The Duncorne Foundation

A secretive but influential academic foundation that funds archeological and historical research on a wide variety of worlds, including Ezcalli and Abzu. Their mission is an extension of a classic historical society, although more esoteric, dealing with artifacts that originate from other worlds, such as reality shards.
== Assets ==
* Support of the Lord Shelbourne of Duncorne
* Collection locations in New Haven, Connecticut and Oxford, England
* Deep connections to crossworld art and antiquities smuggling
* Copies of rare and lost texts
** The Vinland Map reality shard
*Hidden Lore in general
*Archeological skills
**Often multilingual, including Latin
== Outtime Operations ==
* Collecting esoteric texts
**Ezcalli astronomical records
**Understanding the Abzu timeline(s)
**Investigations in Mandrake-1along with Infinity's Sheldrake Section
** Possibly buying from Swagmen and other outtime smugglers
* Preventing multiversal entities from gaining enough power to pierce through Quantums(?)
== History ==
In 1888, the British Museum--feeling that its archeological record was incoherent, or incomplete at best--set aside a group of scholars to investigate the banks of the Tigris River. The result was a calamity, to say the least.Classic: Horror, p.116
=== A Recounting of the Foundation's Origin ===
"Our picks and shovels let loose creatures too abominable to recount, whom, tearing their way through the rubble, killed much of our digging team. In haste, we grabbed what dynamite we could, blasting the path behind us until the we could no longer hear the creatures we had buried or staved off. We stood, stunned, with no sound left but the ringing of our own ears and the pounding of our hearts. After this first and horrible encounter, news of our misfortune had reached our sponsor, Alexander Sherbourne--our 17th Lord of Duncorne--and was answered with a powerful zeal. His lordship sent for miners, soldiers, scholars, and Freemasons from every corner of Her Majesty's Empire. We began digging--Babylon, Angkor Wat, the lost libraries of Arabia. We traveled to places so sinister and strange that we refused to give them a name." -- unknown, A Recounting of Duncorne's Originparaphrasing and extrapolated fanon from reference, Dossier p.5
== Known Members ==
* Georgia Bush, cliodynamicist (economic, sociology etc.)Infinite Worlds, p.135The Ship in the Rock by Paul Drye (Pyramid 2, April 18, 2008)
== References ==
*Infinite Worlds, p.40
*Infinite Worlds, p.198
*The Madness Dossier
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