The Fire Rises - Post-Catharsis Europe

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1. #1-- BACKGROUND INFO --
2. #2Davos System (Ultraglobalism)

   Keys: Davos System, Ultraglobalist, Agenda 2040, Great Reset, Ultraglobalism

   Ultraglobalism (AKA The "Davos System") is a set of ideas and principles established and followed by a very limited circle of the richest and most powerful individuals of the world, represented by people such as Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. In the conditions of an ever changing system of the world and the collapse of existing hegemonies, the ultraglobalist elites have come to the conclusion that this process will be fatal for their riches and power, and the only way to preserve them is to take control of the collapse itself and lead it to transform capitalism into an entirely different system. Ultraglobalism strives to establish control over every aspect of human life by means of absolute digitalization and surveillance, mass integration of cybernetics, as well as constructing the total dominance of transnational corporations over the world economy. For decades, such a system was thought to only exist in the minds of those that whisper conspiracies, but now the average person wakes up in a new world, forever changed. Souls will obey, minds will kneel and their bodies will succumb. The mask has slipped, and the world sees its true face. If the only way for you to preserve power is to maintain a collapsing system, how much of humanity are you willing to sacrifice?

3. #3Klaus Schwab

   Keys: Schwab, Klaus Schwab

   Born in Württemberg in 1938, Klaus Schwab was the son of a Swiss industrialist with deep entanglements in the Nazi war machine. His early education was divided between the tranquility of Zürich and the recovering ruins of postwar Germany. His academic trajectory was precise and deliberate. By the 1960s, he held doctorates in both engineering and economics, and a master's from Harvard, where he was mentored by Henry Kissinger. Schwab began teaching business policy in Geneva, but his true legacy would emerge when in 1971, he founded the European Management Forum, an annual summit where billionaires, technocrats, and world leaders could converge to discuss the future. It would later evolve into the organization that now rules Europe under an iron fist.

   Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971 with a singular mission: to cultivate the minds that would "shape global, regional, and industrial agendas". For decades, he has played the long game: quiet conferences, networking, and countless white papers on the fusion of state and the market. Most dismissed him as a harmless futurist. Fools.

   Klaus Schwab spent his life whispering into the ears of prime ministers and presidents, but he has finally stepped from the shadows. As the Commission invites the WEF technocrats to assume control, Schwab offers the culmination of his life's work: under Agenda 2040 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Europe will be rebuilt; not for humans as they are, but for what Schwab insists they must become. Only one question remains:

   Are you ready?

   After Catharsis: Nobody knows where Klaus Schwab went after the Catharsis tore the World Government asunder. Some say he fled to the Land of Ice. Some say he was dragged from his polymer throne and cannibalized. Others say he's hiding in an underground shelter, waiting for the surface-dwellers to slaughter each other before he comes back with an army of cyborgs to reclaim the World Government. Every group seems to have their own idea of where he is, or if he's even alive.

4. #4Russian Federation

   Keys: Russia, Russian, Russian Federation

   The state entity formerly known as the Russian Federation has been split up into various warring states. The World Government seizes much of Western Russia, stopping at the Ural Mountains.

   Considering the state of Europe after Catharsis, it may be safe to assume that even as fractured and battered as it is, Russia may be a safer place to live than what is left of Europe.

5. #5World Economic Forum

   Keys: World Economic Forum, WEF

   The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Geneva Canton, Switzerland. Founded in 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab, the WEF is best known for its annual meeting in Davos, which brings together top business leaders, political figures, economists, academics, journalists, and heads of state from around the world. The forum's stated mission is to "improve the state of the world".

   After Europe's defeat in the First European War to the Russian Federation, the nations of Germany, the Netherlands, Brussels, and Luxembourg vote to federalise the European Union into a nation-state with Volt Europa overwhelmingly voted into power. Schwab and the technocrats then demanded representation in the new government and the implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The technocrats' demands weren't met in time, resulting in a corporate coup taking place with Schwab serving as minister.

   Due to fear and an obsolete bureaucracy, the European Commission was forced to yield more responsibilities to the Administrative Workspaces and Governance Advisory Boards managed by the World Economic Forum. Soon after, Klaus Schwab demanded the Commission President to resign his post, citing that more and more people look to the Davos System and World Economic Forum for leadership, and not the European Commission in Brussels. With the resignation of the Commission President, Klaus Schwab took over as the leader of the European Union, and the World Economic Forum became the governing body of the nation.

