神意密会

### 其他著名人物：

Several Heralds and around 100 operatives around the whole world, including most prominently**Heralds:**

* Yuki Yamazaki (已故)
* Nolan Cassidy (已故)
* Eugene Cobb (已故)
* Athena Savalas (已故)
* Alexander Fanin
* Don Archibald Yates (已故)
* Tamara Vidal (已故)

**Other Operatives:**

* Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer (已故)
* Claus Hugo Strandberg (已故)
* Erich Soders (已故)
* Silvio Caruso (已故)
* Francesca De Santis (已故)
* Reza Zaydan (已故)
* Zoe Washington (已故)
* Sophia Washington (已故)
* Thomas Cross (已故)
* Sierra Knox (已故)
* Robert Knox (已故)

### 隶属关系：

* Carlisle Group
* Stuyvesant 公司
* International Contract Agency (前任合伙人)
* The Ark Society
* Dozens of companies used as a cover, including:
	+ Ether
	+ Biosphere
	+ Hamsun Oil
	+ Quantum Leap
	+ Kronstadt Industries (叛离)
	+ Dynasty Global
	+ Schaeffer-Moore
* IAGO (Informant)

### 公司类型：

Mythical Secret Society/Shadow Government

## 现实中信息

### 出现于：

* *HITMAN™*
* *HITMAN™ 2*
* *HITMAN™ III*

**神意密会**是一个极其强大的影子政府，控制着所有的世界事务，在全球各地都有有影响力的行动者。他们是*刺杀世界*三部曲的主要对抗者。

神意密会起初是三个有影响力的王朝之间的合作品，后经手冷战时期的间谍大师Janus，于1945年由Thomas Carlisle、Douglas Ingram和Eckhart Stuyvesant组建——合伙人的第一次换代。第二个也是最后一个已知的合伙人集体则由创始人的后代Marcus Stuyvesant、Carl Ingram和Alexa Christine Carlisle组成。

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### 起源

神意密会正式始于二战结束后（早在1945年），当时Thomas Carlisle在他位于英格兰达特穆尔的索恩布里奇庄园召集了他的两个大学兄弟会的兄弟，Douglas Ingram和Eckhart Stuyvesant，以集中他们家族已经非常庞大的企业影响力，建立一个可以在幕后有效管理世界的秘密社团。这三位神意密会的“合伙人”很可能相互进行各种人力资产交互，并随后招募克格勃的传奇间谍大师Janus作为他们的第一个“永恒常量”（神意密会的副主管经理）。

在1980年代末和1990年代初，神意密会的领导权稳步移交给新的人物，产生了三个新的合伙人：Alexa Carlisle 于1988年、Carl Ingram 于1994年和 Marcus Stuyvesant 于更晚，伴随产生新的永恒常量 Arthur Edwards 于1990年代。

### 冷战

在20世纪60年代，Janus 秘密招募了著名的Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer博士，以创造出顺从的克隆人，能够毫无悔意地杀人。在Thomas Carlisle的支持下，他的基因实验在[罗马尼亚]布拉索夫的[[人类改良研究所]开始，这曾是青年教养所。两个年轻的试验对象实验品47号和实验品6号在遇到某个小农业社区之前达成了一个协议并逃离了该研究所。他们被一个家庭收留，但在第二天早上被 Janus 的人手追踪。这家人以及其余目击者均被杀害，两人被带回机构并遭受惩罚。

在20世纪80年代，Alexa Carlisle 和 Janus 将冷战的两方玩弄于股掌之中。在她的授意下，Ort-Meyer 将研究所改造成了一个真正的暗杀服务机构，而包括47号和6号在内的克隆人将在帮助神意密会进一步实现其全球目标方面发挥重要作用，例如完全接管整个国家（巴拉圭，1985年）。当他们对实验和他们的生活目的感到失望时，6号和47号发誓要打倒他们的创造者，但他们在1989年对研究所的攻击失败了，6号实验体被认为已经死亡。

研究所的毁灭迫使 Ort-Meyer 将该项目迁往 Satu Mare 的一个庇护所。在 Carlisle 的坚持下，47号实验体和剩余的克隆体的记忆和情感被抹去，以防止发生任何其他事件的可能性。Ort-Meyer、Janus 或神意密会的任何其他成员都不知道，实验体6号幸存下来，并从研究所逃到了现实世界，他最终在30年后策划了神意密会的垮台。

