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Ancient Conspiracy

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Ancient Conspiracy	comment	An incomprehensibly powerful group that has lurked in the shadows throughout centuries of history, such as The Illuminati or the Masons. Their reach is vast, and they have unlimited numbers of Evil Minions with which to strike at the heroes. They may control The Government, industry, or both, and their goals may be refreshingly mundane (political power, wealth) or horrifyingly supernatural (summon the Great Old Ones, trigger the Apocalypse). Killing one member of the Conspiracy, even its "leader", does no good, for there is always another waiting behind him to take his place and continue the group's work seamlessly. Their Multilayer FaÃ§ade is unbreakable; Resistance Is Futile. Sometimes the conspiracy is exposed, only to be revealed in the last pages (or scenes) that that conspiracy was sacrificed to hide the real one — which leads to the conclusion that if you learn of the conspiracy, it is not the true one, which may take us into Zen territory. Sometimes the ancient conspiracy is neutral or a force for good, such as an Ancient Order of Protectors, but more often than not it is evil (when it is a force for good, it often still does extremely evil things because its members believe they serve the greater good). Occasionally (primarily in series by writers who understood earlier source material such as the Illuminatus! trilogy), the obvious ancient conspiracy is later discovered to be an offshoot of an even more Ancient Tradition which has lost its way; in such cases, the real Ancient Tradition may provide some veiled and ambiguous assistance to the protagonists, though they will remain aloof themselves. It tends to be big on Only the Knowledgable May Pass, which may matter a great deal for The Infiltration. Since the ancient conspiracy often draws on conspiracy-theorist lore, don't be surprised when certain names keep coming up. The Knights Templar are popular, as are The Hashshashin. In older works, Jewish secret domination of the world through the banks is the norm. The Freemasons might crop up occasionally, but as a real, semi-secret society, they're generally not scary enough, so expect them to be a front for the real secret society, at best. By far the most common are The Illuminati, who have been used as an ancient conspiracy so many times that the term has become generic, and need not have anything to do with the historical Bavarian Illuminati at all. Occasionally they might reference Adam Weishaupt, but don't count on it. When it appears in a television series, it is usually the Big Bad behind everything, The Man Behind the Man to all others. Expect to see a lot of them in the form of The Omniscient Council of Vagueness. They also tend to employ Evil Plan and the Gambit Roulette. In modern times, an ancient conspiracy commonly overlaps with The Syndicate. The ancient conspiracy is a subtrope of The Conspiracy and a subset of the Powers That Be. Contrast with the benevolent Ancient Tradition and the harmlessly benign Brotherhood of Funny Hats. The Path of Inspiration is a specific type of this, and Hollywood Satanists may or may not be involved in the conspiracy. May be an N.G.O. Superpower. Examples
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_135f4195	comment	The Bene Gesserit worked for thousands of years to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, meaning they seduced every political leader that showed some talent, however inane, while portraying themselves as being mere servants to those political leaders.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_13626ff7	comment	Kull: The Serpent People have been infiltrating then taking over human society for thousands of years, ever since humans overthrew them long ago when they ruled openly.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_14d341dc	comment	According to K'Valk in Star Trek Online, B'Vat is the last member of one of this, ruling the Klingon Empire in secret since the Temporal Cold War. However, he went kinda loony and he had to be put down before he really messed things up.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_150c3efe	comment	The first book in Empire from the Ashes reveals that the Moon's mutinous crew have been manipulating human civilization from the very beginning, sometimes to halt scientific progress... and sometimes just For the Evulz. They have complete control over a variety of terrorist organizations, and have puppets in all the major governments as well. And then there are the counter-mutineers who have been waging a secret war against them.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_15b3c9d1	comment	Wonder Woman: Warbringer: There are groups that have existed in secret for centuries that try to kill Alia for being born as "the warbringer".
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_16516962	comment	Venom (2003): Bob has been around since Biblical times and is involved with governments and militaries around the world, letting him nuke a town in Canada with total impunity and threaten to have Nick Fury arrested for treason if he continues meddling in the Ararat Corporation's plan for global genocide
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_18e2d10d	comment	Above Top Secret, as one of, if not the largest conspiracy website, is chock full of these.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_1a21786a	comment	Advice and Trust: SEELE is a secret cabal has been planning for a long time turning everyone into tang and merge their souls. Asuka meets them after fighting Leliel, and she and Shinji gradually realize behind the fight against the giant aliens invading them there is something more sinister and shadier going on.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Clan Akkaba is an Ancient Conspiracy made up of the descendants of Apocalypse. True to form for organizations of this type, they claim credit for a wide variety of historical disasters and upheavals. The Externals are a secret society of immortal mutants who scheme to manipulate society to their advantage. They are led by the Power Copying mutant Gideon. The Hellfire Club is a low-key example of this trope, at least age-wise. They certainly nail the 'secret society scheming to control the world' part of this trope, but they've only been around since the 16th century, putting them at rather the baby end of the pool as Ancient Conspiracies go. Still, what they lack in history they more than make up for in oodles and oodles of cash.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_1c767213	comment	In Azrael's Tear, the PrieurÃ© de Sion (think Priory of Sion from The Davinci Code, albeit different in details) believes it has a holy obligation to acquire the Holy Grail at a specific time and has devised a centuries-long plan to acquire it.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_1e9e2d34	comment	The Sith Order from The Desert Storm is a terrifyingly competent example of a conspiracy that is both ancient and all-encompassing. Their plan to exterminate the Jedi Order goes back for more than a thousand years and manifests as a Long Game which slowly erodes the Jedi Order's power over time. By the time of Obi-Wan's Jedi Apprentice days, the Sith's influence had expanded to include numerous MegaCorps, planetary governments, terrorist and criminal organizations, and the Senate. Adding to the intimidation factor is the fact that both Darth Plagueis and Sidious remain as The Unseen for the majority of the series. Even when Ben manages to foil one of their schemes, the Sith just shrug their shoulders and find another way to carry out their plans.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_21797793	comment	The Cavaliers from The Cavaliers Series Since the seventeenth century, they have been keeping the United Kingdom under vampire control, by turning promising young lords, and more recently university students, then getting them all the best jobs. Their wealth, beauty and mind control powers all help this process along. Half of government, media and the police are working for them, the other half can easily be bribed, charmed, hypnotised or mesmerised into doing what they want.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2212773a	comment	The Senior Partners and the Circle of the Black Thorn in Angel. The Senior Partners actually started out as a cabal of extremely weak low-level demons who developed an ingenious plan of conquering the universe using the laws and political institutions of the worlds they wished to rule. Thus, the Occult Law Firm Wolfram & Hart was born. They've been around since the beginning of time, but by the time the series starts, they've pretty much got the world under their sway. The Circle of the Black Thorn is a Secret Circle of Secrets that serves as the Senior Partners' Elite Mooks. Doesn't sound like much at first blush, until you realize that being number two to the most successful group of inter-dimensional demons on record means that they're pretty much the Unseen Evil by default.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_227117b7	comment	Helix: The show's Genre Shift is marked by the revelation that the Ilaria Corporation is actually a front for a group of immortals who have been plotting to Take Over the World for half a millennium. Hatake was part of this group, but broke away out of disgust with their plans.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_22c6ae5f	comment	The House is the granddaddy of them all in the Red Room series. They are a group of wizards who have been controlling the world since, according them, the time of Gilgamesh. Possibly subverted as Derek says they only have the word of the Committee (all notorious liars) on this and their records only go back to the late Renaissance. Still old but not nearly so impressive.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_23bc247b	comment	Practically the entire concept behind Equestria: A History Revealed, in which supposedly everything in Equestrian history has a massive conspiracy behind it. It's played for laughs though.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2404a594	comment	The Circles from the Deva Series, who have suppressed much magic development on Earth.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_247422c7	comment	The Mesan Alignment turns out to be this in the Honor Harrington novels, having arranged the actual fall of the Republic of Haven into the People's Republic by affecting their social dynamic for centuries and much more.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied with the Stonecutters in "Homer the Great", a world-wide group who claim to have fought since ancient times to "split the rock of ignorance that obscures the light of knowledge and truth", along with a few other tall claims (robbing cavefish of their sight, rigging every Oscar night). Mostly what they do is just hang out and get drunk.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., much like the comics universe, eventually retcons HYDRA into one of these. Specifically, Season 3 reveals that the modern version founded in Nazi Germany and reborn within SHIELD is just the latest incarnation of a cult that's been working for thousands of years to liberate their master, an ancient Inhuman who was long ago banished through a wormhole to a distant planet, so that it will lead them in conquering the world. Season 2 of Agent Carter features an earlier incarnation of this same group (though you only realize this if you notice that their insignia is an earlier version of the HYDRA one) that really plays up the trappings of this trope — operating from within the public facade of a simple social lounge, the Arena Club, whose membership includes some of the most powerful people in the country, their leadership, the Council of Nine, meets within a hidden room to discuss and plan how to manipulate world events to their advantage (apparently including the assassination of McKinley and the Great Depression).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_26ef42e7	comment	Kevin & Kell has the Great Bird Conspiracy, which featured the birds of the K&Kverse doing its best to civilize the various animal people of Domain and ran things in the background via seemingly subservient jobs as teacher or secretary. Once it was made Y2K compatible, the GBC left the machinations to a computer program designed to do that job for them, allowing them to retire.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_291e9857	comment	The plot of Dark Souls has the player falling into one regarding the First Flame. The "prophecy" that a "Chosen" Undead would rise up and succeed Lord Gwyn is mostly fabricated to draw in desperate Undead by the Primordial Serpent Frampt and Gwyn's child Gwyndolin. In fact, in the event an Undead does succeed in reaching the First Flame, they will become fuel for it, sacrificed so that the Flame may burn longer. The Flame is so difficult to get to in order to ensure that anyone who succeeds is powerful enough for their soul to be a decent fuel source.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2b70efd4	comment	The Mage/Vampire/Whatever conspiracies are so common in the Old World of Darkness that it often seems like the Holocaust was the one event in history that was solely the work of normal humans (since none of the supernaturals want the "credit" for it).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2bd39fd7	comment	Hollow Earth Expedition. The Terra Arcanum is a secret organization created by the Atlanteans to prevent humanity from finding out about or entering the Hollow Earth. Over the centuries they have become a network of power brokers who control the Earth's leaders and institutions.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2c4a4759	comment	Subverted in Huntik: Secrets & Seekers. The main villainous organization — unoriginally called "The Organization" — purports to be a centuries-old secret society with roots in the royal courts of medieval Europe. Zhalia later discovers that they are in reality less than sixty years old and only claimed to be older in order to cover up the fact that most of their members were brainwashed into joining by the Professor.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2c5050ca	comment	In Starship's Mage, the Eugenicists that originally "created" the mages were already subtly manipulating lineages before they took over the Mars colonies and began overtly manipulating the population and force-breeding test subjects.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2d186a5d	comment	Moonrise: Living in a world of werewolves, vampires, and other ghoulies that go bump in the night, Lady Cassandra Mallory implies the Masquerade faction has, well, maintained Masquerade for centuries.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	As the page quote shows, the Question in Justice League Unlimited believes that a vast conspiracy has ruled the world for thousands of years and are secretly responsible for virtually everything in human history. Given that many of the Question's wild theories are proved correct and that there are several characters in the DC Animated Universe who have lived for thousands of years, he might well be right.