   After a European Victory in the Second European War, Schwab reformed the European Union into the despotic World Government based around the Davos System. Due to the nightmarish living conditions of the WEF, the Catharsis occured. The Catharsis caused Schwab's World Government to collapse and Europe fell into a state of anarchy. Only recently have societies began to reemerge.

6. #6World Government

   Keys: World Government

   The World Government was the pan-European state devised by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. It spanned across Europe, ending at the Ural Mountains of the former Russian Federation, the Caucuses, and Anatolia.

   After the Catharsis, the World Government collapsed alongside traditional European identity. In the collective mental vacuum of Europe, new belief systems began to emerge to combat or justify the suffering Europeans faced at the hands of the World Government.

7. #7-- HISTORY --
8. #8First European War

   Keys: First European War

   Right after the death of Vladimir Putin, Russia held a snap election in 2022 to determine who would succeed him. As expected, United Russia led by Dmitry Medvedev won and kept it's grip on power it had for decades.

   Afterwards, Russia successfully conquered Central Asia and the non-Russian Caucasus as well as the annexation of Belarus and the Donbass republics in Ukraine.

   After the United States of America fell into a civil war, NATO lost its main military benefactor and force that ensured unity in the alliance. Rather than standing down however, NATO decided to push back.

   After a string of successes, Russia recognised the independence of the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic in the Donbass region. The two republics are united into a single country called the Federal State of Novorossiya with the Russian army entering the region.

   Without any interference from NATO, Russia decided to push it's luck and invaded Ukraine. Unfortunately for them, border clashes occur at the Polish-Belarusian border, leading to Article 5 of NATO being invoked. Ukraine and Moldova enter NATO.

   After Medvedev won the First European War, Eastern Europe fell under Russian control. Transnistria seized control of Moldova, while Ukraine was dismantled with Novorossiya directly annexed into the Russian Federation and Malorossiya established as a separate entity. Poland was divided between a neutral regime in the west and a Russian puppet government in the east, with Galicia designated as a Russian protectorate.

   Latvia and Estonia were forced to cede their eastern territories to Russia. The Baltic states, Bulgaria, Romania, and Transylvania all became Russian puppet states.

   Russia then influenced Hungary and Slovakia into the CSTO. Russia also held a referendum on whether Novorossiya should join the Russian Federation. Galicia is annexed by the Polish People's Republic.

   Meanwhile, Western Europe descended into chaos as the financial strain of the war crashes the economy. NATO disbanded, and Germany voted to federalize the European Union after an emergency session in the Bundestag, initiating the process of integrating the entire continent of Europe under the EU.

9. #9Second European War

   Keys: Second European War

   After a period of escalation and military buildup from 2021 to 2026, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, which then escalated into the First European War. Russia won the war and conquered Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltics and Eastern Poland.

   Meanwhile snap elections were called in the Bundestag by the Federal Republic of Germany due to the stock market crashing. Volt Europa won a majority of seats and immediately voted for the federalisation of the European Union. The World Economic Forum would then take power from Volt Europa, implementing their Agenda 2040 plan.

   After the vote, the Collective Security Treaty Organization expanded out to encompass Hungary and Slovakia, while the EU expanded to include most of Western and Central Europe. The European Treaty Organization/European Defense Union would be formed by the newly-federalised EU as a successor to the now-dissolved NATO.

   After some time preparing and rearming, the European Union crossed into the Polish People's Republic to start the Second European War. The war ended with Europe victorious, Russia splitting into various splinter states, and Schwab and the World Economic Forum establishing the World Government to keep it's grip over the rest of Europe forever, sparking the Catharsis.

10. #10Catharsis

    Keys: Catharsis, Ultraglobalist War

    Following the ascension of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum as the new President of the European Union, he began to implement Agenda 2040 under the new doctrine of Ultraglobalism, an ideology which aimed to establish total domination of transnational corporations and return humanity back to the feudalist system of old through establishing absolute control over everyday life through mass surveillance. Schwab's WEF began to implant microchips into regular Europeans, which aimed to suppress their human emotions. In addition, Schwab's EU also began to strip any luxuries that were deemed to be unnecessary for humans to survive, with the construction of pod homes and the distribution of insect food to maximize profits and minimizing costs.

