The Vision

Leadership:

The primary leadership of the vision is composed of its founder/leader Clairol. Clairol does not have an official title but most call him the master.

Directly underneath Clairol is the Inner Circle. The Inner Circle is made of up of Clairol’s most loyal and capable followers. The circle acts as Clairol’s administration and advisors. While he does solicit advice and takes the recommendations of his Inner Circle very serious, Clairol has the final and indisputable word.

Amongst with Clairol assigns a Watcher. The Watcher Clairol’s right hand and works as a stand in as leader and takes over in the event of Clairol’s death. But the watcher does not enjoy the same level of control as Clairol, the watcher has checks to their power from the other circle members.

The Vision formed out of human factions who believed the Calamity was a punishment from the gods, angry with the direction Pridaria had taken. Each sect claimed to know the gods’ reasoning for unleashing twenty-five years of magical instability and chaotic natural disasters.

Some of these factions argued that allowing large numbers of non-humans onto Pridarian soil had brought divine wrath. Historians studying these groups later described them as little more than xenophobes dressing their hatred in prophecy. From these roots sprang terrorists, so-called revolutionaries, and all manner of hate-mongers.

Over the next century, these movements lost their foothold in human society and were driven either underground or into obscurity. In an attempt to slow their decline, they softened their language and adjusted their message, but the movement inevitably fizzled out. Only a few adherents kept the old beliefs alive, concealing them from the outside world.

The Vision is one such organization, preserving its roots in this darker chapter of Pridarian history. While it now presents itself as more “accepting”—admitting some elves, dwarves, and halflings into its ranks—the core belief remains unchanged: Pridaria will only be safe once humans, and to a lesser extent human-adjacent peoples, hold supremacy.

Agenda

The Vision’s purpose is framed as preventing another catastrophe like the Calamity. While they cloak their aims in the language of protection and divine will, their true designs reveal themselves in both their immediate actions and their ultimate ambitions.

Short-Term Goals

• Intervention in perceived threats: The Vision inserts itself into conflicts it believes could destabilize Pridaria. Examples include orchestrating the downfall of rival families such as the Lotes, or seizing and weaponizing artifacts like beholders’ eyes to enhance their power.
• Suppression of aberrations: The organization actively hunts and destroys aberrations wherever they can be found, claiming such creatures are lingering echoes of divine wrath.
• Expansion of influence: Recruitment and infiltration remain constant priorities, with members placed in noble houses, guilds, and religious orders to subtly guide decisions toward their vision of “safety.”

Long-Term Goals

• Supremacy of humanity: The Vision ultimately seeks to ensure that power in Pridaria rests with humans, and to a lesser extent human-adjacent peoples. Non-humans may be tolerated as tools, but never trusted with true authority.
• Reassertion of divine order: They believe that by reshaping society to match what they claim are the gods’ wishes, they can avert another divine punishment.
• Hidden dominion: Rather than rule openly, the Vision strives for control behind the scenes—guiding nations, economies, and magical research through shadowy influence until their supremacy is unchallenged.