The Organization (AST)

Known only as The Organization this group profits in the trafficking of magical creatures.  However they themselves do not use this moniker as they avoid using any labeling.
==Overview==
The Organization is composed of a number of pre-existing smaller groups all of whom found themselves suddenly outlawed by The Mages Council's new reforms of the time. They banded together to defy the council, and since this early outlawing was mostly a PR stunt. The council had little intent to do anything truly about it, so while in technical fact the groups were outlawed, little concrete action was actually taken against them. Part of that is because much of the council of the time didn't believe much in the reforms and support was rather limited.
So, the group was left to fester and grow. By the time the council took them seriously they had developed a rather good set of methods to avoid the council's attempts to shut them down. The usual bribes, corruptions, insiders passing them info knowingly or unknowingly didn't help matters that the groups being outlawed kinda took any notion of keeping within the rules away so they got ever more extreme over the years, tossing aside all the old taboos.
==Ranks==
The groups size is a matter of great debate, certainly into the thousands worldwide, but difficult to pin down the exact value. Even counting their very weakly linked elements they probably don't number more than a hundred thousand, and that would include a lot of normal humans. That said, they are very well equipped, so even those shouldn't be underestimated. From what is known the Organization, is divided into sections, and those sections answer to some central authority. After previous section 7 leader failed to report a security breach which eventually led to the death of the current leader the central authority decided to dissolve it and what remained was reassigned to section 8.
== Sections ==
Before the fall of section 7 there were a total of 12 sections. There are a few details available for each section as of now:
* Section 1's leader has consistently shown themselves to be more extreme than the others, getting his operation running by the time of the meeting while all others were still restructuring, and also being the least impressed with the punishment of the former section 7 head.
* Section 5's leader seems particularly laid back, attending meetings with his feet on the table.
* Section 8 is led by the sister of the now deceased Section 7 Dark Kingdom Youma, making them presumably a Dark Kingdom Youma as well.
* Section 12 apparently is troublesome and rather disobedient, their leader seeming more meek than most.
Sections 2 and 3's leaders have also spoken, but shown no particular properties of note so far.
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