon evil outsiders.

Executive Powers: Plague, Research, Terrorize

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DREAMING APOTHECARY

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Symbol: Arcane circle.
Background & Goals: The Dreaming Apothecary may be more legend than fact. Those in the know claim that a secretive group of spellcasters crafts magic items for people, making transactions with them through their dreams. Darker rumors accuse these powerful mages of keeping others in the city from making magic items for profit by coercion, backed up by their formidable magical might. Rumor has it that potential customers can reach the group in Delver’s Square.
Type: Business
Members: Item crafters of all types can be found within the Apothecary, if it exists...
Scale: 4 (city)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Appraise, Autohypnosis, Craft, or Lucid Dreaming	+1/skill
Able to cast infusions, shape formulae, initiate warcrafter or Infinite Shore maneuvers, trace rituals, or manifest powers	+1
Can cast infusions, shape formulae, initiate warcrafter or Infinite Shore maneuvers, or manifest powers of 3rd-level or higher, or trace Least rituals	+1
Can cast infusions, shape formulae, initiate warcrafter or Infinite Shore maneuvers, or manifest powers of 5th-level or higher, or trace Lesser rituals	+1
Item creation feats	+1/feat
Levels in Mind Pirate, Psychosomnambulist, Dreamwalker, or any prestige class that grants a craft reserve, or Imbue Item class feature	+1
Access to either or both of the Reflection of Nightmare or Waking Dream murmurs, or the Lucid Dream feat (Hyperconscious)	+1
Access to the Called from Nothing murmur, or able to cast dream or an equivalent effect	+1
Unable to sleep or dream	-2
Unable to craft magic or psionic items	-2
Reveals the location of the Apothecary to a non-member	-5
Multiple-Use
Successfully concludes a dream sale of magic items worth at least 2000g	+1
Steals the secrets to a new magic item and ensures no others can replicate it	+2
Participates in the creation of a portal, mythal, or otherwise cooperative creation effort	+1
Reveals the secret of an item's creation to a non-member	-2
Destroys the blueprints or written knowledge of an item without permission	-4
Destroys or disenchants a magic item (except by way of Retain Essence)	-2
Speaks about the Dreaming Apothecary other than in dreams	-1

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation
4-10	Apprentice: You learn the location of the Apothecary, and can contact other members when you sleep by making a Concentration check (DC 15) before going to bed.
11-20	Journeyman: You gain a +2 bonus to Appraise, Craft, and Use Magic Device checks. As long as you craft at least one magic item per month, you can requisition one 1st-level potion or scroll each month. Once per week, make a Use Magic Device check (DC 20 + spell level) to use a spell-trigger item without spending a charge.
21-29	Craftsman: As long as you craft at least two magic items per month, you gain a 10% discount on XP and GP cost when crafting. Use dream once per day as SLA (CL = character level; this does not increase your affiliation score). Gain the benefit of 8 hours sleep from only 4 hours spent asleep.
30 or higher	Master: As long as you craft at least three magic items per month, you gain a 25% discount on XP and GP cost when crafting. Borrow one item of up to 30,000 gp value from the Apothecary's stores once per month for 2d4 days. Use Dream at will as SLA (CL = character level; this does not increase your affiliation score), and immunity to Nightmare and similar spells.

Executive Powers: Craft, Research, Trade

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HOUSE OF BLACK & WHITE

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Symbol: A triple spiral.
Background & Goals: These master illusionists are a small group of scholars and seers who have the ability to alter people’s fortunes. The fortunes of its own members most often. The House of Black & White was originally a Library for an order of holy knights dedicated to the destruction of evil magic items, specifically free-willed items that gained sentience. The Holy Knights were extreme in there annihilation, they spread far and wide in search of there goal. Eventually it wasn't practical to use the House of Black and White as a home, and so they left to distant lands. Those that remained at the house were mainly book keepers. From then the legend is steeped in mystery, known only to the head masters who reside at the 'school' currently. Now this quasi-legal spellcaster organization has grown over the years into a powerful force attempting to restore the prominence of illusion and shadow magic. Known for its vast information network, the House is also rumored to have ties to one of the Elder Magi.
Type: College
Members: Members of the House are spellcasters of all kinds -- they specialize in illusion and divination magics.
Scale: 5 (city)
Affiliation Score Requirements: To be a member of the House of Black and White, a character must be able to produce a divination, illusion, or shadow effect via a spell, spell-like ability, supernatural ability, or the like.

