DEAD

The Department of Eldritch & Alien Destruction, or Department of Eldritch Asset Denial, were two near-identical organisations from two different universes - Indratera and my alt-history for Call of Cthulhu.
== Real-World D.E.A.D. ==
The D.E.A.D. was formed some time in the 1910s as World War One became clearly inevitable and Europe's powder keg brimmed. It was a British organisation that succeeded the 1880s Paranormal Bureau of Investigation; one of the DEAD's founders was Alexandre DuBois, an agent of the PBI who was responsible for alerting the Bureau to the 1883 intrusions of Mythos beings at Innsmouth (the servants of Dagon and the Heart of the Sea), Dunwich (the invisible horror), and Fresh Lake City (the Ziggurat of R'lyeh). The D.E.A.D. had centres in Krákow, Petrograd, Marseille, New York, London, Nicosia, and Casablanca, amongst others. They were known amongst members of British and French intelligence during WW1, helping intelligence in the Sinai, North Sea, Baltic, and Carpathian campaigns.
== Indrateran D.E.A.D. ==
This was an organisation set up in Halcyon in 1616. The catalyst to its founding was when Halcyon passed a law banning freelance adventurers due to the risk they posed to property and life, and their history with the city through the last few centuries. The DEAD was set up as a bureau of organised vigilantes and paramilitaries who dedicated themselves to cataloguing and combating otherworldly monsters that stalked the land. Their headquarters were located on the south bank of Government Hill on the headland of Halcyon's Neverember Point.
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