The Gatherers are an old society, once made for a noble purpose, but now serving a far more nefarious cause. They were originally a group of clerics who gathered to capture a Balor demon. They managed to trap the Balor in a permanent “Magic Circle against Evil,” but the question became what to do with it. At first the original Gatherers wanted to just kill the Balor, but one of the members brought up a concern. If they killed the Balor, it would simply return to its home plane and might return for revenge. So The Gatherers decided to keep the Balor prisoner, until they could find a way to permanently kill it. To keep the Balor from escaping, they built a tower over the mine they trapped it in. The Balor was kept in the basement, kept behind the most powerful abjurations and constantly guarded.

As the tower was built, more cells were added in on each floor. The Gatherers believed that other evil outsiders might find their way to this world, and it was their responsibility to trap them. They began their quest of hunting down evil outsiders and bringing them back to their tower, to contain them.

Unfortunately, generations later The Gatherers’ quest became corrupted. The Gatherers new leadership began to expand their hunt to neutral outsiders, arguing that they could be dangerous as well. Finally, a few corrupted leaders changed the entire goal of The Gatherers: to collect up every possible outsider on this plane and to find a way to control them. With an army of powerful outsiders, The Gatherers intend to take over the world.

The Gatherers have a number of Iron Flasks, which they use to trap the outsiders they hunt until they can be returned to the tower. The Gatherers have a number of ways to compel the outsiders to obey, and outsiders under their control often are found wearing equipment that has been enchanted to control them. The Balor is still in the basement, its roars can be heard throughout the tower, and The Gatherers’ greatest goal is to find a way to control it.

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