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: The Zhat Vash is a secret society which predates the Tal Shiar that has been pulling the strings behind the scenes for most of Romulan history. Much of their history reveals that they had infiltrated Starfleet up to its highest levels, specifically because of Data, as they fear synthetic lifeforms. In fact, their motivation is largely to prevent further lifeforms of this kind from existing, for they witnessed a message left by mysterious beings they interpreted as synthetics destroying all organic life, leading them to willingly doom their homeworld and their people by causing a malfunction in the synthetics building their evacuation fleet, thus resulting in a Federation ban on such lifeforms. Now their ultimate goal is to find where these synthetics come from and wipe them out.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2f4271ed	comment	Played straight in The Night's Dawn Trilogy, when one of the protagonists discovers that 27th century Earth (though not the Confederation) has been controlled for centuries by the secret "security council" B7, which evolved from a cartel of virtually immortal Corrupt Corporate Executives. Their mooks consist of the criminal underclass, who are made reliable by having their leaders be mind-controlled via bitek technology. At one stage the cartel conspired to have bitek banned so they could have sole use of this technology, thus inadvertently creating the breakaway Edenist culture. Their sole goal is to hold onto their own power, though at least one (the Western Europe Supervisor) believes they have a moral obligation to their subjects — he's something of an eccentric though; bored with his immortal life he eventually takes voluntary exile on a prison planet.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has the heroes eventually discovering that humanity was relocated underground against their will by Lordgenome who himself created the Beastmen for this very purpose. A few years after killing him, it turns out that Lordgenome was only doing this for the greater good: with the population growing uncontrollably, the Anti-Spirals are now targeting Earth for extermination. During the quest to off the Anti-Spirals as well, they reveal that they are also working for the greater good by suppressing all Spiral races in an effort to protect the universe from total existence failure via Spiral Nemesis.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_32233a78	comment	Plenty of these pop up in Ozy and Millie. Just about all of them are perpetrated by dragons For the Lulz and Played for Laughs.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_329e3908	comment	The Mystical Laws: Implied by Konohana-no-Sakuya-bime in her explanation of the Spirit World. She explains that the devils rule Hell through power and fear and emerge on Earth to drag as many humans down there as possible. Furthermore, devils' means of controlling humans range from making them indulge in their base desires, invoking hatred and anger amongst all people throughout countries and ethnicities, and driving them away from faith by telling them that there's nothing beyond their physical bodies and Earth, driving them to deny the existence of God and the Spirit World. In other words, devils are behind every greedy/lustful desire and anything driven by them (entertainment districts and corporations), every war and conflict, and every atheist philosophy throughout human history.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_32c541e6	comment	In the manga/second anime, Homunculus/Father is both the founder and leader of said Ancient Conspiracy which is also part Government Conspiracy. As with Dante below, his plan is to live forever, but by becoming God.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_341c02e9	comment	The League of Shadows in Batman Begins and to an extent, in The Dark Knight Rises is an example of an Ancient Conspiracy that does evil in service of a "good" goal.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_34cbb5a1	comment	In Black Magick, the witch-hunting organization Aira has lore that their origins extend back to Ancient Greece. By the sixteenth century some of its members have come to doubt that they are quite that old, but their factual existence does go back for centuries.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_3558eaa2	comment	In Community according to Dean Laybourne, the society of air conditioning repairmen dates back to fan wavers in ancient Egypt.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness depicts a power struggle between a trio of Eldritch Abominations known as the Ancients, and an in-story choice made by the player at the beginning of the game determines which of the three becomes the Big Bad for the rest of the game. The rest of the story depicts the Ancient's Dragon and his secret cult working behind the scenes over thousands of years, and at one point, they're depicted as being the real reason why a certain historical figure died.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_362f7325	comment	The Marginal project in Marginal, which uses Earth as a huge laboratory to observe cultural evolution after a disaster causes women to lose their reproductive ability and human to become an all-male One-Gender Race
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia is a game set in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian city where everything is controlled by The Computer. The Computer is extremely paranoid about ancient conspiracies and has the players hunt them down. Some of the conspiracies actually exist. Okay, a lot of them do. Unfortunately, the players are always part of at least one ancient conspiracy, and have to hide this fact along with their mutant powers.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: The Lords of Dust and the Chamber are conspiracies stretching back to the initial dragon-demon war, one of the earliest significant events after the creation of the world, both of whom mostly work through intermediaries since the greatest fiends are chained and a large number of dragons getting directly involved tends to cause inconvenient side effects such as mass destruction and the growth in power of the rakshasa rajah known as Tiamat. More recently, the Blood of Vol (dating back to the destruction of House Vol and the end of the elf-dragon war) and the Dreaming Dark (originating with the severing of direct Material Plane to Dal Quor connections) are at the very least ancient enough to predate the formation of Galifar by quite some time, although they're very modern compared to the Chamber and the Lords of Dust.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_39c15180	comment	In Angels & Demons, the Illuminati are a secret organization of scientists who oppose the Catholic Church, and try to destroy the Vatican with an antimatter bomb. Subverted in that the organization does not exist anymore and all of the Illuminati symbols were planted by the Camerlengo in an attempt to get himself elected pope and restore faith in Christianity. He...kind of succeeds.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_3b91d912	comment	Evangelion 303: Seele has been manipulating world politics for centuries in order to try to keep a power balance between countries, consistently supporting the military or political underdog.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_3d22c14b	comment	Celestial Being in Gundam 00. To accomplish their goals of wiping out war and unifying humanity, they have subverted the greatest minds of the scientific community and formed a development chain that lasted over two hundred years, all to ensure utter technological Humongous Mecha domination when they chose to reveal themselves. In the process, they even executed a round trip to Jupiter. And in a peculiar twist on the trope, this ancient conspiracy is mostly staffed by the heroes. The resident Big Bad is also a member, who is trying to co-opt the organization's resources for his own means. In fact, a lot of the conflict in the series is a result of warring factions trying to be the lead actor of the conspiracy and to swing its end result in their favor. Further complicating matters is that very few are privy to the plans full scope.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: The Wall Cult knows more about the Titans than the rest of humanity, including that the Walls protecting them from Titans are composed of other Titans. The leaders of the government know the truth about the outside world, they've convinced the rest of the populace to stay within the walls and die at their commands, and they're willing to murder all their citizens to create a Titan enslavement machine if it means they don't have to face the Kingdom of Marley. And their king is a body double who is also senile.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_3efc191f	comment	In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, secret organization SEELE has been plotting the end of mankind for decades, and even after being defeated, their leader is determined to carry out his scheme one way or another, even if it takes years.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: SEELE has the trappings of one, but there's a lot of confusion about exactly how ancient they really are. The series proper seems to imply that they came into existence near the end of WWII, and came to prominence during the 1950s (when the real life Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered). The extra-canonical material (the canonicity of which overs uncomfortably between Word of St. Paul and Word of Dante) states the organization has existed in some form or another since the Dark Ages, but notes that they didn't really rise to any kind of prominence before the 20th Century. They couldn't have done much without modern technology anyway, and their crowning achievement — the Evangelion series — barely work as it is.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_469757f7	comment	The Secret Monarchy of the World in Ed Brubaker's Sleeper (WildStorm) is a Big Bad Wannabe Conspiracy. TAO learned of them and became intrigued by their mission (which, predictably, is dominating the world), but upon joining them found them to be riddled by the usual human flaws he had come to disdain.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_489ce4ff	comment	In The Legend of Zorro, the Knights of Aragon have been secretly ruling Europe for centuries. They now view the growing power of the US as a threat to their dominance and seek to arm the southern states and provoke a civil war.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII has a conspiracy of the gods to "straighten history's weave".
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_49ff762	comment	The Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by Queen Victoria to operate outside of the British government, fighting aliens and confiscating their technology by force for the good of the British Empire (with the implication of starting a new one when it dissolves). Though its sinister faÃ§ade of mystery fades prior to the debut of the Torchwood Spin-Off.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_4c920c00	comment	Fate of the Clans: The true purpose of the Holy Grail War is to sacrifice the seven Servants, opening a path to the Root and obtaining Heaven's Feel. It was the goal of Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, Nagato Tohsaka, and Zolgen Makiri after the Einzberns lost it 1,000 years ago and Justeaze was created back then to find a new path to the Root. They succeeded in creating the Greater Grail at the cost of Justeaze's life in 1991.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_4c963df5	comment	The Daath Organization in Guilty Crown is a very nebulous group that is only mentioned, never seen. Supposedly they want to restart the human race by eradicating most of it with the Apocalypse Virus.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_4f59fb39	comment	With War of Kings, Marvel's cosmic title have the Fraternity of Raptors, who used to control the Shi'ar Empire via a mixture of technology and magic, and the occasional acts of murder. They disappeared for centuries, but the aftermath of Secret Invasion (2008) wakes their tech up again. Then it turns out Darkhawk is supposed to be one of them.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_50555681	comment	In Katanagatari, Kiki Shikizaki using his power to see into the future crafted the Twelve Deviant Blades and helped found Kyotouryuu, his Thirteenth Deviant Blade all for the purpose of averting the destruction of Japan in the future. The power of the Deviant Blades changed the course of history while Kyotouryuu became stronger with each passing generation. The time of the series is the culmination of Shikizaki's plan: Shichika Yasuri, a Kyotouryuu practitioner stronger than all of the other Deviant Blades put together, one strong enough to avert Japan's destruction. The end of the series reveals that Shikizaki's plan failed for one simple reason: Shichika didn't want to change the future and was content to let the people of the future handle things.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_517380f	comment	Invoked in Terra Ignota by the Masonic Empire. Officially, they are the Masons of ancient conspiracy, secret masters of human history, forced by the aftermath of the Church Wars to step out of the shadows and begin governing openly. However, despite the Empireâ€™s tremendous political power, itâ€™s made clear that nobody actually believes the propaganda. Itâ€™s just a way to culturally unify their millions of members and give themselves an aura of mystique and ancient authority.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_518b056d	comment	The Da Vinci Code portrays the Catholic Church as an Evil ancient conspiracy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_526d4c5c	comment	The Genoharadan in Knights of the Old Republic. Oddly enough, they appear in almost no other Star Wars works, not even in the comic series of the same name.note The Genohardan are mentioned in later Star Wars works, such as the first Darth Bane book, as well as the Darth Plagueis novel, implying they survived at least until the years leading up to Episode I. Granted, they were meant to be highly secretive assassins... Star Wars: The Old Republic has the Star Cabal, a group of influential non-force sensitives that serve as the central antagonist of the Imperial Agent storyline who are dedicated to the eradication of Jedi and Sith-ruled governments and seek to plunge the world into another galactic war to wipe the slate clean. It's members include various characters featured in other storylines. The Genoharadan make a brief appearance in the Bounty Hunter storyline.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_531b8f34	comment	Scrapped Princess has Lord Browning's plan, a five-thousand-year long Batman Gambit to bring down Providence. Zefiris and Natalie keep the scheme on track whatever it takes. Notable for planning The End of the World as We Know It and manipulating the entire cast into doing their bidding without being evil.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_538a9709	comment	The villains of The Unwritten.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_58808436	comment	The Sonozaki family, from Higurashi: When They Cry, appears to be masterminding one of these in the little village of Hinamizawa, Or at least that's what the actual Government Conspiracy wants you to think...
