Post by Mech on Nov 27, 2004 17:01:28 GMT -5
Golden Dawn
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Also known as: Illuminated Order of the Dawn and possibly the Societe Arcane. Wolfden & Cane Holdings proved to be a front for the Golden Dawn.
Turn 169, The Swedish Empire of Russia
"Edmund Crane, F.R.S., passed away in Lubeck while en route to visit a colleague at Stockholm University. The noted philosopher's body was discovered in an inn near the harbour, where apparently was poisoned, strangled, bludgeoned, stabbed, shot several times, and then decapitated. The wall's of Crane's room were covered with odd symbols, including a purple figure, a fishhook cross, a black dagger, a insect head, a death's head, an eye in a pyramid, several pentacles, a tree, a black ideogram, and a peculiar yellow mark. According to the innkeeper, several strange men visited Crane on the night of his death. Some of these men wore dark purple, red, white, grey, black, green, or yellow robes, one wore a turban, and one reportedly hummed or 'buzzed' to himself. It appears the men were acquainted, for they seemed surprised to see each other, and they shared a round of drinks, engaged in an animated discussion, then all shook hands before they went upstairs."
Editor's Note: The Eye in the Pyramid appears to be the Illuminati - aka the Golden Dawn.
T176, Great Britain
Some odd disappearances were reported in the Hebrides, including a London brush-salesman, which in turn led to raids by the Protectors on various smugglers dens. The culprits were executed after a fair and speedy trial.
These events as well as a catastrophic warehouse district fire in Kingston (reportedly some secret government activities were taking place there and they went awry) caused Cromwell to come out with a statement: "...these events are the work of diverse agents of Darkness calling themselves, variously, the 'Illuminated Order of the Dawn' and the Knights of Wonder, but they are one and the same - vile, demon-worshipping heretics nesting in the confused and troubled lands of war-torn Europe".
Editor's Note: As the Illuminati may have infiltrated the Knights of Wonder their confusion is not unlikely.
T210, Frankish Commonwealth
The W&C were backed by the Illuminati, the Golden Dawn. A shadowy organization claiming to be arch enemies of the Bone Mother Cult.
T212, Spain
Though this was very interesting, the prince soon returned to Lisbon to attend his wedding, to the lady Anna Marie Cortez (from a cadet line of the old family). His father, looking particularly overstuffed in a jacket so braided with gold you could barely make out the fabric...
T215, Frankish Commonwealth
Elegant, flattering letters were crafted to the royal family in Brabant and to the merchant houses in Holland. The letters proposed marriages into the house of du Maine and all the benefits associated with it to the royal household of Brabant and to the merchant houses of Holland. The letters also promised that seaports would be built in each of these lands over the next five years so that they might prosper and grow. The letters further promised the protection of the Commonwealth against the growing troubles in the region and against the intrigues of secret empires such as the Golden Dawn.
T216, Spain
Tipped off by certain interested parties, the Republican government mounted a series of massive raids the length and breadth of the realm to find and destroy the organization known as the ‘Golden Dawn’, which had caused so much strife and discontent in Spain all these years… Il Commandant and a sizable force of elite troops swept down on Barcelona and blocked over several neighborhoods before charging in to go house to house, seeking the notorious Alexander Cane and his supporters.
Fighting broke out immediately, both between the Republican guardsmen and the cultists – and between Largo and his own troops, some of whom were apparently in the pay of the Dawn. Largo, trapped in crossfire in the atrium of the Cane estate, was shot down by his own men. Bishop Mendoza, leading the secondary assault team, was similarly ambushed. Fires were started, burning down the whole neighborhood. The Cane family escaped, though not without loss.
At much the same time, Prince Juan launched his own purge in Lisbon, ordering arrests in the city and among the clergy. He too was the subject of an assassination attempt, but escaped (though wounded). The circumstances of the attack on the prince convinced Juan that not only were most of his officers Dawnists, but so too were many of the government clerks and ministers. Excessive measures, therefore, were demanded – as soon as he survived the gunshot wounds and worse… ...
Back in Lisbon, with the death of nearly half the citizenry (and all of the of-age members of the Cabellero family) things devolved into chaos. The parliament fled the city, the regimental commanders waged open war upon one another (a Dawnist coalition attempted to seize the citadel and the port), and everything seemed quite bleak.Into this moment stepped a minor colonel of the horse-guards who, by chance, was a relative of the dead Cabellero dynasty. His name was Charles Bourbon, a Spaniard hidalgo of half-Italian descent through the Farnese dukes of Parma. By daring and a complete lack of fear, he grasped control of the loyal regiments still in Lisbon, crushed the Dawnist cabal, reclaimed their troops, quarantined infected districts and stopped all ships from fleeing the city by means of a boom of barges across the harbor-mouth manned by his gunners.
His cavalry fanned out into the countryside, dragging the parliamentarians back into the capital and forcing them (at bayonet point, no less) to acclaim him as King of Spain. This turn of events was not met with universal acclaim… Zufar, Aquitaine, Auvergne (and Limoges), Estremadura, Languedoc (and Narbonne), and Salamanca all rose up in revolt or simply refused to acknowledge Charles’ regime in Lisbon.
