History Characters / HunterTheVigil

For all intents and purposes, the Hunt Club is a compact of slashers, a gentleman's club dedicated to hunting the greatest prey of all - humans. And, if at all possible, doing it with style. Though not exactly intended to be a ''player'' option, they organize themselves fundamentally the same as a compact of hunters, and it's implied that more than a few burned out or morally disjuncted hunters join their ranks. The Hunt Club began as a secret society in Edwardian England, when rich and powerful upper-class men gathered to combine their power so they could partake in a then-illegal pastime; hunting foxes. However, they found the thrill of fox hunting grew stale, especially when there was no real shock from the populace to be gained. By 1881, the club had dwindled to five members, when they made their newest hunt; two homeless drunks, plucked from the streets of London, who found themselves chased through the wilderness by five bored aristocrats with long knives. After they ran their prey to ground and butchered them, the Hunt Club found its new calling. By 1903, it had spread throughout the English-speaking world. But they got careless, and in 1904, they were almost decimated when the Society of Twelve Keys, and through them the police, caught onto them and captured many of them. The survivors went underground, and refounded the club, which persists to the present day. The Club divides itself by three "Rulebooks", outlines set by the three most important centers of the Hunt Club before 1904. The '''London Rules''' are the traditionalists, following on those victims who society won't generally miss; street people, drunks and prostitutes. The '''Boston Rules''' are bizarrely philanthropic, focusing on quarry who have squandered their lives or hold others back -- the sort of people who, as the saying goes, are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. Finally, the '''Melbourne Rules''' are the rarest but most respected members of the Club, since their code adheres to the ancient ideal of worthy prey. Specific variants are those who seek out only prey that should be able to validly defend themselves, or who would bring definite police scrutiny, though doing both is, of course, even better -- these are killers of police officers, government agents, soldiers, and the rich & powerful.

* MythologyGag: It's quite clear to anyone familiar with the line that the vampire who inadvertently founded the Sisterhood was a member of [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem the Circle of the Crone]], a feminine-focused ReligionOfEvil.

* AgentScully: They believe in the paranormal, but use scepticism to separate genuine supernatural phenomena from myths. Consequently a lot of other Hunters stereotype them as the more extremely in-denial version of AgentScully.
* OmniDisciplinaryScientist: Averted. It's one of the greater causes of member conflict when one sort of scientist feels qualified to venture opinions on another type of science.

* ScienceHero: Their primary hat. It's noted that most Null Mysteriis members usually holds a fairly well qualified and academically adept day job; zoologists, physicists, psychologists, psychiatrists, consultant doctors, chemists, sociologists and anthropologists.

Also known as the Children of the Seventh Generation, the Lucifuge is an exclusive organization. Membership is restricted to a member of the 666 mortals walking the earth at any given time who have within them the blood of demons and devils. Tainted by this corrupt blood, they must atone by hunting the other agents of Hell at loose in the world around them. There are three philosophical factions of note within the Children. The most common, the '''Denial''', believe in the simple philosophy that the Devil is the source of all evil, and they must renounce that evil forever, something they do by seeking out and slaying or redeeming all other monsters. Members of the '''Reconciliation''', however, believe that by doing God's work and destroying evil, they are giving Lucifer the chance to seek redemption, and if this should happen, then Hell will cease to exist, taking with it all sin and pain forever. Finally, the '''Truth''' is a conspiracy within a Conspiracy; they believe that the Lucifuge is secretly lying to the Children, or at least has not told them the whole truth. They fight monsters, but they keep a wary eye on the Lucifuge and her agents themselves, waiting for the darkest possibilities.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Lucifuge wield diabolic and demonic magics, their Castigation endowment, but seek to atone for their inner corruption by using their powers to battle evil creatures.

