The Esoteric
"Success in life is earned, not given. Take it how you see fit."
About Us
Ambition drives the course of humanity. One's desires to achieve their goals, their aspirations ablaze, burning deep within their core. That innately human quality to break the boundaries of the norm in order to usher in something new. Alas, the Star's ruling governments, orders, and corporations would not see it so. Their stranglehold on what one can and cannot do stifles the possibilities of advancement through archaic means of power and control. It is beneath the chains and shackles that bind us that the Esoteric thrives from within the shadows of their tyranny.
Who We Are
The Esoteric exists as a faceless organization spread across the Star with the sole focus of creating a society beneath the control of Eorzea's ruling powers. Individuals from various factions, Free Companies, organizations, and orders whom may find one another within the Esoteric. Their focus is to breed a society who may work together to achieve their goals without judgement, restraint, or regulation of those organizations who would seek to stifle them. A place where people may contract the services of others as they both see fit and remain autonomous in their aspirations and goals. A community which seeks to achieve their desires regardless the cost.
What We Do
As such, the Esoteric breeds an environment where antagonists, anti-heros, and individuals of a more grey moral compass seek to inherently do good, through blatantly more controversial methods. Heros, or more morally good characters, may also find what they desire here, but shall come to understand it will not be upon the straight and narrow for some they may contract. The intent of the Esoteric is to provide a community, combat/DM system, an avenue to grow individual stories, and even FC stories to provide the tools for them to thrive.The Esoteric serves, predominantly, as a community first and foremost. It does not own, claim, or regulate it's members stories, focuses, or goals OOC. We only enforce the OOC rules and strive to cultivate RP between its participants.
The Doctrine
OOC Disclaimer
(Note these are In-Character Rules of the Esoteric to be settled In Character.)The Esoteric Doctrine helps govern and regulate the community through its guidelines. They dictate how Affiliates are to interact and what is forbidden within the organization as a whole. The Doctrine is a living and breathing guideline and can evolve as the organization itself does.Those who break its rules are subject to excommunication from the organization depending on the severity or multiple offenses committed.Excommunication results in the banishment of an Affiliate from working with others of the Esoteric.
The Doctrine
Esoteric members ARE NOT permitted to openly act against one another maliciously. While disputes settled with conflict are permitted between agreeing parties to settle an issue, active intent to undermine or otherwise disrupt another Affiliate's operations openly are forbidden.
Publicly discussing or broadcasting the more controversial elements of the Esoteric is strictly forbidden. The security of the group is based on inherent secrecy and trust of its Affiliates.
Acts of trafficking sentient beings in any way is strictly forbidden. This includes slavery and forced sex trafficking. The Esoteric will not sanction such activities within its organization.
Void-Magic and it’s practice is allowed within controlled atmospheres of the Esoteric. Users will be judged on a case by case basis as to whether its conduct is allowed. Due to the fanatical nature of its users, and often times, goals that threaten the Star, it is the only regulated magick.
Business between Affiliates is conducted solely between them and what is agreed upon. The Esoteric does not regulate nor dictate the manner of how it’s Affiliates wish to contract each other so long as they abide by the Doctrine.
Affiliates are free to join regardless of whether they already are committed to another faction. The Esoteric does not force Affiliates to leave or abandon their prior commitments or loyalties. However, they are expected to abide by and listen to authority figures when it pertains to Esoteric business, jobs, or contracts they are participating in.
Civilians, or individuals who are not the focus of a job, are NOT to be harmed or utilized in any way. This refers to the use of them as hostages, shields from harmful intent, extorting them for Gil, or anything that puts the general populace as the focus of a job. While guards and security might be dealt with accordingly the workers and civilian populace who pose no threat are not to be harmed, but removed with less than lethal alternatives.
Use of illegal magicks, artifacts, or questionable items of occult power must be done safely. Regulated use and testing of such things is paramount to the Esoteric. They are not things of which to freely nor sparingly display to the public or treat as a toy. Beyond their use in contracts and missions, the items mentioned above are to be utilized only in safe, controlled, and protected environments.
What We Offer
What the Esoteric Offers
The key principle of the Esoteric is to offer a place for people to delve into a darker atmosphere of story telling, cultivation of their characters, and allow a freedom to chase their interests within our realm of RP. Anywhere from stalwart hunters of the Void, more shadier criminal entities, practitioners of the darker arts, to even characters of a support nature like healers, crafters, and scholars to thrive.
Communication: Specially designed linkpearls mixed with magiteck connect the Esoteric together shared on an encrypted frequency. This allows for discrete discussion amongst its members to connect without issue. The user attunes their personal aether to the device in order to power it. If they stray too far from it, or die, the device shatters.
Contract Boards: The Esoteric offers a place for people to post contracts they wish accomplished and for those seeking to make Gil to take through its Contract Boards. Any hunter can post a request for anyone else to take. This can range from a simple hunt job, to the raid of an occult hub, or an investigative delve into ruins for resources depending on the contract. These are combative or non-combative stories in which individuals can apply themselves to.
Interactive Rewards: The Esoteric offers a series of rewards that benefit not only the story and development of a character, but unique items which reflect in the use of our combat system. Using our own internal currency, Golden Ravens, members of the Esoteric can use these to contract other members, buy items for use from others in their personal RP and the combat system, or to temporarily enhance their characters for their next mission.
Community: The Esoteric works specifically to provide a culture of RP and story telling and the tools to do so for those who join. It freely offers to house individuals, FCs, and groups seeking to utilize its DM systems and culture to help expand their story all while retaining their autonomy as an organization to their own stories and groups themselves.
How To Join
The Esoteric operates off of word of mouth. They do not publicly recruit IC, nor do they advertise openly to the public. Affiliated members are capable of bringing in new faces to the organization and indoctrinating them into the Esoteric. However, there are ways to get affiliated through more creative means.(OOC You can contact Nikovia#7313 over Discord to discuss how join.)
Talk and chatter of an organization which operates beneath the purview of governments, institutions, organizations, and corporations in order to achieve their aspirations based out of Ul'dah.
Those affiliated with the underworld, who work freely for contracts, or beneath the radar may have a subtle understanding of what the Esoteric might be.
In more controversial cases it is possible to investigate and discover the Esoteric, but will need to be thoroughly discussed as to how.