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_58ff2a3e	comment	EXALT in X-Com: Enemy Within at first appeared as a relatively recent alien sympathizers. However, a raid on their headquarters recovered many ancient relics and artifacts which were not imitations, suggesting that they had existed for a long time.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The Dragon Cults formed in ancient times in service and reverence of the dragons. After the ancient Nord heroes manged to banish the leader of the dragons, Alduin (using an Elder Scrolls to cast him out of the time stream), the remaining dragons were either slain or forced into hiding while the cultists and their Dragon Priest leaders were persecuted, executed, and entombed in Skyrim's many ancient barrows. With the return of Alduin during the events of the game, he is not only resurrecting the dragons, but the cultists as well. The Thalmor are a fascistic Altmeri political party which dates back to the 1st Era. Originally formed to preserve the history and culture of the Altmer (High Elves), they grew into a powerful Altmer supremacist political party within the Aldmeri Dominion which eventually militarized. When Tiber Septim used the Numidium to decimate the Aldmeri armies and sack their capital city in less than an hour of fighting, the Thalmor retreated to the political shadows to wait out the Septim Empire. When the Oblivion Crisis struck, the Thalmor stole credit for ending it within their homeland, earning them populist support which allowed them to rise into the highest positions of the Altmeri government. They assassinated Potentate Ocato, who capably kept the Empire together for a decade after the crisis, severely destabilizing the Empire and sending it toward vestigial status. The Thalmor re-formed the Aldmeri Dominion of old, annexed neighboring Valenwood (homeland of the Bosmer (Wood Elves), and got Elsweyr (home of the Khajiit) to join as a client state. Over the next century, their power waxed while they also manipulated events throughout the rest of Tamriel to further weaken the Empire, ultimately culminating in the Great War. Though they were driven back by the forces of the Empire, they did manage to force an imposing treaty (the White-Gold Concordat) on the Empire which served to destabilize it further leading up to the events of the game.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_59151283	comment	The La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo — er, Patriots from Metal Gear. However it turns out the Patriots are a fairly modern conspiracy formed in the 1970s which has rather taken on all the trappings of an ancient conspiracy as protective coloration, formed using the missing funds of another organization already on its last legs, The Philosophers, who themselves only dated back to around the beginning of the 20th century.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5c5251b6	comment	HERZ: SEELE is a secret organization has been plotting the end of the world for decades. On the other hand, GEIST is still another secret organization which is very big on individualism and has been opposing SEELE since they knew about its existence and goals.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5c897f4a	comment	The Gatekeepers of Schlock Mercenary have been using their monopoly over the Wormgates to manipulate galactic civilisations for millennia and the Pa'anuri have been manipulating them for even longer. Given Petey's new hobby of engaging in social engineering experiments where he can't intervene directly, the only thing stopping him from fitting this is that he hasn't been at it all that long.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5d89296b	comment	The mega-rich gamblers in The Player who have been tapping into human communications since long-distance communications started are described as so ridiculously powerful that the Game is necessary as a way for them to relieve their boredom and blow off steam, otherwise they would indulge (more) in diversions such as assassinating world leaders or starting wars.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5e91c7f	comment	The Family from Resident Evil 6 at least predate the founding of America, and have a network of power and influence all around the world. Although they claim to work in the name of global stability, the sheer lengths they go to maintain their influence - they kickstart the events of the game by causing a new zombie outbreak just to kill the president before he can expose the goverment's involvement in bioweapon research - make it clear they're only in it to preserve their own power.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5f2b1646	comment	We all know Hydra as a terrorist outfit that aided the Nazi party, but as it turns out, they're the continuation of an ancient Egyptian cult (but their goals haven't changed much).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_5f76cba1	comment	Following the New 52 reboot, a new secret organization was created for Bruce to deal and one alot closer to home: the Court of Owls. A group consisting of some of oldest families of Gotham, they have been the secret power behind Gotham since colonial times. They're so clever they convinced Batman himself that they were nothing but a myth (albeit, at a time where he was still new to the detective scene and mainly because of a crime they actually didn't do). In fact, they're so dangerous that they did not consider Batman much of a threat and hence why they didn't pursue him and left him a wreck when they tried to get him, thanks to their legion of guards, the Talons. They also serve as a larger explanation for why Gotham is the way it is and Bruce's biggest opposition in trying to improve the city (hence why they only get involved when after the events of Final Crisis had Bruce live various lives in Gotham's different eras, he becomes more proactive in improving the city).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_606e56fc	comment	In another World of Darkness example, Geist: The Sin-Eaters has introduced tiers of organization for krewes, the "gangs" of the game. Tier 3 is the Conspiracy level, a national-to-global level death cult that's a strange mixture of religion, mystery cult, and political group. Subverted in that there's a reason they're Ancient Conspiracies — no Tier 3 krewes exist in the present day of the setting. However, the core book does include sample Tier 3 krewes, such as an African tradition devoted to protecting the grave goods of the dead, a Hindu death cult that attacked the wicked, and a Soviet experiment in near-death experiences that eventually got taken over from within by the Sin-Eaters it generated.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_60f02ddb	comment	Parodied by American Dad! with the Illuminutty, a group attempting to keep the secret that George Washington Carver wasn't the one who really invented Peanut Butter. It was actually Abraham Lincoln's wife who invented it as some bizarre ingredient for calling on spirits. The conspiracy intended to give credit of the invention to an African American to help rebuild race relations after the Civil War, but the plan was delayed due to Lincoln's assassination, and didn't come to fruition until years later when the credit was given to Carver, who did in fact invent all the other peanut stuff, he just hadn't thought of mashing them up and putting them on bread for some reason.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_629cd094	comment	The Disciples of Andraste from Dragon Age: Origins. Originally the followers of the setting's most important religious figure, Andraste, they secreted away her ashes to Ferelden after her death at the hands of the Tevinter Imperium. For centuries they guarded the mountain temple where her ashes were kept. Interestingly, this ancient conspiracy lost its original purpose a long time ago and no longer care about guarding the Urn of Sacred Ashes. They have become an Ax-Crazy dragon cult who believe that their prophet has been reborn in the form of a high dragon, who also makes its lair in the mountain temple. The Player Character has the option of assisting the cultists by defiling the Ashes, which they believe are somehow holding back the reborn "Andraste" from reaching her full power.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_62c077b3	comment	A Moth to a Flame: The Core reveals that the Wu clan has been shaping human history for over a thousand years. Their reach extended from Europe to Asia, where they influenced Ancient China and the Roman Empire from the shadows. Formed by King Wu of Chu, the Wu clan was able to remain in power even when the Qin Dynasty rolled around and annexed Chu, working behind the scenes of subsequent major players until the collapse of the Jin Dynasty. Meanwhile in Rome, they started the Ides of March when Gaius Julius Caesar became an obstacle to them, framed their assassination of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra as a suicide and installed the Emperors of Rome as their puppets until the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Even after all this, the Wus simply moved to their next plan, which is the creation of the Calamity Box which even made some of them join The Core itself, effectively hijacking it from the newts.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_656e8d31	comment	The Bahbem Foundation from RahXephon was a secret society centered around creating the show's titular artificial being, as well as funding the organization Terra from behind the scenes.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_672fbe3	comment	The Southern Cross Organization in Inferno Cop is an over-the-top parody. Doing things seemingly For the Evulz, controlling the whole country, having mysterious code names and wearing cloaks with large hoods. They even have a symbol they brandish their people with.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_68198b8c	comment	In The Stranger Times, the Founders are a secret group of immortal humans who use centuries of accumulated wealth and influence to manipulate both the mundane and magical worlds. Fortunately, they seem more interested in maintaining the status quo and their own comfort than introducing a doomsday plot.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_6826d077	comment	The Order of the Black Dawn in The Shadowspawn is a centuries-old occult secret society of wealthy aristocrats devoted to attaining supernatural power and world domination. At first they were just a vaguely Masonic conspiracy, but around the turn of the 19th century they received a major upgrade by turning into powerful vampires. They went on to help found the Council of Shadows, the Shadowspawn's globe-spanning ruling body, of which they are still a powerful faction even a couple of centuries later.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_69fa7496	comment	In Disney Ducks Comic Universe, there's the International Money Council who became Scrooge's rival in a few of his treasure hunts. Thing is, they're actually the modern incarnation of The Knights Templar, and although they're relatively on the side of good, there's another conspiracy within said conspiracy, The Priory of Sion.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_6fa2c383	comment	The Inner Circle from Max Payne. Lampshaded by Max himself; a member of the circle, Alfred Woden, provides an in-depth description of the organization and its activities, following which Max snarks: "You've been watching too much X-Files." It's also a Government Conspiracy, having senators among their ranks and being connected with top secret Super-Soldier projects like Valhalla. Come the second game, however, the Inner Circle turns out to be a Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy rather than an ancient conspiracy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_705bb59a	comment	The Camarilla (and also the Sabbat, and also the Followers of Set, and also many internal conspiracies within vampiric societies...) in Vampire: The Masquerade RPG. Vampires and ancient conspiracies generally go together like hand and glove, so this trope is often seen in vampire-related fiction/games/movies/what-have-you. The Mage/Vampire/Whatever conspiracies are so common in the Old World of Darkness that it often seems like the Holocaust was the one event in history that was solely the work of normal humans (since none of the supernaturals want the "credit" for it). The Revised Edition, while retconning out the "True Black Hand" nonsense (specifically destroying them, reducing the extent of their influence, and debunking their beliefs), manages to deconstruct the trope fairly well. While the group in question had plenty of mortal and immortal "agents", the group itself was too fractional to do anything with them, and the agents themselves knew so little about the group in question that they were useless for anything important. The 20th anniversary edition brings the Hand back, but reconstructed. They're just barely cohesive enough that they can function as an organization, and they have a fair amount of influence over things, but they can't do everything they'd like, and they have to deal with opposition within and without. While they may well be sitting on potentially world-shaking secrets, even they don't know which are real and which aren't.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_71995767	comment	The Brotherhood of Sleep, an order of Catholic priests who keep the secret of the canisters for centuries in Prince of Darkness
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Order of White Lotus is the Secret Society of Badass Grandpas, spread out across all three nations.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_72587203	comment	Paul steals the religious aspects of this, but then himself gets lost in his own religious movement in Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Then Leto II takes both the religious movement from Paul and the breeding program from the Bene Gesserit during his three thousand year rule.. The Bene Gesserit regain control a millennium later in Heretics of Dune and plan to use Sheeana, a girl that can control the worms, to start the religious cycle again in Chapterhouse: Dune, though that plan isn't realized.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_72b5eb35	comment	In Qwerpline, The Pipesmen are an obvious reference to the Illuminati, Free Masons and Stonecutters. They secretly control much of Nsburg though unlike their inspirations are a poorly guarded secret in no small part thanks to their habit to post recruitment posters all over town and having "Open Doors" days with open bar.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look has a sketch featuring the not-so-sinister Inebriati, whose goal is to make sure that everyone is ever so slightly drunk because drinking actually does make you better at stuff instead of just over confident like most people believe. There's also a parody of The Da Vinci Code, "The Numberwang Code", where all numbers turn out to be part of a secret conspiracy of some kind.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: The Bene Gesserit worked for thousands of years to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, meaning they seduced every political leader that showed some talent, however inane, while portraying themselves as being mere servants to those political leaders. Paul steals the religious aspects of this, but then himself gets lost in his own religious movement in Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Then Leto II takes both the religious movement from Paul and the breeding program from the Bene Gesserit during his three thousand year rule.. The Bene Gesserit regain control a millennium later in Heretics of Dune and plan to use Sheeana, a girl that can control the worms, to start the religious cycle again in Chapterhouse: Dune, though that plan isn't realized. The Dune Encyclopedia takes this a few extra steps, by having the conspiracy go back all the way to ancient Earth, including Jesus and Alexander the Great being failed/proto-Kwisatz Haderachs.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_76983481	comment	Both the "Symbol" organization and the Gowa clan in Gasaraki.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_771fc130	comment	The Cult of Transcendence in Delta Green is an interesting example, simply because all the time it spent attempting to manipulate Europe from behind the scenes didn't work — its front organisations got taken apart on a regular basis, various wars ended up gutting it, and its unaging leaders tended to get out of touch and fixated on old grudges, most notably when they dedicated quite a lot of effort to finishing off the House of Habsburg long after they stopped being politically relevant. Following the First World War, they gave up on taking over the world and retooled themselves into a free-sprawling cult of Nyarlathotep, backing a whole bunch of groups in a bid to mess things up. The Kuen-Yuin are a straight example, being an ancient Chinese conspiracy formed by the descendants of the ancient priest caste of the Lloigor empire in Mu, they aim to create the Cruel Empire of Tsan-Chan, a dystopic totalitarian country that will exist 5000 years in the future after Cthulhu wakes from his slumber.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_792239e5	comment	In Tales of Symphonia, this is revealed when you find out that the world religion is basically just a facade, constructed so a 4000-year-old child hero can create a human vessel in which to resurrect his dead sister.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_7a59fbeb	comment	There's also the Order of St. Dumas, creators of Azrael, who are descended from the actual Knights Templar. Interestingly enough, for most of their history they mostly just sat around on their secret piles of moolah, and Azrael was solely a device to punish internal threats; it wasn't until Batman intervened and appointed the latest Azrael his successor that things started getting messy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The Conspiracy from the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight three-issue arc of the same name. The League of Assassins has existed for centuries, led by Ra's al Ghul, a man who remains immortal thanks to periodic use of Lazarus Pits. Their goal is to reduce the human population to more manageable levels as mankind is slowly destroying the ecosystem. As their name implies they also do a lot of assassinations. (In the oldest Ra's stories, the League was just the enforcement branch of the al-Ghul Syndicate, generally called "The Demon", but in recent years its name has basically taken over the entire organization.) There's also the Order of St. Dumas, creators of Azrael, who are descended from the actual Knights Templar. Interestingly enough, for most of their history they mostly just sat around on their secret piles of moolah, and Azrael was solely a device to punish internal threats; it wasn't until Batman intervened and appointed the latest Azrael his successor that things started getting messy. Following the New 52 reboot, a new secret organization was created for Bruce to deal and one alot closer to home: the Court of Owls. A group consisting of some of oldest families of Gotham, they have been the secret power behind Gotham since colonial times. They're so clever they convinced Batman himself that they were nothing but a myth (albeit, at a time where he was still new to the detective scene and mainly because of a crime they actually didn't do). In fact, they're so dangerous that they did not consider Batman much of a threat and hence why they didn't pursue him and left him a wreck when they tried to get him, thanks to their legion of guards, the Talons. They also serve as a larger explanation for why Gotham is the way it is and Bruce's biggest opposition in trying to improve the city (hence why they only get involved when after the events of Final Crisis had Bruce live various lives in Gotham's different eras, he becomes more proactive in improving the city).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_7b1ae595	comment	The Blessed in Cyborg 009: Call of Justice are a group of quasi-immortal psychic superhumans who've been manipulating humanity for thousands of years, with several key figures in history like Thomas Edison being implied to be Blessed. We later learn that the Blessed are very loosely organized and that most are content to live in peace among humans, but a rogue faction led by a man named "Emperor" has been spying on the 00 cyborgs, viewing them as a potential threat in their plans to remake the world.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic has the Star Cabal, a group of influential non-force sensitives that serve as the central antagonist of the Imperial Agent storyline who are dedicated to the eradication of Jedi and Sith-ruled governments and seek to plunge the world into another galactic war to wipe the slate clean. It's members include various characters featured in other storylines. The Genoharadan make a brief appearance in the Bounty Hunter storyline.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_83d41855	comment	The Illuminati, in Gargoyles. The tie-in comics and Word of God reveal that the organization was founded by Sir Percival, who had become immortal thanks to the Holy Grail, about a century after the death of King Arthur. It therefore predates the real-life Illuminati by about 1000 years. Less clear are their goals, but there are some subtle hints that it's more or less a gentleman's club for wealthy people wanting to unravel the secrets of immortality and expand their influence over the world's affairs. To give a rough hint of their power and influence, David Xanatos, who is the wealthiest character in the series and practically owns the city of New York, is at the rock bottom of their hierarchy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_856ca68d	comment	In Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, the main characters invent an ancient conspiracy out of whole cloth, which is taken to be real by virtually everyone else... including a couple of groups named in it, who are rather put out that they don't seem to have all that power anymore, and want the protagonists to help them regain it!
