The Wilders

(*Environmentalist on steroids* - A quote from Blaze describing the Wilders)

An extremely secretive organization that wants to return the Earth to nature. They hate humanity and civilization, and work to undermine governments and society in general to bring about the destruction of all humans and technology. The members themselves are human, so consider their lives worthless and will sacrifice themselves if necessary without a second though. They have existed since at least when HYDRA was big in WW2, and have worked with both HYDRA and The Red Room on occasions (under different names and with minimal contact. They might also have worked with the Alchemists) to achieve their goals. The organisation is divided into different ranks based on animals. The lowest rank is Rat, and the highest is Lion. The leader of the group is titled the Wild One. The symbol of the Wilders is three diagonal claw slashes. The leader of the Wilders is called Gaia.

Evil Plan:

* Reset: The Wilders plan to use an otherworldly energy source (Entropy - a combination of Time stone energy and Reality stone energy) to reset the world/transform the world back to before humanity civilized any of it, but without humanity. If the Wilders find/make/use a certain machine/device that can harness/overload Entropy, everyone will die. The characters must find the machine/stop them using it before it’s too late.

An underground organisation that is growing in power known as the Wilders has made a breakthrough in science. Using special (probably illegal and definitely ethically questionable) technologies, they created a machine that can almost resurrect the dead. Almost, because it isn’t fool-proof, and it does it by killing them first. This machine, combined with special serums based on animal genetic code and some… other stuff... , could create special hybrids the Wilders call Lycanthropes. Lycanthropes are diverse, being any human animal hybrid created by the Wilders (no one else could make them anyway). Many Lycanthropes have strange enhancements, such as strength and keen senses. Some Lycanthropes have permanent physical alterations, such as thick fur, animal ears or claws, others can transform into their animal half partially or fully, but much more common is a combination of the two, permanent physical changes and a more animal transformation. The Wilders created many Lycanthropes (many of which were unwilling, in fact the Wilders were secretly behind a number of missing persons cases), usually using younger people as they were more likely to survive, and trained them to follow orders. The Wilders used their Lycanthropes to achieve their goals, their primary one being to reverse civilization and revert everything to its wild, natural state. They have been behind multiple revolutions and wars, working from the shadows to bring about the destruction of humanity. Although all Lycanthropes were put through training and are controlled while on missions through collars (they are watched, and if ever they act out of line, they are incapacitated, shocked or if they might be discovered, blown up), some Lycanthropes have managed to escape, although most are killed within a year or two, and those who survive have created a small resistance to hide from, and eventually overthrow, the Wilders. These free Lycanthropes stay hidden from the outside world to avoid dangerous attention, and because even if people helped defeat the Wilders, the Lycanthropes would probably be killed or worse if they won (when funds were short, there were one or two times the Wilders sold Lycanthropes into slavery for the highest bidder, and those who were sold, it is presumed, were in a much, much worse place than those left behind).