Other Factions

The Absolute waits beyond the sky. The Gatekeepers seek the keys to that barrier. Striving to unlock the Horizon and let the Darkness in, they’ve been scanning the stars for over 4000 years, awaiting the return of Those Who Walked Above Us in the ancient days.

Legends speak of demon cities filled with black temples decorated with human skins. Struck down by angry gods and their followers, those cities passed into memory. Sodom, Enoch, Quin’che-La, Bhat, Iyrnntorr… their names still echo in the throats of Gatekeepers everywhere. In each sacred place, the Devil-Kings celebrated the oldest gods of all… and ever since the fall of the last stronghold of the Devil-King Age, they’ve been plotting to open the heavens and let eternal hell rain through.

Though they originated in Mesopotamia, the Gatekeepers are everywhere. Their scriptures, once rare, can be found in new translations on bookstore shelves and Internet sites. On the surface, these devotees seem calm, smart, and oh-so-civilized. Many of them are quite literate and can quote Sumerian prophecies and string-theory treatises at length… and tie them together as well. You’d never know upon meeting these people that they skin stray cats for writing paper or keep vans filled with torture equipment for equally stray children they find when no one else is looking. It’s not at all obvious that these people have been part of the Void Engineer Convention since its origins in the Renaissance. The Gatekeepers have had millennia to master subtlety. Unless you know what you’re looking for, they’re essentially… and sometimes literally… invisible.