Zodiac Society

The Zodiac Society

• Advantages •

Benefit: Zodiac Society Membership: You are a member of the Zodiac Society, and have access to the society's resources and personnel. Your rank in this Benefit determines the amount of clout you have within the society. Ground Operative (Rank 1): Ground Operatives are the rank and file agents of the Society. Though each usually has a specialty, they are expected to cultivate a wide variety of skills, in order to be of the most use possible to the organization. GroundOps all have society cards which function as identification and credit cards, which they can use to cover their day-to-day expenses up to an including hotel rooms and rental cars, as long as those expenses are tied to pursuing society operations. GroundOps are expected to be ready to go in a few hours' notice should a task come up. Ground Operatives are almost never given solo tasks of any sort of danger. They also have House access, giving them quarters in whichever House they are assigned to, as well as resources from that House's armory, though not access to restricted areas. Senior Operative (Rank 2): xx Team Lead (Rank 3): xx House Lead (Rank 4): The House Leads are the xx Head of House (Rank 5): xx

• Complications •

• Responsibility: Zodiac Society: xxx

The Zodiac Society is an academic anthropological, archaeological, and historical society. To the mundane world, they are an Ivy League-affiliated research organization, similar to National Geographic and other academic bodies. They routinely give annual awards for outstanding finds and works, help fund important researchers in the fields they cover, and provide scholarships to promising students interested in their fields.

To the magical world, they are that as well, save that their research is into the magical history, archaeology, and anthropology of the world. They are known to be a center for sorcerers closely aligned with Aion, and who work to discover and preserve the rich magical past not just of the Telluric realm, but other mystical dimensions as well.

Leadership

The Society is led by twelve academics, most of whom are also Aionic adepts. Each of these leaders is given governance over one of the Zodiac Houses around the world. Each of these leaders also has a traditional purview of authority within the organization, although they are expected to use that power in support of the Society as a whole.

• xxx: Aquarius House. xxx - humanitarian, causes
• xxx: Pisces House. xxx - music, art
• xxx: Aries House. xxx - military
• xxx: Taurus House. xxx - politics, high society
• xxx: Gemini House. xxx - universities, publishing
• xxx: Cancer House. xxx - interHouse support
• xxx: Leo House. xxx - celebrity, media
• xxx: Virgo House. xxx - infrastructure
• xxx: Libra House. xxx - arbitration and negotiation
• xxx: Scorpio House. xxx - espionage, intelligence
• xxx: Sagittarius House. xxx - travel and exploration
• xxx: Capricorn House. xxx - gear and resources

The Houses

The Society maintains a dozen small chapter-houses, built as offices and private museums, places where the secrets of magical pasts can be collected, archived, and protected. Each House has living quarters for the head of that House, library and research space, living areas, a barracks for defenders, and training space.

Each of the Houses also has a Zodiac Arch, magical artifacts that open into an extra-dimensional space called the House of Aion, or the Thirteenth House, where the heads of House gather to confer with one another and plan the Society's strategy once a month.

• Aquarius House: Calcutta, India. xxx
• Pisces House: Florence, Italy. xxx
• Aries House: Lyons, France. xxx
• Taurus House: Manhattan, New York City, USA. xxx
• Gemini House: Oxford, United Kingdom. xxx
• Cancer House: Hong Kong, China. xxx
• Leo House: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. xxx
• Virgo House: São Paulo, Brasil. xxx
• Libra House: Istanbul, Turkey. xxx
• Scorpio House: Cairo, Egypt. xxx
• Sagittarius House: Brisbane, Australia. xxx
• Capricorn House: Detroit, Michigan, United States. xxx