Bam Agma

"The Watchers in the Night"

**The Bam Agma (밤 악마)** is an organization of magi that serves as the South Korean government's magic overseers and enforcers, although their history proves that they predated Modern South Korea by a millennia. A strict militant organization, the Bam Agma closely monitor magi in their home country as well as any foreign magi that might visit. Known as "Night Demons" for their earlier history as vigilantes and striking from the shadows, the Bam Agma continues to be the highly skilled agents and magi that guard South Korea from anyone or anything that uses magic, as well as ensure that no one accelerates the Decay even further.

## History

The true origins of the Bam Agma are left to myths, and the organization itself does not acknowledge any of the different stories about their origins, simply stating that they are defined by their actions in the present, not the long-forgotten past. Their oldest speculated origin they existed since the Choson Kingdom back in the 100s BC, a band of rag-tag rogue magi that corrected wrongs, helped the poor, and fought against tyranny, all while remaining in the shadows. Others say they were a group that just lied about their roots and just took credit for the actions people have done in the past. The truth may never be known, but the nevertheless remain the main authority of magic in South Korea.

The Bam Agma “emerged from the shadows” and became more organized during the early 1910s when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, and gained a solid hold in South Korea during the 1950s, an era where organized crime rose to power after the Korean War. The Bam Agma’s rise to power coinciding with the rise of the mafioso in South Korea resulted in them striking a deal with the South Korean government and originally started of as crime regulators in the shadows. While outnumbered, their magical capabilities gave them the edge over the ‘lowly kkangpae thugs’ and ‘geondal mafiosos’ These cemented their influence in the South Korean underbelly and they became the "official" overseers of magic in South Korea, being commissioned by the government to protect the country from any magical threat, from North Korean magi infiltrating the country, the stray magical monstrosity, regulating the study of magic and the trade of its resources, and most importantly, being the shadowy enforcers if ever a mage in the country refused to be "Registered" with the government, or if a foreign mage slips in unrecorded and could potentially cause trouble.

Due to their status as the authority on magic, they remain unknown to the Sleeper population of South Korea, and many of its members have cover jobs from different sectors of the government or private sectors. This also provides them better diplomacy with other mage organizations that also act as the magic overseer, such as the Grand Order of Magi, or the officially commissioned magi of different countries. This also means that they are hostile to any organizations that have ties to crime, or bring danger to South Korea through magic.

## Organizational Structure

The Bam Agma is separated into 2 branches the Gwishin Division (Which holds the combat and intelligence agents), and the Girin Division, which handles the archiving of magic knowledge, magical education of magi registered by the Bam Agma, as well as finding or otherwise storing magical artifacts and resources. Each Branch Leader share an equal amount of authority and organizational-wide decisions require agreement between the two, as well as support from their respective subordinates.

The Gwishin Division is led by a "Haetae", who handles different Captains or "Haechi". Each Haechi in turn leads a squad of agents, and each squad handles different specializations, from assassination, intelligence gathering, infiltration, dedicated combat specialists, etc. As South Korean magi have to be registered with the Bam Agma for overall security, the Gwishin are in charge of making sure magi in the country are legally registered and anyone caught practicing magic illegally is dealt with varying degrees of severity, the worst being death.

The Girin Division in turn is led by a Samjoko, who oversee the different "Schools" where magi as secretly trained in by different teachers and instructors who specialize in certain magic. These Schools also double as places were archiving of magical knowledge as well as storing magical artifacts and resources is done. The Girin Division also have special agents who dedicate themselves to exploring the Border Zone and gathering magical resources, which can sometimes result in conflicts with the Sinbijuuijaui Suhoja.

### Recruitment

Since South Korea has the Bam Agma register mages in the country, there's different ways of recruiting new members .

The most common one is having the members from mage families registered in the country to volunteer and sign up to be members of the Bam Agma, since it's government commissioned, it's one way to gain steady income, assuming the mage pass their trials for both knowledge and physical fitness (for the Gwishin division)

Another is having the "Graduates" of the schools set up by the Bam Agma be given the choice to either become part of the Bam Agma or just be an independent but registered mage in the country.

The Bam Agma scouts orphanages for any potential children with magical capabilities, and these are raised to be members of the organization.

Since the Bam Agma only allows Koreans into the organization, there is no method of recruitment for foreigners. The best a foreigner could do is register and be an independent in the country, and stay in good terms with the organization.

## Members

#### Dokkaebi Squad

* Seowoo "Suwon Geomi" Hyun
* Su-jeong "Geumgang" Seo
* Do-eun "Sanyangkkun" Yi
* Mi-rae "Kalnal-ui Byeog" Jin