Design a new Golarion organization (a group of NPCs or monsters with a specific goal or agenda in the world of Golarion) in 400 words using the provided format.

Examples of organizations appear in the Inner Sea World Guide pages 262-271.

Entries must be submitted through the submission tool at paizo.com/rpgsuperstar beginning at 2 PM Pacific time on January 24, 2012, and must be received by 2 PM Pacific time on January 27, 2012. As with Round 1, you probably shouldn't wait until the last minute to submit your organization; Paizo has alternates lined up to submit just in case one of the Top 32 fails to do so.

Voting begins when the submissions are revealed to the public at 2 PM Pacific Time on January 31, 2012. Voting ends at 2 PM Pacific Time on February 6, 2012. Judges will announce the top 16 entries on February 7, 2012.

FORMAT: For your convenience, the following text contains all the necessary formatting to make your submission comparable to those in the Inner Sea World Guide. You should copy this text to help format your submission. Remember that improperly formatted entries may be disqualified. You should not use ALL CAPS for any part of your organization submission (Paizo's header format in books often looks like it is in all caps, but it isn't). See below the example format for an explanation of what goes in each section.

The following text goes in the Subject line of your submission:

Organization Name

The following text goes in the main text box of your submission:

[b]{Organization Name}[/b]
[b]Alignment[/b]: {This lists the overall alignment of the organization and of its leaders. Use the standard one- or two-letter alignment abbreviations such as LE or NE. Variations in alignment can occur among the lower-ranking members, but you do not need to list or explain these variations in your entry.}
[b]Headquarters[/b]: {This lists the name of the faction's headquarters, as well as the region where the headquarters is located. This may be a country, city, or even a specific lair or fortress.}
[b]Leader[/b]: {This lists the name of the faction's current leader. You should not include race, class, or levels here.}
[b]Structure[/b]: {This provides a brief description of the way the faction is organized, such as a multinational corporation, military hierarchy, religious cult, assassin's guild, and so on.}
[b]Scope[/b]: {This lists whether the faction is national (active primarily in one or two nations), regional (active in the entire Inner Sea region), or global (active throughout all of Golarion). Note that a faction with a national scope might have a small number of agents active beyond its national borders but that they generally don't maintain extensive holdings beyond those borders. You only need to say "national," "regional," or "global" here.}
[b]Resources[/b]: {This entry provides a brief list of significant resources the faction controls, such as property, valuable assets, castles, informants, and so on.}
{This section is an approximately 100-word introductory paragraph summarizing the organization.}
[b]Structure and Leadership[/b]
{This section is an approximately 100-word paragraph on this topic.}
[b]Goals[/b]
{This section is an approximately 100-word paragraph on this topic.}
[b]Public Perception[/b]
{This section is an approximately 50-word paragraph on this topic.}

Information in curly quotes like these {} is only there to explain the format and what goes in each section; do not include the curly quotes or the explanatory information in your entry.

(For those watching the competition who don't have the Inner Sea World Guide, here's the entry for the Aspis Consortium - [3.9 MB zip/PDF] so you can see the standard format.)

Note that the organizations in the Inner Sea World Guide are approximately 1,400 words and the above format is only 400 words, therefore your organization writeup must be a lean, stripped-down version of the format presented in the Inner Sea World Guide.

Your organization should be something heroic PCs would normally oppose or come into conflict with, not an organization a typical heroic PC would join. The organization doesn't necessarily have to be villainous, but it should definitely be a potential antagonist.

Your organization must be something you created; it cannot be a writeup of an organization that already exists in a published Paizo product (such as the bloatmages, the Lion Blades of Taldor, or Sczarni).

WORD COUNT: The entire submission (everything that appears in the main text box of your submission, including the name of the organization and the required words of the template such as "Alignment" and "Headquarters") must not exceed 400 words. The submission form includes a Preview button to view what your submission will look like, and will give you a total word count for your submission as part of the subject line. You are strongly encouraged to use the Preview button to review your submission to make sure your submission doesn't exceed the word count. Using the Preview button also lets you check to make sure the formatting (with the included bold-text tags) is correct.
There is some flexibility in the template—the word counts for paragraphs are approximate. For example, you could write 80 words on Goals (instead of 100) and 70 words on Public Perception (instead of 50), but there are limits—submitting 10 words on Goals so you could use the remaining 90 words from that section on Public Perception is taking it too far.

DISQUALIFICATION: Submissions may be disqualified for the following reasons:

• Submission is not an organization. Examples of these invalid submissions are new races, monsters, classes, sorcerer bloodlines, wizard schools of magic (such as "time," "dreams," or "colors"). Your submission must be an organization, not a new game mechanic.
• Submission is an existing Golarion organization published by Paizo.
• Submission exceeds 400 words.
• Submission describes an organization for a world other than Golarion.
• Submission does not conform to the rules of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
• Submission is copied from a previously published source.
• Submission uses copyrighted material from publishers other than Paizo.
• Submission does not generally use correct English.