    As Schwab continued to carry out Agenda 2040, mass sterilization began to take place as the population within the EU started to decrease drastically. Europe began to stagnate as per the doctrine of Ultraglobalism, and combined with the atrocious living conditions and the degradation of social life, resulted in the worsening tensions between the lower class and the elites, which finally results in a mass uprising shortly after the Second European War, when hordes of Europeans began to resort to extreme violence and open rebellion in order to try and reclaim their human identity.

    This uprising, known simply as the Catharsis, led to the total collapse of the World Government, as tens of millions of European citizens revolted against the state in a desperate bid to reclaim their human dignity.

11. #11--- SACRED CONCEPTS ---
12. #12Capital

    Keys: Sacred Concept: Capital

    The red line goes up, the red line goes down, to the critics and the uneducated, it would seem that the constant commitment to the free market and blind faith in the experts is nothing more than a fundamentalist cult. Those who make the right sacrifices in their lives would be blessed by the market. Culture, family and nation would be seen as nothing more but resources to put a price tag on.

    This couldn't be further from the truth. Was it not Capital that increased the quality of life? Was it not Capital that insured that the weak and the sick could not only survive but also thrive? Under Capital, everyone had a chance to make it.

    Outsiders might see stock markets as cathedrals and traders as ranting in mad numbers, but they're more than that.

    It is easy to blame Capital for the woes of the commoner, but was it not the commoner who plunged the continent into a deep abyss of terror?

    The market is unfeeling, but in its indifference there is a lack of contempt just as much, for as long as one human breathes, there'll be Capital.

    It pulled humanity out of the mud of ignorance, and it will do so again.

13. #13Order

    Keys: Sacred Concept: Order

    Anarchy in the streets, chaos in the mind, and death on the body.

    the mayhem in Europe has proven one thing: the human race is inherently cruel and without the right corrections, it will go haywire and break the palace of mirrors, which is civilization.

    Order is more than just a pillar of society; it is something we inherently crave. Certainty, safety, and authority are one of the many hallmarks of a healthy world. Its detractors would state that true freedom lies in the indulgence of chaos, yet like any wild child, it would run back into the open arms of its parents.

    Order serves that exact purpose, the wild and the cruel have had their fun, and it is up to Order to clean up the toy room of Europe. Each street is under constant surveillance, aggression is snuffed out, and the rows of armored men and women march over the broken bones of carnage.

    The desire to be violent will be redirected into rebuilding a broken continent.

14. #14Purity

    Keys: Sacred Concept: Purity

    Human nature has proven itself to be an animal that was never meant to leave the cage, like the apple that was given, the beast that is man has squandered the chance to reach the next step of civilization. The canvas has been made incomprehensible with the amount of colors splashed onto it. Purity is the brush that is deemed necessary to restrain the human soul; these restrictions have proven to be fruitful in the long run.

    Animalistic urges will be phased out, and transgressive forms of self-expression are considered taboo as each individual will be molded into a porcelain copy of itself, perfect, without any cracks.

    Witnessing the horrors of the European anarchy has driven people to miss the days of the World Government, and they'd rally behind the idea that purity is an ideal worth chasing, a new set of sensibilities and guidelines are set in stone to ensure that the fangs of man will never grow sharp, to ensure that there'd be no repeat of the same carnal outbreak.

    Purity will unite the fragments of humanity, sterile, unflinching, and moral.

15. #15--- BELIEFS ---
16. #16Aeonic Revanchism

    Keys: Aeonic Revanchism

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    On a collective level, humanity is a singular entity that has endured every form of torment across centuries, every nail driven into it, despair, anguish, hunger and pain.

    Somewhere, sometime, the blame for all of this will be put on something or someone.

    Aeonic Revanchism explores the idea that all of human existence is a form of punishment from a divine being, that reality itself is a prison meant to entrap the many souls of existence. Eventually, that inward pain will turn outward, the pierced body will turn outward, the pierced body will carry that accumulated resentment like armor, and ensure others will feel that same pain, right before total annihilation.

    The World Economic Forum was the final nail in the coffin that let the human experience bloom into something far more monstrous than the beast they tried to tame.

