The Eternal Night

The Eternal Night are a faction operating in the interests of the continent of Ahlus.

## Description

Arguably most enigmatic and oracular of all the groups detailed within this Chapter, the Eternal Night is little known to most in the continent, even more so than the Brotherhood of the Imbrued. Founded shortly after the ingress of Hadar into the Material Plane from the Plane of Dreams via use of the Legacies of the Distant Reverie, the Eternal Night serves as a continuation and inverse of the Last Day, the first group to delve into the depths of Dal Quor.

Influencing from afar, the Eternal Night sometimes makes contact with individuals during their sleep or trance, the group's existence only confirmed after repeated reports of their appearance in the thoughts of high-profile individuals across the continent.

## Goals

The Eternal Night's exact intentions remain as muddling and hazy as the dreamscapes through which they manifest and communicate. Nonetheless, they ultimately seem to entail the patrolling of the Plane of Dreams and those regions that draw close to its borders, seeking out and eliminating potential threats to the sanctity of mortal minds, particularly those of aberrant origin. As such, on the Material Plane the Eternal Night's efforts are most visible within the depths of the Underdark, where illusions are said to prevent adventurers from delving too deeply into the gloom, where the partition between the Material Plane and other Planes of Existence begins to blur.

## Tenets of the Eternal Night

* It is easy to lose one's way when walking in darkness, but light is not always necessary to find the path ahead.
* Imagination is the foundation upon which innovation and initiative derive. Wield creativity as others might a blade.
* There resides a myriad of forces, entities and ideals hidden in distant reaches of existence that are beyond mortal comprehension. Work to ensure they never haunt the minds of those unable to fathom them.

## Relationships

The Eternal Night maintains no formal allies by nature of their own obscurity. Nonetheless, the Eternal Night generally considers themselves on the side of all that reside on the Material Plane, and does maintain a few connections with individuals of note across the continent to aid these efforts.

In dealing with threats uninfluenced or beholden to conventional laws of logic, the Eternal Night's actions have sometimes resulted in unexpected complications when forced to respond to particular machinations. Whether ensuring the destruction of a signmaker's storefront somehow linked to a pocket of the Far Realm or causing an aspiring dancer to oversleep and miss a recital that would eventually result in them falling under the influence of an Elder Evil, their interventions often defy rationalisation and as such are occasionally heralded as a threat by those unaware of their goals.

## Characters

Individuals directly involved with the Eternal Night are very rare, given the group's insular secrecy and lack of outward presence on the Material Plane. Nonetheless, you might have been affected by their actions, or suspect that you have, when an occurrence of little discernible sense set you definitively on a different path.

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