Questions tagged [secret-society]
For questions about a society, organization, club or etcetera that is hidden, whose goals and members are in complete secrecy.
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How to keep the imprisonment of mythical creatures a secret from the public, but not from their human family members?
For longer than has been recorded, "monster hunters" of various denominations have hunted humanoid magical creatures which have lived in hiding for even longer.
Most of these creatures can ...
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How to ensure privacy while using the crystal ball?
I am forming a super secret coven or S.S.C. unit to overthrow the magistrates in Salem before New Year's Eve of 1963. The only means of communication as well as identification is the crystal ball, ...
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What is the libertarian solution to my setting's magical consequences for overpopulation?
I am writing an urban fantasy story set in the late 90s/early 00s revolving around the societies of magical immortal beings that secretly live amongst the human race. Despite their magical genetics ...
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How can I make the rules of my Faerie Portal free from contradiction?
On the hilltop in the field near my house, there lives a coven of witches. Or, more accurately, there is a coven of witches living in a pocket of the Faerie Realm which has recently become attached to ...
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Goblins are Vulnerable to Fire and Light -- What Weapons Should we Use?
I’m doing a project about secret agents in the same vein as MIB but it’s set in the year 2050 and instead of aliens they deal with monsters similar to goblins.
The goblins evolve, growing from ...
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How can I make my fantasy cult believable?
In my world, there is a notorious cult. Despite its weird (and comical) origins, it manages to be one of the most infamous cults ever in existence. Originally, it was one big cult, formed during their ...
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How can a secret organisation enforce their plans without blowing their cover?
In my story there's a global organisation called Wormwood Foundation of which its very existence is classified. This organisation is tasked with protecting human civilization (and earth's biosphere) ...
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What sorts of media would a secret subculture of immortals most prominently produce?
Vampires, werewolves, elves, dwarves, merfolk and all manner of other magical creatures, collectively known as "immortals" due to their eternal youth and immunity to disease, secretly live ...
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Can a society completely erase all memory of a predecessor culture’s collapse in only three generations? [closed]
Something bad happened and the world chose to cover the event up by erasing their activities.
My world believes they are survivors/refugees of a "lost civilization" such as the Khmer, and ...
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Most practical method for a secret demographic to get its news?
My story is set in 1998 and is about a secret 1-in-1000 minority demographic of the human race that are all actually magical beings like vampires and werewolves and merfolk. They secretly live amongst ...
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How does the Society of the Technologically Anonymous hide its origins and operations?
In the very near future, we find out about a secret society whose sole purpose is to raise children who have absolutely no online presence. They are moving to a mysterious "phase 2" of their ...
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Why can't immortals use the "make humans ignore this" symbol as an invisibility cloak?
My setting involves a masquerade (though in this setting the term used is "The Veil of Ignorance") where numerous immortal humanoid beings live in secret amongst humanity as a 1-in-1000 ...
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Why would vampires sire vampires of lesser blood than they have to?
Long story short: my story has magical humanoids (known as "immortals" due to their immunity to old age and disease) existing in secret on mostly-modern-day Earth as a 1-in-1000-humans ...
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What is the simplest set of rules a masquerade can have to maintain history as we know it?
A common trope in fiction involving things like magic or aliens is the concept of the "Masquerade", wherein the fantastic elements of the setting are kept secret from most of society. While ...
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Why do witches don black "traffic cone" on their heads? [closed]
Witches practice a form of sorcery unlike magic, in fact they work with curses all the time. A curse is more difficult to lift, usually a witch must undergo years of training in dark culinary arts ...
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