Post by Laylei on Sept 10, 2010 18:37:40 GMT -5
Imagine if every myth, conspiracy theory and urban legend was true. Imagine if your worst
Do you often wonder what's blurred on the edge of your peripheral vision ? What is that unidentifiable
In your time spent in The Secret World, you're knowledge of the super-natural will grow. Some may say your sanity might slip away like fire-flies released from their net into the night sky. Though others refer to it as enlightened, in which case they embrace the darkness. Vampires, Witches, Fairies, Zombies, and so much more all dwell in the dark depths of the world. Living behind convincing fronts of shops, families, and so forth. All conducting their business, treading the thin line which divides the populace into two. There's the mundane folks, those who are simply oblivious to any super-natural going-ons, ignorant or too scared to question their 'norm'.
And then there's a large group of like minded individuals, who know who make deals in the shady corners at night - Who runs the cities of the world, and those are the factions.
There's multiple factions, all nestled into their niche, but all in it for one goal, Power.
There's the indulgence obsessed Illuminati, brush elbows with the world's elite, flaunt their money like candy. There's no loyalty in their faction, it's simply business, and if that means knifing your friend in the back to steal their higher power position, so be it. They're extremely secretive about their base of operations, which is located somewhere in New York City, though about every other aspect of their business, they're not afraid to show what they have.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, we come to the righteous Templars, now make no mistake about these powerful beings. They're not simply preachers or holy zealots, they're powerful warriors, skilled assassins, and expert magic users. The Templars believe in not a specific religion, but the values of virtue, integrity, purity, and moral. They use their faith in a high-being, their faith in their actions, and the faith in their weapons, to quell their enemies and guide them in the battle against corruption. All while ruling from London, as possibly the most public faction.
In the hazy middle sits what is referred to as The Dragon. The ones who orchestrate the killings, though not the ones committing it. The men and woman who thrive in chaos, and thrive to bring that force down to it's knees in which order will come through it's wake. The Dragon are the most secretive of the factions, and their relations with the factions is unknown, once more in the middle to the hatred between the Illuminati and Templars. The Dragon rule their faction from the main HQ in Seoul, Korea.
What do these three factions have in common, one might ask. They all are after the unknown essence that is 'Anima', It's in the center of the earth - Quite literally, in a magical yet terrifying place and city called 'Agartha'. Here is where lies the great being that is Anima, here is where lies the true horrors, the only creep into the surface ever so often. The warring factions fight one another, for this very resource bellow the surface of the earth. Top-side they ban together to fight the darkness, often fighting one another in the process. Trying to save their world from the ever encroaching darkness, in which will engulf us all.
This is, The Secret World, and we're not alone.
Dark Days Are Coming.