Looking for well known secret societies in Golarion

[Zomburs]

Im thinking of playing a character in carrion crown who is a conspiracy theorist and likes to preemptively blame unknown things upon the machinations of secret societies. The problem is I dont know of many! This is where you come in! What secret societies in Golarion should I add to my repertoire of suspects!

[Cheapy]

Well known secret societies?

head explodes

[Varthanna]

I'd take out "secret" and just stick with "organizations".

The Hellknights did it!
The Aspis Consortium is to blame!
Clearly, this is the result of the Shadow Lodge!
There must be the Whispering Way nearby!
No doubt the schemes of Pactmasters!

As there are probably 100 organizations on the wiki, I'd print out a list and just roll a d100 to see what organization my character blames. Or maybe give bigger/vendetta'd orgs more percentile.

[Dark_Mistress]

Likely my society is to blame. :)

[Gorbacz]

Bellflower Network. They're behind *everything*.

[Fromper]

The Pathfinder Society! Those thugs are behind everything!

[Wiki Ad]

Varthanna wrote:

As there are probably 100 organizations on the wiki, I'd print out a list and just roll a d100 to see what organization my character blames. Or maybe give bigger/vendetta'd orgs more percentile.

115 actually

[Son of the Veterinarian]

If you're playing the character straight then in Carrion Crown he should blame everything on either the Whispering Way, The Knights of Ozem, or The Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye.

If you want him to be a bit weird have him blame The Imperial Union of Breeders for everything.

[Rory_N]

Fromper wrote:

The Pathfinder Society! Those thugs are behind everything!

This made me laugh.

My favorite secret societies are the ones that no one actually knows about. I'm not saying that to be a smart-a or anything, it just holds more interest when a group of PCs stumbles into the hideout of a local religious cult that they know absolutely nothing about. But as far as the original post here, I'd have to agree with Son of the Vetrinarian above and go with one of those fairly well known groups/societies.

[Andrew R]

So basically you want to be like the folks that think the freemasons are behind everything and trying to take over. Pathfinders is the most obvious choice

[Set]

The Golarion equivalent of the Bilderberg Group meets in Karse, on the first Oathday in Abadius, to chart the economic and socio-political futures of the Inner Sea.

[Fromper]

Andrew R wrote:

So basically you want to be like the folks that think the freemasons are behind everything and trying to take over. Pathfinders is the most obvious choice

I was (somewhat) serious when I suggested the Pathfinder Society for this. As long as it's not an organized play (Pathfinder Society) game, it actually fits.

[Leo_Negri]

The Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye - Golarian's answer to both the Free Masons (Egyptian, excuse me Osirian trappings and all) and Scientology. Just imagine a splinter group of the EOPE would be like if it was contacted / co-opted by a group of Mi-Go, say a group related to those active in:

Spoiler:

Illmarsh from Wake the Watcher, Carrion Crown, Pt IV.

Scary thought isn't it. Conspiracies within conspiracies.

[jason schultz 848]

i like to use the ASPIS they seem to have the most fex and easy to put in anywhere.