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Hide, Sense Motive, or Spot	+1/skill
Able to create 3rd-level divination or illusion effects, or Initiate Mysteries	+1
Able to create 5th-level divination or illusion effects, or Master Mysteries	+2
Levels in Shadowcraft Mage, Earth Dreamer, Divine Oracle, Twilight Mystic, or Initiate of the Seven Enigmas	+2
Spell Focus (illusion, enchantment, or divination), Invisible Spell, or metashadow feats	+1/feat
No creature is aware of your true appearance or identity	+1
Has racial connections to the plane of shadow, through race, template, bloodline, or Heritage or Bloodline feats	+2
Spends at least 1 month exploring the Plane of Shadow	+2
Maintains a simulacrum of self for at least 1 month without anyone discovering the deception	+2
Lacks ranks in any Knowledge skill	-4
Will is the lowest base saving throw	-2
Multiple-Use
Destroys a creature considered an enemy by the House using only illusions or mysteries	+1/4 creature's CR
Successfully use an illusion or illusion-oriented mystery on a creature of at least twice your CR	+2
Fail to disbelieve an illusion effect (which allows a save for disbelief) created by a non-member of the House within 3 rounds	-1
By neglect or ignorance allow a deception of your own making to be revealed as false	-1
Reveal or otherwise ruin a long-standing deception perpetuated by another member of the House	-3
Reveal House secrets or the identity of another member	-5
Bind a creature from the Plane of Shadow without adequate compensation	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation or junior member with no benefits.
4-10	Magician: You gain access to the House's extensive library, granting you a +2 bonus on all Knowledge checks.
11-20	Spinner: You gain a +1 bonus to caster level or equivalent on all illusion and divination effects. Once per day you can use omen of peril as a spell-like ability (CL = character level).
21-29	Seer: Purchase spellcasting from the House at 2/3 standard price. You can access the House's network of spies and informants, allowing a Gather Information check across the whole of the Imperium while at the House, taking 15 minutes.
30 or higher	Knower: The DC to disbelieve any illusion effect you create increases by 2. Any divination effect you create which has a percentage chance of getting useable, correct information increases that chance by 10%.

Executive Powers: Gift, Research, Shadow War

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THE RED LOTUS

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Symbol: A red lotus, though most members of the resistance never display one anywhere.
Background and goals: While the Imperium's rule is effective and efficient, it is also oppressive and corrupt, and there have always been those who strove to throw off its shackles. The various factions of the Red Lotus have attempted schemes subtle and overt, nefarious and high-minded; they have been comprised of folk from all walks of life and all ideologies. Sometimes several unconnected groups have operated concurrently, with or without knowledge of each other.

   Hunted by the Praesidio Arcanum; persecuted by the Magi; tortured and executed by the Church; and still the Resistance lives on. Many schemes have been attempted to overthrow the Imperium, and all have failed in the end, for one simple reason: the Elder Magi. They are immortal and seemingly uncontrollable, no matter what the Resistance has tried.

   Nonetheless, the Red Lotus is a weed that the P.A. and the rest of the Imperium cannot fully excise. They have no central headquarters, or even much of an organization... until it is time to strike.
Type: Spy ring.
Members: Sung Lo, an elderly human Wu Jen (unlicensed) who has been dodging the Magi successfully for some time. Sung Lo and his students give training to Red Lotus members in unlicensed magic without a focus.
Scale: 12 (multiregional)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Bluff, Disguise, or Knowledge: Local	+1/skill
10 or more ranks in Bluff, Disguise, or Knowledge: Local	+1/skill
Ability to cast spells	+1
Steals the secret of arcane foci from the Magi	+10
Destroys a church to the Dark God in a way that cannot be traced back to the Red Lotus	+2
Convinces another faction in Gratis to supply at least 1000g of goods and materiel to the Red Lotus	+1
Double agent planted within the Magi, Praesidio Arcanum, Church of the Dark God, or City Watch for less than 1 year without discovery	+3
Double agent planted within the Magi, Praesidio Arcanum, Church of the Dark God, or City Watch for at least 1 year without discovery	+5
Worship the Dark God	-2
Multiple-Use
Destroys or subverts a full-fledged member of the Magi, Praesidio Arcanum, Church, or City Watch	+1/4 creature's CR
Recruits a new member into the Red Lotus	+2
Rescues captured Red Lotus members	+1/2 number of members rescued
Betrays information or another member to the Magi	-10
Willingly aids a member of the Magi, Church of the Dark God, Knights of the Dawn, or City Watch	-1
Intentionally sabotages a Red Lotus mission	-5
Unintentionally sabotages a Red Lotus mission	-2
Is captured by a member of the Praesidio Arcanum	-3
Willingly aids a member of the Praesidio Arcanum	-5

