Disciples of Leviathan

Disciples of Leviathan were a highly dangerous supervillainous group thought to have originally started by a few magi of the Dawnshadow Coven and the Death-Sect of the Harbingers and interested members of Kaos Factor, several years after the Manhattan Incident; It was said that one mage in particular, known only as Videntis used rituals and magic to effect prophetic trances and foresaw the return of Zeroth from the dead after being resurrected as part of his carefully-planned Rite of Dusk and foresaw him commanding a great and powerful beast known as Leviathan.

The DoL remained somewhat quiet amongst various individuals as little more than a quiet cult Zeroth eventually contacted and became the leader of the group and it began amassing a larger gathering than ever before, as of 2020 it is said to have hijacked a potential Imperia Dominus uprising on the Bosnia-Kosovo border and taken territory for itself thanks to The Reverend, who believed the Harbingers' apocalyptic vision of remaking the world anew was foreseen by Videntis, convincing many Dominus to join the cult and become the Soldiers of Shadow.

### **History**

The group was founded as far back as 2007 as little more than a club of various individuals from certain organisations, in fact many saw Videntis' visions as more imagination than magic, as they required a large amount of hallucinogenic substances to focus his magic as far into the future as possible, nevertheless over the years whispers of Zeroth's return livened up the cult, and belief began spreading through various channels and mediums.

One of the surprising number of believers existed within the paramilitary terrorist organisation known as Imperia Dominus, whose numbers were also growing; with help from The Reverend, leader of the Death-Sect of the Harbingers' cult, who had before met Zeroth and knew his mother personally, masqueraded as a Russian orthodox minister, blessing a group of Dominus in the village of Zapadni Mojstir, who were plotting to quietly overtake the area to house vast numbers of their troops and tech by 2011.

Thanks to the Reverend and Videntis' influence the Serbian Imperia Dominus cell grew into more of a cult, and this cult eventually became the Disciples of Leviathan in 2016. When the cell no longer responded to other Dominus cells, a group of Dominus from Kosovo visited the village to try to understand the issue, but the newly appointed Soldiers of Shadow; ex-Imperia Dominus now embroiled in the cult slaughtered them mercilessly.

Since then the group has grown, and even influenced the Serbian and Kosovan governments through corruption and an increase in illicit weapons trade to keep other Dominus cells off their backs.

In 2018 the VALER organisation became aware of the cult thanks to random airwave scans by Drath, who had suspected unusual internet activity in the area; the Kosovan and Serbian governments, however strongly deny the existence of the Disciples of Leviathan and refused VALER a cooperative mission; Volt was also concerned when he had herd word of Zeroth's return many years ago but only seen him a few times; Volt knew that he was concocting something enormous.

### **Purpose**

The goal of the Disciples was to fulfil a prophecy long-predicted by the mage Videntis and the Harbingers that the apocalypse will cleanse the world and a chosen few shall inherit the earth, many believe Zeroth and the entity known as Leviathan are the prime catalysts for the facilitation of this new era.