Faction Design: The Underground vs The School for the Gifted Tom Lennon 1703608

## Faction Design

== Student: Tom Lennon
Student Number: 1703608 ==

## The Underground of Gyeongiu.

When the Re-Enchantment started changing the lives of
people, one of the biggest changes happened to people at random. Magic started
appearing all over South Korea and not long after, people who showed signs of
this magic disappearing. Once people found out that their missing relatives
were being recruited to a school that promised to teach them how to control
their magic people relaxed, but soon after the real truth of what these schools
were used for started surfacing. Not many people believed the truth and passed
it off as gossip. However there were a few that knew something what was going
on. They knew something had to be done, the people who have been finished their
studies and shipped off to help rebuild South Korea needed to be freed, and the
ones in danger of being recruited need to be protected. The population of Seoul
is so massive that large groups of people were disappearing at once, it was
there that the Underground took a stand. Bong-Cha was the name of the women who
founded the Underground, she lost her whole family to the school and knew so
many others that lost people, and she had enough.

There is an Underground base in each city across South
Korea, and a few smaller camped scattered across the countryside. The main
bases can host hundreds of thousands of people and is deep underground. Some
are hidden right in the middle of the city and some just out of the city centre
but all of them are difficult to find. It’s rare someone looking for the
Underground’s help will actually find it, usually they will find you. The
Underground takes its secrecy very seriously as they know the main reason they
are so powerful is because the schools don’t know where any of these bases or
camps are. It has happened once or twice where the school has found a camp and
they took everyone who was gifted to the school, a huge loss for the underground.
However, after each attack the Underground learns and becomes stronger and
learns from each attack.

The Underground doesn’t have the skill that the schools have when it comes to
magic, their magic is much more precise and powerful, the Underground teaches
what they know, at most it’s just how to control the magic as most people they
take in are normal everyday people who aren’t wanting to wage war against the
schools. Some have even used drugs developed to help control their magic ability,
but that drug gives some nasty side effects that the underground must work to
control. The goal of the Underground is not to kill, it’s to free everyone who
has been taken by the school and to save everyone from the horrible fate of
working tirelessly to keep South Korea afloat. If the Underground has their
way, soon there won’t be a reason for the Underground anymore, and people,
gifted or not can work to help their country stay safe and working during this
horrible time.

## The School for the Gifted.

The Government of South Korea has been hiding the fact that
they knew that people used to be able to host the power of magic. For millennium
they have been gathering as much information as they can on anything gifted
related, they have experts that knew everything about the magic ability, just
not how to produce it. Once the Re-Enchantment happened the Government jumped
into action. As quickly as they could, they started setting up special schools in
each city. They knew that once people at random started to become gifted that
there was going to be a lot of scared and confused people out there, and not
only that but people who might use these powers to cause pain and suffering.
Their goal was to round up all Gifted people and help them control their powers,
hopefully so no accidents would happen due to uneducated magic. The goal was
noble, a safe place for people of all ages to go to the school and learn all
they can, however once they started putting specialists in charge of each individual
school’s things went downhill from there. The Government had to trust that the
people they put in charge of the schools can handle themselves while they
handle what else is going on in the world. However, each induvial in charge of
the schools had a very different idea of what to do with people who finished
their education and how to get them.

These people made the orders to go out and take anyone who
has been given the powers of magic, no matter who they are, where they are they
will be found and taken to the school. The leaders knew that South Korea was
already faring very well after the Re-Enchantment, especially compared to the
other countries in the world, and brainstorming one evening the leaders figured
out that they can use the gifted to help substance their country. After some time,
they created a secret location that all graduates would be transferred to and
will be working to help rebuild. They help create supplies and to strengthen barriers
against attack, however they are pushed further then people can work, fainting
and deaths are common and once someone is there, they aren’t able to leave.

The goal isn’t to harm or kill people, the leaders of the
schools just want the best for their country, and their people, but with the
times being so hard they are willing to do whatever it takes to keep their
country safe and no one, not even the Underground is going to stop them.
Because of all the Underground’s attempts to break into the schools they
leaders have had to train, and hire gifted to guard the school, to stop anyone
getting in or out. This has caused some leaders like Jee of the Gyeongiu school
to become paranoid and strict to the point where some people are so scared of
the schools they turn to magic control drugs or to the Underground for
protection. However most of the population have a positive image of the schools,
mostly because most don’t know what goes on behind those walls. The goal from
these schools are to eradicate all accidental damage from untrained gifted and
to bring South Korea back as close as possible to what it was before the
Re-enchantment, so everyone can have their normal lives.