Publically known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Malleus Maleficarum are actually the modern-day descendants of the old Inquisition, still upholding a sacred duty: the elimination of all supernatural horrors. They have a particular focus on capturing and destroying vampires... aided, no doubt, by the fact their founder still lives and secretly runs the organization; a rogue ghoul, he uses them to secure the vampire blood he needs to sustain his immortality. The Malleus Maleficarum is divided into three orders. '''The Order of St. Longinus''' are specialists in hunting vampires, and have a particular opposition to the blasphemous vampire sect who call themselves the [[[[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Lancaea Sanctum]], who ''also'' purportedly revere the Saint Longinus as the first of their unholy kind. '''The Order of St. Ambrose''' are scholars and detectives that painstakingly research solutions to dangerous problems, and often clash with witches and sorcerers over the knowledge they have secreted away. Finally, the '''Brotherhood of St. Athanasius''' are an unabashedly militant wing who favor swift, violent solutions to problems.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: There's a lot of internal conflict between the Brotherhood of St. Athanasius and the Order of St. Ambrose, since the former favor swift violence and the later methodical research.

** Deconstructed in that this causes many VASCU a lot of angst when individuals whom they ''know'' are guilty -- they've been inside the scumbag's mind and ''seen'' him doing it -- get let go due to the court. VASCU spends a lot of effort policing itself to avoid anyone who'd be tempted to [[TheUnfettered slip their legal bonds and take the law into their own hands]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Something particularly feared amongst VASCU, who spend a lot of time swimming around inside the diseased brains of slashers and serial killers.

An organization comprised exclusively of the rich, powerful or blue-blooded, the Abbey traces its lineage back to a man named Reverend Doctor Marcus [=McDonald=] Ogilvy, the leader of a "Hellfire Club", back in 1855. Reverend Ogilvy was responsible for leading a party that desecrated a holy site... unfortunately for them, the site was holy to ''werewolves''. After they killed several of the decadents to express their feelings, Reverend Ogilvy led a second party -- this one armed and ready to defend itself when the werewolves attacked again. Since then, the Ashwood Abbey has used its wealth and connections to locate supernatural beings and take whatever entertainment it can from them. Before, during and after killing them. The three most powerful cliques amongst the Abbey consist of the Competitors, the Pursuit and the Libertines. Competitors treat monster-hunting as a competition, and thusly are the most active of the Abbey cliques; almost seeking to capture, kill or screw something more bizarre and exotic than their fellows. Pursuers are after knowledge, the darkest and most awful secrets they can imagine. They are the record keepers of the Abbey, focused more on seeing and experiencing than actually doing; these are the Abbeyists who gather information and record the hunt for the benefits of themselves and other Abbeyists. Libertines simply want to break taboos, to do things that no one has done ''to'' things that no one has done things to. Many see themselves as creators of new moralities and new paradigms of living.

-->''This is my country, my people! If anyone is using them, it'll be me!''

A secret conspiracy within the ranks of the US government, made of politicians and government officials who have stumbled upon the fact that the supernatural exists and, worse, has been known to try and influence the government itself. The Barrett Commission dedicates itself to stymying such efforts, and as such tends to focus primarily on foiling vampires, since these are the most political interference-inclined of the supernatural races.

For all intents and purposes, the Hunt Club is a compact of slashers, a gentleman's club dedicated to hunting the greatest prey of all - humans. And, if at all possible, doing it with style. Though not exactly intended to be a ''player'' option, they organize themselves fundamentally the same as a compact of hunters, and it's implied that more than a few burned out or morally disjuncted hunters join their ranks. The Hunt Club began as a secret society in Edwardian England, when rich and powerful upper-class men gathered to combine their power so they could partake in a then-illegal pastime; hunting foxes. However, they found the thrill of fox hunting grew stale, especially when there was no real shock from the populace to be gained. By 1881, the club had dwindled to five members, when they made their newest hunt; two homeless drunks, plucked from the streets of London, who found themselves chased through the wilderness by five bored aristocrats with long knives. After they ran their prey to ground and butchered them, the Hunt Club found its new calling. By 1903, it had spread throughout the English-speaking world. But they got careless, and in 1904, they were almost decimated when the Society of Twelve Keys, and through them the police, caught onto them and captured many of them. The survivors went underground, and refounded the club, which persists to the present day. The Club divides itself by three "Rulebooks", outlines set by the three most important centers of the Hunt Club before 1904. The London Rules are the traditionalists, following on those victims who society won't generally miss; street people, drunks and prostitutes. The Boston Rules are bizarrely philanthropic, focusing on quarry who have squandered their lives or hold others back -- the sort of people who, as the saying goes, are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. Finally, the Melbourne Rules are the rarest but most respected members of the Club, since their code adheres to the ancient ideal of worthy prey. Specific variants are those who seek out only prey that should be able to validly defend themselves, or who would bring definite police scrutiny, though doing both is, of course, even better -- these are killers of police officers, government agents, soldiers, and the rich & powerful.