### *HITMAN™* 事件

实验体6号，现在叫 Lucas Grey，在为Milton-Fitzpatrick担任安全主管时，发现他的雇主，首席执行官Eugene Cobb，是神意密会的一名特工。他接受了自己永远无法真正摆脱神意密会的事实，并计划消灭 Cobb，对影子政府发动一场无声的战争。Grey 了解到，Cobb 不仅是普罗维登斯的普通成员，而且是一名钥匙持有者，他拥有一把钥匙，可以进入该组织在纽约的秘密档案馆，其中包含神意密会的资产和特工的信息。带着这些知识，在一次横跨太平洋的商务旅行中，Grey 暗杀了 Cobb，然后偷走了他的钥匙，让飞机坠入大海，成为一场所谓的意外。然而，档案库需要一对钥匙才能打开，Grey 将继续创建他自己的民兵，帮助他努力摧毁神意密会。

Later, Providence's efforts across the globe curiously began to fail. In a small coastal town of Italy, the Ether Corporation, a front for Providence, was secretly working on the Ether Virus, a DNA tracking biological agent designed to discreetly assassinate people of interest. The virus was destroyed, and bio-engineers Silvio Caruso and Francesca De Santis were eliminated to ensure that the virus could not be replicated. Not long after, Providence attempted to stage a military coup in Morocco. Led by Army General and Providence operative Reza Zaydan, Providence plotted to overthrow the Rabat government by inciting the country's population into riots and staging the coup in the name of national security. However, both Zaydan and Claus Hugo Strandberg, the banker that had enraged the Moroccan people, were eliminated and the riots consequently subsided. The Constant, refusing to believe the two incidents were coincidental, took to New York alongside Milton-Fitzpatrick's newest CEO Alexander Fanin to inspect the vault, only to discover that it had been ransacked.

Behind the scenes, Lucas Grey had obtained limited knowledge of Providence's operations from IAGO, a spy network, and began anonymously tipping off interested parties of Providence's activities. These people would go on to become clients of the ICA, and multiple contracts were put in place to secretly eliminate Providence operatives. Agent 47, formerly Subject 47, took the contracts, unknowingly being manipulated into attacking Providence. After the destruction of the Ether Virus, Lucas Grey tracked down and executed a second Providence key-bearer, Hajun, who had come to determine the cause, finally giving Grey access to the archive. Following the assassination of Jordan Cross, Thomas Cross, father, and reclusive media mogul was kidnapped during the following funeral and later found shot to death. The murder was no coincidence; the ICA realized that each of the contracts were linked by a mysterious anonymous tip. Naming the tipper 'the Shadow Client', ICA began to hunt down their location.

Providence, upon learning that the ICA was responsible for thwarting their plans, got in contact with Erich Soders, director of the ICA's board, and offered him a deal. Soders was suffering from a rare condition known as Situs Inversus, in which the patient's insides are reversed. In desperate need of a heart transplant, Soders agreed to eliminate the Shadow Client and hand over a full list of ICA's operatives in exchange for an exceedingly rare right-sided heart. Following a trail left by a hacktivist, the ICA discover Grey's militia inhabiting an apricot farm in Colorado, led by Sean Rose. Assuming Rose, an already registered target and known terrorist, is the Shadow Client, Soders pushes the board into asking Agent 47 to infiltrate the farm and eliminate Rose, as well as other prominent members of the militia. However, upon infiltrating the farm, 47 and Diana Burnwood conduct an investigation and find that not only is the true Shadow Client targeting Providence, a presumed myth, but that Erich Soders was a Providence mole.

Erich Soders was discreetly fast-tracked for his critical heart surgery to the GAMA Hospital in Hokkaido, a hyper exclusive hospital. Angered by Soder's betrayal, while also aware that he planned on handing over the list of ICA operatives to Providence, the ICA's board of directors asked 47 to infiltrate the hospital and eliminate Erich Soders. Yuki Yamazaki, a Providence lawyer, was also present at the hospital and subsequently targeted as well.