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_87ffda3d	comment	They also serve as a larger explanation for why Gotham is the way it is and Bruce's biggest opposition in trying to improve the city (hence why they only get involved when after the events of Final Crisis had Bruce live various lives in Gotham's different eras, he becomes more proactive in improving the city).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_88383ee7	comment	In the first anime, Dante runs a conspiracy dating back to a quasi-dark age, which manipulates the highest levels of the nation's government. Her plan is simply to use the philosopher stone and transfer herself to a new body to live forever, starting genocides if she has to.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_88e1d10a	comment	The organization of the same name in IronGate has been secretly fighting supernatural threats to humanity for centuries without any serious exposure to the general public.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_8a568555	comment	In Jumper there is an entire conspiracy revolving around killing teleporters and inventing technology to stop them.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The Shuffle Alliance of G Gundam, which has secretly arbitrated nearly every world war in history and perfected the art of talking in perfect unison. The Vist Foundation from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, in a sense that their knowledge of where Laplace's Box is could be a turning point between the two primary warring factions of the story. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny introduced LOGOS as the organizational equivalent of The Man Behind the Man to Blue Cosmos. While Blue Cosmos is essentially a Fantastic Racism group with a thin environmentalist veneer, LOGOS is essentially a 1% club for those who enjoy War for Fun and Profit. They've supposedly been around since "ancient times", and at least in the novelization, their destruction at the hands of ZAFT sparks a global economic crisis that sends most of the Earth spiraling into chaos and anarchy. Celestial Being in Gundam 00. To accomplish their goals of wiping out war and unifying humanity, they have subverted the greatest minds of the scientific community and formed a development chain that lasted over two hundred years, all to ensure utter technological Humongous Mecha domination when they chose to reveal themselves. In the process, they even executed a round trip to Jupiter. And in a peculiar twist on the trope, this ancient conspiracy is mostly staffed by the heroes. The resident Big Bad is also a member, who is trying to co-opt the organization's resources for his own means. In fact, a lot of the conflict in the series is a result of warring factions trying to be the lead actor of the conspiracy and to swing its end result in their favor. Further complicating matters is that very few are privy to the plans full scope.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_8cd4ea24	comment	Take your pick of them in Darkâ€¢Matter (1999). Ancient conspiracy within ancient conspiracy facing off against other conspiracies. Aliens, humans, and odder things all conspiring for or against something or another. It's probably the main focus of the setting.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_8d817ccb	comment	From the very beginning, the idea that someone or something manipulated the characters of Lost to bring them to the island was a popular theory. The sixth season has finally confirmed that Jacob messed with their lives to get them to the island, something the Man in Black/Smoke Monster disapproves of.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_8f784646	comment	In the historical novel Wings of Dawn: Two of them. They hate each other.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_90e2f673	comment	ComStar is a pseudo-religious organization from BattleTech that derives a lot of power from its monopoly on the interstellar communications network. However, the organization has also been hoarding LosTech for the past few centuries, hoping that it will give them an edge after the rest of the Inner Sphere bombs itself back into the Stone Age.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_910d714b	comment	PAYDAY 2's final third of the game shifts the story from a heist simulator to a supernatural conspiracy where presidents are merely pawns, giant ghosts stalk the players, and the question of a millenium: why are supposedly Worthless Yellow Rocks worth so damn much?
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_91a29551	comment	The Green Dragon Society from Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is an incredibly old group that have been working towards the completion of the Golden Dawn Plan for who knows how long, manipulating both political systems and simple individuals to see it come to fruition. In the end, the trope ends up deconstructed as by the time the story takes place, the conspiracy is so old that the actual goal of the whole mess has long since been forgotten and no one currently alive even knows what to do once the plan has been completed.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_91cf7917	comment	Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov: Multiple levels of secrecy and subterfuge occur here, listed in order of shortest-lived to longest-running. The Encyclopedia Foundation on Terminus is established for roughly fifty years before Hari Seldon appears in the Time Vault to announce that the Encyclopedia Galactica was a sham concocted to establish them as the nucleus of a second Galactic Empire. At this point, it's a very public conspiracy that Terminus will take over the galaxy. The information needed for the Encyclopedia grants them a broad base of scientific knowledge, which they continue to develop because they're at the extreme edge of the Milky Way and have almost no natural resources. Once The Plan is reasserted after The Mule, a small cabal of people on Terminus have realized that they aren't in charge of their destiny because the Second Foundation is holding the strings. They design telepathic and anti-telepathic equipment to help them shift events in favour of free will rather than the inevitable destiny controlled by the Second Foundation. This conspiracy dissolves and reforms based on the First Foundation fears of being controlled by the Second Foundation. The Second Foundation is the opposite of the Foundation on Terminus in many ways; established at "the opposite end of the galaxy", hyper-focused on developing the science of Psychohistory (and by extension, telepathy), and they use multiple levels of secrecy to hide even their existence. They've sacrifices members several times to convince the First Foundation that the Second Foundation conspiracy has been eliminated. Their job is to make sure that the Second Galactic Empire never falls. The newest conspiracy is by Gaia, a planet of gestalt intelligence, who claims to be the home planet of The Mule. They actually predate Hari Seldon, and in Foundation's Edge they subsume the public conspiracy of the First Foundation, the secret anti-Second Foundation conspiracy, and the telepathic Second Foundation conspiracy by rewriting their memories to guide their actions. Their goal is to make the entire galaxy join their gestalt. Oldest of all is a (frequently one-person) conspiracy by R. Daneel Olivaw, from Dr Asimov's Robot Series. Since Robots and Empire, Daneel has been guiding human history, trying to preserve human ability to define their destiny, while preventing human foibles from destroying the race. He encouraged the creation of Gaia and hid the planet from the first galactic empire. He encouraged Hari Seldon to develop Psychohistory and establish the First and Second Foundations. He even conversed with Golan Trevieze, helping him to realize that, while aliens are absent from the Milky Way, they almost certainly exist in the other galaxies. Daneel's programming makes him prioritize the defense of humanity at the expense of all other sentient life.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_920d318c	comment	The Powers in the Shadows in Anima: Beyond Fantasy: Imperium (humans), the Technocracy (Sylvain -light elves-), and Illuminati (Duk'zarist -dark elves-). Each one of them controls a part of the world, isolated by magic of the others and in theory, even if their methods are debatable are there to watch and protect their people.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_923dd091	comment	CollegeHumor: According to the "truthumentary" Deceptive Deceptions, the world is now, has always been, and will forever be controlled by a shadowy elite who trump the government, the Freemasons, and the Illuminati combined: The College Humor staff.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_924b6d63	comment	Even the Ancient Conspiracies in Xenogears get caught up in gigantic Gambit Pileups. First off, you have Deus, who engineered the human race to replace his broken parts after the wreck of the Eldridge, and having created Miang, the first woman, to herd mankind towards that purpose. Semi-separately, Cain and the Gazelle Ministry found Solaris and quietly take control over the surface dwellers. Thirdly, the Wave Existence imprisoned in the Zohar is trying to get out of said artifact and return to its home dimension, using the Contact that is, Fei — to do so. Finally, you've got Krellian, who somehow manages to out-gambit everyone, playing everyone off of everyone else with the intention of following the Wave Existence home in a plan that takes 500 years to fulfill.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_924c78dc	comment	While it might seem like it, not all the OWOD games get in on this. Ancient conspiracies in Hunter: The Reckoning and Demon: The Fallen are the enemy, both the imbued and the Fallen being relatively new to the present-day supernatural scene. The conspiracies of Wraith: The Oblivion, meanwhile, are chiefly limited to wraithly society. Even so, there are sufficient conspiracies around that it doesn't help any attempts to fit them all into the same setting.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9431bab8	comment	The Masons and whatever unnamed group the Hessians belong to in Sleepy Hollow are good and evil versions of this. So is the witches coven that Katrina belonged to (which was allied with the former).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_945f2d42	comment	Subverted in Wapsi Square. There is a group of immortal politicians from an ancient civilization who have been subtly manipulating everything for ages. However, they aren't particularly competent, and have been controlled themselves by Jin, one of the main characters, the entire time. On top of that, all of their manipulations have been for the purpose of fixing the calender machine and saving the world, though they don't know this.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9472b00d	comment	The Vist Foundation from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, in a sense that their knowledge of where Laplace's Box is could be a turning point between the two primary warring factions of the story.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_94a26281	comment	In Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, the Order of the Veil was founded to secretly oppose the theocratic tyrant who ruled at the time, and more generally, to oppose all religion. In recent times, one of its five branches has stepped into the open to pursue the Order's goals in public: the Inquisition, which the protagonist joined before she knew about the larger organisation. The other four branches remain secret, and its members may hold prominent public posts.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_95aba2f5	comment	Illuminati, a card game by Steve Jackson Games, is made of this. Each player takes on the role of one of eight ancient conspiracies: either the Bavarian Illuminati, the Gnomes of Zurich, the Servants of Cthulhu, the Discordian Society, the Society of Assassins, the Network, the Bermuda Triangle conspiracy, or the UFOs (with a particular society, they can even be the cow-stealing variety!). Expansion packs introduce the Church of the SubGenius and a Shangri-La conspiracy. They then have to take over various interest groups (ranging from political parties to industries to fandoms to aliens). These generate money and can take over other groups, until your cards are arranged in a web. Each conspiracy has a specific goal, although all conspiracies can win by eliminating the competition.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9630d18b	comment	More traditional versions are a part of the Katawa Shoujo fanfic Hisao and Kenji- Master Detectives!.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_963d9065	comment	As it turns out, S.H.I.E.L.D. has a very similar background.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9ae2d3d5	comment	Fire Emblem on Forums has a few of these: Wonderful Blessing: The Goddess Dragons (at least, Freya, Pyra and Megara, the latter unwillingly) have been perpetuating one to orchestrate a Forever War between Hellrealm and the rest of creation. Serena and Team F's goal turns from overthrowing the Demon Lord and instead uncovering the truth upon realising that the Demon Lord and his forces are Unwitting Pawns to the Ancient Conspiracy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9b79174d	comment	In The Difference One Man Can Make, The Maesters of Citadel have actively tried to eliminate Magic and its influence from the world for centuries, with the exception of Marwyn the Mage and possibly other Maesters who still try to study Magic.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9b81bf3b	comment	MAG ISA — We have a group of baddies whose faces aren't even known... plotting with demons and /or extra terrestrials.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In Morrowind, nearly the entire plot of the main quest traces back to the events surrounding the Battle of Red Mountainnote the disappearance of the Dwemer, the ascension of the Tribunal and Dagoth Ur, Azura's (likely) curse on the Dunmer and her prophesy that Nerevar would be reincarnated and the death of Lord Nerevar some 4000 years prior. Due to his perceived treachery, House Dagoth, the Sixth House of the Dunmer led by Dagoth Ur, was dissolved. The Sixth House Cult later formed in reverence and service to Lord Dagoth, who they (rightly) believed would return one day. In the years leading up to the events of the game itself, the Cult ramped up their activities, including assassinating Imperial officials. This is one part of the ("official") impetus for the Emperor ordering the Player Character to be sent to Vvardenfell. Skyrim: The Dragon Cults formed in ancient times in service and reverence of the dragons. After the ancient Nord heroes manged to banish the leader of the dragons, Alduin (using an Elder Scrolls to cast him out of the time stream), the remaining dragons were either slain or forced into hiding while the cultists and their Dragon Priest leaders were persecuted, executed, and entombed in Skyrim's many ancient barrows. With the return of Alduin during the events of the game, he is not only resurrecting the dragons, but the cultists as well. The Thalmor are a fascistic Altmeri political party which dates back to the 1st Era. Originally formed to preserve the history and culture of the Altmer (High Elves), they grew into a powerful Altmer supremacist political party within the Aldmeri Dominion which eventually militarized. When Tiber Septim used the Numidium to decimate the Aldmeri armies and sack their capital city in less than an hour of fighting, the Thalmor retreated to the political shadows to wait out the Septim Empire. When the Oblivion Crisis struck, the Thalmor stole credit for ending it within their homeland, earning them populist support which allowed them to rise into the highest positions of the Altmeri government. They assassinated Potentate Ocato, who capably kept the Empire together for a decade after the crisis, severely destabilizing the Empire and sending it toward vestigial status. The Thalmor re-formed the Aldmeri Dominion of old, annexed neighboring Valenwood (homeland of the Bosmer (Wood Elves), and got Elsweyr (home of the Khajiit) to join as a client state. Over the next century, their power waxed while they also manipulated events throughout the rest of Tamriel to further weaken the Empire, ultimately culminating in the Great War. Though they were driven back by the forces of the Empire, they did manage to force an imposing treaty (the White-Gold Concordat) on the Empire which served to destabilize it further leading up to the events of the game.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9d47a2a2	comment	The House Targaryen from A Song of Ice and Fire, once masters of dragons, had served as the ruling family of the Seven Kingdoms for three centuries, during which they attempted to resurrect the long-dead dragons (well dead for about 150-200 years as of the start of the series — Aegon conquered Westeros for the Targaryens using his dragons) and find The Chosen One for at least a hundred years. As by the series standard, the family has not been portrayed as wholly good or evil, but some individuals frequently swerve to some extreme. Also, in a straight example, the Maesters, the fantasy equivalent of Omnidisciplinary Scientists (they learn a little bit about everything, in order to be better advisor-types). Their love of science and the codifiable, however, has apparently lead them to attempt to destroy all magic, possibly by weakening the dragons, as mentioned above; an old legend states that without dragons in the world, there can be no magic.