The Bureau of Education, Study and Defense of the Arcane Arts

The Cult of Harbi

The Holy Order of the United Holy Church

The Bureau of Education, Study and Defense of the Arcane Arts; more commonly known as The Bureau, was a secret international organisation of magic users dedicated to the study, understanding, collection and defense of magical, occult and divine artifacts, relics and scrolls. The Bureau was devoted to it's aims of better understanding the Arcane Arts, protecting items and hiding and protecting the common public to Arcane Threats.

The Bureau held a strong distain for the abuse of the Arcane arts, especially that of Occult practises, and would go to any length to elimante the threat, while also protecting and obscuring the truth to the common public. Along with this, The Bureau was also heavily involved in the discovery and training of magic-inclined individuals, ensuring they were well protected and all under the umbrella of The Bureau's watchful eye.

The Bureau contained many sectors, these included: The Investigatory Sector, The Education Sector, The Study Sector, The Defense Sector, The Response Sector, The Specialist Sector and The Diplomatic Sector. All these sectors were directed under the head of The Bureau, The High Cabinet.

The High Cabinet was a collection of eight experienced and skillfull Bureau individuals who were elected to the cabinet by the other members. The eiight members of the High Cabinet were: High Lord/Lady of the High Cabinet (Leader), High Cabinet member of the Investigatory Sector, High Cabinet member of the Education Sector, High Cabinet member of the Study Sector, High Cabinet member of the Defense Sector, High Cabinet member of the Response Sector, High Cabinet member of the Specialist Sector and High Cabinet member of the Diplomatic Sector.

The Bureau had the largest collection of Arcane Items, only second to that of The Holy Order of the United Holy Church. This collection contained a wide variety of Arcane items and historical texts and was the prized possetion of The Bureau.

The Bureau has two truces with other Arcane involved groups, one of these is with the Sorcerest Consortium, known as the "Consortium-Beauru Truce". The truce with the Sorcerest Consortium was a light truce that was heavily in favour of that of the Sorcerest Consortium, allowing the Sorcerest Consortium to overpower many Bureau investigations, while also keeping a basic peace between the two organisations. The Second truce is the "Bureau-Johnstone Truce", this Truce came about after The Cult of Harbi waged war against The Bureau and caused The Bureau to near collapse. The truce is between that of The Bureau and the Team of Frank Johnstone, however due to Frank Johnstone and his team being users of the occult, exorcism and non-Bureau magic use, the truce is heavily controversial, with many stonchly against the truce and others strong supporters of the truce, due to their help in protecting The Bureau.

## History

The Bureau was formed in an unknown location in France during the year 817 BSI (1203). The organisation was formed by eight Elemental Users as a way to collectively further study their abilties and collect further knowledge. After a short while, many new members began to join The Bureau and it soon developed into a much larger organisation, however at this time The Bureau was still deeply Elemental Based.

Over the later few decades the original eight founders died off and the replacement leaders gradually began to find a greater intrest in all aspects of the Arcane Arts, instead of slowly focusing on Elemental Magic. This deeper and wider spread of study continued to developing over the coming decades, however close to this time, The Bureau was attacked by a group of members who had decided to go rogue, this cause The Bureau to start putting a greater amount of energy into its defensive aspect.

This new defensive aspect of The Bureau began to expand and evolve, and through this The Bureau began to come into contact with many other groups of Arcane users, including the Religious, the Occult and even other Magic users. The Bureau began to start allies and enemies from these groups and also began to become more conservative with their knowledge, while also protecting humanity from knowing about these Arcane Arts

Through the following decades The Bureau further expanded and also spread to many other countries, while entering other countries they made many agreements with the governments of these countries and became an extremely powerful presence all over the world, while still remaining deeply secret to the common public.

The Bureau's headquarters would remain in France until 1789, with The Storming of the Bastille. The revolution cause great fear in the leadership of The Bureau and they escaped to the USA, where they would jump around many locations before finally settling in Washington D.C. After newly settling, The Bureau would put great effort into reorganising and regaining control over all of its international locations, finally consolodating its complete power in 1795.

The Bureau would not return to France until 1801, after that it would remain a minor presence in France until 1940, with the Nazi invasion of France eliminating them there. The Bureau would not start another presence in France until 1960, remaining there ever since, however continuing to keep the Washington D.C. branch as their headquarters.

## Mission

The Bureau was always deeply focused on their mission and would over its existence, collect a wide array of Arcane Items. It would deeply study these items and keep a strong and iron fist over sharing of these treasures.

They also were dedicated to collecting magic-users and training them in an effort to grow their numbers and also keep a strong control over these individuals. These individuals would be found from young ages and offered "Scholarships" to prestiges colleges, which were infact fronts for Bureau buildings.