Later, The Constant intercepted Diana Burnwood on a train and lamented the death of Soders. He then suggested a partnership between the ICA and Providence, as the ICA had been made a mockery of and Providence had lost key assets. Diana wasn't interested in partnering with someone as untrustworthy as The Constant until he offered her information on 47's hidden origins.

### *HITMAN™ 2* 事件

A week later, the ICA's board of directors accept Providence as a client and agree to hunt down and eliminate the Shadow Client, as well as their private militia. Based on intel found in the apricot farm back in Colorado, the ICA discover the location of another key member of the militia, Alma Reynard. On behalf of Providence, 47 infiltrates Alma's beach house in Hawke's Bay, primarily in search of any possible leads on the Shadow Client. The search was unsuccessful, however 47 did discover a conversation between Alma and Robert Knox, both the CEO of Konstradt Industries and a member of Providence. Knox, as well as his daughter Sierra had chosen to defect from Providence following an increasing number of militia attacks against their fellow operatives, fearing that they would be assassinated in a similar fashion. 47 eliminated Alma Reynard before exfiltrating.

Following the revelation that Providence members had began to consider defection, the Constant gave ICA permission to take down the militia by any means necessary. Starting with the traitorous Knoxes at the Global Innovation Race, 47 and Diana went on a string of assassination missions in order to cripple the militia. After comparing the militia's attack patterns with global shipping and transportation routes, the ICA learn that the private militia has been quietly transporting their men across the world by making use of the Delgado Cartel's underwater distribution network. In order to neuter the militia's ability to move across the globe, 47 travels to Santa Fortuna to assassinate the current leader of the Cartel, Rico Delgado and his two lieutenants.

Despite the Delgado Cartel crumbling, attacks against Providence don't subside. More and more CEOs are murdered and causing a global panic. The militia release a hostage tape outing the existence of Providence to the world, which the ICA's analysts promptly begin tracing the origin of. Meanwhile, 47 travels to India to take out the Shadow Client's 'eastern cell'. The Delgado's were also creating fake IDs for the militia, including one Wazir Kale, better known as The Maelstrom. Providence believes that The Maelstrom, Vanya Shah, and Dawood Rangan are behind the murder of one of Providence's latest deceased operatives, the CEO of Ether, and taking them out is among their top priorities.

The ICA tracks the hostage tape back to Romania, and unbeknownst to them, Ort-Meyer's institution. As 47 approaches the barren, dilapidated building, he loses radio contact with Diana, heading in alone. There, he discovers Lucas Grey, the Shadow Client, who manages partially jog 47's memory by reminding him of their pact and convinces him to lay down his weapon. Informing Diana of this revelation, the three meet up alongside hacktivist Olivia Hall and agree to work together to take down Providence. Grey explains the relationship between the Partners and The Constant, stating that the key to taking down the Partners is The Constant and the key to finding The Constant would be his predecessor. Using an antidote stolen by the militia from Ether's headquarters, 47 reclaims the rest of his wiped memories and remembers that the first Constant was Janus.

Providence, as well as the rest of the ICA, are tricked by a false report claiming that Janus was linked to the institution in Romania and was in fact the real Shadow Client, Lucas Grey being simply a figurehead. Janus, as well as an assumed Providence defect, Nolan Cassidy, become the latest targets of the contract. Regardless, the true objective of the mission was to look around Janus' home in the town of Whittleton Creek for clues for when Janus and his apprentice could potentially meet. 47 discovers that Janus is a founder of The Ark Society, an annual gathering of the rich and powerful who prepare for the end of the world and that The Constant makes an appearance each year, presumably in search of new Providence recruits. Despite Janus' supposed betrayal of Providence, members of the Ark Society chose to give him a private wake at the next gathering to respect him. His coffin is tracked to unearth the location of the gathering, which is found to be the Isle of Sgàil.

Meanwhile, the relationship between the Partners and the Constant has been deeply strained, following the numerous operative deaths as well as the believed betrayal of the first Constant. In order to prove his loyalty, Alexa Alice Carlisle demands that the Constant insert a poison chip in his neck as a fail-safe, in case he is captured or goes rogue. Begrudgingly, the Constant accepts. Two months later, 47, Diana and Grey travel to the Isle of Sgàil for the gathering of the Ark Society. Upon discovering that the Constant has been embedded with the poison chip, and that kill switches have been given to both Zoe and Sophia Washington, 47 eliminates the twin sisters while Grey subdues and exfiltrates with the Constant.

