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FACTIONS & LEADERS

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Grand Lodge, Loyalty to Decemvirate above All Else
- default faction. Decemvirate are the Ten ruling leaders of Pathfinder Society, and are masked, identities secret

- Leader: Ambrus Valsin

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Cheliax / Dark Archives, Rule of Law over All
- Cheliax is a powerful nation of Asmodeus worshippers. Theyre probably akin to medieval Germans but Nazi

- Leader: Paracountess Zarta Dralneen
- The faction also prizes collection and study of magical artifacts, secured under lock and key of course.

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Osirion / Scarab Sages, Power through Knowledge
- note Osirion region/culture is like Egypt

- Leader: Amenopheus, the Sapphire Sage
- The faction also prizes discovery of past Osiriani objects relating to their culture, history and of course magical artifacts.

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Qadira / The Exchange, Total Market Control
- note Qadira region/culture is like Saudi

- Leader: Pasha Mulia Al-Jakri Trade Prince Aaqir Al-Hakam
- The faction seeks mainly to create a network of traders and enterprising political connections to further their monopolistic expansions

Edit 19 Jul 2020 : Following her confrontation and murder of the Taldan faction leader Jacquo Dalsine, Pasha Mulia Al-Jakri is no longer part of the Pathfinder Society nor its affiliated faction. A link to her pic, as the previous faction leader, is included below for reference.
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Shadow Lodge, Hold Your Leaders Accountable.

- Leader: Grandmaster Torch, an influential former Pathfinder whose party's plea for help was ignored by the Decemvirate, and he was the lone survivor, hideously scarred by unhealable wounds.
- The faction cautions Pathfinders to be watchful of their leaders and also encouraged to help each other.

Edit 19 Jul 2020 : Following the betrayal of the Pathfinder Society by Grandmaster Torch, the Shadow Lodge is no longer a playable faction.

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Silver Crusade, Use the Society for Good

- Leader: Ollysta Zadrian, paladin of Sarenrae
- The faction is interested to aid the needy and fight evil, esp demons and undead, everywhere. Areas of interest especially pertain to containing the demons entering Golarion through the Worldwound rift, and ensuring Lastwall endures as the bastion imprisoning the Whispering Tyrant, a legendary lich that once demonstrated the power to destroy even demigods.

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Taldor / Sovereign Court, Glory Once More
- Taldor is themed around Great Britain, recovering from loss and splintering of colonies. Even Cheliax once used to answer to Taldor

- Leader: Baron Jacquo Dalsine Lady Gloriana Morilla
- The faction looks to restore the Taldan Empire to its former glory by bringing together powerful nobles and allied interests in various countries within the Inner Sea area of Golarion (of which the city of Absalom, HQ of the Pathfinders, is the centre)

Edit 19 Jul 2020 : Following Baron Jacquo Dalsine's murder by Pasha Mulia Al-Jakri, the leadership of the Taldan faction falls upon Lady Gloriana Morilla. A link to his pic, as the previous faction leader, is included below for reference.
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After you join your Faction, other Factions will be more reserved about you. To reflect this, if you change your faction, you only get half your stipend, until you have completed at least 4 faction goals (typically 1+ to 2 levels).

Edit 19 Jul 2020
Due to Plot reasons, some players are forced to change factions, and others are allowed to as well.
For those that changed factions starting from Level 11, for the first 3 successful faction missions, you do not receive your faction stipend, you are instead building up "credibility". On your 4th successful faction mission, you receive the payment for that mission, and for the 3 earlier missions.

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QUEST GIVERS / VENTURE CAPTAINS / NOTABLE SOCIETY AUTHORITIES


Ambrus Valsin, Master of Swords / Encik
1.1 First Steps I - In Service to Lore


Drandle Dreng, Venture Captain (Absalom)
1.2 Wounded Wisp (ie Beggar in Disguise)
3.1 Shadow's Gambit
3.2 The Twofold Demise (continuation from 3.1)
5.1 Written in Blood
5.2 Exiles of Winter (continuation from 5.1)
6.1 Keep of Huscarl King (continuation from 5.2)


Kreighton Shaine, Master of Scrolls
2.1 The Confirmation


Adril Hestram, Venture Captain (Absalom)
2.2 Frozen Fingers of Midnight


Sheila Heidmarch, Venture Captain (Magnimar)
4.1 Frozen Fingers of Midnight
7.1 In Wrath's Shadow
7.2 Severing Ties
8.1 The Golemworks Incident
9.1 My Enemy's Enemy


Osprey, high ranking Pathfinder
4.2 Year of the Shadow Lodge


Eliza Petulengro, Venture Captain (Absalom)
6.2 Among the Living


Aram Zey, Master of Spells (Absalom)
8.2 The Dog Pharoah's Tomb / Snakes in the Fold

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Dennel Hamshanks, Venture Captain (Almas, for now)
9.2 At Shadow's Door

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Muesello, ex-Venture Captain (Oppara)
10.1 The Dalsine Affair


Grandmaster Torch, ex-leader of Shadow Lodge faction
10.2 Web of Corruption / Rivalry's End

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Note: following is from the Campaign Log, included here on 19 Jul 2020 for easier reference about the Factions.