Also known as the Tribulation Militia, the Long Night are a loosely knit compact based on a multitude of fundamentalist Christian sects, including Branch Davidian-style militarized gun-cults, Family Values campaigners, paranoid survivalists, affluent Southern USA fundamentalists, and middle-class conservative evangelicists. Though there is little overarching structure, all are united in their awareness of monsters, their belief that the End Times are coming, and that the two are related somehow. Their general belief is that the monsters must be fought in order for Armageddon to occur; only then will God come forth in a blaze of glory to sweep away all evil and bestow a new, pure world upon His redeemed children. There are three main "motifs" that hunters of the Long Night tend to fall into. The Hopeless secretly or openly believe they are damned anyway -- often for misdeeds or traits that non-fundamentalists would see nothing wrong with. They believe only by fighting the Good Fight against the forces of darkness can they hope to cleanse their soul and maybe be saved on Judgment Day. The Faithful believe that they are doing God's work with everything they do; the monsters are prolonging the time of darkness before the Rapture can sweep the world clean, and so they must work to accelerate it and bring on the end of days. The Merciful preach a doctrine of mercy and redemption, seeking to bring back into the light those who have been led astray -- even monsters.

Descendants of the Thule Society, an organization of occultists and would-be mystics that was involved in the rise to power of the Nazis, something which their heirs are determined to atone for. They dedicate themselves to collecting mystical lore and knowledge, often offering this to other hunters to aid them in their battles -- the primary complaints about their efforts are that they tend to be too slow to act, they rarely get their hands dirty, and they are often stingy with the lore they have. They are divided into three philosophies. The Scholars make up the majority, focusing on gathering information about the supernatural and disseminating it to those who have the skills to put it to practical use. The less common Penitents instead believe that the Loyalists should be more proactive and so they actively fight as well as research. Rarest of all, the Advance believes that the best way for the Loyalists to atone is to take charge of and lead humanity to actively stamp out the supernatural -- most other Loyalists fear this as getting too close to being a return of the Volkisch viewpoint that damned the Thule Society in the first place.

A relatively young compact, dedicated to using multimedia networking to expose the true nature of the world's darkest shadows. It was created in the latter half of 1991 by a man named Jim Harrison, from Dallas, Texas. Harrison was an independent filmmaker who specialized in creating special effects for monster movies, until the day he anonymously received three reels of film that apparently dated back to the 1970s. The first showed [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken an impossibly huge dog stalking the streets of Philadelphia]]. The second showed [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem a man who was unnaturally blurry and out of focus, despite his surroundings being crystal clear, who dissolved into mist]]. The last showed a bizarre thing made of rubbery, translucent tentacles pull itself from the ground and up into the sky. Unable to figure out who had made these films, he broadcast them on a public access channel. He asked if anyone knew anything about them. He got no answers... but he got a small sack of letters from people who had their own stories to tell, some even had film proof. Since then, Network Zero has dedicated itself to seeking out and recording proof of all the world's supernatural entities, distributing them across the internet. The three primary factions of Network Zero are the Record Keepers; who simply collect and record information, the Army of Truth; who seek to disseminate the collected information in hopes of making humans "wake up" to the monsters in their midst, and the Secret Keepers; who strive to cover up these sightings of monsters lest the monsters catch on "before Network Zero is ready".

One of the older Compacts, dating back to 1893, Null Mysteriis is a gathering of scientists and rationalists who have uncovered the darker secrets of the world around them and seek to explore and understand them. Their guiding philosophy is that there is no "paranormal", as such, just an array of phenomena and species that science hasn't yet properly analyzed and documented. Hobbyists, generally, members of Null Mysteriis are dedicated to unlocking the secrets of the supernatural world by rational study and observation. The Rationalists form the primary faction of Null Mysteriis; individuals who believe that it's all provable (and disprovable) with science, but they need to research and study in order to advance science enough to recognize what it is (and is not) looking at. The Open Minds faction, conversely, focuses on simply proving or disproving a phenomenon by any means necessary, even the more unscientific. Finally, the small yet growing faction of Cataclysmicists believe that there's something very alarming coming, citing the increasing rise in reported paranormal phenomena as evidence that some sort of massive cataclysm or apocalypse is on the way.