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In the One Piece story Rerum Danarae, the entire setup of the Navy, the Kumori clan/Dai Senmei and their direct allies is this — with their knowledge of the Void Century and the Kumoriâ€™s control of the fealty/loyalty of the Navy, they are holding the World Government by its throat for the last 820+ years. With the rising arrogance/corruption of the World Government these days, the Dai Senmei are understandably irritated with them. The setup turns the Navy effectively into an N.G.O. Superpower, unknown to most people. Theyâ€™re a mercenary military hired 820+ years ago by contract whose major condition was to give them â€œjusticeâ€�.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9e32f21b	comment	The Castle of Cagliostro has the Cagliostro family's secret counterfeiting ring through which they've secretly controlled global economics for centuries.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_9fc8a1cc	comment	The Raven's Plan reveals that a cabal within the Maesters have been manipulating events for millennia to control the development of Westerosi society, repress knowledge of magic, and (more recently) bring down the Targaryen dynasty. Having discovered this shortly before the old timeline ended, Sam and a group of Reach lords spread the word and spearhead a purge of all those involved.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a15ee289	comment	Last Child of Krypton: Several characters such like Kaji or even Gendo warn Shinji he is getting involved in an ancient ploy people very powerful and very dangerous have spent a long time scheming.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a3411dd1	comment	In Fury Born has a huge conspiracy as well, backing the pirate raiders.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: The "ORB" is an ancient artifact of unknown purpose and power, which has passed through the hands of numerous scientific geniuses throughout history (including Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton) who have all contributed to it. Lloyd Venture, grandfather of Rusty, posits that is some kind unlimited power source, while his rival FantÃ´mas (and later, his grandson the supervillain Phantom Limb), believe it to be a powerful weapon. The orders of every Venture family bodyguard have been to kill their client should he attempt to activate it. As revealed in "The Revenge Society", Lloyd's bodyguard instead breaks the ORB rather than kill Lloyd for trying to activate it. This leads to one of the show's famed Anticlimaxes when Phantom Limb tries to activate it.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a46fd76e	comment	The Babylon Rising series pits its Adventurer Archaeologist hero against the Seven, a secret society of wealthy globalists plotting to create a Luciferian One World Order. The ultimate origins of the Seven reach back to ancient Babylon, where their ancestors were astrologers advising the emperors of Nimrud.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a49a890c	comment	The Grail in Preacher.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a599305d	comment	It goes waaaay back further than that: Dr. Weil of the Mega Man Zero series, who is still in a state that can never grant him death as the original Biometal, is widely believed to be the one who's really pulling all the strings, including Master Albert himself.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a69ea70d	comment	The Minutemen and The Trust from 100 Bullets.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a78cc92f	comment	The Catholic Church were written this way in numerous Chick Tracts (frequently to Cartoonish Supervillainy levels), and Chick clearly believed them to be a Real Life example of this trope.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a7bb2a13	comment	In the Mega Man ZX series: The very creation of the Biometal devices, even the ones made and used by the games' protagonists, turns out to be part of a vast plot put into motion over 200 years before the series takes place, courtesy of the second game's main villain, Master Albert — who is a key member of the city-state Innerpeace's governing body. Additionally, it's revealed during the course of the second game that by design, all of the Biometals require a host with Master Albert's DNA to function. Indeed, Master Albert had been randomly seeding the general population with his DNA throughout the entirety of that 200 years. Alternately, this one could be viewed as something of an extended Gambit Roulette. It goes waaaay back further than that: Dr. Weil of the Mega Man Zero series, who is still in a state that can never grant him death as the original Biometal, is widely believed to be the one who's really pulling all the strings, including Master Albert himself.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	The Kolat from Legend of the Five Rings provide the obligatory shadowy conspiracy in that particular setting. Since the basic structure of Rokugan's society was set down by mystical beings from on high, the Kolat seeks to return control of the world to the hands of mortal men. Themselves specifically, lest they be mistaken for having purely noble intentions. Within the setting, doing away with the influence of the Kami would likely lead to an apocalyptic breakdown of the society.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a7e631ec	comment	Humorously subverted in The Areas of My Expertise:
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering has the numena kings introduced in the Onslaught Cycle. They're three of the five sorcerers who imprisoned the Primeval dragons of antiquity (they killed the other two), but unbeknownst to Dominaria they ruled from the continent of Otaria, and oh yeah, devised different means of resurrecting themselves among them and have revived themselves in the present day. Their goal is to usurp the power of Karona as they did the Primevals and Take Over the World as they did in ancient times.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a8639b13	comment	Fablehaven has the Society of the Evening Star, dedicated to overthrowing preserves and with the eventual goal of opening the demon prison Zzyzx and freeing the demons. They're an extremely old organization founded by the Sphinx, many centuries before the series began. He is the leader of the Society at the same time as being the Captain of the Knights of the Dawn (the opponents of the Society) and a trusted consultant for the Conservator's Alliance (who seek to maintain and protect the preserves).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_a96f6cef	comment	The Five Archons in The Secret History. They control world events from behind the scenes, and many real-world or suspected real conspiracies are revealed to be run by the Archons.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_abfd88c2	comment	Thirst (1979): The vampire cult known as the Hyma Brotherhood has been clinically harvesting human blood in their human breeding farms for possibly centuries.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ac8b90f5	comment	The Technocracy in the Mage: The Ascension RPG is a group of super-scientists who work to change the very nature of reality by making humanity believe in science and disbelieve in magic. Sadly, they have been more successful in eroding people's faith in magic than in making them enthusiastic about science, meaning that people now don't really believe in anything, with general apathy and despair as a result. Interestingly for a conspiracy, their overall intentions are almost wholly benevolent. They want to better the lives of humanity by protecting them from the dangers of magic and all the other supernatural monsters out there, and the end result of their goals would be a textbook futurist utopia. While it might seem like it, not all the OWOD games get in on this. Ancient conspiracies in Hunter: The Reckoning and Demon: The Fallen are the enemy, both the imbued and the Fallen being relatively new to the present-day supernatural scene. The conspiracies of Wraith: The Oblivion, meanwhile, are chiefly limited to wraithly society. Even so, there are sufficient conspiracies around that it doesn't help any attempts to fit them all into the same setting.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ae8f61d3	comment	NBC's Dracula features the titular count going up against the Order of the Dragon, a group of aristocrats who have pulled the strings of Western civilization since the Dark Ages, and are responsible for him becoming a vampire in the first place.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_af6a4464	comment	In The Secret World, all three playable factions are in fact, Ancient Conspiracies: the Templars are Well-Intentioned Extremists dedicated to preserving order (go figure); the Dragon pursue order through inducing anarchy and mayhem, destabilizing the world in predictive models reminiscent of chaos mathematics; The Illuminati are power-hungry Social Darwinists with a very polished, corporate image. All three of them are out to protect their interests via saving the world from things much worse than any of them.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b295cab3	comment	In Aeon 14: Destiny Lost, the terraformers guild, of all people, has become a Benevolent Conspiracy aiming to shepherd humanity out of the technological dark age brought about by the development of Faster-Than-Light Travel: the sudden relief of resource strains meant humanity gave up on being efficient, and the ability to travel between stars in weeks or months rather than decades meant interstellar warfare was now possible, causing some pre-FTL knowledge to become lost. The FGT have covert operatives subtly influencing humanity's governments and sometimes provide new planets beyond their reach to allow threatened populations a fresh start.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b2afdc9d	comment	As long as we're on the New World of Darkness, there are so many ancient conspiracies in Hunter: The Vigil that it's hard to keep them straight. In fact, the largest possible organization of hunters is commonly called a "conspiracy." Ones that best fit the criteria include: the Aegis Kai Doru, relic hunters who date back to Ancient Greece; the Ascending Ones, Arabic alchemists who use the drug trade to fuel their quest against the darkness; the Cheiron Group, a recent megacorporation with some very occluded origins who perform medical experiments of supernaturals to better mankind increase their profit margins; the Lucifuge, made up of self-proclaimed children of the Devil who seek to fight against Hell and all its works; and the Malleus Maleficarum, the Catholic Church's black bag group.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b332ea35	comment	In Death end re;Quest, there's Aphesis, a group that existed since the Middle Ages and are, during the events of the game, in control of damn near the entire Artificial Intelligence industry due to having loads and loads of agents in Aggle Inc., the people who created the Alice Engine via knowledge of the Primitive Language. When they are starting to be found out or want to learn something from someone in particular, they send agents that hide their identities behind rabbit masks and hoodies to capture and torture them until they spill the beans. And, of course, they want to Take Over the World.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b3484036	comment	Area 51: It's revealed that two factions from the Airlia, an alien species, have been plotting against each other and covertly warring with human stooges for thousands of years on Earth, along with keeping their existence unknown to most.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b4816c2e	comment	The plot of the Legacy of Kain series is very convoluted, but it all boils down to several conspiracies colliding with each other: First there's the Hylden's conspiracy to break out of their ancient prison by bringing down the Pillars of Nosgoth. Second there's the Elder God's conspiracy to exterminate the Vampires who can no longer feed him. Third there's the conspiracy to bring into existence the Scion of Balance. Kain and Raziel have the misfortune of getting mixed up with all three. Kain because he is the Scion of Balance and the one destined to defeat the Elder God and the Hylden. Raziel because he is a living temporal paradox and thus the only being in existence who can Screw Destiny.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, nearly the entire plot of the main quest traces back to the events surrounding the Battle of Red Mountainnote the disappearance of the Dwemer, the ascension of the Tribunal and Dagoth Ur, Azura's (likely) curse on the Dunmer and her prophesy that Nerevar would be reincarnated and the death of Lord Nerevar some 4000 years prior. Due to his perceived treachery, House Dagoth, the Sixth House of the Dunmer led by Dagoth Ur, was dissolved. The Sixth House Cult later formed in reverence and service to Lord Dagoth, who they (rightly) believed would return one day. In the years leading up to the events of the game itself, the Cult ramped up their activities, including assassinating Imperial officials. This is one part of the ("official") impetus for the Emperor ordering the Player Character to be sent to Vvardenfell.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b5e3fd5f	comment	Enfant in Madlax had the feel of an ancient conspiracy and used the power of ancient texts, though the actual organization seemed to be more recent.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b688fda	comment	The Forsworn in Dis Acedia are an ancient, thousand years old religious conspiracy actively sabotaging efforts to solve the titular maze. They have infiltrated most of the setting's factions to a degree or another.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution examines this: As it turns out, the reason the Illuminati survived for so long is that they're only an organization in the loosest sense of the term: they're more like an old boys' network whose members barely know each other. One of them even claims that "'Illuminati' is just a name used to get rich people to invest more money", meaning that at the end of the day, they're just an aspect of "ordinary" economic power. Also, every scheme they've ever done in order to control the world has backfired in some way or another due to unforeseen factors such as Eliza developing a conscience or due to the differing goals of their members (Darrow hijacking the biochip signal). Ultimately, the real threat of Majestic 12 is that they happen to be competent.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b944ef28	comment	In Rewrite The organization Gaia is controlling familiars and is trying to destroy humanity so that the planet can be saved. The organization Guardian is trying to stop them by whatever means necessary.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_b9b796cf	comment	The true nature of the Heaven's Feel in Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero. Specifically, the goals of the three families Eizenbern, Makiri, and Tohsaka. A subversion in that they never actually finish grail ritual; they've tried it four separate times before Fate/Stay Night and each time it failed for a completely different reason, usually due to infighting between factions. It's actually impossible for them to succeed, as the Grail was corrupted beyond repair, thanks to the Einzbern clan summoning Angra Mainyu during the third war. The Mage's Association itself qualifies. As does the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ba56500d	comment	Timeless: Rittenhouse has apparently been controlling America since the days of the Revolutionary War, and according to the Doc in Episode 6, it was founded in 1778 by a clockmaker named David Rittenhouse. The secret is held so tightly that even rumors of the existence of Rittenhouse are violently suppressed before they can spread. This was Flynn's Start of Darkness. While working as a contractor for the NSA, he found a series of large transactions between Rittenhouse and Mason Industries (to develop Time Travel). Four days after he reported it to his boss, there was a home invasion, and his wife and daughter were killed. Flynn himself barely managed to escape and swore to avenge them. Since he has no idea who ordered the hit, his plan is to Ret-Gone Rittenhouse using Mason's time machine, even if it means destroying the US. At the end of Season 1, Lucy convinces her grandfather in 1954 to gather evidence against Rittenhouse. By the time they meet again in 2017, he has enough solid evidence to arrest all known members of the organization, although, it appears that Rittenhouse has a backup plan in place. She also gives Flynn the name of the man, who ordered the hit on his family, but Flynn is arrested before he can make use of the information. Throughout the season, Lucy learns that she's more intimately connected to Rittenhouse than she likes, as the Cahill family (her father's) is a longstanding member of Rittenhouse. The Cliffhanger at the end also has her discover that her mother's family are also Rittenhouse members and that her conception was no accident.