Ordo Noctis

• Reality Manipulation – Bending space-time, altering perception, and shifting between dimensions.
• Temporal Rites – Experimenting with time dilation, precognition, and momentary acceleration or deceleration of reality.
• Void-Walking – Developing techniques that allow movement through folds in space, enabling near-instantaneous travel.
• Magical Encryption – Using dimensional layering to hide knowledge, artifacts, and even individuals from prying eyes.

The Ordo Noctis does not believe in absolute fate or predetermined existence—instead, they believe that reality is a shifting construct, constantly rewriting itself open for shaping and even manipulation. 

Some of their core tenets include:

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• Nothing is fixed; all things are woven, and the weave may be altered.
• To walk unseen is to remain free; to be known is to be hunted.
• Time does not flow forward, nor does space remain still—both are merely the illusion of perspective.
• Power does not belong to the strong but to those who understand the weave of existence itself.

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To outsiders, this philosophy is dangerous, a potential threat to the stability of reality itself. But to the Ordo Noctis, ignorance is far more dangerous than understanding.

Due to their secrecy, the Ordo Noctis does not follow a strict hierarchy but operates within a decentralized network of hidden enclaves, each studying different aspects of reality warping.

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• The Noctis Arbiters The closest thing to leaders, elders of the order who maintain the Veiled Sanctum and guide lesser members. They are said to exist slightly out of phase with reality, their presence felt more than seen.
• Riftwalkers Explorers and wanderers who navigate dimensional rifts, sometimes vanishing for years before returning with knowledge from beyond known existence. Some claim to have seen echoes of futures that never happened and paths to places that should not be.
• Architects Scholars who study the structural framework of reality, crafting magical encryption techniques to conceal knowledge, artifacts, and even entire locations within dimensional pockets. Many guard ancient knowledge from being misused, encoding it within layers of folded space.
• Nightblades Elite operatives trained to move unseen, striking from nowhere, vanishing before detection using dimensional folding techniques. They do not simply kill—instead, they erase, ensuring that those who seek to expose the Ordo Noctis are forgotten by history.
• Keepers of the Fractured Hour Temporal scholars who study time dilation, memory manipulation, and causality loops, carefully balancing the risk of paradox. Some have reportedly been seen in multiple places at once or spoken of events that have yet to occur.

Feared as a cabal of reality-warping mystics who defy the natural laws of existence.

Hunted by factions that seek to control or destroy them, believing their knowledge is too dangerous. Respected by scholars, explorers, and certain rogue scientists who see them as pioneers of the unseen forces governing the universe.

The Aethyr Union – The Union pursues controlled technological progress, while the Ordo Noctis embraces the raw, chaotic nature of existence itself.

The Celestial Covenant – The Covenant believes in divine order, while the Ordo Noctis believes that reality is a tapestry constantly in flux—a fundamental ideological clash.

The Silent Chorus – Both orders practice secrecy, but the Silent Chorus believes truth lies within, while the Ordo Noctis seeks truth by reshaping the external world.

The Ordo Noctis exists in secrecy, not by choice, but by necessity. Their mastery over reality-warping magic has made them targets of fear, persecution, and exploitation by other factions, who either seek to eradicate their knowledge or claim it for themselves.

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They do not worship gods, nor do they claim allegiance to any governing body; instead, they see themselves as stewards of hidden truths, protectors of knowledge that could shatter lesser minds if left in untrained hands.

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To the Ordo Noctis, reality is not fixed but fluid, a tapestry woven from threads of time, space, and perception. Those who learn to pull these threads can reshape existence itself, if only for a fleeting moment. However, such power comes at a cost, and many of their greatest scholars have disappeared into the very rifts they sought to control.