Conscience of Earth

The Conscience of Earth is a Hunter Organization.

Overview

The collective calling itself the Conscience of Earth travels throughout North America and preaches to any who would hear its message. The group remains tight-lipped to any curious imbued, however. Members travel in two separate groups, the first of which - the "Guides" - arrives in a city by night. The "Huntsmen" follow in two RVs. The scouts comb the city for two nights preceding the others' arrival, seeking out and tracking whatever supernatural beings cross their paths. Trails left by their quarry are often a signal to observant local hunters that the imbued are at work in the city.

The Huntsmen typically arrive at a city on a Friday afternoon and locate a public park likely to draw weekend crowds. They erect a pavilion and collect what information the Guides have uncovered. Free refreshments and pamphlets greet early park visitors. The handouts vaguely and innocuously detail the promises of enlightenment to be found in "the message." At midday, the Huntsmen cajole listeners into the "shade of the tent" to await the message's delivery.

The group's orator us Elias, a tall, robust man with piercing eyes and a talent for reading a crowd and tailoring his sermon to its interests. Though his speeches are presented in a revival vein, they do not involve fire-and-brimstone vitriol. Elias' message offers a path to "awareness, enlightenment and spiritual evolution," but warns those "spiritual misers who would remain in the cancerous cells of the social norm," rather than join the developing "collective soul of humankind." Elias sprinkles his homilies with vague references to "shadows in our midst," allusions that become slightly more concrete upon each return engagement. The preacher delivers the word twice each Saturday and Sunday, in the afternoon and evening. The Huntsmen then pack up the tent and the Conscience of Earth moves on to its next destination.

Any curious supernatural creature attending one of Elias' sermons leaves a Trail as it departs, courtesy of vigilant Huntsmen. Guide do not provoke encounters with the monsters unless forced to. Their goal is to pierce the guises and observe the activities of such beings and report them to the Huntsmen, who consequently possess detailed files on several known monsters throughout the country. Similarly, Elias does not seek to win immediate converts to the Conscience of Earth, a fact he makes explicit during his speeches. Rather, he slowly exposes his listeners to the truth of the world, one scintilla at a time, so that when the reckoning comes, hinters and humanity will emerge victorious and the next age of man can begin.

The Conscience of Earth hunters consider themselves beyond mere revolutionaries against dark forces. They believe themselves to be evolutionaries taking the next step in man's ascension toward true divinity. Whether the Messengers are preternatural representations of humanity's collective unconsciousness, or the very same devas, bodhisattvas and angels of which Elias speaks in his sermons is a subject of some debate within the group. Current consensus holds that the Messengers are indeed entities with a complex agenda, and that the hunters are their avatars on Earth. Yet the discomforting question remains: If Elias preaches the truth about the Messengers' goal for hunters and humanity, why do other hunters have such differing views on the imbuing and its benefactors?

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