    Only through virtuous (self)-destruction will the soul become free, and the European wild lands have left behind enough tombs that carry the key to complete nothingness. Will the pain end, the last laugh of a species under the torture of such a being?

    Let us meet together, under the event horizon.

17. #17Anthropocentric Humanism

    Keys: Human Supremacy, Anthropocentric Humanism

    Sacred Concept: Capital

    When humanity huddled together around the fire that warms all, it would be without a doubt that the human race would attain greater heights.

    Planting a flag on the moon, surviving certain death on multiple occasions, and withstanding the shackling of the soul, the belief that the human race would stand above all forms of misery and chaos would be quick to spread across Europe

    Anthropocentric Humanism, dubbed "Human Supremacy" among simpler tongues, it sees humanity as a painting that is beautiful in all its strengths and flaws, every stroke, every color, and every scar is part of a bigger picture; it seeks to mend the wounds left behind by the Great Reset and to prevent any further wounds.

    Progress is non-negotiable; the human race will prevail, and its ideals are to be kept pure as the torch of optimism burns away the rot of nihilism and ignorance. Humanity is forged in the image of god and through the blend of universal mysticism and militant rationality, the paradise that is Earth can be reclaimed again.

18. #18Carnal Collectivism

    Keys: Carnal Collectivism

    Sacred Concept: Order

    When bearded men huddled together in cafes and libraries covered with cobwebs, they attempted to dissect the human soul the same way the Davos System tried to, but their plans never came to fruition.

    Carnal Collectivism is the evolved/devolved variant of left-wing thought the heavily favors in-group preference, the same way a pack of wolves would behave. Originating from the few leftist insurgents who treated revolution as a tool of punishment rather than liberation, their cruelty has left an impact on their successors as their ideals have become muddied and twisted to fit the desires of the collective. Each adherent is part of a singular organism meant to feed on other organisms, such as tribes towns, and even countries, to grow stronger.

    Individualism has been deemed an impurity; a cut finger is reattached to heal, and in turn, humanity will heal the same way, whether one wants to or not

19. #19Cathartic Nihilism

    Keys: Cathartic Nihilism

    Before there was fire, there was blood, before there was order, there was chaos. The scars left behind by the World Economic Forum were bound to last forever, and with the mass violence in Europe overtaking the continent it would be without a doubt that people have become so shellshocked from the stagnation and repression of the human experience that there'd be thousands who would wish the party would never end.

    Cathartic Nihilism is a loose term to describe the belief held in the European anarchy that the purest form of humanity is depravity, violence, and the quest to sate one's urges. Tribal squabbles over concrete blocks, lethal tug-o-wars, and parties with a violent climax. From warlords to tribes, from cults to bandit clans, every day is a new color, and in the wild lands of Europe, deeper thought is weakness.

    Eventually, there'll be one group, tribe, or cult that'll be cruel enough to rise above the rest, and the world will be faced with another nightmare as it develops into an ideal destined to spread across the zeitgeist.

    But for now, hunger will be sated, thirst will be quenched, and the cold will be eradicated.

20. #20Corporate Tribalism

    Keys: Corporate Tribalism

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    Many corporations under the world government were quick to be swayed to the side of Capital, Order and Purity, however the creeping sense of guilt was equally as fast to set into the leading figures of several national corporations and as the flames of change engulfed the continent, the shackles of the Davos system were broken.

    Corporate Tribalism isn't as primitive as one would believe, it's a system where old corporations wear the skin of a lost culture to rally more people behind its cause, ranging from regional dominance to cultural liberation or the endless gain of Capital. However, due to the damage done by the World Government, these corporate cultures take on strange forms as the uplifting or mixing of more obscure identities has become quite common, leading to a completely new culture and identity of the people living within its borders.

    Although far from destructive or restrictive in comparison to the old system that kept Europe in chains, it still espouses cultural supremacy and militant dominance over its lesser neighbors.

    Directors are akin to warlords, and the board is akin to its wise men; the red line has crashed into the ground, but with a proper hose, it will rise again.

21. #21Cosmic Escapism

    Keys: Cosmic Escapism

    Sacred Concept: Capital

    Hell is real, and hell is here.

    History has left behind its fair share of wounds, some turn into scars and valuable lessions, while others simply refuse to heal at all.

