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Zachariah Trench was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Control succeeding Broderick Northmoor. During his tenure, Trench oversaw significant changes in the Bureau's infrastructure and management.

Zachariah Trench, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Control in Control, is a middle-aged man with a mature, slightly weathered appearance. He has short, dark brown hair that is beginning to gray, particularly around the sides, and a receding hairline. His face is broad and lined, with a prominent nose, a defined jaw, and a short beard showing noticeable gray and white hairs. He wears rectangular eyeglasses.

Trench typically dresses in a formal black or dark charcoal business suit, paired with a white shirt and a dark tie. A small Federal Bureau of Control insignia is attached to his suit, identifying his position within the organization. His clothing is conservative and practical, consistent with the appearance of a senior government official. He has an average build and carries himself with a relatively reserved, upright posture.

Zachariah Trench, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Control in Control, is a serious, reserved, and authoritative man. He is pragmatic and accustomed to making decisions under pressure, approaching his responsibilities with a strong sense of duty. His years within the Bureau have made him familiar with the unusual and dangerous phenomena it investigates, and he generally treats his work as a matter of necessity rather than curiosity.

Trench is also deeply suspicious and guarded. He has difficulty trusting others and tends to keep his thoughts and concerns to himself. His position places him under considerable pressure, and his growing distrust of those around him contributes to his increasingly isolated outlook. He is cautious about the intentions of others, often interpreting events through the lens of potential threats and hidden motives.

Despite his authoritative position, Trench is not portrayed as entirely confident or emotionally detached. He struggles with uncertainty, fear, and the weight of his responsibilities. His recordings and appearances reveal a man whose judgment becomes increasingly compromised as he loses his sense of control over the Bureau and the events unfolding within it.

Zachariah Trench began his career in law enforcement, and ultimately worked his way up the ranks to becoming a field agent of the Federal Bureau of Control under the tenure of DirectorBroderick Northmoor. During his career, Trench investigated a number of Altered World Events around the country. He was a diligent, hardworking, and modest agent, who, in his own words, never desired or trusted power, going out of his way to avoid it. This contrasted sharply with Director Northmoor, who was obsessed with power, "a man like an explosion, hungry for authority, for order, for more." As a result, Trench often followed "his own orders," resulting in Northmoor developing a hatred for him. Trench also befriended Dr. Casper Darling, a Bureau scientist, and would later consider him to be his closest friend.

Early in his career, Trench had a wife, Kate, and a daughter, Susanna. Due to what Trench later viewed as a lack of caution and security, he accidentally "took work home," which resulted in Susanna falling ill. Trench, realizing his mistake, wished to bring Susanna to the Oldest House to see if Darling could help her. However, Kate refused to allow Susanna to be cared for by the FBC, and she was instead brought to civilian doctors, who were unable to help due to the paranatural nature of Susanna's illness. She subsequently died, and Kate divorced Trench not long after. Trench, traumatized by these events, was left with nothing but the FBC, and thus dedicated the rest of his life to the Bureau and its safety. Over time, Director Northmoor began to lose control of his paranatural abilities due to his obsession with power. Trench ultimately proposed a solution to the issue by suggesting that Northmoor be contained in a secure chamber in the Maintenance Sector and act as a power source for the entire Oldest House. In spite of his loathing for Trench, Northmoor agreed, largely due to having no choice in the matter. The Northmoor Sarcophagus Chamber (NSC) was subsequently built in the Maintenance Sector, and Northmoor was contained there.

Following these events, the Bureau was placed in a brief crisis without the Director. Trench, who felt he had nothing to lose, picked up the Service Weapon "almost on a dare." He was subsequently selected by the Board to become the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control.

Trench took his role as Director seriously, wanting to do for the Bureau what he could not do for his family, and thus resolved to keep the Oldest House safe from all threats. Unlike Northmoor, who had obsessed over gaining power from the paranatural, Trench's distrust of power and fear of the paranatural forces that had killed his daughter led to him focusing his career as the FBC's Director on implementing new security measures. He came to believe in the importance of the connection between the Director and the Bureau, regarding them as entirely dependent on one another. He later recalled that he "had to lose everything to see that the Bureau is the Director's life."

Among the changes he implemented, Trench oversaw the construction of the Panopticon, a chamber in the Containment Sector built to contain Altered Items and Objects of Power. He also implemented an internal lockdown protocol which would separate sectors from one another, preventing the catastrophic spread of paranatural phenomena. This lockdown could only be lifted by the Director using the Service Weapon, reinforcing the importance of the Director's role and ensuring that the Director would remain "the last line of defense." Trench also implemented the lockdown to ensure that failing the Bureau would be on his shoulders alone, as he did not like relying on others. Nonetheless, Trench saw the importance of having allies and knew he could not keep the paranatural contained alone, and so created a management team consisting of Casper Darling, Lin Salvador, Alberto Tommasi, and Helen Marshall to aid him in his operations.

Trench also redoubled Bureau efforts to find a candidate for the next Director, not wanting the Bureau to endure another crisis like that which occurred with Northmoor. Trench created the Prime Candidate program seeking to identify parautilitarians with the potential to become Director, but Prime Candidates 1 through 5 were all, in Trench's words, "false leads, dead ends and disappointments."

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Dr. Casper Darling was the Head of Research at the Federal Bureau of Control from 1995 to 2019.[1] During his time at the FBC, he was responsible for heading research efforts into a number of paranatural topics, and supervised the investigations of multiple major Altered World Events.

Casper Darling is an eccentric, awkward, and generally lighthearted man who presents paranatural topics with an aura of joy and curiosity. He is extremely intelligent, and possesses an in-depth understanding of the paranatural, as well as a scientist's craving to understand the unknown.

He is a foil to Zachariah Trench. Darling's intense, single minded, desire for knowledge and understanding that leads to morally grey acts and secrecy in the name of saving the FBC mirrors' Trenches desire for control.

While generally a cheery, gregarious and passionate scientist with a true desire to protect and aid humanity with his research into the paranatural, his belief in science led to many unscrupulous acts with devastating results.

Dr. Casper Darling is a middle-aged man with fair skin, short brown hair that is beginning to gray, and brown eyes. He has a relatively slim build, a narrow face, and a short, neatly maintained beard and mustache.

He typically wears understated, somewhat old-fashioned academic clothing. His outfits include collared shirts, knitted sweater vests, loose-fitting trousers, and a lab coat in some recordings. His clothing tends to look more relaxed and informal than the standard business attire worn by many employees of the Federal Bureau of Control. He also wears glasses in some appearances.

Casper Darling began working for the Federal Bureau of Control in 1995.[1] During this time, he was promoted to the title of Head of Research, succeeding his predecessor, Dr. Theodore Ash, Jr. Darling was made a member of Director Zachariah Trench's personal management team, and became a close ally of Trench. As Head of Research, Darling led research of a variety of paranatural topics, including Objects of Power, Altered World Events, and the Astral Plane.

Later in his career, on the suggestion of Head of Communications Alberto Tommasi, Darling created a series of introductory videos on these paranatural topics, which were distributed throughout the Oldest House.