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Oh, where to begin in Warhammer 40,000? The existence of Chaos and daemons is kept secret by the Inquisition from as many people as it can be, the Orks and Eldar were originally created to fight the Necrons, the C'Tan spliced the pariah gene into proto-humanity for later harvesting, God-Emperor only knows what's up with the Adeptus Mechanicus... the list goes on. And then there's 'effing Tzeentch, a one-god ancient conspiracy who has his hand in everything. Yes, even the plans that oppose each other. Well, he is the literal embodiment of conspiracy. So much so that, should his grand plans ever actually succeed, thus ending the conspiracy, he would immediately cease to exist. So it makes quite a lot of sense for him to have two opposed goals. Well, as much sense as Chaos ever has... The Emperor is something like this as well. He's as old as humanity itself, minus the lives of those first shamans. His companion Malcador the Sigillite gave the Imperium its big "I" symbol. Thing is, the symbol existed long before the Imperium, and it belonged to another group that Malcador was a part of. Malcador helped create the one-galaxy order, by the way. In the grim darkness of the far future, the ancient conspiracies are riddled with ancient conspiracies.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_bd1137ca	comment	Subverted in Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus!, in which it is ultimately revealed that spoiler — click to reveal There is no ancient organization known as the Illuminati, and that the various groups throughout history that have been using that name have been acting completely independently. Moreover, its current incarnation (the one featured in the book) was actually founded with the express purpose of preventing such conspiracies by recruiting potential conspirators into one organization, where they can be conveniently monitored and manipulated. So ultimately, it's the conspirators who are getting the wool pulled over their eyes. And if that's not enough, it turns out that there actually is an ancient, all knowing conspiracy that has its roots going all the way back to Atlantis, but — as it turns out — it has no interest in human affairs whatsoever. Finally, Fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord mushroom mushroom (The meaning of the previous statement will be published in heaven). The Illuminatus theory is filled with these, and range from few decades to tens of thousands of years old, and it's perfectly possible for organizations to split, die, reemerge and resurrect, as well as their teachings to get corrupted in various ways. Somewhat rarely for the genre, the protagonists are mostly members of an ancient conspiracy of their own.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_bd770ce6	comment	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and its film adaptation turn slavery in America into this. A means for Southern plantations to obtain cheap labor? No, that's just what they want you to think. Slavery was really a ploy by vampires to obtain a steady source of nourishment all along. When Lincoln's Gettysburg Address mentioned "government of the people, by the people, and for the people," he wasn't talking about democracy, he was talking about wanting a country run by human beings instead of the undead.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_bdb947ab	comment	Season 2 of Agent Carter features an earlier incarnation of this same group (though you only realize this if you notice that their insignia is an earlier version of the HYDRA one) that really plays up the trappings of this trope — operating from within the public facade of a simple social lounge, the Arena Club, whose membership includes some of the most powerful people in the country, their leadership, the Council of Nine, meets within a hidden room to discuss and plan how to manipulate world events to their advantage (apparently including the assassination of McKinley and the Great Depression).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_bf23eedd	comment	The homunculi in Fullmetal Alchemist: In the manga/second anime, Homunculus/Father is both the founder and leader of said Ancient Conspiracy which is also part Government Conspiracy. As with Dante below, his plan is to live forever, but by becoming God. In the first anime, Dante runs a conspiracy dating back to a quasi-dark age, which manipulates the highest levels of the nation's government. Her plan is simply to use the philosopher stone and transfer herself to a new body to live forever, starting genocides if she has to.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_bf3e83b	comment	Midway through the first Drakensang game you find out that the Big Bad is working with the ancient Dragon Men serving the evil wyrm Andracor, and they plan to use the Adamantine Heart belonged to Andracor's father Umbracor to take over Aventuria and restore Andracor's powers.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_c3c3701	comment	Avalon in The Hellequin Chronicles is generally described as a supernatural version of the UN, but with actual power, with representatives and agents in every human government and usually, advisers near a ruler to make sure that they toe Avalon's line. If they don't... they are removed.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Humans exist specifically so that the Fendahl could have a host. "The Long Game" has the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe, who has been controlling the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire through its news for 90 years. However, it's revealed in "Bad Wolf" that there is a deeper conspiracy controlling the Jagrafess' actions: namely, the Daleks. The Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by Queen Victoria to operate outside of the British government, fighting aliens and confiscating their technology by force for the good of the British Empire (with the implication of starting a new one when it dissolves). Though its sinister faÃ§ade of mystery fades prior to the debut of the Torchwood Spin-Off. Also the Cult of Skaro, which supported the Dalek forces in the Time War from the shadows. They were so secretive that even the Doctor thought they were a myth until he encountered them personally. Plus the Silence, who have been ruling and controlling humanity secretly through post-hypnotic suggestion from when civilisation began at least until the late 1960s. The Doctor had visited Earth literally hundreds of times and never even realised they were even there since he can't remember seeing them. Torchwood: Miracle Day also reveals that some of the events of the 20th and 21st centuries have been manipulated by the Three Families, who made a pact to work together and use their combined influence to work in the shadows for the goal of immortality (after witnessing Jack's resurrection) and world domination. A Big Finish audioplay reveals that even the Families were manipulated by an even older (and alien) conspiracy called The Committee.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_c6cba714	comment	Exmortis 2 has the main character seeking to save the final dredges of humanity in a post apocalyptic world ripped bare by monsters from hell. You solve the point and click puzzles, race the descending evil clouds of doom, follow the clues and scare yourself in the process, only to win and discover that the bad guy you thought you were defeating was actually kicked out of his own cult centuries ago. You've been working to get rid of the Exmortis so that he can take over again with them out of the way. Out of the frying pan and into the furnace, in other words. Oh, and your character dies anyway. Damn. (It's a point and click game, but you know).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_c72021c5	comment	Played with in the original Deus Ex, which suggests that the conspiracy in the game is only the latest incarnation of an idea.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_c720f71e	comment	Various YouTube conspiracy videos are full of information about various ancient conspiracies, from the Illuminati to the Freemasons to the Bilderberg Group and the New World Order, for anyone who is interested in listening to that sort of thing, and all of various questionable degrees of believability, and usually overlapping with subjects like chemtrails, 2012, and shapeshifting aliens for bonus fun. And if you believe these things (some of the evidence isn't... toootally unconvincing) you can file them under Real Life too.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_c83a00e4	comment	Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: As Supergirl, Asuka must fight against giant monsters, alien beings, an evil cult and an ancient secret society comprised of old madmen whose goal consists in killing everybody and merging their souls to give birth a new god. Said secret society is not happy with the unforeseen appearance of a super-powered girl coming along out of nowhere and interfering with their plans.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_cb6abea3	comment	In Season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh! the villains are a group called Doma who play with this trope-while they own the richest, most secretive and most powerful company in the world and own a piece of every company on Earth, as well as having some measure of influence on the governments of countless nations, all of the members are fairly recent recruits, and there are only a handful of them. The sole exception is their leader, Dartz, who is really 10,000 years old, is the former King of Atlantis, was present when the Pharaoh battled Bakura and Zorc in Ancient Egypt, and has been spending his immortal lifespan battling millions of people individually and stealing their souls throughout the ages, with the ultimate aim of bringing about The End of the World as We Know It.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_cbac7fb4	comment	Puritas Cordis from Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis. It's unclear whether it was continued from the original, or collapsed and restructured, though.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ce2cf80	comment	In The Arts of Dark and Light, there is at least one that is active both in Amorr and Savondir, the two superpowers in the world of Selenoth, seeking to manipulate both for its own ends. Possibly, there are several conspiracies, with different non-human powers working at cross purposes. This is not made entirely clear, since most of the information about the conspiracy's deeper workings so far comes from an Unreliable Expositor.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_cec99ed9	comment	In the Safehold novels, the entire Church of God Awaiting is a conspiracy so ancient they've forgotten about it. The counter-conspirators in the form of the Brotherhood of Saint Zherneau do remember things, though.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_cfd860dd	comment	In the Nasuverse, one of the highest laws of magi is to keep to the Grand Order, a strict code that includes creating powerful Magic Crests and ensuring they are jealously kept within families, and ensuring that these Crests are passed down at all costs, while forbidding suicide under all circumstances. Fate/Grand Order reveals all of these were invented by the Big Bad Goetia, since in the distant past he created Crests and placed the 72 demons that formed him into several, spreading them into noble magi families and instituting the Grand Order to ensure they and the demons they carried would survive to the present day, allowing it to implement its plan to exterminate humanity. Virtually every aspect of magi society was crafted by Goetia as a trap.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_cfe0fed2	comment	The Great Gaias: Validus's immortal Gauf and Forlorn Society have infiltrated or compromised the leadership of several nations, including Greyhem, Sovereign, Sorbithia, Amanor, Porthul, and Osiris. Their plan is to start a war between Greyhem and Sovereign, and then use the soldiers and the king of Greyhem as sacrifices to unseal the Validian Emperor, Maultor. They've been planning this ever since Eldromus Blackheart escaped the Abyss and killed the Warriors of Light centuries ago.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d1548747	comment	From Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series, we have The Brotherhood of Nod, a mixture between religious cult, rogue nation-state, MegaCorp, and paramilitary organization capable of taking on the GDI in battle. Its influence stretches back as far as World War II, hinted to be stretching centuries further back (how one character noted that they've been biding their time for centuries, and now it's the time to reveal themselves), and if Kane is to be believed, they have existed as far as human history itself.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse has the Consult, a conspiracy of great sorcerers and generals who were persuaded to take the side of the Inchoroi against the Nonmen during the first Apocalypse. After their initial failure, they spent the next four thousand years lying low, waiting for their next opportunity.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d2ea0091	comment	Cobra-La, the secret ancient civilization of snake people in G.I. Joe: The Movie.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d3c800ed	comment	Both played straight and subverted in Sonic X: Dark Chaos. The backstory runs on the idea that both Christianity and Islam are nothing more than fronts for the Angel Federation. However, Maledict's gigantic "Ultimate Weapon" gambit to defeat the Angels is less than a century old.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d448d760	comment	The Nameless Mod, a postmodern Game Mod for the original Deus Ex, has a very meta ancient conspiracy where aliens from the planet GameSpy are in league with the administrators of ForumPlanet to control the world ever since the apocalyptic "Planetization" occured, in which they took control.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d4c6e9c7	comment	The Cabal from Blood. They become more publicly known in the sequel, reforming after their god's death as CabalCo.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d5bd2a20	comment	The Book of Mormon warns that "secret combinations" caused the downfall of multiple ancient civilizations and will continue to do so whenever they occur.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: The Chitauri want to destroy the free will of the human race. They worked with the Nazis, but kept planning things in the shadows since their defeat.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d7f4966b	comment	The main antagonists in Helck are Really 700 Years Old and were messing with human nobles for generations. Their goals are different, but they work together to Restart the World.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_d8c462f3	comment	In Warhammer: The End Times it is revealed that the High Elves Council of Wizard have been hiding the truth that the Dark Elf King Malekith is the rightful King of Ulthuan and the High Elves. Having secretly used their magic to protect every Phoenix King who stepped into Asuryan's flames, making it look as though they were blessed by the gods.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_da72cf97	comment	In the Trails Series, the organization Ouroboros was founded to obtain the Seven Sacred Treasure of Aidios, known as the Sept-Terrion. Naturally, they're the villains of the overarching series.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_daff6a21	comment	Yliaster in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. Two versions of it exist in the series: The first Yliaster was an Illuminati-like cult founded 3000 years prior to the start of the series in South America. Their goal was to gain control over human society, and to use their power and influence to ensure humanity's survival in the cyclical Divine Conflict between the Big Good Crimson Dragon and the Eldritch Abomination Earthbound Immortals. The Big Bad of the first arc is the leader of the organization, who seeks to become an all-powerful god so he can end the cycle once and for all. The second Yliaster comes about when a three-man Big Bad Ensemble uses their powers to take over and Cosmic Retcon the previous origin out of existence, with the new origin being that they were a relatively new organization with possibly a few members (the ones involved with the Dark Signers) inspired by the original Star Dragon King. In its new incarnation, the founders of the organization are actually four well-intentioned extremists from the future; having harnessed the ability to Time Travel with the intention of going back and preventing the global catastrophe that led to the devastated future in which they are the only surviviors. This change in depictions was widely reported to be the result of the showrunners wanting to distance themselves from cult-like activity, but in reality seems to have simply been caused by the writers running out of ideas for the original premise and needing to write themselves out of a hole.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_db30cf92	comment	The Dark Forest from Warrior Cats, which has influenced many cats, including clan leaders and plotted to overthrow the clans since long before Firestar came to the forest.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra has an ancient conspiracy that is "only" about a century old in the form of the Red Lotus, an offshoot of the White Lotus with different ideas of how to bring balance to the world. The Red Lotus believes that the governments and ruling institutions of the world are hopelessly corrupt and must be utterly destroyed. This extends to every organization and political representative which enforces order, including the Avatar.