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Archmagos Issac
Sir Ser Issac of Clarke of Chad the II
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2014
- Location
- The Forge World of Mars
Welcome to the Department of Abnormal Affairs; a secret program within the UN with the goals of studying, containing, and in some cases destroying abnormal occurrences within the world. Such occurrences can range from items imbued with strange powers, abnormal phenomenon within the world, and unbelievable creatures. Items that threaten to destroy a world we've spent thousands of years cultivating and understanding. Things that threaten our very sanity to the breaking point and beyond.
Your exploits will go unnoticed by the world, your missions will often be dangerous and potentially result in your death or the death of others, but you will live knowing you serve to preserve the world and protect it from things that would tear it down simply because they can.
Origin of the Department of Abnormal Affairs
"...While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness. It's our duty to understand it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane and normal world"
- Motto of Abnormal Affairs -
Officially established by the United Nations in '55, the Department of Abnormal Affairs is a clandestine organization established with the purpose of containing and assessing the potential threat of paranormal and extraordinary threats. Delegates of the United Nations assembled in secret to compare notes concerning disturbing abnormal events that had been occurring within the nations of the UN. Some of reports were straight from the settling battlefields of the Second World War, others were historical accounts considered hundreds of years old. Some of the accounts couldn't be verified given their age. Others however could potentially be verified now if someone knew what they were looking for.
Thus, the Department of Abnormal Affairs was born. What started off as a laughably small department within the United Nations to verify potential incidences of the paranormal soon became a massive and well funded entity within the UN. An organization that had developed in the shadows to study the shadows, understand the shadows, and protect humankind from those shadows using any means necessary. With the collaboration of the Institute of Fringe Sciences and the Order of Arcane Secrets, Abnormal Affairs has successfully managed to prevent the end of the world more times than any could imagine.
Origin of the I.F.S.
"Going into the unknown is how we expand what is known. Without knowledge action is useless, and knowledge without action is futile"
- Quote from Professor Ashton Hopkins, founder of the Institute -
3 years before the beginning of the Second World War, a former professor of M.I.T by the name of Ashton Hopkins established a private institute with the intention of developing theories and technologies many within the scientific community deemed unorthodox. Some of these theories were simply considered unorthodox because the technology at the time wasn't feasible; cybernetics, genetic manipulation, nanotechnology. Ashton believed whole heartedly that just because something seemed impossible didn't mean it was, that unorthodox didn't mean undoable.
Ashton reached out to people within the scientific community from all walks of life from physics, to engineering, even to archaeology. By '55, members within the UN reached out to the Institute and offered what funding and information it could in exchange for anything the scientists and researchers could find. In a few years time, the scientists were able to deliver ground breaking information that would help the Department of Abnormal Affairs. In just a few more years, the Department reached out to the Institute and offered even more secrets and information in exchange for aid in the goals of the Department. How could the scientists refuse the chance to venture into the unknown? It isn't out of place now to see field teams accompanied by the likes of scientists, advanced drones, or even engineers
Origin of the Order
Not many outside of the Order know the history or even the purpose of the Order itself. Even within the Order such secrets are closely guarded. The Order of Arcane Secrets (or as veterans of the Order call it "Ordo Secretorum Arcanorum") is a secret clan of magic users, occult scholars, and paranormal creatures that are believed to be older than the Mesopotamians or even the Babylonians. It is said that ancient shamans of various clans banded together for some disputed reason. Some believe that the ancient shamans joined together with the intent of understanding the hidden forces that governed the universe that they seemed to be able to control. Others believe that the arcane warriors banded together to protect mankind from the horrors that lurked in the shadowy corners of the world.
Regardless, the Order of Arcane Secrets is perhaps one of the oldest and most respected organizations within the occult world. Abnormal Affairs became aware of the Order almost immediately as their investigations began but nothing could be gleaned concerning the Order or it's intentions, merely that the Order seemed to exist at the peripherals of the instances the Department were investigating. All that the Department was able to discern was that the Order wasn't a malicious force and either meant the Department no harm or didn't deem them a real threat. The Order watched the Department's dealings for some time, learning what it could of this new entity within what the Order called "The Hidden World". In time, the Order reached out to the Department and offered an alliance, revealing that the Order bore the same goals as Abnormal Affairs: study the shadows and protect the mundane world from threats that lurked in the shadows.
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