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The Illustrious and Ancient Order of the...Ordo Castimon!

What is the Ordo Castimon? What is their overall purpose in existence and how do they intend to achieve these goals?

The Ordo Castimon! Ancient? Maybe. Dark and sinister? Usually. Powerful? Oh hells yeah! This organisation really doesn't use press releases, so summing up what they do - from a character's perspective - might be difficult. Thank God I'm a Secondhand God.

The OC (sad acronym, I know) is a league of unknown shady types, world leaders, businesspeople, religious and occult figures, who feel that their guidance is the key to saving humanity. They see the reckless expansion of Terrans into space as a foolish venture that should have been controlled. Some members see it as a slight against God. Others fear the technology that comes along with mass exodus.

Our focal enemy, Zayn the Beautiful, also known as Zayn Krasius, Bill Zenburg, Billiam Tell, and all sorts of other names, is one of the religious nuts. He sees himself as working "with" the OC, rather than for them, and has the overall goal of subjugating diasporic humanity and using a "steel gauntlet sheathed in velvet" to guide humanity to its pure and divine birthright.

Zayn is, for all intents and purposes, a technologically beefed up doppleganger for the Beast (yes, that Beast, Mister Revelations himself). For those who don't know Revelations (I am no expert) the Anti-Christ will eventually sit upon his throne in the temple of New Jeruselam, which will the bring about the big end game fight. Zayn was designed to be my Anti-Christ Superstar. He's sly and charming, and lets his goons do all the hard work.

His primary tool to rulership is a device he believes exists in Talaesia. A race informally call the "Builders" and theorised by anthropologists, should have built some powerful things, the OC reckons. Such a thing might exist on Talaesia, hence, Zayn's presence.

What doesn't the OC like though? Well, like some religious groups, the Zayn Branch of the OC (he calls his men Purists, who fight in Purity Gangs) opposes human modification or alteration, even to the degree of ear piercings. Makeup is barely tolerated, tattoos are sin. Too go so far as to install a cybernetic modification would border on blapshemy.

That said, Zayn can be a really cool cat. He's unified the disparate cities of Talaesia, using them as a workforce to seek his weapon. They all fell hook, line and sinker, with the exception of a handful of renegades whose original goal was simply to free their homeland. These renegades and misfits haven't learned the truth of Zayn, mind you, but they do oppose him.

Not all of the OC is pure evil. The Businesspeople in this dark cadre really just want to unify the worlds so as to exploit them for profit. That doesn't mean that members might turn on Zayn, but who knows.

The usual end statements, there's more brewing, post it later, come back tomorrow. Tomorrow it's back to good guys, the Boondis Insurgents, and perhaps a rehash of the OC, because honestly, I've got some stuff not 100% formed that shouldn't be shared yet. Toodles you scurvy Secondhand Gods!


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