    Cosmic Escapism explores the idea that the planet Earth is a temporary cradle for sentient species to grow up in, stay for too long, and stagnation kicks in. the World Government has proven that a lack of spirit and a lack of community are the death knell for any civilization. If the human race cannot spread its wings in the vastness of space, then it will perish.

    The artificial light of the new normal has stirred a hunger to see the night sky at its purest. The stars and planets are beautiful, and it would be inevitable that thousands would want to see them up close.

    Blending the more favorable aspects of techno-optimism and syncretism between various smaller faiths and philosophies.

    In addition to believing in humanity's cosmic destiny, the possibility of immortality, an the ability to control nature and explore space using scientific and technological advancements, it encourages all resources to be redirected to leave the Earth as soon as possible, even if it would hurt the world and the ones left behind in the process.

    The world is dying, let the cosmos embrace us.

22. #22Maternal Despotism

    Keys: Maternal Despotism

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    Maternal Despotism is the belief that the natural state of humanity is not liberty, but submission to care. It holds that people, overwhelmed by choice and broken by chaos, do not crave freedom, they yearn to be held, guided, absorbed.

    To protect the innocent, the willful must be subdued. To preserve peace, dissonance must be removed at the root. Harmony is not permitted, it is imposed. Progress is not exploration, it is alignment. And mercy, when it tolerates rebellion, becomes betrayal; a crack in the shell through which poison seeps.

    Those who resist the embrace, who cling to their jagged freedom, are not punished, they are silenced. Not with wrath, but with surgical affection. The Mother does not scream. She hums lullabies while she sews shut the mouths of dissenters, buries them in soft beds of silence. Love is not a question: it is the final answer. The womb is shelter, but it is also the tomb.

23. #23Nocturnal Primitivism

    Keys: Nocturnal Primitivism

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    Nocturnal Primitivism is the ideological rejection of light as the ultimate symbol of control. From the first oil lamp to the infinite glow of digital screens, light has become a weapon wielded by the World Economic Forum and its technocratic offspring: a tool to pacify, distract, and blind.

    Billboards. Neon. Surveillance lights. Flashing lights in places where instinct should rule. It strips away our predatory edge and turns us into passive prey, stumbling in the glow like dazzled animals. The answer is simple: reject the light. Abandon the glow of modernity and return to the shadow that birthed us.

    Allow us to reject the light, allow us to rejoice in the darkness. Allow us to live like hunters, not like prey. Allow us to stop chasing something that burns our flesh and soul, and to embrace our true nature.

24. #24Parasocial Fundamentalists

    Keys: Parasocial Fundamentalists, Parasocial Fundamentalism

    Sacred Concept: Capital

    Before the release of Catharsis, the old cultures, traditions, and particularly religions were nigh-obliterated to ensure social cohesion. The constant consumption of internet media soon filled the void, thanks particularly to the inherent parasocial bond between viewers and streamers. Even as the Davos System (and with it access to the internet in many regions of Europe) collapsed, these bonds would persist and supersede themselves into organized religion.

    Parasocial Fundamentalists take on many different creeds, depending on the former online community that preceded them. Some groups see an influencer as a messianic figure, a perfect being that will save them from the terrors of Catharsis. Others, particularly if the creators were characters in presentation, take on roles expected of "Gods of the gaps", worshiped for select purposes.

    As memes become mantras and clips become scripture, so too Interpretatio Graeca make these echoes of the digital fro into a new Olympian pantheon of their own?

25. #25Paternal Despotism

    Keys: Paternal Despotism

    Sacred Concept: Order

    Paternal Despotism is the belief that the natural state of humanity is not liberty, but dependence. It posits that people, disoriented by modernity and broken by catastrophe, do not desire autonomy, they crave protection, guidance, and structure.

    Freedom is considered an indulgence, a luxury that breeds chaos when unearned. Discipline is held as sacred, and love is expressed through hardship. A good father does not explain: he acts. And those under him obey not out of fear, but from a belief that only through obedience can survival be guaranteed.

    To protect the many, restraint must be imposed on the few. To preserve order, desire must yield to duty. Harmony is not spontaneous, it is enforced. Progress is not freedom, it is direction. And kindness, when it forgets limits, becomes cruelty in disguise, an invitation to laze around and not enjoy the constant struggle that life imposes.

