Northern Witches

## Background

The Northern Witches occupied the northern region of the Adept Mainland, controlling a land that covered more than six billion square kilometers (12 times the size of earth) , which was then divided into dozens of human kingdoms of all sizes. The rulers and nobles of these kingdoms were ordinary humans, but they all recognized the Northern Witches as the guardians of their kingdoms.

In fact, whenever a mighty female Fourth Grade Adept came into power amongst the Northern Witches, she would call upon a group of followers and venture out into the vast wilderness, blazing her way through all manners of obstacles and established a great kingdom that would only belong to her.

Relying on the constantly emerging, powerful female Adepts, the Northern Witches were constantly fighting for living space in this savage world. Whenever a new kingdom was born, and a magnificent Adept Tower was built, it also meant that another Female Adept has risen to power.

The Northern Witches were experts in Curses and Prophesy, thus they were all Principle Adepts. They are the most unified of the three great adept organizations, due to their constant expansion in the north they also boost stronger individual strength than the other organizations. Conversely, they have the smallest number of adepts compared to the other organizations and are outnumbered by either the United Adept Association or the Silver Union.

Due to the Northern Witches combining their legacies, they were able to develop their own advancement system. During their advancement, Witches would be able to sacrifice some of their own knowledge and abilities in exchange for powers left behind by whatever Witch they could trace their lineage from

## Witch Tradition

The Northern Witches have their own special code of law and conduct, which extends both to personal values and legal matters with-in the Northern Witches.

* All witches are required to swear loyalty to Salem.
* All witches should always reign supreme over their male counterparts.
* The Capital is a neutral place.

## Salem's Law

Before the Witch Queen left, she laid down several laws which are suppose to be followed by the Northern Witches.

* Outright war between Witch Cliques are forbidden. They must keep their in-fighting toned down. This includes:
	+ civilians are off limits
	+ resource sites are off limits
	+ destruction of neutral cities where enemies are located are off limits
	+ The breach of any of these rules is cause for other branches to intervene and punish the wrongdoer.
* Witch Cliques will not meddle in each other's internal affairs.
* No Witch may be the cause of death of another (minimum first grade) witch, regardless of the circumstances..

## Witch Cliques

Witches of Deceit

Witches of Cold Winter

Witches of Fate

Witches of Darkness

Witches of Agony

Witches of Death

Witches of the Pale

Witches of the False

Five other groups that are currently fallen.

Known fallen cliques:

Witches of Despair

## Trivia

* they are currently at around 2/3rd strength due to their cycles of rising and falling witch cliques.
* they are the currently the weakest among the three great adept organizations.
* Their matriarch is Salem, The Witch Queen.
* Their unity as of late has been severely tested; various witch cliques have interfered in the battle of fate between Alice and Maysha.
* Each Clique is related to a Great Adept that first founded it and followed Salem out into the Galaxy. Therefor, each Clique has an eternal legacy that was left behind for them by that Great Adept and allowed by Lethon to continue as part of the deal between it and the earliest Great Adepts.
* The Northern Witches are the least deceitful among the three great organizations, however they have their fair share of intrigue.