What The Bureau was arguable best known for was its Response and Specialist Sectors, which were devoted to hutning down and exterminating threats of the Arcane to both The Bureau and to the common people. The Bureau used specialist teams to hunt these individiual down and eliminate them, while also leaving no evidence of their existenece. These threats were often discovered by the Investigatory Sector, who would often visit crime scenes involving Arcane use, and finally hidden away by the Diplomatic Sector, ensuring the secrecy of the incident that had occured.

## Sectors

The seven sectors of The Bureau were all highly trained and very specialised and devoted to their cause.

### The Investigatory Sector

The role of The Investigatory Sector was to investigate rumours, crimescenes and individuals who were suspected of illegal Arcane use. They were often seen wearing their distinctive long, navy blue trench coats. The Investigatory Sector was also invovled of finding new members to The Bureau.

### The Education Sector

The Education Sector was tasked with the training of new members to The Bureau, this training was often tested with many exams, to both show a students knowledge and also dedication to The Bureau. The Education Sector was also the main body tasked with creating The Rules of Arcane Use. The Education Sector were recognised from their Forest green Trench coats on the field, and their forest green robes while inside a Buearu facility.

### The Study Sector

The role of The Study Sector was deeply study and understand any Arcane Item that The Bureau had collected, once studied, The Study Sector had write many repots on the item and properly categorise and store the item based on its age, ability, knowledge and potential threat. The Study Sector were recognised by their long, sky blue trench coats.

### The Defense Sector

The Defense Sector was tasked with the protection of Bureau instalations and bases, along with also being tasked with the protection and escorting of both Arcane Items and high ranking Bureau personnel. The Defense Sector were recognised by their long, silver trench coats.

### The Response Sector

The role of The Response Sector was react to any disturbances reported by The Investigatory Sector. The Response Sector was the most commonly seen members outside of Bureau facilities and were highly trained to eliminate any threat to The Bureau or common people. The Response Sector were recognised by their long, crimison red trench coats.

### The Specialist Sector

The Specialist Sector was tasked with both black ops missions and also extremely poiwerful targets that The Response Sector was incapable of dealing with. The Specialist Sector was the rarest seen of The Bureau members, however was recognised by their long, black trench coats with a red stripe down their back.

### The Diplomatic Sector

The role of The Diplomatic Sector was to deal with any diplomatic missions that The Bureau had to deal with, this could include intra-Bureau diplomacy, Inter-Organisational diplomacy, governmental diplomacy and also dealing with the press at crimescences. The Diplomatic Sector was recognised by their grey three piece suits, being the only sector not to wear long trench coats.

## Allies

The two most prominant allies of The Bureau were the Sorcerest Consortium and Frank Johnstone's Team.

### Sorcerest Consortium

The truce between the Sorcerest Consortium and The Bureau was weak at best. The Sorcerest Consortium was a much older organisation, and though smaller in size, its members were far more powerful than those of The Bureau. This gave The Bureau very little leway in the truce discussion, resulting in the Sorcerest Consortium having a far greater amount of power from the truce, than that of The Bureau. Despite this, the relationship between the Sorcerest Consortium and The Bureau is friendly, though some in The Bureau wish for a change, to allow The Bureau greater power and freedom.

### Frank Johnstone's Team

The "Bureau-Johnstone Truce" has always been and will always remain contronversial amongt members of The Bureau. The Bureau is pretty evenly split on the truce, with half believing that working with illegal Arcane users is a great insult to the laws of The Bureau. While others are deeply supportive of the team, as the team has given up many personal liberateries and freedoms to show loyalty to the truce, while also being a major support in protecting The Bureau from near collapse and destruction at the hands of The Cult of Harbi. One piece of the truce that is hated by nearly all members of The Bureau, is the near-diplomatic immunity that Frank Johnstone's team recieves when dealing in Arcane events and investigations; with many Bureau members viewing the team as untrained, arrogant and uncaring.

## Enemies

The enemies of The Bureau are often categorised into four groups.

### Occult Users

Users of the Occult who are dedicated to their own personal goals. This group includes: Demons, Demon Users, Vampires, Werewolves, The Undead, etc. These groups are all hunted down with no prejudice, as to The Bureau they are seen as a curse apon this Earth.

### Non-Bureau Arcane Users

Non-Bureau Arcane Users are deeply hated by The Bureau, due to these groups or individuals refusing to agree and follow the laws stated by The Bureau. These members often include: Rogue Bureau members, Necromancers and

The Cult of Harbi

The Holy Order of the United Holy Church