FACTION CHANGES

Following the death of Baron Jacquo Dalsine and the "cessation" of Pasha Mulia Al'Jakri, new leaders are eventually decided upon for the factions. Lady Gloriana Morilla steps up as the new leader of the Taldan faction, while the Qadirans fall in behind Trade Prince Aaqir Al'Hakam.

Before the dust even settles, the Society is more beleagered by Grand Master Torch's betrayal, and some of the remaining still loyal Shadow Lodge members officially resign to follow him as well, while many others are left listless and lost. This sparks a serious concern within the leadership of the Society that the tension between various factions, each serving their own nation (Andoran, Cheliax, Osirion, Qadira, Taldor), would cause the Society more harm than good, but they are loathe to cut ties especially when they are in need of allies.

The Grand Lodge faction opens its doors to more recruits, especially those that might feel betrayed and lost after Grandmaster Torch's betrayal, even as the leadership takes note from past lessons and is determined to do a better job "inculcating" the values of being a "true Pathfinder" into the membership both new and old, and into prospective initiates to the Society.

Meantime, the Ruby Prince of Osirion manages to survive his near-death via the curse, but it is no thanks to the Sapphire Sage who not only has been unable to provide a proper cure, and was even missing due to being caught up in all sorts of nonsensical internal betrayal related to the Pathfinder Society politics. Amenopheus is summarily dismissed from the Osirion court, and the nation severs ties with him and those that choose to remain with him, which are now known as the Scarab Sages. They now focus more on unearthing relics and clues from the past of Osirion to restore a long-lost order of wisdom and knowledge once thought lost to history.

Paracountess Zarta Dralneen of the Cheliax faction, after being away from Cheliax for so long, ends up the victim of political assassination from home. The Pathfinder Society investigates her disappearance and eventually sends a team to rescue her from Cheliax, increasing the tensions with that particular nation. Zarta Dralneen reorganises those that still remain into the Dark Archives, focused on gathering magical artifacts for the express purpose of "keeping them safe", but everyone knows it is to gather tools to extract vengeance on those who betrayed her.

After these upheavals and considering the nature of the the Golarion-wide access that the Pathfinder Society "platform" provides, some of the remaining factions decide to re-invent themselves to better make use of this, and it also serves a better calling card in that their past associations might not be immediately known. Andoran's faction becomes the Liberty's Edge, rallying around ideas of liberty and freedom and democracy, fighting against slavery and oppression, wherever they may be, and even if slavery were legal it is to be fought against, just like if nobles were lording it over common folk, they should be put in place. Qadira becomes the Exchange, the trade-oriented organisation that would bring forth "peace, unification, prosperity" via Trade, with the firm belief that surely some mutually profitable arrangement can be worked out from virtually any situation.

The new Taldan faction leader Gloriana Morilla finds herself - especially as a female - taken more seriously abroad than at home, while the Qadirans' new vehicle looks poised to spread its influence rapidly without being tied to a flag, and as Andorans' new rallying call put nobles around the Golarion on edge. Since these were both long time enemies of the Taldans, she decides to reorganise a new focus as the Sovereign Court, dedicated to building a network of like-minded nobles that could offer counsel, advice, aid and of course assistance to each other in maintaining their rightful long held position as the creme la creme, while subtly putting Taldor in an unofficial capacity as the ideal vanguard. In truth, few of the actual Taldan nobility ever had any involvement in such "overarching" concerns outside of their (most important) country, preferring to squabble for pieces of their ever-shrinking pie, but Lady Gloriana hopes that her success can inspire a new generation of nobility to rise up and return Taldor to the pole position that she has reserved.

OOC Note : Silver Crusade faction is unchanged and unshaken by any of these upheavals, rising above the bickering, as it were.

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FACTION LEADERS / QUEST GIVERS / VENTURE CAPTAINS / NOTABLE SOCIETY AUTHORITIES

Andoran / Liberty's Edge, For Freedom and Liberty
- Andoran is a nation once under under the rule of Taldor, but broke away and achieved its own autonomy. It can be likened to post-independence America.
- The Liberty's Edge faction fights for freedom of the oppressed wherever needed, especially against corrupt authorities

- Leader: Major Colson Maldris

Remarks : GM decided that Liberty's Edge was not previously available, but with the retirement of the Shadow Lodge faction, it is now available for players.


Venture Captain Norden Balentiir (Sothis)
11.1 A Bitter Bargain