Order of Hermes

==Events==
(Use Event/Order of Hermes)
Event/Order of Hermes
==History==
If anyone should have been prepared for the Fall it was the Order of Hermes. After the terrific failure of the Great Experiment during the Mythic Age, the Order began amassing wealth and provisions for a second crash. For all intents and purposes, the Order should have survived the Fall and the Reconciliation unscathed, were it not for the huge number of Hermetic Masters with in Horizon and Doisstep. While more careful Hermetics put provisions aside and erected bulwarks, Masters from all the Houses tore through reality laying waste to age old Union foes. To make matters worse, once foes were vanquished, the Masters turned on their own. Petty jealousies erupted and the Order nearly fractured under internal pressures.
No insult or injury has proved fatal to the Order: like a snake it doesn't die it just sheds it's skin. Hermetics view the Fall and the Reconciliation as a painful period of growth. Once the dust began to settle, the Order applied its cultivated discipline and organization to putting itself back together. Houses Jerbiton, Tytalus, Quaesitori and Bonisagus emerged as the leaders of this new, modern Order. An agenda was set down and the rest of the Houses were quietly put back in line. This happened with a remarkable speed and efficiency with very little infighting. After the Fall, everyone was too humble to be overly disagreeable. The post-Fall world saw a re-enrollment in magical Fraternal Orders, giving the Order a crop of talented recruits to choose from.
Once it re-established itself, the Order went about counting the survivors and re-organizing the resistance under the Phoenix Council. It's goals are focused on marshaling the Council into an entity that can survive in the 21st Century and provide a formidable opponent against the other factions.
Category:Faction/Traditions