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Hello!
Looking through my copy of Occult Adventures, I couldn't help notice the 'Order of the Eastern Star' cavalier order and compare it to the 'Knights of the Eastern Star' element of the Knights of the Ioun Star faction in Occult Mysteries.
According to Occult Mysteries, the Eastern Star subfaction was concerned about searching the lands beyond Imperial Azlant's borders looking for secret lore, and the cavalier order presented in Occult Adventures says the order exists to keep dangerous secrets hidden from the world and protect it from horrible threats that are not mortal...
So, my thoughts are this: were the Knights of the Ioun Star originally purposed with finding secret/occult lore and protecting the Empire from otherworldly/alien or aberrant threats, perhaps specifically the Azlanti's Aboleth masters?
In more 'modern' Golarion times, certain elements of the Knights of the Eastern Star are looking for a new prophesized emperor of Azlant in the Windswept Wastes of Casmaron. Could they not only be doing this to restore the empire, but to perhaps defeat the aboleth or otherworldly horrors?
Just wanted to share my musings...seems like a lot of good connection points to me. Wondering if anyone might have any further thoughts, especially connecting the faction to the Dark Tapestry.
The Order of the Eastern Star in Occult Adventures is basically a setting-neutral version. The Knights of the Ioun Star are Golarion-specific.
Yes, though comparing and combining the two from the Golarion standpoint is what I was referring to.