A compact based around secret messageboards and forums that are used to share advice and information, the Union is a loose, sprawling network of blue-collar and otherwise "common" folk who simply want to keep monsters out of their neighborhood. This reactive philosophy means that many other hunters tend to either look down on the Union, or manipulate them in order to use them in a fight. The vast majority of the Union forms a faction called Home First, which is dedicated to looking after their own territory first and foremost. They share reports and information on the boards, but they usually don't go looking for trouble. In comparison, the General Strike faction ''does'' go out looking for monsters, in an attempt to preemptively stop them from preying on folks. They tend to get themselves killed a lot. The minority faction referred to as the Politicals believe in campaigning against monsters ''and'' human oppressors with equal vehemence, which makes them very dangerous people.

A Conspiracy that traces its history back to {{Atlantis}}, the Aegis Kai Doru claim they were once custodians of a vast labyrinth in which great magical treasures were stored, in a day when all of their members could use magic. But a war erupted between their ancestors and a rival faction of witches, and they were cast from their custodianship; and before they could reclaim it, a race of shapechangers caused an apocalypse that swept the old world away. Now, they seek to reclaim all of the magical items of the world, and to punish those who destroyed paradise, citing that they cannot be forgiven, their tools belong to the Aegis Kai Doru. The Aegis Kai Doru is divided into three factions. The Sword, the largest, is the militant and proactive branch of the Conspiracy; they uphold the Vow to the letter, and dedicate themselves to seeking out and slaying mages and werewolves. The Temple dedicates itself to guarding the various relics that the Conspiracy has found, and to unearthing new ones. The Scroll is dedicated to keeping records of what relic does what, and to testing new ones, so their secrets can be revealed.

In the ancient days of Egypt, long before the birth of the Abrahamic faiths, a secret society known as the Cult of the Phoenix worked alongside the Cult of Set to protect mortals from monstrous predations; the former during the day, the latter at night. When the Cult of Set became corrupted, in desperation, the Cult of the Phoenix turned to alchemy and magical elixirs to have the strength and fortitude to do the work of what had been two cults. From these studies was born the practice of creating Elixirs, toxic concoctions that could be transmuted into powerful magical potions by one who had sufficient fortitude and self-discipline. While the European branch of the Ascending Ones stayed loyal to its pagan roots, the Middle Eastern branch found the hierarchical, paternalistic structure of the religions of Christianity and Islam to fit well with their own strict hierarchy, and thusly the old faith was lost in the lands of its birth. Eventually, when opium began to be a profitable source of cash, some of the Ascending Ones turned their alchemical skills to the production of drugs, financing the Conspiracy as a whole by peddling pharmaceutical poisons to the willing. The three factions of the Ascending Ones reflect this history. The Knife of Paradise are made of devout Muslims and Christians, with a strong Jewish minority, who are dedicated to the hunt against monsters. The Order of the Southern Temple, descendants of the European branch of the Ascending Ones, retain their mystic traditions and are dedicated to understanding and mastering Elixirs, as well as creating new kinds. Finally, the Jagged Crescent focus predominantly on managing drug cartels and gang crime, that the Conspiracy may have the funding it needs to keep up its work.

* MythologyGag: Named after a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade vampiric heresy]] from the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness.

A mysterious and enigmatic medical-focused megacorporation, the Cheiron Group is one of the world's foremost producers of medicines and medical technology. Unbeknownst to humanity as a whole, Cheiron Group secretly captures and fatally studies various supernatural entities in order to find ways to provide medical breakthroughs. Their elite agents are even equipped with Thaumatechnology; grafted monster organs and body-parts that imbue the wielders with monstrous powers of their own. The hunters of Cheiron Group, known officially as the Field Projects Division, are divided into groups: Retrieval; who actually do the hunting, Recruitment; who seek out the endless supply of new hunters to become members of Retrieval, and Field Research; spies sent to investigate and poach from the other conspiracies.

