# The World of the Circle of Uncut Diamonds
![[World.svg]]
## Player Characters
- [[Lily Sinclair]] (me)
- [[Sadie Cavendish]] ([[Leah Ferguson|Leah]])
- [[Edward Dedrik]] ([[Rezin Nelson]])
- [[Celine Valterra]] ([[Emma]])
- [[Leopold Maxwell]] ([[Mike Broadsword|Mike]])
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```dataview
TABLE gender, race, class, description as "Description"
FROM "ttrpgs/Circle of Uncut Diamonds"
WHERE type = "PC"
```
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## Sessions
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```dataview
table summary as "Summary" from "ttrpgs/Circle of Uncut Diamonds"
where contains(type,"session")
SORT sessionNum DESC
```
%%
- [[001_20240303 The Box of Suffering]]
- [[002_20240310 The Golden Dome]]
- [[003_20240317 Dagger of Sorrow]]
- [[004_20240324 Prophecy of Birds]]
- [[005_20240331 The Steps of Death]]
## Truths about the world: [[The Fairelands]]
*Write down some facts about this campaign or the world that the characters find themselves in.*
- Magick from [[The Flare]] occasionally creeps into [[The Fairelands]] in places called [[ttrpgs/Circle of Uncut Diamonds/Thinnings|Thinnings]], where the boundaries between the two are particularly blurred.
- [[The Candela Obscura]] is an organization created to protect humanity from magick.
- In the Fairelands, both scientific innovation and supernatural magick have their place.
## Factions
```dataview
TABLE description as "Description" from "ttrpgs/Circle of Uncut Diamonds"
WHERE contains(lower(type),"faction")
```
[[Exoteric Order of New Sciences|EONS]]
Founded by a small faction of scientists and occultists, this insidious cohort believes in the very public incorporation of science with magick. While EONS works in the shadows, they own and operate numerous public-facing companies that experiment with the use of magick in their products and processes.
[[Periphery's Office of Unexplained Phenomena]]
The OUP is the most underfunded and undervalued division of the Periphery. Omnipresent but invisible to normal society, they specialize in discovering, analyzing, and suppressing magickal phenomena. Very few government officials, even those with the highest level of security clearance, know the true focus of the OUP's work.
[[The Pyre]]
A fanatical, secretive sect of the Ascendancy, this religious cult uses the same powerful magick they claim to despise in their attempt to drive phenomena from the world. Their order is split into two divisions: the Flint (the assassins) and the Flame (the ritualists), both led by the High Inquisitor. Every member bears the mark of Pyre, which is branded into their flesh in a sacred ritual.
THE SISTERS OF ASH
Deeply secret sect of the Ascendency that ritually murders heretics.
THE RED HAND
Members of this organization consider themselves great curators of magick and will advertise this detail when the need arises. Trafficking in the illegal and immoral distribution of magickal artifacts, they always seem to appear in the right place at the right time.
UNABRIDGED
The Unabridged are immortal humans who have perverted their natural life cycle through magick. They are impervious to the ravages of time but still susceptible to corporeal and supernatural harm. This organization’s methods for becoming immortal are particularly horrifying, and many die in the process. The Unabridged look like any other mortal, but they do not possess shadows.
THE TRIUMVIRATE
The Primacy, Ascendancy, and Periphery are the three major powers within the Fairelands and are collectively referred to as the Triumvirate. On their face, they operate independently from one another, though it’s common knowledge that they conspire together on numerous decisions, even if they may not agree on any given issue publicly.
Ascendancy
The Ascendancy is the official religion of Hale. Those who follow this religion worship the triad of the Father, Mother, and Child, and call themselves the Ascendants.
Primacy
The Primacy is the regional government of the Fairelands and is led by an elected official known as the Premier. Members of the Fairelands Chamber, known as chamberlains, work beneath the Premier to make decisions for the region. The Premier wields absolute executive authority within their territory. Unless otherwise directed by the Prime Minister of Hale, the Premier also acts as the commander in chief of regional military forces in times of war. Additionally, Premiers serve as legislative members within the Halen Assembly, coming together to make decisions for the country as a whole.
The current Premier, Remedy Mallingson, is in her second and last term of office. Though she is considered a tough leader who is hard on crime and even harder to negotiate with, she is widely loved for successfully leading the Fairelands through the end of the war and beginning the work of rebuilding the region.
The Primacy oversees both the Periphery and the Judiciary within the Fairelands. While the Commissioner of the Periphery and trial judges are supposedly elected by the people, insidious political maneuvering means that candidates are regularly hand-selected by chamberlains to effectively rig elections by providing only Primacy-aligned options.
[[The Periphery]]
The police force within the Fairelands is known as the Periphery. In the wake of the Last Great War, the Periphery inherited military technology incongruous with the proclaimed goal of interfacing peacefully with Halen citizens. The Commissioner of the Periphery is appointed by the Premier, just as the region’s judiciary is appointed by members of the Chamber. This means that the justice system in this portion of Hale is created and enforced through the influence of politicians.
Coming out of the Last Great War, the Fairelands are gaining a reputation for having a violent, militarized police force—a reality that many former soldiers who fought to protect civilians openly oppose. Officers in the Periphery have been known to overzealously police citizens and use almost any excuse to arrest and lock them away in jail cells around the city.
There is a growing resentment between those who fought in the Last Great War and the up-and-coming members of the Newfairen police force. This results in clashes with the Periphery, who are known to prioritize protecting one another over protecting the citizens of Newfaire and the Fairelands region.
## Custom rules
- [[Character options]]
- [[Circle of Uncut Diamonds House rules]]
## [[Circle of Uncut Diamonds Safety Tools]]
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