Bleak Cabal

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The Bleak Cabal are those that look on the multiverse and laugh, because it's all meaningless. Those that attempt to assign a meaning to the multiverse (like everyone but themselves) are just wasting their time trying to assign values to the meaningless. Looking for a purpose to the multiverse? You won't find it, no matter how hard you look. So say the members of the Bleak Cabal (Bleakers, for short), at least. No real meaning to the whole barmy thing.

Almost without exception, ever Bleaker in existence is tortured and insane. They're so sure that they're right that it's difficult for them to fit anything into perspective. The multiverse is a big place. It's not really easy to accept that all the horror that takes place across its vast expanse is for no reason... but when they do realize it, they go completely insane. Some manage to remain coherent through this all, but most of them eventually succumb to it and end up gibbering wrecks in the Gatehouse, their headquarters of Sigil and the asylum of the Hive Ward. That is the life of the Bleaker: a constant struggle against debilitating insanity. This may seem noble, but it's not. The Bleakers aren't antiheroes, fighting the good fight against insanity... that implies that there is a reason to their battle.

Prior to the Faction War the Bleak Cabal was a Faction with headquarters in the Gatehouse (an asylum for the mentally insane) in Sigil. After that conflict, many trekked to their base in Pandemonium at the Madhouse where they are led by Tyvold.

Bleaker NPCs

Name Race Location Source Page
Hortaz (Dwarf with Withered Arm) Dwarf Abyss (Broken Reach) Chaos - The Book 25
Gnoich Sendot Githzerai Abyss (Plain of Infinite Portals) In the Abyss 10
Nautilla Colchea Elf Arborea (Caletto) Chaos - The Book 51
Gossup Blint Human Bedlam Player's Primer 10
Thingol the Mocking Human Hopeless Player's Primer 19
Phaal Human Outlands Source Box - DM 22
Jax Bleskril Teifling Pandemonium (Madhouse) Chaos - The Book 92
Maris Warrow Dwarf Pandemonium (Madhouse) Chaos - The Book 92
Twitching Orlando Elf Pandemonium (Madhouse) Chaos - Travelogue 32
White Scar Drow Plague-Mort Source Box - Sigil 46
Derioch Ysarl Human Sigil Eternal Boundary 4
Hortaz Dwarf Sigil Source Box - DM 16
Zegonz Vlaric Githzerai Sigil Source Box - Sigil 82
Ridnir Tetch Human Sigil (Hive) In the Cage 121
Addle-pated Tiefling Sigil (Hive, Cold Bowl) Manifesto 29
Ezra Bariaur Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 31
Sruce Human Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 31
Tessali Gray Elf Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 31
Tyvold Gray Elf Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 31
Vicsek Githzerai Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 37
High Priest Noshtenoth Teifling Sigil (Lady's Ward, Temple Abyss) In the Cage 43
Zegonz Vlaric Githzerai Sigil (Lower Ward) In the Cage 56
Duritz Crow Human Sigil (Market/Guildhall) In the Cage 87
Andrea Lister Human Xaos Source Box - Sigil 50
Esmus (Ex-Factol) Human Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 36
Nobey (Ex-Factol) ? (KIA) Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 28
Tollysalmon (Ex-Factol) Githyanki Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 36
Lhar (Factol) Half-Orc Sigil (Hive, Gatehouse) Manifesto 29

From: Bleaker NPCs

Sources: 
The Factol's Manifesto
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