Also known as the Children of the Seventh Generation, the Lucifuge is an exclusive organization. Membership is restricted to a member of the 666 mortals walking the earth at any given time who have within them the blood of demons and devils. Tainted by this corrupt blood, they must atone by hunting the other agents of Hell at loose in the world around them. There are three philosophical factions of note within the Children. The most common, the Denial, believe in the simple philosophy that the Devil is the source of all evil, and they must renounce that evil forever, something they do by seeking out and slaying or redeeming all other monsters. Members of the Reconciliation, however, believe that by doing God's work and destroying evil, they are giving Lucifer the chance to seek redemption, and if this should happen, then Hell will cease to exist, taking with it all sin and pain forever. Finally, the Truth is a conspiracy within a Conspiracy; they believe that the Lucifuge is secretly lying to the Children, or at least has not told them the whole truth. They fight monsters, but they keep a wary eye on the Lucifuge and her agents themselves, waiting for the darkest possibilities.

Publically known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Malleus Maleficarum are actually the modern-day descendants of the old Inquisition, still upholding a sacred duty: the elimination of all supernatural horrors. They have a particular focus on capturing and destroying vampires... aided, no doubt, by the fact their founder still lives and secretly runs the organization; a rogue ghoul, he uses them to secure the vampire blood he needs to sustain his immortality. The Malleus Maleficarum is divided into three orders. The Order of St. Longinus are specialists in hunting vampires, and have a particular opposition to the blasphemous vampire sect who call themselves the [[[[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Lancaea Sanctum]], who ''also'' purportedly revere the Saint Longinus as the first of their unholy kind. The Order of St. Ambrose are scholars and detectives that painstakingly research solutions to dangerous problems, and often clash with witches and sorcerers over the knowledge they have secreted away. Finally, the Brotherhood of St. Athanasius are an unabashedly militant wing who favor swift, violent solutions to problems.

A secret branch of the USA government established in 1865, when a man named Gordon West got together a unit of government men to try and rescue Abraham Lincoln from the clutches of a creature from outside any human reference. Upon failing, they instead staged the assassination of a look-alike, hiring John Wilkes Booth to do the deed, and then taking care of him before he could reveal the truth. Since then, they have operated outside the usual structures of the US government to protect the US from supernatural agencies and hide the existence of the supernatural from an unwitting populace. Field agents belong to one of three sub-departments; Project TWILIGHT (doings of social parahuman extra-normal entities), Operation FORT (extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional phenomena and encounters), and Operation ADAMSKI (retrieval of evidence and dissemination of disinformation).

Short for Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit, an FBI unit that deals with spree killers, {{serial killer}}s and slashers. What makes them a conspiracy is the fact that all of them are psychic, using their powers to track down and capture their targets. The largest of their subdepartments are threefold. Operations Department is the primary field agents; 7 out of every 10 VASCU agents belong to this department, which researches, investigates and profiles serial killers and slashers. The Field Liaison Department consists of those VASCU agents who liaise with other "monster hunters", be it deliberate infiltration efforts or as handlers for "suicide squads" of hunters imprisoned, and subsequently released, by VASCU for their talents. Finally, the Special Project Department is the VASCU equivalent of ''Series/TheXFiles''; agents specialized in the most extreme of cases.

For all intents and purposes, the Hunt Club is a compact of slashers, a gentleman's club dedicated to hunting the greatest prey of all - humans. And, if at all possible, doing it with style. Though not exactly intended to be a ''player option'', they organize themselves fundamentally the same as a compact of hunters, and it's implied that more than a few burned out or morally disjuncted hunters join their ranks.

A Conspiracy that traces its history back to {{Atlantis}}, the Aegis Kai Doru claim they were once custodians of a vast labyrinth in which great magical were treasures, in a day when all of their members could use magic. But a war erupted between their ancestors and a rival faction of witches, and they were cast from their custodianship; and before they could reclaim it, a race of shapechangers caused an apocalypse that swept the old world away. Now, they seek to reclaim all of the magical items of the world, and to punish those who destroyed paradise, citing that they cannot be forgiven, their tools belong to the Aegis Kai Doru. The Aegis Kai Doru is divided into three factions. The Sword, the largest, is the militant and proactive branch of the Conspiracy; they uphold the Vow to the letter, and dedicate themselves to seeking out and slaying mages and werewolves. The Temple dedicates itself to guarding the various relics that the Conspiracy has found, and to unearthing new ones. The Scroll is dedicated to keeping records of what relic does what, and to testing new ones, so their secrets can be revealed.