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ddad77ae	comment	In Astro City, the Nebulous Evil Organization Pyramid is believed to be this, running schemes that go back centuries if not even further.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_dec15009	comment	This trope is played straight in the science fiction series, Alterien by Adam R. Brown. The Alteriens Oberon creates go on to form a massive society that spans time and space. In order to more covertly assimilate selected candidates into their society and firmly establish their fellowship on 3D Earth, they create an extension of their nation, a secretive organization they call the Community. Members of the Community are either Alteriens or humans who will soon be transformed into Alteriens. Despite their efforts to keep this secret society a secret, a human who overheard them in the mid-20th century later investigated further. Though that person's efforts to reveal them were never successful, word of their society's existence continued throughout the next two centuries, albeit within the context of an old conspiracy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_dfbfb76e	comment	EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: The Kinreikan has vibes of being an ancient conspiracy. While primarily they are an organization of martial artist exorcists and mystics, they are a powerful and ancient organization that keeps itself hidden from the public eye and are only known to exist by those in the know. Thankfully, they are an ancient conspiracy on the side of good, such as employing Fei to fight Master Wu and his jiangshi, though they do seek any opportunity to accumulate wealth - even in disaster.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e0471d3b	comment	In Patrick Graham's The Gospel of Evil, our universe is a Cosmic Horror Story and Jesus became the son of Satan before his death, which the Church knows, yet it is kept secret to keep the world from being overcome with Satanist movements.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Earth has been legally owned by the Nemesite Empire since the extinction of the dinosaurs. They're aware of the rise of humankind, but they still consider us wildlife largely beneath their notice. That is a good thing, because the day that they do decide to declare us full citizens of the Empire, the sovereignty of every nation on Earth will become meaningless, and a war will probably follow.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e270b7e1	comment	The fan-made expansion Genius: The Transgression has, among others, Lemuria — an ancient conspiracy that ain't quite what it used to be.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e293455a	comment	To some extent the Watcher's Council from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, although they hover between this trope and Ancient Tradition. The organization is decended from a trio of prehistoric African shamans who created the first slayer by infusing a teenage girl with demon strength. Their initial purpose was to guide and protect the slayer, to make sure that she had at least some human allies even if she was ostracized from the rest of her community, and to ensure that she had the knowledge and training necessary to fight demons effectively. However, by the time they make their first appearance, they're an arrogant Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering that don't do much more than cling to the slayer as a reason for existing and hinder her work with their archaic rules and Lawful Stupid behavior.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e4b5f973	comment	Clan Akkaba is an Ancient Conspiracy made up of the descendants of Apocalypse. True to form for organizations of this type, they claim credit for a wide variety of historical disasters and upheavals.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, the Order of the Black Rose has existed since the First Age and has plotted the rise and fall of various kingdoms behind the scenes for centuries with varying levels of success depending on who's been leading them at the time.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The name says it all. This is also probably one of the best examples of this Trope in existence. What is it? None other than GURPS Illuminati.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e5e1b993	comment	James Rollins' Sigma Force series has a recurring adversary in The Guild. Early on it's thought to be just a very powerful terrorist organization, but he slowly unfolds more of its backstory with each book. The Devil Colony and Blood Line brings their story arc to its (current) conclusion revealing that their origins can be traced back through every conspiracy organization through history, going back literally thousands of years. With their every action and goal working towards uncovering the secret of immortality, which was once granted by a now extinct herb during biblical times.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_e84e2d54	comment	Oldest of all is a (frequently one-person) conspiracy by R. Daneel Olivaw, from Dr Asimov's Robot Series. Since Robots and Empire, Daneel has been guiding human history, trying to preserve human ability to define their destiny, while preventing human foibles from destroying the race. He encouraged the creation of Gaia and hid the planet from the first galactic empire. He encouraged Hari Seldon to develop Psychohistory and establish the First and Second Foundations. He even conversed with Golan Trevieze, helping him to realize that, while aliens are absent from the Milky Way, they almost certainly exist in the other galaxies. Daneel's programming makes him prioritize the defense of humanity at the expense of all other sentient life.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ea6d41e3	comment	Queen Millennia: La-Metal has been in periodic contacts with Earth since at least the Cambrian Period. At some point they have started to send Queens Millenia every 1000 years as a Shadow Dictator, and all of Earth's culture is said to be the product of La-Metal. There is a clone of Yayoi in every major city who pushes the development of infrastucture in a certain direction, but only she is the true Queen Millennia.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ebffc81f	comment	The Seers of the Throne in the successor game Mage: The Awakening are devoted to ensuring that humanity remains ignorant of the Gnostic truths of the universe by keeping as much control of human culture as possible, and directing it away from any supernatural insights whenever possible and necessary, a goal they have been pursuing since the time of Alexander the Great. The Seers are organized in the manner of an extremely convoluted bureaucracy, with none of the members knowing the entire structure of it, and with the potential for members to be appointed to offices which are ultimately meaningless, but which can be taken so seriously that they eventually 'evolve' a meaning, based on the importance attributed to them. The Guardians of the Veil and the Silver Ladder are also arguably ancient conspiracies, albeit with arguably more altruistic goals (the former seeks to prevent humanity from finding truths they are not ready for, the latter seeks to help all of humanity to Awaken). Also a Deconstruction, in that their potential power is limited by their secrecy (as in, Right Hand Versus Left Hand) and that they spend so much of their time fighting amongst themselves that their own schemes have a tendency to turn against them due to lack of supervision.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ee04f49a	comment	In the Deus Ex Universe, the Majestic 12 is a Recent Conspiracy that split from its founding organization the Illuminati. There's also The Knights Templar. Deus Ex: Human Revolution examines this: As it turns out, the reason the Illuminati survived for so long is that they're only an organization in the loosest sense of the term: they're more like an old boys' network whose members barely know each other. One of them even claims that "'Illuminati' is just a name used to get rich people to invest more money", meaning that at the end of the day, they're just an aspect of "ordinary" economic power. Also, every scheme they've ever done in order to control the world has backfired in some way or another due to unforeseen factors such as Eliza developing a conscience or due to the differing goals of their members (Darrow hijacking the biochip signal). Ultimately, the real threat of Majestic 12 is that they happen to be competent. And, ironically, this turns out to be their downfall. As Human Revolution reveals, the Illuminati's greatest strengths have always been sticking to the shadows while letting proxies do much of the dirty work and also preselecting fall guys to cover their ass. True, they occasionally failed, but they always had a fallback. In the original game, Bob Page ruined that by forcing the Illuminati to have to work directly with JC because he eliminated their other indirect options when he splintered off from them. And, by the same token, despite Majestic 12's competence, he also eliminated the ability to have a proxy to cover his ass if things went badly, which meant that he essentially undid his victories from Human Revolution at the same time. Played with in the original Deus Ex, which suggests that the conspiracy in the game is only the latest incarnation of an idea. The Nameless Mod, a postmodern Game Mod for the original Deus Ex, has a very meta ancient conspiracy where aliens from the planet GameSpy are in league with the administrators of ForumPlanet to control the world ever since the apocalyptic "Planetization" occured, in which they took control.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_eea71f15	comment	The Dune Encyclopedia takes this a few extra steps, by having the conspiracy go back all the way to ancient Earth, including Jesus and Alexander the Great being failed/proto-Kwisatz Haderachs.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_eeb170e3	comment	Spy School: Croatoan, the villains of the eighth book. In some ways they serve as a Contrasting Sequel Antagonist to SPYDER (a relatively new organization Only in It for the Money). Croatoan is filled with Spanish zealots who were behind a series of False Flag Operation's (beginning with the disappearance of the Roanoke colony, which they blamed on the local Natives), initially to try and drive the other colonial powers out of the new world and then to try and topple the American government out of bitterness in the centuries afterwards (long after the actual Spanish government disavowed them). They were behind the Boston Tea Party to start the Revolutionary War, crashed the stock market in 1929, and burned the Capitol during the war of 1812. They also are behind the assassinations of Presidents Kennedy, McKinley, Lincoln (giving John Wilkes Booth a Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon and telling him that the assassination was a play) and Harrison (who they poisoned with arsenic while managing to make it look like natural causes).
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f1360d68	comment	The Shuffle Alliance of G Gundam, which has secretly arbitrated nearly every world war in history and perfected the art of talking in perfect unison.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f27404a0	comment	The Conduit has a government organization that's been kept under wraps for centuries. Turns out that the current-day leader, John Adams, is under alien authority (you hear him speaking with his superiors in the credits) and part of a centuries old plot to take over the world. On top of that, the ending credits reveal that Adams is a couple of centuries old himself, hinting that he may actually be the Founding Father John Adams, as well as an alien.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f53022c6	comment	The Ascended from Feng Shui are a conspiracy of animals that have taken human form in defiance of the natural order. They control everything in the 1850 and contemporary junctures since using Time Travel to capture enough feng shui sites to cause a Critical Shift and evict the world's previous rulers, the Four Monarchs, to the Netherworld by pulling history out from under them. Because magic is the only thing that can revert these transformed animals back to their natural forms, one of their driving goals is to suppress magic, relying on the media and scientists to discredit those who try to prove that magic is real, and Pledged hit squads to kill known sorcerers and supernatural creatures. It doesn't exactly help that most sorcerers and supernatural creatures tend toward the evil persuasion themselves.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: From the episode "Z'Ha'Dum", we have the human emissary of the Shadows, Justin, describing things thusly: On the other side, the Vorlons have been manipulating their current allies for millennia, to make them suitable as Vorlon pawns during the next Vorlon/Shadow war.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f7712bb4	comment	Wonderful Blessing: The Goddess Dragons (at least, Freya, Pyra and Megara, the latter unwillingly) have been perpetuating one to orchestrate a Forever War between Hellrealm and the rest of creation. Serena and Team F's goal turns from overthrowing the Demon Lord and instead uncovering the truth upon realising that the Demon Lord and his forces are Unwitting Pawns to the Ancient Conspiracy.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f7d93e4a	comment	The Templar Order in Assassin's Creed, though it's questionable when one considers that everything you learn about the Templars being in control of the world is coming from their own deceitful mouths, and e-mails you can secretly read imply that they're not quite as powerful as they make themselves out to be. Meanwhile, the Assassins are a similarly ancient counter-conspiracy that exists to thwart the Templars. Every famous figure in history is a Templar/Assassin/Ally of either side. For the third variety, see Leonardo da Vinci. Yes, that Leonardo. A few of the involved were just some poor schmucks or descendants of "Those Who Came Before", who, more or less unwittingly, got themselves rolled into the conspiracy. This group of people often caused some disruption to the balance of the power struggle, and would soon thereafter face a very untimely demise. People in this category includes Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy. While their impact in the first seems minor, if Subject 16/Clay Kaczmarek can be trusted then the involvement of Templars and opposition by Assassins is even wider-reaching than originally believed. Let's put it this way, the majority of the quote's page for the trope is taken from this series. Ancient conspiracies don't get much more ancient (or intricate, for that matter) than Assassin's Creed. We're talking about a war that's been going on since Cain and Abel, where Cain was the first Templar and Abel had an Apple of Eden. You know Atlantis? Supposedly an ancient Isu city. A lot of gods and goddesses, both of mythology and actual religion, were just members of the Isu (e.g., Juno, Jupiter, Minerva, etc.). And that's not getting into the Hidden Ones and the Order of the Ancients, the precursors to the modern-day Assassin Brotherhood and Templar Order.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f89f466d	comment	Torchwood: Miracle Day also reveals that some of the events of the 20th and 21st centuries have been manipulated by the Three Families, who made a pact to work together and use their combined influence to work in the shadows for the goal of immortality (after witnessing Jack's resurrection) and world domination. A Big Finish audioplay reveals that even the Families were manipulated by an even older (and alien) conspiracy called The Committee.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_f9cfb1ef	comment	Viceroy's Pride: Both Dan and Sam are shocked when Ibis casually admits he got the nanites from the Illuminati. Ibis dismisses them as a bunch of rich busybodies trying to be immortal and using their political ties to get more money. In the second book, they are the driving force behind Ibis trying to conquer the world.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_fa84aed1	comment	The Witches by Roald Dahl features an ancient conspiracy of wicked witches whose express goal is to kill all children.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_fc9b39e	comment	The Immortals, a trio of immortal sorcerers who have been working from the shadows for centuries in The Extraordinaires.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_fcfec4b6	comment	Les Soldats in Noir is a rare version of this trope that is not outright evil. Formed a thousand years ago by the survivors of a bloody war, their purpose in the present day is to protect the weak and take revenge on those who victimize the world.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_fdf7a632	comment	The reboot Vampire: The Requiem does this as well, although the scale of its conspiracies is much more local. They mainly influence mortal society in small ways without any overarching scheme. Sometimes they mess with people just as a game.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: We all know Hydra as a terrorist outfit that aided the Nazi party, but as it turns out, they're the continuation of an ancient Egyptian cult (but their goals haven't changed much). As it turns out, S.H.I.E.L.D. has a very similar background. And then there's Leviathan, a later Ancient Conspiracy created to be The Man Behind the Man to both HYDRA and SHIELD, as well as the Zodiac Cartel.
