In a nutshell, these guys rule the world. A coalition of the most powerful 'mancers in the world, tired of their occult powers being used in the shadows and fringes of society decided to come out in force and use their magick openly to gain a position of power. One of their original members is suspected to have been a Cliomancer, given the way world events led to them taking over. America, China, Russia, India, Iran, Syria. All armed with nukes, all at one another's throats, and a global population so desperate for survival that it would cling to the first hope that came their way. In hindsight, they'd have been better served by the nukes. One by one, the world's governments lay down arms and the Occult Authority stepped in. OA's numbers swelled from the original four to as many as five hundred. No exact figures are known, and the number changes as members are burned out, chosen, or killed.
Life under the Authority is hard and oppressive, normal humans treated as a lower class to magick users, but both subjected to a complete loss of privacy by the OA, fearing an insurrection. Social commentators have previously likened it to life in Soviet Russia, but these writers were either silenced or forced to change tack and write propaganda pieces instead. This stands as the complete opposite of the Corax-ruled Great Britain, in which you are as free as you have ever been, so long as you forgo any magick. During the OA's takeover bid, an epideromancer, Jan Majer, was sent to England, to invite Corax to join them, or to kill him and steal his country. For his troubles, Jan was beaten, killed, and had his heart and eyes eaten. No member of the Occult Authority has ever dared set foot in the country since, but should Corax decide to cross his boundaries then there's no doubt that he would be murdered, and the last free country on the planet would fall.
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