* WellIntentionedExtremists: ...They're the Inquisition. What do you expect?

Short for Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit, an FBI unit that deals with spree killers, {{serial killer}}s and slashers. What makes them a conspiracy is the fact that all of them are psychic, using their powers to track down and capture their targets.

A relatively young compact, dedicated to using multimedia networking to expose the true nature of the world's darkest shadows.

* AgentMulder: To the point they want to tell the whole world about it.
* BasementDweller: A large part of their membership. Though subverted, since going after monsters with nothing but a camera is pretty badass.

* AgentScully: They believe in the paranormal, but use scepticism to separate genuine supernatural phenomena from myths. Consequently a lot of other Hunters stereotype them as AgentScully.
* ScienceHero: Their primary hat.

A compact based around secret messageboards and forums that are used to share advice and information, the Union is a loose, sprawling network of blue-collar and otherwise "common" folk who simply want to keep monsters out of their neighborhood.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Above all, the Lucifuge avoid these as often as they can. Knowing where they come from, they take as many steps as possible to avoid killing creatures that aren't actually dangerous to regular humans.
** Their exception is mages. In the Lucifuge's eyes, mages have stolen the power of Heaven and Hell. Their power is not theirs by right, and should be returned whence it came before the relevant PowersThatBe notice. Generally, this means killing the mage, though some Lucifuge will allow a mage doing good works to live.

* CorruptChurch: Their mission has been going for so long as a top-down hierarchy, it's started to rot. Particularly given how their leader is a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem ghoul]] trying to get vampire blood to live a little longer, though his belief in freeing the world from his former masters is genuine.

* TheMenInBlack: "Officially" sanctioned by the government, TFV men in black seem to draw on the more human MIB stories focused on intimidation and knives in the night.

* TheFettered: VASCU are a division of the FBI operating within the American legal system. The crimes they deal with may be supernatural, but they're still ''crimes''.

An organization comprised exclusively of the rich, powerful or blue-blooded, the Abbey traces its lineage back to a man named Reverend Doctor Marcus [=McDonald=] Ogilvy, the leader of a "Hellfire Club", back in 1855. Reverend Ogilvy was responsible for leading a party that desecrated a holy site... unfortunately for them, the site was holy to ''werewolves''. After they killed several of the decadents to express their feelings, Reverend Ogilvy led a second party -- this one armed and ready to defend itself when the werewolves attacked again. Since then, the Ashwood Abbey has used its wealth and connections to locate supernatural beings and take whatever entertainment it can from them. Before, during and after killing them. The three most powerful cliques amongst the Abbey consist of the Competitors, the Pursuit and the Libertines. Competitors treat monster-hunting as a competition, and thusly are the most active of the Abbey cliques; almost seeking to capture, kill or screw something more bizarre and exotic than their fellows. Pursuers are after knowledge, the darkest and most awful secrets they can imagine. They are the record keepers of the Abbey, focused more on seeing and experiencing than actually doing; these are the Abbeyists who gather information and record the hunt for the benefits of themselves and other Abbeyists. Libertines simply want to break taboos, to do things that no one has done ''to'' things that no one has done things to. Many see themselves as creators new moralities and new paradigms of living.

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Ashwood Abeyists are noted as being woefully inadequate in terms of monster lore. Most don't care that they only know a few scraps of information at best; research is boring! It's more fun to try and make things up as they go along.

** To highlight this, the sample Ashwood Abbey hunters in the corebook include a BrainlessBeauty fashion model who wants screw and kill monsters because it's fun, a District Attorney who privately admits they're lying about hunting and killing monsters to protect people; they just think it's fun, and a [[SinisterMinister corrupt vicar]] who holds BDSM orgies with the more attractive female members of the vicarage.

