View source for Dark Brotherhood of the Edge of Darkness

Origin:  scenario "[[Edge of Darkness]]"

Short Description:  A small group of friends led by Marion Allen, playfully calling themselves "The Dark Brotherhood", began meeting in the early spring of 1881 to conduct half-hearted, amateurish, and generally ineffective occult experiments.


==History and Scope==
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===Identification, Psychology and Behavior===
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==Resources==
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===Tomes, Artifacts, Sites===
* tome:  ''[[Journal of the Dark Brotherhood]]''
* tome:  ''[[De Vermis Mysteriis]]
* artifact:  [[Powder of Ibn-Ghazi]] 
* artifact:  small, gold, sarcophagus-shaped box inscribed with hieroglyphs and [[Mu]]ic Runes
* location:  a small [[Ross's Corners]] farmhouse
* organization:  has minor ties to the [[Chapel of Contemplation]] cult by way of Marion Allen

===Allies, Creatures and Deities===
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* [[Human Cultist]]s
** Robert Menkin, died March 1882 in Ross' Corners of a broken neck gained in a freak carriage accident
** Harold Copley, died August 1882 in [[Danvers Asylum]] after a bout of madness incurred when Robert Menkin died earlier that year
** Marion Allen, unofficial cult leader, murdered under mysterious circumstances in Arkham in August 1883
** Crawford Harris, died July 1915
** Cecil James, died March 1924
** Rupert Merriweather, died during "[[Edge of Darkness]]" scenario in 1928

===Other Resources===
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==Heresies and Controversies==
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* Marion Allen may have been involved in some mysterious way with the [[Chapel of Contemplation]] cult.  ("[[Edge of Darkness]]")
* There may have been other members of the "Dark Brotherhood" who were not present at the ritual performed in "[[Edge of Darkness]]".
* The "Dark Brotherhood" may have conducted other botched experiments and had other occult misadventures, leaving a trail of problems to clean up in their wake. (fan theory)
* After the events of 1882, the "Dark Brotherhood" may have made occasional, half-hearted attempts at Mythos investigation, to try to keep Mythos artifacts out of the hands of those who might abuse them, and interfere with other cultists; these efforts may have gotten Marion Allen murdered; the Dark Brotherhood may thus have accumulated a small collection of Mythos tomes and artifacts, as well as clues to further occult investigations in various states of completion and neglect, and a small number of cultist enemies.  (fan theory)

==Keeper Comments==
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* The "Dark Brotherhood" could be used as framing device for a small campaign involving that assumes the "cult" has been involved in a number of half-baked occult and/or anti-Mythos misadventures that the investigators could follow-up on, cleaning up any other failed experiments and other problems left behind by the group.


==Quotes==
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==Appearances==
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* Call of Cthulhu Scenario: "[[Edge of Darkness]]"

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