26. #26Post-Dialogic Nihilism

    Keys: Post-Dialogic Nihilism

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    Debate is poison. Committees are tumors. Bureaucracy is a disease.

    The World Economic Forum represented all three of these tenets in its mad drive to ensure societal cohesion through suppression. Endless committees dedicated to even the most minute of issues - malignant rat kings of bureaucratic bloat - several day long debates which led to non-solutions. All of this, manufactured to enforce complicity within the World Government.

    Post-Dialogic Nihilism is a complete rejection of committees, bureaucracy, and formal debate. Followers of Post-Dialogic Nihilism often work together to pursue a better society, much like democracies of old - but with collective effort comes disagreement. Humanity was never meant to debate on issues, never meant to stifle itself with discussion. Rather than going through the debates, committees, and bureaucrats that plagued the WEF, Post-Dialogic Nihilism proposes that even the smallest arguments must end in one way: with the corpse of the opposition layed before the victim's feet.

    What stops you from going out and stomping the head of your enemy? From ending a feud with the splatter of blood and the stain of grey matter on your soles? Nothing. Strength is given to those on the right side of history. It is your duty to exert it over those who are wrong.

27. #27Post-National Militarism

    Keys: Post-National Militarism

    Sacred Concept: Order

    The world moved on yet we remain. The struggle we fought through was not in vain. The corpses burn, the flowers bloom. We shall turn this continent into their tomb.

    Post-National Militarism is the forms remnants of CSTO and their sympathizers that that did not abandon their struggle took. When they first met the Cathartic masses, they were seen as potential allies against the common enemy. Yet it soon dawned on Eastern Europeans: These sheep did not understand the art of war. Disgusting pretenders, content in needless sadism, forgetting about efficiency. They did not understand. Of course they didn't. They forgot the feeling of dread while shooting down a drone horde flying at you. They forgot the feeling of relief when your thermobaric weapon turned an enemy encampment to ash. So these animals were put down. They were nothing but a hindrance to their war effort. Even as the WEF was burnt to the ground the fight did not stop. The rabid mutts plaguing the continent think wallowing in their self-inflicted psychosis will free them of guilt? the names of the heroes will not be forgotten. The sacrifices will not be brushed aside. If the future history books do not wish to remember them, the soldiers will make sure they have to. Europe will become a colorful canvas in celebration of their lives.

28. #28Post-Traumatic Pacifism

    Keys: Post-Traumatic Pacifism

    Catharsis emerged as the greatest outlet for humanity throughout its history. The collapse of the World Economic Forum unleashed an array of indulgences comprehensible only to those who fully embraced their primal nature. Rivers of blood triggered massive surges of endorphins in the brain. Driven by an insatiable thirst to experience every earthly pleasure, people sank deeper into this abyss until their minds succumbed, leaving them as mindless husks guided solely by instinct.

    Yet, as with any party, a hangover follows. In the wake of the Catharsis, scattered groups of survivors abruptly found themselves in an alien world. Cast adrift and surrounded by predators in human form, ravenous for sensation, they resolved to resist becoming like them. They sought refuge in remote sanctuaries-dense mountain forests or impassable swamps-where they began to rebuild their lives anew.

    Adherents of Post-Traumatic Pacifism claim neither glory nor the sole truth of their philosophy. They lead simple lives in communes, tucked away in hard-to-reach places, striving to forget the horrors of the Catharsis. Despite their commitment to peace, these groups are prepared, in rare instances, to resort to violence. Such actions are taken only when the lives of their community members are at stake and no other means of resolution exist.

29. #29Pseudo-Thanatism

    Keys: Pseudo-Thanatism, the Numb, Numb Horde

    While Catharsis has brought clarity and absolution to some, others have proven too brittle in spirit, too fractured in mind, to be freed. Their purging failed, not through defiance, but through collapse. What remains of them is neither fully human nor entirely machine, but something else: a fractured mind of nervous systems caught in recursive loops of violence and instinct.

    A Numb Horde is the perfect materialization of Pseudo-Thanatism, what's left when humanity fails. A sprawling mass of bodies moving like a half-broken machine, slow and inefficient, yet terrifying in its relentless advance. It doesn't think. It doesn't feel. It doesn't care. It just is, a blunt instrument of destruction powered by inertia and whatever fragile instinct keeps it moving forward.

