From Changeling Venue

Contents 1 Overview 2 Summary 3 Positions 4 Rumored Membership 5 Rumors 6 OOC Info

• Debauchery
  

    - noun, seduction from duty, allegiance, or virtue.

• Freedom
  

    - noun, exemption from external control, interference, regulation.

Overview

Concept: Secretive group of friends come together to mock common morality and flaunt deviancy and the occult.

Freehold: Unknown. Sightings in Cincinnati, Atlanta, DC, California and along the Mississippi have been reported.

Court: Unknown but seems to have VERY strong ties to the Winter and Autumn courts.

Seeming: Unknown but presumed to be any.

Kith: Unknown but presumed to be any.

Summary

   The Hellfire Club seems to have sprung up overnight but claims to have a colorful history dating back to the days of Sir Francis Dashwood and his Society of Dilettanti. The Club seems to be founded on the principles of wearing away at the moralities commonly accepted by society presumably to be replaced with something else. Of course these could just be fancy words to give some cover to a group of selfish libertines out only to please themselves. The secretive nature combined with the wild rumors circling it, some too fantastical to be believed make it hard to get a true image of what exactly goes on within the Club. Everything from licentious parties involving both the local human and changeling populations to dark orgies complete with the defilement of an altar has been attributed to the Club members. It's not only wild rumors that cloak the Club in mystery. Their processes are byzantine to say the least. Everything they do seems to be steeped in ritual, both mystical and otherwise. None know, possibly including the Club members themselves just how many of the rules and rituals are fake, intended as nothing more than an obfuscation for the Club's true purposes.

Positions

   The Club's inner works are as shrouded in mystery as anything else about it. The only things non-members have to go on are rumors. It's said that full blown members take their titles from the pieces of a chess board but it's possible these titles are constantly changing within the Club in some complex and bizarre dance of ascension and demotion. Ask the same Club member their title on two different nights and you may get three different answers. One position that seems to never be claimed is that of the King. It's unknown who the leader of the Hellfire Club is possibly even to the members themselves.

Rumored Membership

• Belladonna
• Bianca Snow
• Catherine Wheel
• Christian
• Dominic Jackson Hunter
• Faith Thomas
• Ignacio Itztli
• Jack Sprat
• Noman
• Nycto Feraz
• Pawn
• Shadow's Bite
• Uriel de Lenormand
• Virginia Wolfe

Rumors

• The Hellfire Club's members take their names from chess pieces of a strange six sided chess board on which sit three different colored pieces.

• The Hellfire Club is nothing more than a loose collection of rakes, rogues, libertines, and lushes who seek to give their conquests validity.

• The Hellfire Club is a cover for a more nefarious cult of loyalists and their King is a True Fae master.

• The Hellfire Club chooses its members based on the pillow talk of the motley's numerous members.

• The Hellfire Club has secret parties that involve both orgies and human sacrifice.

• The Hellfire Club has a vast treasury filled with magical items and dross.

• There is an lost vineyard in the Hedge that bare a fruit which the Hellfire Club has made into a wine. This wine (which is highly addictive) causes those who drink it to lose all their inhibitions.

• The Hellfire Club's membership roster is comprised of only the most wealthy and powerful changelings in the United States.

• The Hellfire Club has connections to the Illuminati, The Freemasons and the Skull and Bones club. It's even said that the inner circles of each are the same.

• The Hellfire Club's initiation rite involves the kidnapping and murder one's own fetch.

• Every member has a symbol tattooed, branded or carved into their body during their initiation. If the initiate cries out during the scarification they are beheaded and used as a sacrifice.

• Uriel is the power behind the throne of the Hellfire, keeping both Virginia and Christian as hounds on a tight leash.

• Each spring during Beltaine rites the club holds a pagan festival in which one male member is chosen as the horned God. Kidnapping a mortal woman the rest of the motley chases her into the Hedge where the Horned God waits to make her his.

• The Hellfire Club is collecting tales of Keepers, to what end no one knows but their library of knowledge on those whose name incite fear is rumored to be the largest of its kind.

• The Hellfire Club knows of a way to create an immunity to Iron.

• The Membership of the Hellfire Club is composes solely of Duchy of the Icebound Heart.

• The Lost Hellfire Club has counterpart connection to the modern incarnation of the historical Hellfire Club, but for some reason can't find it.

• Dominic Jackson Hunter and Uriel de Lenormand play a dark game of chess every month. Each piece represents a fellow lost somewhere in the world and when that piece is taken the corresponding lost is recaptured by the True Fae.

• Every season the Hellfire Club puts on an exclusive celebration of a hellish nature. The games rarely involves clothes but almost always involves blood.

OOC Info

Please contact Jeremy Wood for information or any possible connections