The Perfected Bodies
The perfected bodies are a scientific research oriented Order of The Assembly that focuses almost exclusively on biological augmentation, enhancement, bio-mutation and other organic studies, pushing the boundaries of scientific and arcane manipulation of the bodies of mortals. A quiet, unassuming order in their members demeanors, bearings, and overall personality, they are noted as being some of the most unwavering, unfeeling, and cold and calculated agents of The Assembly. For the work they do, the science and magic they discover and craft is not without suffering of the highest magnitudes.
From mysterious disappearances of homeless in Setrak and abroad, to seeming targeted kidnappings of unclean peoples, it is no secret The Perfected Bodies pay a premium for the base template and essentially currency their intellectual minds traffic in: mortal bodies. Flesh, to mold, cut, replace, stitch, and improve. Yet this belies the horrific nature of what awaits one who is brought to the flesh-labs of Tysar Rode and his ilk, for what does await them is an often short, brief existence of pure unbridled horror and suffering. For the art of augmentation and fleshcraft is finnicky and fickle, and does not agree with most who undergo the horrific surgeries to become 'improved'. And in recent years Tysar Rode, Order Master of The Perfected Bodies has become increasingly obsessed with a secret, hidden agenda. A plan he has only specified would change everything if he could achieve it.
From the bloody, gory butcher blocks of the sterile medical facilities, to a sane person the laboratory of Tysar's Laboratory of Perfection, his personal lab-fortress complex, to the Order headquarters of the Fortress of Evolution in Yarez are nothing but pure and unadulterated nightmare fuel. Rows and rows of cells containing experiments in progress, prisoners being tortured through scientific 'experimentation'. Starvation, dehydration, intentional infection through various diseases, all in the pursuit of some unknowable goal, to be logged in a logbook likely to be forgotten to time and not used. The innocent beings suffering naught more than an egomaniacal inquisitor's resource of self affirmed intellect, confirming their inane, pointless hypotheses and testing criterion.
Operating rooms with non-consenting, often times conscious peoples cut open, observed, poked and proded, notes taken by nondiscript flesh-crafters. Foreign organs and other objects inserted in places they normally do not go, inverted, or otherwise altered to note the effects. Additional limbs and features of another animalistic species grafted via magic onto the bodies of people, only for the forced nerve connection to cause them to enter a state of shock and die due to the immense pain and mental strain.
Observation chambers with sound with the chorus of suffering, a litany of screams, pleading cries, enraged, pain laden curses upon their butchers who had done this to them. Warped, damaged, permanently scarred if ever to survive the surgeries, alterations, and 'augmentations' they had been given. For many, those who die are the lucky, for those who's bodies can and do accept the augmentations rather well, but are not up to whatever criterai Tysar Rode and his upper council of Inquisitors are searching for; for them, their suffering continues in the prison-town of Grillton.
Structure
The Perfected Bodies is structured in a very similar way to the basic general overview of how typically an Order is structured. Tysar Rode commands the entire order and disseminates power downwards in a pyramid like structure through the descending ranks.
Culture
The culture of The Perfected Bodies is noted as being extremely sterile, medicinal, and forthwith, even amongst their own ranks when discussing matters of scientific or arcane fact. In the field in the somewhat rare combat or recon operations members of their organization undertake, they utilize cold calculating logic without hyperbole or flare. They efficiently, neatly, clinically like a scalpel over flesh get the job done. Their members are known for being somewhat socially awkward and not nearly as affable and communicable to your average person such as members of The Prime Order, which has a much broader coalition of personality types and people in it.
In closed door meetings and in the confines of their lab-fortress complexes this lack of siblinghood and relaxed nature has had many an outsider working with Perfect Bodies inquisitors remark on their detached, nonpersonal demeanor that can make it hard to connect with and understand the actions of said inquisitors which has posed problems during planning operations and executing them.
Public Agenda
The Perfected Bodies have one public agenda, make the frame and form of all mortals better, more empowered, longer living, stronger, all aspects enhanced. For many of their own number bear the results of their long gathered and analyzed failed experiments, and they themselves benefit from the corrected studies of how ot enhance oneself.
History
Founded in the mid-400s by one Refa Vandris, the Perfected Bodies were always of one mind when it came to their mission, unlike most other Order's that are committed to a method of war, espionage, propaganda, science, magic, or any other topic, The Perfected Bodies were one of the first order's to be founded not out of dedication to any one specialization of going about these actions, but rather the sole commitment to one singular idea: a better mortal body.
Refa Vandris would claim she had received the inspiration for the idea in a dream in which she could control nearly every aspect of nearly every function and interaciton inside her own body, even including the ability to nearly instantly heal wounds, grow new limbs, and more. Slowing metabolism, all but stopping the process of aging, she was perfect in this dream-form she had found herself in. A perfected body. After waking up she lobbied the then Grand Inquisitor, Goras Min'hala, for the funds to be allocated to officially declare a new order. Pitching her idea with near perfect and zealous intonation, it is said Goras immediately agreed with the idea, and greenlit the new order.
Quickly, it gained adherents and converts over from other science based Orders that were more biologically aligned in their studies and experimentation and perhaps disaffected with their current Order's area of focus in the field of science and magic in science. From there the newly founded order took off with its agenda and ideas. Initially working out of a reposessed warehouse in the central Imperial District of Setrak, after proving their worth with their work resulting in new findings and creations in the field of biology and mortal alteration, they began to receive more and more funding, and eventually declared Yarez the city that would house their new headquarters, The Fortress of Evolution. A sprawling, massive medical-laboratory fortress-complex that sprawls the near entire northern district of Yarez, at this point The Perfected Bodies had become a massive order over a relatively short period of time.
From there, the years passed and the work continued. While their rapid rise and success somewhat plateud as is usual with new orders, nevertheless their work and results continued to be seen, resulting in ever constant affirmations of their work.
"For all mortal-kind, we seek perfection."
Founding Date
17th of Tel, 458 PFE
Type
Expedition, Scientific
Alternative Names
Fleshwarpers, The Butchers, Flesh-Crafters
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