* SeeminglyProfoundFool: One of the suggested hunters is a pessimist...because he thinks entropy is going to break up all of the Earth. That's true, but he thinks it's going to happen in ''[[ArtisticLicensePhysics fifty years]]'', all because he ''took'' a physics class at some point (not succeeded or passed, the specific word is "took"). [[spoiler:Even the wool wasn't deliberately pulled over his eyes about how magic actually works]], this doesn't reflect well on his abilities as a scientist.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Above all, the Lucifuge avoid these as often as they can. Knowing where they come from, they take as many steps as possible to avoid killing creatures that aren't actually dangerous to regular humans.

* CorruptChurch: Their mission has been going for so long as a top-down hierarchy, it's started to rot. Particularly given how their leader is a [[VampireTheRequiem ghoul]] trying to get vampire blood to live a little longer, though his belief in freeing the world from his former masters is genuine.

* TheCartel: Not the Ascending Ones themselves, but who they control to fund the organisation.
* HermeticMagic: The Ascending Ones believe that Hermes Trismegistus himself is one of their greatest patrons, equating their abilities with his skills.

An organization comprised exclusively of the rich, powerful or blue-blooded, the Abbey traces its lineage back to a man named Reverend Doctor Marcus [=McDonald=] Ogilvy, the leader of a "Hellfire Club", back in 1855. Reverend Ogilvy was responsible for leading a party that desecrated a holy site... unfortunately for them, the site was holy to ''werewolves''. After they killed several of the decadents to express their feelings, Reverend Ogilvy led a second party -- this one armed and ready to defend itself when the werewolves attacked again. Since then, the Ashwood Abbey has used its wealth and connections to locate supernatural beings and take whatever entertainment it can from them. Before, during and after killing them.

For all intents and purposes, the Hunt Club is a compact of slashers, a gentleman's club dedicated to hunting the greatest prey of all - humans. And, if at all possible, doing it with style.

* TheFundamentalist: More than a few Long Night cells come in this flavor, since the compact as a whole is based upon fundamentalist/apocalyptic Protestant congregations who believe that the "forces of darkness" must be defeated in order for the Rapture to occur.
* GoodShepherd: Have more interest in helping regular people than most hunters.

Descendants of the Thule Society, an organization of occultists and would-be mystics that was involved in the rise to power of the Nazis, something which their heirs are determined to atone for. They dedicate themselves to collecting mystical lore and knowledge, often offering this to other hunters to aid them in their battles -- the primary complaints about their efforts are that they tend to be too slow to act, they rarely get their hands dirty, and they are often stingy with the lore they have.

* TheAtoner: The entire organisation, and most of its membership.
* BadassBookworm: Comes in handy when you need to know the proper ancient Tibetan chant to banish a demon.

* CorruptChurch: Their mission has been going for so long as a top-down hierarchy, it's started to rot.

* SeeminglyProfoundFool: One of the suggested hunters is a pessimist...because he thinks entropy is going to break up all of the Earth. That's true, but he thinks it's going to happen in ''[[ArtisticLicencePhysics fifty years]]'', all because he ''took'' a physics class at some point (not succeeded or passed, the specific word is "took"). [[spoiler:Even the wool wasn't deliberately pulled over his eyes about how magic actually works]], this doesn't reflect well on his abilities as a scientist.

* TheManBehindTheMan: The all-seeing Mr. Smith is this to Division Six. [[spoiler: In reality, the power behind Mr. Smith is the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Panopticon]].]]

An organization comprised exclusively of the rich, powerful or blue-blooded, the Abbey traces its lineage back to a man named Reverend Doctor Marcus McDonald Ogilvy, the leader of a "Hellfire Club", back in 1855. Reverend Ogilvy was responsible for leading a party that desecrated a holy site... unfortunately for them, the site was holy to ''werewolves''. After they killed several of the decadents to express their feelings, Reverend Ogilvy led a second party -- this one armed and ready to defend itself when the werewolves attacked again. Since then, the Ashwood Abbey has used its wealth and connections to locate supernatural beings and take whatever entertainment it can from them. Before, during and after killing them.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Of the core Compacts and Conspiracies, the Ashwood Abbey are treated as pretty much the nastiest. Since they are basically bored, rich party-animals who rape, torture, murder and even cannibalize supernatural beings ''for fun'', it's not an unreasonable treatment. They are actually one of the least popular compacts amongst plans, since they're so heavily slanted towards VillainProtagonist and/or DesignatedHero status whenever they get described.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: But given [[VampireTheRequiem what]] they're up against, the charge loses some of it's luster.