In the capital, Charles cleaned house viciously, having hundreds of Dawnist supporters and sympathizers executed, their lands and properties seized for the crown, their children driven out as exiles. Civil liberties were suppressed for the duration of the crisis.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Also known as: Illuminated Order of the Dawn and possibly the Societe Arcane. Wolfden & Cane Holdings proved to be a front for the Golden Dawn.
Turn 169, The Swedish Empire of Russia
"Edmund Crane, F.R.S., passed away in Lubeck while en route to visit a colleague at Stockholm University. The noted philosopher's body was discovered in an inn near the harbour, where apparently was poisoned, strangled, bludgeoned, stabbed, shot several times, and then decapitated. The wall's of Crane's room were covered with odd symbols, including a purple figure, a fishhook cross, a black dagger, a insect head, a death's head, an eye in a pyramid, several pentacles, a tree, a black ideogram, and a peculiar yellow mark. According to the innkeeper, several strange men visited Crane on the night of his death. Some of these men wore dark purple, red, white, grey, black, green, or yellow robes, one wore a turban, and one reportedly hummed or 'buzzed' to himself. It appears the men were acquainted, for they seemed surprised to see each other, and they shared a round of drinks, engaged in an animated discussion, then all shook hands before they went upstairs."
Editor's Note: The Eye in the Pyramid appears to be the Illuminati - aka the Golden Dawn.
T176, Great Britain
Some odd disappearances were reported in the Hebrides, including a London brush-salesman, which in turn led to raids by the Protectors on various smugglers dens. The culprits were executed after a fair and speedy trial.
These events as well as a catastrophic warehouse district fire in Kingston (reportedly some secret government activities were taking place there and they went awry) caused Cromwell to come out with a statement: "...these events are the work of diverse agents of Darkness calling themselves, variously, the 'Illuminated Order of the Dawn' and the Knights of Wonder, but they are one and the same - vile, demon-worshipping heretics nesting in the confused and troubled lands of war-torn Europe".
Editor's Note: As the Illuminati may have infiltrated the Knights of Wonder their confusion is not unlikely.
T210, Frankish Commonwealth
The W&C were backed by the Illuminati, the Golden Dawn. A shadowy organization claiming to be arch enemies of the Bone Mother Cult.
T212, Spain
Though this was very interesting, the prince soon returned to Lisbon to attend his wedding, to the lady Anna Marie Cortez (from a cadet line of the old family). His father, looking particularly overstuffed in a jacket so braided with gold you could barely make out the fabric...
T215, Frankish Commonwealth
Elegant, flattering letters were crafted to the royal family in Brabant and to the merchant houses in Holland. The letters proposed marriages into the house of du Maine and all the benefits associated with it to the royal household of Brabant and to the merchant houses of Holland. The letters also promised that seaports would be built in each of these lands over the next five years so that they might prosper and grow. The letters further promised the protection of the Commonwealth against the growing troubles in the region and against the intrigues of secret empires such as the Golden Dawn.
T216, Spain
Tipped off by certain interested parties, the Republican government mounted a series of massive raids the length and breadth of the realm to find and destroy the organization known as the ‘Golden Dawn’, which had caused so much strife and discontent in Spain all these years… Il Commandant and a sizable force of elite troops swept down on Barcelona and blocked over several neighborhoods before charging in to go house to house, seeking the notorious Alexander Cane and his supporters.
Fighting broke out immediately, both between the Republican guardsmen and the cultists – and between Largo and his own troops, some of whom were apparently in the pay of the Dawn. Largo, trapped in crossfire in the atrium of the Cane estate, was shot down by his own men. Bishop Mendoza, leading the secondary assault team, was similarly ambushed. Fires were started, burning down the whole neighborhood. The Cane family escaped, though not without loss.
At much the same time, Prince Juan launched his own purge in Lisbon, ordering arrests in the city and among the clergy. He too was the subject of an assassination attempt, but escaped (though wounded). The circumstances of the attack on the prince convinced Juan that not only were most of his officers Dawnists, but so too were many of the government clerks and ministers. Excessive measures, therefore, were demanded – as soon as he survived the gunshot wounds and worse… ...
Back in Lisbon, with the death of nearly half the citizenry (and all of the of-age members of the Cabellero family) things devolved into chaos. The parliament fled the city, the regimental commanders waged open war upon one another (a Dawnist coalition attempted to seize the citadel and the port), and everything seemed quite bleak.Into this moment stepped a minor colonel of the horse-guards who, by chance, was a relative of the dead Cabellero dynasty. His name was Charles Bourbon, a Spaniard hidalgo of half-Italian descent through the Farnese dukes of Parma. By daring and a complete lack of fear, he grasped control of the loyal regiments still in Lisbon, crushed the Dawnist cabal, reclaimed their troops, quarantined infected districts and stopped all ships from fleeing the city by means of a boom of barges across the harbor-mouth manned by his gunners.
His cavalry fanned out into the countryside, dragging the parliamentarians back into the capital and forcing them (at bayonet point, no less) to acclaim him as King of Spain. This turn of events was not met with universal acclaim… Zufar, Aquitaine, Auvergne (and Limoges), Estremadura, Languedoc (and Narbonne), and Salamanca all rose up in revolt or simply refused to acknowledge Charles’ regime in Lisbon.
In the capital, Charles cleaned house viciously, having hundreds of Dawnist supporters and sympathizers executed, their lands and properties seized for the crown, their children driven out as exiles. Civil liberties were suppressed for the duration of the crisis.