The Constant later wakes up, tied to a chair in a ship in the middle of the North Atlantic with the chip surgically removed from his body. Grey and Diana interrogate him, who then explains how Providence came to be and the families that formed it. Unfortunately, the Partners had planned for such an occasion. Obituaries for all three Partners had appeared on the internet, and they had begun transitioning to different identities. The Constant then suggests that they 'follow the money'. As the Partners had only just begun transitioning between identities, their accounts at the Milton-Fitzpatrick Bank in New York would still be intact. 47 and Grey head to New York; 47 steals the data from the bank and eliminates bank director and Providence Operative Athena Savalas to cover their tracks.

The bank data yielded transactions by the Partners made out to Haven, a small corporation operating out of the Maldives. 47 travels to Haven Island to eliminate the three heads of the company who were in the middle of executing their biggest contract yet, presumably for the Partners. With the Haven leads gone, Olivia Hall was able to penetrate their servers and obtain the info on the Partners' locations.

### *HITMAN™ III* 事件

With the information procured from Haven, 47 and Grey travel to Dubai to eliminate the first two Partners, Carl Ingram and Marcus Stuyvesant, at the Burj Al-Ghazali tower; Alexa Carlisle, however, manages to escape moments prior after realizing that Arthur Edwards absconded with the Partners' controlling shares. Diana tracks her down to the Carlisle family ancestral home in Dartmoor, England, where 47 eliminates her in addition to retrieving her case file on Edwards in the hopes that it may reveal details of his whereabouts. With the Partners finally eliminated for him, Edwards sets his plan into motion and has a private security team of CICADA operatives ambush Grey in an attempt to capture him, but fails when Grey commits suicide--subsequently forcing 47 and Olivia Hall to go on the run. Edwards corners Diana with leverage regarding the 1989 deaths of her parents in the hopes of pitting her against 47, but she initially relents. In turn, Edwards pays the ICA to hunt down 47 and Hall, now in Berlin.

As the new power behind Providence, Edwards attempts to persuade Diana into becoming the next Constant. After exposing the ICA and ending the threat against them, 47 reconnects with Diana in Mendoza, Argentina, where she tasks him with eliminating Don Archibald Yates and Tamara Vidal in an effort to remove the obstacles in her path to become Constant so she can get close enough to Edwards to dismantle his newly reformed Providence from the inside. As part of a ruse to maintain face, Diana poisons 47 after his successful mission, which allows him to get captured by Edwards' team and experimented upon aboard The Mortar, a retro-fitted train en route to a testing site in Mongolia via Romania's Carpathian Mountains. Faced with the prospect of becoming a tool for Providence once again, 47 finally deals with Edwards, which lets Diana expose the organization's operatives to the world. Tim Quinn, Alexander Fanin and others are forced to resign from their positions, essentially dissolving Providence.

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### 使者

Heralds are the couriers of Providence, getting orders from the Partners via the Constant, and giving them to regular Providence operatives. They are a small corps of field handlers who are typically recruited among analysts, corporate fixers, lobbyists and political advisors. Heralds also investigate Providence-related issues, such as assassinations of their operatives as well as other Heralds. Some are known to possess one of two specialized keys to the Providence Archive in New York. Don Archibald Yates was the "chief" of the Heralds.

## 资源和影响力

Providence as a mythical shadow government organization has inexhaustible financial resources. They also have access to the best intellectuals in the world, the most influential politicians in their ranks, and even terrorist organizations are employed by them.

Their position allows them access to the best technological resources of the world, from regenerative treatments to advanced robotics. They were even the ones who funded Ort-Meyer's genetic engineering programs to engineer human clones with increased natural attributes.

## 资产:

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Providence PinThe ConstantPictures of known Providence operatives from Grey's tornado shelter.
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* 神意密会可能是基于现实生活中的秘密社会阴谋团体和理论，如The Hashshashin, The Illuminati, The Templar Knights, and The Majestic 12.