Head: Factor Kesto Brighteyes
Description: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Faction broadsheet now in circulation! No longer will you greybeards and rounders have to put up with the dross in that rag, the SIGIS, now you can have a nice high brow publication.
Role in the Cage[]
The Fifteen Chanters branch is the foil to the SIGIS. The Athar, adept at keeping away from the prying eyes of False-Powers and their proxies, are naturally quite good at being investigative journalists. Course, they also ran the city Scriptorium before, and have just repurposed it with the new, handwritten, premium broadsheet of the Cage.
For the bloods on the make, the Fifteen Chanters is the paper of choice. While new, the paper has taken every care to make certain its information is correct, concisely written, and made of good quality materials, all finished with an Athar scribes flourish. Even if it isn't full of exciting news, it certainly makes a basher look important.
Factor Kesto Brighteyes runs the branch, a famed gnome illusionist who used to run the Parted Veil, a bookshop in the Lower Ward. As a proponent of "all knowledge for all peoples", he's keen to reveal the darks on the False-Powers, but also the rest of the Multiverse and the Factions.
Anyone who has the talent, and a thirst for the scoop, is welcome along at the Fifteen Chanters, Athar or no. Though editorial permission is not "whatever bubber you can find at the B&J to print your screed", Factor Kesto has been heard saying. No, instead the Factor and his Factorals edit the articles meticulously, keeping a proper standard to the works printed.
Philosophy[]
Factor Kesto might not see eye to eye with Terrance personally, but his philosophy isn't far off the Faction orthodoxy. He believes that knowledge, all knowledge, should be acquired and shared to the betterment of all. When bashers know the fallibility of the False-Powers and their minions, they'll start thinking it's not really worth the hassle.
The branch call themselves 'Truthers', a philosophy less about the nature of knowledge, it's study and the rationale behind belief, but the pure acquisition and dispensation of it. The truth is out there, we just need to find every source of it we can and share, belief in what is factually correct is more important than belief in some observable entity that can fling a few fancy spells. How do they square that with the Great Unknown? "Easy," says Kesto, "the truth of the Great Unknown can be uncovered by observing the known Multiverse. It's clear that some high divinity must exist once you start digging into the mechanics and natures of the Planes."