The Bleak Cabal are a faction who believe that the multiverse has no ultimate meaning, it just is. Any meaning has to come from the individual, not from the outside.
History[]
- 374 BFHR: The Bleak Cabal take over the city's asylum, renaming it the Gatehouse, based on a rumor has it that it sits at the edge of the Lady's Mazes.[1]
- 371 BFHR: A man emerges from the Maze in which he was trapped, and seems confused. He's taken to the Gatehouse where he's placed in a cell. The Bleak Cabal name him Gifad.[2][3][4]
- 27 YFHR: Around this time, the Bleak Cabal open up an almshouse at the Gatehouse, and open it to the poor and lost.[1][5]
- 30 YFHR: "Modern" records begin at the Gatehouse. Bleak Cabal Factol Tollysalmon personally notes that Gifad is the oldest resident, and perhaps the first in the Gatehouse's Criminally and Irretrievably Insane wing.[6]
- 97 YFHR: The last known mass Grim Retreat -- the strange illness which impacts Bleakers -- happens around this time. [1]
- 124 YFHR: Half-orc Lhar becomes factol of the Bleak Cabal.[7][1]
Previous factols:
Philosophy[]
The multiverse ain't supposed to make sense; there's no grand scheme, no deep meaning, no elusive order. The only truth worth finding lies within.
Role[]
The Bleakers look after the Gatehouse, an asylum in Sigil's Hive Ward. Although it's long looked after the mad, in the last century the Cabal have started ministering to the needy, and have set up an almshouse and an orphanage within.
Membership[]
Background Information[]
Known Factotums:
- Jurrese[11]
Known Factors:
References[]
- 2nd Edition
- Planescape: Planescape Campaign Setting, p. 18, A Player's Guide to the Planes
- Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 26-37
- Planescape: The Planewalker's Handbook, p. 66
- Planescape: Planescape Campaign Setting, p. 18, A Player's Guide to the Planes
- 5th Edition
- Planescape: Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse, p. 23, Sigil and the Outlands
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 28
- ↑ Planescape: Faction War, p. 36
- ↑ Planescape: Faction War, p. 101
- ↑ Planescape: Faction War, p. 102
- ↑ Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 30
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Planescape: Faction War, p. 97
- ↑ Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 26
- ↑ Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 122
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 36
- ↑ Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 37
- ↑ Planescape: The Planewalker's Handbook, p. 58
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Planescape: The Factol's Manifesto, p. 31
| Planescape Factions | |
|---|---|
| AD&D 2nd Edition | |
| Pre-Faction War: | Athar · Believers of the Source · Bleak Cabal · Doomguard · Dustmen Fated · Fraternity of Order · Free League · Harmonium · Mercykillers |
| Post-Faction War: | Believers of the Source + Sign of One → Mind's Eye |
| D&D 5th Edition | |
| Ascendant Factions: | Athar · Bleak Cabal · Doomguard · Fated Fraternity of Order · Hands of Havoc · Harmonium · Heralds of Dust |
| Minor Factions: | Free League · Incanterium · Ring Givers |
| Nowhere: | Coterie of Cakes · Revolutionary League · Undivided |