[ { "id": "covenant_enforcers", "name": "Covenant Enforcers", "shortName": "Enforcers", "color": "#4466BB", "description": "The paramilitary arm of the Covenant. They enforce the Separation Accords, monitor clade mixing, and maintain order in urban centers. Loyal to the capital's governance structure.", "opposition": { "inheritors": -0.3, "thorn_council": -0.3, "hybrid_underground": -0.1, "merchant_guilds": 0.1, "maw": -0.5 } }, { "id": "inheritors", "name": "Inheritors", "shortName": "Inheritors", "color": "#CC4422", "description": "A loose alliance of predator-clade communities who believe the old ways of strength and territory are the only true order. Strong in frontier and wilderness regions.", "opposition": { "covenant_enforcers": -0.5, "thorn_council": -0.2, "hybrid_underground": -0.3, "unsheathed": -0.3, "maw": 0.2 } }, { "id": "thorn_council", "name": "Thorn Council", "shortName": "Thorns", "color": "#44AA55", "description": "A coalition of prey-clade communities and urban progressives advocating for political reform and the dismantling of clade-based hierarchy. Active in agricultural and urban regions.", "opposition": { "covenant_enforcers": -0.5, "inheritors": -0.2, "hybrid_underground": -0.1, "unsheathed": -0.2, "maw": 0.2 } }, { "id": "merchant_guilds", "name": "Merchant Guilds", "shortName": "Guilds", "color": "#CC9933", "description": "Federated trade guilds spanning every major settlement. Pragmatic, transnational, and prone to underwriting any cause that keeps shipping lanes open.", "opposition": { "covenant_enforcers": 0.1 } }, { "id": "hybrid_underground", "name": "Hybrid Underground", "shortName": "Underground", "color": "#884488", "description": "Informal mutual-aid network for hybrid-clade individuals. Smuggles scent masks, provides safe houses, runs forged-papers logistics in the cities.", "opposition": { "covenant_enforcers": -0.1, "inheritors": -0.5, "thorn_council": -0.3, "unsheathed": 0.3 } }, { "id": "unsheathed", "name": "The Unsheathed", "shortName": "Unsheathed", "color": "#22AABB", "description": "Hybrid political activism movement that pushes for legal recognition through public organising. The above-ground sibling of the Underground.", "opposition": { "inheritors": -0.5, "thorn_council": -0.3, "hybrid_underground": 0.3 } }, { "id": "maw", "name": "The Maw", "shortName": "Maw", "color": "#222222", "description": "Hidden until Act I climax. Conspiratorial alliance of Inheritors, Thorn extremists, and Sable Vasik building The Unmaking compound. Standing with this faction is meaningful only after the player learns it exists.", "hidden": true, "opposition": { "covenant_enforcers": -0.5, "inheritors": 0.2, "thorn_council": 0.2 } } ]