Mosaic Committee

The **Mosaic Committee** is a secret society nestled within the Arcane Congress floating high above the city of Arcanix. This sect of wizards believe that the fulfillment of the Draconic Prophecy will result in the destruction of the world. The only way to avert the future cataclysm, these wizards believe, is to destroy parts of the Prophecy as they are discovered—or better yet, prevent them from being revealed in the fi rst place. This is the purpose for which the Mosaic Committee was formed.

The Mosaic Committee, named for the "Mosaic" of disparate mortal pieces working together for a greater whole, realizes that its mission puts it at odds with two of the world's most powerful enemies: the Chamber, the sect of powerful dragons who seek out the Draconic Prophecy, and the Lords of Dust. But the members of the Mosaic Committee are powerful wizards utterly dedicated to their cause; they genuinely believe that they’re forestalling the end of the world, and they take every possible precaution to protect themselves. Every member operates under multiple false identities, never speaks without using Nondetection, wear rings of mind shielding, and more. They are incredibly paranoid about being infiltrated by fiends and dragons, and many members would actively and vocally express concerns that they are being manipulated. Members of the committee see themselves as champions fighting to keep humanity's destiny from being controlled by fiends and dragons, and they have even successfully identified agents of the Lords of Dust and the Chamber across Khorvaire. The stuffed dragon heads mounted on the walls of the secret Mosaic Chamber walls bear silent witness to the committee’s power and effectiveness.

### The Truth

Despite the incredible lengths they have gone through to remain anonymous, the Mosaic Committee is a massively compromised tool of the Chamber. Its most powerful members -- the archmages who supposedly have the power to fight dragons -- are in fact shapechanged dragons themselves. Their mission is to "find Prophecy signs and destroy them", but the first part of that clause is "find Prophecy signs" -- once the dragons have the knowledge, fine, go ahead and destroy them. The "enemy dragons" with their heads mounted are rogue dragons who have become enemies of the Chamber. Infiltrating the Mosaic Committe was an easy way for the Chamber to have active agents to help them find Prophecy signs and deal with rogue dragons while convincing their dupes that they are destroying Prophecy signs and bravely fighting the Chamber.

The Mosaic Committee is *also* a massively compromised tool of the Lords of Dust, and its most powerful members are shapechanged fiends who are using epic level magic to shield their agents from the dragons within their same ranks. Both the dragons and the fiends know that the other has infiltrated the committee, but neither can reveal the other without breaking their own cover... or worse, fracturing and destroying the committee entirely. Unknown to the members of the secret society, the Mosaic Committee itself has a crucial role to play in a key passage of the Prophecy, and so neither the dragons nor the fiends can destroy it until it comes to pass... at which point the dragons plan to wipe it out.