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==== Members ====

It wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say that the new breed of Marduk are all jut jawed heroic defenders of humanity, rather this is the ideal they try to live up to. Here one falls, tempted by the conspiracy within Marduk or his own vices. Another armours her delicate idealism beneath bitterness and cynicism while a third drowns the horrors he has seen with drink. Yet here is one who manages to be everything Marduk claims of its members. 

Neither are all members are two fisted men of adventure. Marduk employs researchers and engineers to keep itself equipped; academics, genealogists and historians to uncover secrets and track the blood of the Wicked Tribe while social manipulators discredit cults and expose hideous rituals. Many of these are also trained combatants but just as many are not, working in the background as support to there more active field teams. 

And the conspiracy isn’t dead yet. As much as thirty percent may still be oppressing humanity or perusing blasphemous studies but mostly they try to pull the strings of their more idealistic peers. Entire cells of idealists may unwittingly play to the script of one or two conspirators but these days more often than not “manipulation” merely means following and waiting for an opportunity to grab some of the spoils.