    There's no purpose to the horror, no grand design. Just blind, unthinking force smashing through anything that stands in tis way. It's not even revenge. It's failure made flesh, and there's nothing left inside but emptiness.

    They say the Numb Horde is what happens when salvation isn't meant for you. A cruel reminder that some wounds aren't meant to heal, some minds aren't meant to be saved. And no matter how much you try to bury the past, it'll rise again: dumb, hungry, and utterly without mercy.

30. #30Racial Apotheosis

    Keys: Racial Apotheosis

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    No matter how much one's past is buried, it is always bound to come back. One of the World Economic Forum's greatest challenges was to suppress the desire for national, racial and cultural identities. The family stood in the way of the Forum; people wanted to belong somewhere, anywhere.

    Racial Apotheosis is the belief that one's tribe or people is divine, originating from long-forgotten mythos or an origin crafted from the ruins of Europe. Encouraging rapid and aggressive expansion among its adherents, rampant hatred towards strangers, and a guaranteed sense of belonging to something greater than themselves, its influence across the European zeitgeist cannot be underestimated.

    It is not a question of whether one's past did exist in the first place, but rather the question of why it never did. Through the creation of a myth, people have found an ideal to rally behind, an ideal worth living for, worth dying for.

    Nations crumble, empires collapse, but people, people remain forever.

31. #31Revolutionary Aristocracy

    Keys: Revolutionary Aristocracy

    Sacred Concept: Capital

    During the first weeks of Catharsis, the wealthy were among the first to be torn to shreds by the hungry masses, rich neighborhoods became playgrounds for those who craved revenge for their lost future. Primarily groups that would be considered leftist. Eventually, the masses started to mimic the same families they skinned alive, reenacting what they believed to be the behavior of those who stood above them for decades. Their old lives left behind, drowning in the crumbling excess of those they slaughtered.

    Having lost sight of the more egalitarian aspects of leftism and with the inherent hunger towards any form of relief at the cost of others, it'd be inevitable that a Revolutionary Aristocracy would form within these groups, a select group of the most depraved individuals that'd guide their "comrades", "brothers and sisters" towards another day without hunger, thirst and cold.

    To the outside world, it is nothing more than the justification for hedonistic practices that blends the aesthetic of leftist groups and Capital. Internally, however, it is the logical conclusion to barbarism, a way to inflict the same terror that Capital inflict the same terror that Capital inflicted on the starving masses, a reflection of its greatest sins.

    Thirty pieces of silver, worthless.

32. #32Violent Gnosticism

    Keys: Violent Gnosticism

    Sacred Concept: Capital

    Observe the mayhem, and see that it is good. Not all are carnal without purpose; between the sharp blades and bloody concrete, the idea that one is a nobody, a number within an algorithm to sate the urges of higher beings, has been violently rejected.

    Catharsis has evolved into something else, but into what? A divine being that pulls the strings? The next step in human philosophy? An infectious idea?

    People have latched onto it because it turns nobody into somebody; the true path to paradise lies through accepting and indulging all human passion. Although not carrying an official name, Violent Gnosticism is one of the more accurate terms to describe the belief that the chaos in Europe was necessary to prevent the extinguishing of the human soul, and making brutal efforts to build up a new society on the depravity of the European wild lands is simply another step towards bringing in a new age.

    Proof that in the very end, Someone or something, on the bones of the world, was the best of the best. The last conqueror to conquer.

33. #33Warrior Occultism

    Keys: Warrior Occultism

    Sacred Concept: Purity

    The anarchy helped humanity realize its true purpose is constant conflict, never ending bloodshed to appease the Gods. Colosseums replace the football stadiums of old, pilgrimages to simply find new rivals to battle, and churches build from the wreckage of old war machines are a common sights in the lands of the warrior cults.

    A man is akin to an unfinished blade, and Warrior Occultism claims he must be perfected and sharpened through battle and bathed in the blood of those who oppose him, humanity has known the warmth of war since its birth, looking for flesh to cleave and honor to earn. War is the one unchanging factor of man, a constant passion of mankind and the battlefield home to all who are prepared to fight and for this very reason some savages of Europe have grown to worship it.

    Altars of skulls ad blades are erected to please the deities of violence they praise so passionately. The only way to achieve enlightenment is through combat, for in war a man shows his true raw brutal nature.

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