The Board
 "It is better to light
one
small candle than to curse the darkness" The Board is the stuff of 101 conspiracy theories - the Illuminati, the Secret Masters, the Shadow Government...a thousand mortal myths, legends, tales - and these days, cheap novels and crazed websites - have coalesced around the quiet belief that, somewhere, someone is quietly keeping an eye on events. Call them Earth's cosmic audience. Every so often, across history, the Goddess who created humanity as Her pet project has noticed aspects of said project that could come in handy, and quietly shuffled them towards one group and identity. And when the Other Side decided to take a shot at screwing up this corner of Creation, She rallied them to aid Her in dealing with the problem. As they are now, the Board is the result of centuries of slow development and growth as a Goddess' executive arm - starting as a group of the handy minions any minor deity builds up, adding a few genus loci here and there, and eventually splitting off from just keeping the universe running to actively keeping an eye on the one species the Boss was working on. When civilizations rose, more human proto-Boardies began to emerge - people with a quiet tendency to take the human habit of bending the environment to fit a little further, bending it in ways that went beyond fire and the wheel and into higher realms. Why the Goddess is curious about such traits is something She keeps to Herself, but when the Adversary announced His presence and desire to corrupt humanity, the Boardies were in the perfect position to oppose Him. Now facing the ultimate source for the hatred and ignorance they so despise in humanity, the Board hopes and prays that it has enough to fend Him off and prevent His dark designs upon mankind coming to fruition. Behind it, it has the Goddess, whoever Her Boss might be (after all, Lucifer breathing down your neck hopefully suggests God on your side), the amassed might of everyone She could find to pitch in, and the still-unclear roles of those humans She has her eye on. On the other side stand the nigh-infinite legions of Hell, bent on causing as much suffering as possible to the creatures God chose above their rebellious master. The coming battle is going to be big, bad...and very, very weird. |