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
5 or lower	No affiliation
6-14	Pawn: You learn a series of signs and countersigns to identify other members of the Rebellion. Gain a +2 bonus on Bluff checks against members of the Magi, Church of the Dark God, Praesidio Arcanum, Knights of the Dawn, and City Watch.
15-29	Agent: +2 circumstance bonus to CL check to cast a spell of 2nd level or lower without a focus. Receive a paper charm -- when burned, word of recall (CL 12) takes you back to your headquarters; a used paper charm is replaced within 1 week.
30 or higher	Striker: Assume command of a Resistance cell consisting of 3 other Red Lotus members (EL 12). Gain the benefit of a continuous nondetection effect, CL equal to your character level. To achieve this rank, you must defeat an Ancient Magus of ECL equal to your level - 2 or more by yourself.

Executive Powers: Assassinate, Raid, Shadow War

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ORDER OF THE DAWN

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Symbol: A sunburst.
Background & Goals: A knighthood called the Order of the Dawn serves the Church as elite defenders of the faith. Knights of the Dawn are awarded great respect and fear among the common people. The City Watch often regards the Order with suspicion, viewing them as entitled interlopers. The Order hates the Praesidio Arcanum with a passion.
Type: Fighting company
Members: While low-ranking members are warriors and fighters, the higher ranks include LE paladins and a few martial clerics.
Scale: 15 (continental)

Criterion	Affiliation Score Modifier
One-time
Character level	+1/2 PC's level
5 or more ranks in Diplomacy, Intimidate, or Knowledge (Religion)	+1/skill
Base attack bonus +5 or higher	+1
Base attack bonus of +10 or higher	+2
Ability to cast divine spells or use Thaumurai invocations	+1
Levels in Ritual Warrior, Ruby Knight Vindicator, Sapphire Heirarch, Soulknight, or Valorous Lieutenant	+2
Ability to perform a smite attack	+1
Ability to cast arcane spells	-2
Chaotic alignment	-1
Permits a high-ranking member of the Order or the Church to be killed (first time)	-4
Worships a deity other than the Dark God	-10
Multiple-Use
Destroys a high-ranking member of the Red Lotus or Praesidio Arcanum	+ creature's CR/4
Successfully completes a mission sanctioned by the Order	+2
Saves the life of a high-ranking member of the Church	+3
Destroys a servant or emissary of a deity other than the Dark God	+ creature's CR/4
Speaks out publicly against the Church or the Order	-3
Permits a high-ranking member of the Church or the Order to be killed (each additional time)	-2

Affiliation Score	Title: Benefits and Duties
3 or lower	No affiliation.
4-10	Squire: You are brought along on important missions as muscle, granting you effective legal immunity when acting on behalf of the Order.
11-20	Soldier: You receive a monthly income of 100 gp, as well as a +2 bonus on Intimidate and Knowledge (Religion) checks.
21-29	Knight: You gain a Squire cohort (beginning ECL 5) as per the Leadership feat, as well as a +2 bonus on attack rolls against enemies of the Order (including members of the Red Lotus or Praesidio Arcanum).
30 or higher	Commander: A statue is erected in your honor, granting +2 to your Leadership score and +2 to all Charisma-based skill checks against people who have seen it. You may request an audience with the head of any affiliation (save the Red Lotus) once every three months (per affiliation), which is granted within 1d4 days.

Executive Powers: Crusade, Raid, War