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On the Nature of Krewes
Posted: 2009-07-01

Sin-Eaters form krewes: alliances designed for mutual protection, occult study, political power in the Twilight Network, or a mix of all of these. Time was most krewes were hallowed secret societies: groups with private drawing rooms, special handshakes and signet rings. Some of them still play with the elitist conspiracy trip but for most Sin-Eaters, the 21st Century is an age of improvised alliances and strange revelations. The modern krewe is half a street gang and half an eccentric religion, customized to fit its members’ newfound obsessions. When two krewes meet, things don’t go down according to ancient protocols because there aren’t any, save for those strong or trusted krewes impose on the area. The closest thing to a binding, universal Sin-Eater sect is the Twilight Network, but it’s not a structure that decides who the boss is.

It would be a lie to say that Sin-Eaters have no common customs at all, no strange words or symbols to tell each other apart, or say things designed or outsiders to ignore. There’s definite a scene between the krewes, and matters of etiquette that don’t have the weight of conscious traditions, but are more like basic assumptions. From time to time, amateur anthropologists among the Sin-Eaters have sketched rules out and local strongmen have tried to turn them into laws, with varying success. Here’s what a new Sin-Eater might get told.

Babaloa Luis on the Nature of Krewes
There are krewes, and there are krewes — know what I’m sayin’? You can make friends, forge a truce with some other Gs but that ain’t no deep krewe, studyin’ the Big Black together, getting the geists to spit up some of the real secrets. You’ll know those krewes when you meet ‘em. They’re the ones with money, connections and maybe a bit of madness in ‘em. They’ve got a spark in ‘em — a revelation from the Great Below that makes them. In a real krewe, a deep krewe, you got three kinds of Gs: S-E’s who founded the krewe and their successors, Gs who are initiated, and associates. You’re an associate. I’m Babaloa — that means I’ve got the Old God in me. Wanna move up?

“Krewe” is a general term for any group of allied Sin-Eaters, but more powerful krewes are almost always bound by ceremony. They were founded by the Krewe Binding ceremony and have superior ordinary and mystical resources at their command. Some Sin-Eaters spend their lives as lone operators or as part of loose associations. Few frown on that, but a ceremonially-bonded krewe almost always has more power and prestige.

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