* GoodShepherd: Has more interest in helping regular people than most hunters.

!!!The Night Watch
-->''You picked the wrong street bloodsucking motherfucker!''

* WeirdTradeUnion: Though nowhere near as organized as an actual union, they meet the majority of requirements for a real union like communal support for each other and fighting for workers rights. With stakes.

* MugglesDoItBetter: One of their Endowments is an armoured van. Not nearly a tank, but still the single most powerful combat Endowment in the game.

* GreaseMonkey: Though they run a whole range of occupations, the general feel of the Union is typically a very blue-collar worker with a hard job to work.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney

* TheManBehindTheMan: The all-seeing [[spoiler: [[MageTheAwakening Panopticon]] ]]
* MenInBlack: Division Six's MIBs appear to have a perpetual case of jerkasses and know-it-alls who seem to think they're above US law.

* TheFundamentalist: More than a few Long Night cells come in this flavor (typically some form of fundamentalist Christianity).

-->''This is my country, my people! If anyone is using them, it'll be me!

-->''You picked the wrong street bloodsucking motherfucker!

* Authority Equals Asskicking: If the description of a .357 and stake under the mahogany desk is anything to go by.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Due to their positions in society, members can often get away with methods that would get other hunters arrested.

-->''Blessedd is he who stays awake. Let us all keep watch.''
* TheFundamentalist: More than a few Long Night cells come in this flavor.
* GoodShepherd: Has more interest in helping regular people that most hunters.

* TheAtoner: The entire organisation, and most of it's membership.

* {{Precursors}}: The Loyalists believe that there are some out there who can answer many of the compact's questions. May or may not be related to a similar race of ancient beings from [[MageTheAwakening another World of Darkness line.]]

* BasementDweller: A large part of their membership. Though subverted since going after monsters with nothing but a camera is pretty badass.

!!!Null Mysteries
* AgentScully: They believe in the paranormal, but use scepticism to separate genuine supernatural phenomena from myths. Consequently a lot of other Hunters stereotypy them as AgentScully.

!!!Aegies Kai Doru

* FantasticNuke: Some of their magical artefacts. The Aegies Kai Doru may well be the most dangerous conspiracy of them all.

* Hermetic Magic: The Ascending Ones believe that Hermes Trismegistus himself is one of their greatest patrons, equating their abilities with his skills.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: They give [[ResidentEvil Umbrella]] a damn good run for the money.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Of the demonic variety

* ChurchMilitant
* MilkmanConspiracy: Their front is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith cannon lawyers debating obscure theological points]], beneath the mask the Malleus is still the Inquisition.

* MenInBlack: "Officially" sanctioned by the government, TFV men in black seem to draw on the more human MIB stories focused on intimidation and knives in the night.

* MilkmanConspiracy: Their front is [[cannon lawyers debating obscure theological points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith Organization for the Doctrine of the Faith]], beneath the mask the Malleus is still the Inquisition.

* NamesTheSame: The Lucifuge is both the organization and the leader.

* TheGoodSheppard: Has more interest in helping regular people that most hunters.

* AgentScully: Though many do actually believe in the paranormal, no one in the compact likes leaving questions unanswered for very long.

* MilkmanConspiracy: While now under the more benign [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith Organization for the Doctrine of the Faith]], the Malleus is still technically the Inquisition.

* MenInBlack: "Officially" sanctioned by the government, TFV men in black seem to draw on the more human MIB stories focused on intimidation and knives in the night.

* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Especially if you're something they've never seen before.

~~~Cheiron Group

* ScienceHero: A darker version of Null Mysteriis, Cheiron's scientists are utterly unconcerned with any morality. While Null Mysteriis will always try to look for safe ways of experimentation, Cheiron will quite literally strap monster parts to their people without even trying to first understand what it is.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Like the real Thule Society, the Loyalists bolted from Germany when they started to become persecuted threats to the Nazis.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Like the real Thule Society, the Loyalists bolted from Germany when they started to become persecuted threats to the Nazis.