The Naos Group

Map of Naos Group Operations: [1]

The Naos Group, named for the concept of the naos, the holy inner sanctum where the idols of the gods were kept in pagan temples of old, is an organization nearly a century old. The Naos Group is quite wealthy and influential, with branch offices all over the world.

The Naos Fanums

Currently, there are eleven active Fanums, though twelve have been built in the past century or so — the third of them, the Berlin Fanum, was destroyed during the twilight years of World War II.

The Naos Group offices are small affairs, generally consisting of three to five offices, a lobby and conference room, a director’s office and a small attached emergency bedroom suite. These offices serve the public face of the Naos Group, serving as offices for the charity and research grant functions of the Group.

These offices always connect to nearby buildings through secret passages, however — generally speaking, while it may seem that the Naos Group is only a small suite of offices in a larger building, the truth is that the Group as a whole generally owns the whole building. These buildings, in addition to providing office space, also boast extensive living areas to shelter Naos Group operatives.

The Athens Fanum

The first of the Naos Fanums, the Athens Fanum was built in the 1890s. The small four story building that houses the Fanum has seen many incarnations, including a short period during World War II where any traces to the Naos Group were expunged.

Currently, the Athens Fanum acts as an office for the Naos Group, with six offices in addition to the director’s office. The other offices around the Naos Group are rented out to short-term corporate ventures, such as come-and-go travel agents, telemarketing ventures and the like.

Between these offices run a corridor of secret passages providing egress from the Naos Group offices as well as access to various janitorial closets and electrical rooms. The second story of the Athens Fanum consists of vaults, archives and archaeological research labs and storage warehouse space. The materials stored here consist primarily of relics, artifacts and lore associated with the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. The only public access to this floor is a small lobby with doors to six small apartments, all kept for the use of the Naos Group (though three of them are occupied by agents of the Athens Fanum).

The top two floors are nothing but apartments, half of which are kept for the use of the Naos Group employees, and the other half of which are rented out to promising university students that the Naos Group wishes to cultivate, or others with interesting and promising skills that might find use by the Group.

The New York Fanum

The second of the Fanums, the New York Fanum was built in the first decade of the 1900s. Located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan Island, the New York Fanum is best known for housing the Richston Center for Anthropological Studies, with the small Naos Group offices tucked into the back upper floors of the museum.

The Group offices here boast only three offices, plus the director’s office and guest suite. The vault here stores relics and similar items taken from the Eastern and Middle United States, as well as most of Canada. The Group also owns a brownstone across the street, however, where many of the Group’s agents and employees live.

The Mexico City Fanum

X – Mexican/South American

The Cape Town Fanum

X – Southern African

The San Francisco Fanum

X – Pacific Islands and American West Coast

• Director: X
• Assistant Director: X
• Archaeological Divison: X
• Academics Division: X
• Archival Division: X
• Defense Division: X
• Finances Division: X
• Special Projects Division: The San Francisco Fanum acts as the host for the Special Projects Team, lead by Alfondo de Valencia and his assistant Sambethe Fatemi.

The Tokyo Fanum

X – Japanese and Asian lore

The New Orleans Fanum

X – Caribbean and American South items

The Makkah Fanum

X – Middle Eastern & Muslim

The Cairo Fanum

X – Northern African relics

The Belfast Fanum

X – Celtic and Western European

The Hong Kong Fanum

X – under construction

Future Fanums

After the Hong Kong Fanum is constructed, the next three proposed sites for new famums are Caracas, Venezuela, Sydney, Australia and Santiago, Chile.

Divisions

• The Board of Directors: Made up of the directors of each of the Fanums, the Board of Directors tends to the administration of the Naos Group.
• Archaeological Division: The Archaeological Division is made up of archaeologists, anthropologists and others with similar professions. They are responsible for keeping tabs on the state of archaeology in the world today, including finding out about important discoveries at dig sites all over the world. They are also made up of research specialists who examine the various artifacts and relics recovered in such digs.
• Academics Division: The Academics keep track of university spending, giving grants and scholarships to those who seem to have unique talents that may be of use to the Naos Group in the future, as well as recruiting new graduates. They also give grant money to various universities in exchange for such considerations.
• Archival Division: Archival tends to the collection, collation and storage of information. Though they've got a reputation as the Naos Group's librarians, they actually tend to be research specialists and archivists, the clearing house through which all informational findings pass. They are working on a state-of-the-art database, with the intention of placing all of the information that has passed through the Naos Group's hands into practical, useful forms for the other Divisions.
• Defense Division: Defense functions as the Naos Group's security team, training to not only provide security at the Fanums, but to also accompany Naos Group agents on digs and other excursions into areas that are less than secure.
• Finances Division: Finances handles the money that comes in and out of the Naos Group.
• Special Projects Team: A recently established Division, not many know what is expected of the Special Projects Team.