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Ancient Conspiracy / int_ff3289cd	comment	Age of Empires III has the Circle of Ossus, an ancient society that wields a lot of power in Europe. Their primary goal seems to be to find the Fountain of Youth in order to attain immortality. They've been around since long before the 16th century, as old cave paintings were found in 1565 on Malta that speak of the Circle. Their symbol is white animals (e.g. jaguars, wolves). The circle keeps returning throughouth the centuries, first in the late 16th century, then in mid-18th, and finally in the early 19th, when they're defeated for good. During the times they come back, the Circle's leaders are Alain Magnan, Warwick, and Pierre Beaumont.
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∀ Gundam / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
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Feedbackverse (Blog) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Mephi (Blog) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
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Morning Glories (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
New 52 (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
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The Unwritten (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tomb Raider (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Venom (2003) (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ythaq (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Candorville (Comic Strip) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Cul-de-sac (Comic Strip) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dilbert (Comic Strip) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
From Hell / Comicbook / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Madman / Comicbook	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
New Avengers (2015) (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
S.H.I.E.L.D. (2010) (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Aeon Natum Engel / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Equestria: A History Revealed / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
EvangelionGear	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Evangelion Gear (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hisaoand Kenji Master Detectives / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
LegendOfSiXiang	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Power Rangers GPX / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Prophecies of the Morphing Grid (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Spike's Gambit / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Swordstorm / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Difference One Man Can Make / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Joy Of Battle / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Reactsverse / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Zenith / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Zistopia / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
A Moth to a Flame (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Celestial Warrior Moon (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
C'est la Vie (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Code Geass Megiddo (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dark Hearts (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dawn Is Just A Heartbeat Away (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fate of the Clans (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Game of the Ancients (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gems: The Sun Princess / Fan Fic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Halkegenia Online (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Human (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
In Vain Doth Valor Bleed (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Last Child of Krypton (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Pursued (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rerum Danarae (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Seven Days in Sunny June (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Sonic Origins (Ri2) (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Star Wars Paranormalities Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tales From The Phoenix Empire (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Desert Storm (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Mountain's Range (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Spacebattles Multiverse Project (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Three Months a Fox (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
To Aruverse Rewrite Project (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
We Are The Nine (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Worm-in-Waiting (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Yet again, with a little extra help (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Anonymous (2011) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Batman Begins / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Cure / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Glass (2019) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Holidays / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Jumper / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lunopolis / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Martyrs / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Most Dangerous Game / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
National Treasure / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ninja Assassin / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Paranormal Activity / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Prince of Darkness / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Conspiracy / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Legend of Zorro / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Midnight Meat Train / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Ninth Gate / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Saint (2017) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Visitor / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Thirst (1979) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Underworld (2003) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Alien (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Assassin's Creed (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Conan the Barbarian (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dune (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fallout (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Marvel Universe (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
My-HiME (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Resident Evil (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tomb Raider (Franchise) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Warlock of Gramarye / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fate/Zero / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rakuin No Monshou / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
A Girl Who Brought Down the World / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Adrift Trilogy / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Aeon 14 / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Alterien / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Blood Rites / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Carrion Comfort / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Coldfire Trilogy / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
DangerousDetour	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Dawnshard / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Definitely, Maybe / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Divergent / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Domain / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dune / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dune Encyclopedia / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Eighth Doctor Adventures / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fablehaven / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fate/Zero / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Foucault's Pendulum / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Foundation Series / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
From the New World / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Generation P / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Giants Series / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Godforsaken Future / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hell's Gate / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hero Complex / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Homecoming Saga / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Illuminatus! / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
John Devil / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kill Time or Die Trying / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kitty Norville / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kull / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lensman / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lone Wolf / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lord of Mysteries / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Lucifer's Star / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Malazan Book of the Fallen / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Meg / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Mistborn: Secret History / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Morgan Detective Agency / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Mumbo Jumbo / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
On Heroes and Tombs / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Onslaught Cycle / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Pandaemonium / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Paradox Bound / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Paranoid Mage / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
President's Vampire / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Principia Discordia / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Psycho Killers in Love / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ra / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rakuin No Monshou / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Re:Zero / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Reflexive Fire / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ringworld / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rise and Fall / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Second Apocalypse / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Space Captain Smith / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Spy School / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Star Trek Picard The Dark Veil / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Starship's Mage / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tearmoon Empire / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Areas of My Expertise / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Ashes Series / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Big One / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Black Coats / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Bone Clocks / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Bone Season Series / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Book of Mormon / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Cavaliers Series / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Croning / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Da Vinci Code / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Demon Princes / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
TheDreamingIsland	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
The Empty Ones / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Fallen World / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Gathering / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Gospel of Evil / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Graveyard Book / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Great Divorce / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Great Library / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Hellequin Chronicles / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Kingdom Keepers / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Lightbringer Series / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Lost Symbol / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Lotus War / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Midnight Meat Train / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Nine Lives of Chloe King / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Radix / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Riyria Revelations / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Wise Man's Fear / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tide Lords / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Valducan / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vatican Miracle Examiner / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Venus Prime / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Viceroy's Pride / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Villains Are Destined to Die / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Whom Gods Would Destroy / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wings of Dawn / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wonder Woman: Warbringer / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wraith Knight / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wraith Lord / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Xanth / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Zones of Thought / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
AmericanPoliticalSystem	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
AxisOfTime	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
BlaTornet	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Dasaria	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
FableHaven	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
KennethHite	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Noaqiyeum	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Notable Swedish Monarchs	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Political Stereotype	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Ptitle97h4eweh	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Ptitlebwxkun8y	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Ptitlel59ywfenym8d	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
ShadowGirls	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
The Knights Templar	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
TheLastDaysofFoxhound	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
ThePragueCemetery	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
TheSphinx	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Transition	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
TwentyTwentySeven	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Yej	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
ptitle4z9bga17ybyl	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
A Centaur's Life (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Boruto (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ceres, Celestial Legend (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Claymore (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Cyborg 009 (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Embalming (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Evangelion 303 (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Guyver (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Helck (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Jabberwocky (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kenji (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Mahoromatic (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Marginal (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Monochrome Factor (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Noah's Notes (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Plus-Si (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Project ARMS (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Queen Millennia (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Samurai Deeper Kyo (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Spiral (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tales of Wedding Rings (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Toward the Terra (Manga) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Ruler Of The Land (Manhwa) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Warbringer (Music) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Friends at the Table (Podcast) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Peculiar Objects (Podcast) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Qwerpline (Podcast) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Black Tapes (Podcast) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Box Podcast (Podcast) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Leviathan Chronicles (Podcast) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tropes A to F / Real Life / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
AH.com Eternals (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Great White North (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gundam Seed Destiny Project R (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Henshin Heroes (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Murderat Midnight (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Humongous Mecha RP (Roleplay) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
America Unearthed / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Community / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Continuum / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Da Vinci's Demons / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dark Angel / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dead Still / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dragula / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gotham / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gotham Knights (2023) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Grimm / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Helix / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Herederos De Una Venganza / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Iron Fist (2017) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Jordskott / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
MacGyver (2016) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Martial Law / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Nancy Drew (2019) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Night Sky / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Sense8 / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Sleepy Hollow / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Star Trek: Picard / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Starhunter / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Supergirl (2015) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Continental / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Defenders (2017) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Lost Symbol / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Pentaverate / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Timeless / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
True Blood / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Warehouse 13 / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
GURPS (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Achtung! Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Anima: Beyond Fantasy (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Banestorm (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Chronicles of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
City of Mist (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Delta Green (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Deviant: The Renegades (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Disney Villains Victorious (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Eclipse Phase (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Eon (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Epic Level Handbook (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Feng Shui (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Freedom City (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gamma World (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Geist: The Sin-Eaters (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Illuminati (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
In Dark Alleys (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Infinite Worlds (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Legend of the Five Rings (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Leviathan: The Tempest (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Night's Black Agents (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Over the Edge (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Racial Holy War (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Trail of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Trinités (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Trinity Universe (White Wolf) (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Xenos Rampant (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Age of Wonders 3 (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Alchemist Code (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
ALLTYNEX Second (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Another Eden (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Arc the Lad (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Azrael's Tear (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Bodycount (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Bodycount (2011) (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Boktai (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Bowser's Last Stand (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Clicking Bad (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Cloudpunk (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Custom Robo (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Deus Ex: The Fall (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dragon Star Varnir (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Drakensang (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Drowned God (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
End of Nations (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Escape Velocity (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Eternal Darkness (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fallout 2 (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Folklore (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gabriel Knight (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Guardian Heroes (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Guild Wars (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hypnospace Outlaw (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
inFAMOUS (Video Game)	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
MadWorld (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Max Payne (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Moonrise (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Murdered: Soul Suspect (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Penumbra (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Perimeter (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Phoenix Point (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Pylons (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Sdorica (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Secret Files (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Soul Hackers (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Subverse (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Callisto Protocol (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Great Gaias (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Legend of Dragoon (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Longest Journey (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Nameless Mod (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Secret World (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The XCOM Files (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ticket to Earth (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tomb Raider III (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Trails Series (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vampyr (2018) (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vendetta Online (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Vice: Project Doom (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Who's Lila? (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wizard101 (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Xenogears (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
ZombiU (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Anchorhead (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dark Tales / Videogame / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
eXceed / Videogame / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ciconia: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Echo (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Smoke Room (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Hommer Simpson (Web Animation) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Inferno Cop (Web Animation) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kurzgesagt (Web Animation) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Critter Coven / Web Comic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ozy and Millie (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Yellow Peril / Web Comic / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Agents of Cracked (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Carmilla the Series (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Immersion Breakers (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kurzgesagt (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
lonelygirl15 (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Wind City (Web Video) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Billy the Heretic (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
BlackWind	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Broodhollow (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Friends Of A Friend (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Legostar Galactica (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Life After (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
MAG-ISA (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rise From Ashes (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Semi-Auto Semla (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Strong Female Protagonist (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Tales of the Questor (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Foxfire Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Last Days of FOXHOUND (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Law of Purple (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Above Top Secret (Website) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Goodbye Strangers (Website) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Overused Sci-Fi Plot Devices (Website) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
RPC Authority (Website) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Batman vs. Robin / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Carmen Sandiego / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Children VS Wizards / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Di-Gata Defenders / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Gargoyles / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Huntik: Secrets & Seekers	seeAlso	Ancient Conspiracy
Huntik: Secrets & Seekers / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Inside Job (2021) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Kaijudo / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Legend of the Three Caballeros / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Sealab 2021 / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Impact Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
El Cazador de la Bruja / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Star Driver / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
War of Kings (Comic Book) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Advice and Trust (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
HERZ (Fanfic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Empire from the Ashes / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Pharaoh / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Red Room / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
ancientconspiracy	sameAs	Ancient Conspiracy
Deus Ex: Invisible War (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
2027 (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (Visual Novel) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Errant Story (Webcomic) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy

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