Seeker Wars

Spoken by many as the Secret War, the Seeker Wars are an incredible effort mounted by many governments and agencies to locate powerful artifacts within Bastion and throughout the Poisoned World. The Sunder Wars (see below) proved that Libres had powerful artifacts before its dismantling, fueling the hunt for the great and powerful ones.

Many gave up the exhaustive search, but AXE and a couple of powerful organizations still remain in the race. In fact it’s rumored that the Seeker War is tearing AXE apart but those involved are even more ruthless towards those who get in between them and their objectives.

How much of AXE is involved in the Seeker War is only guessable; even most AXE personalities regard it as a dismissive fable.

Unfortunately it’s not.

AXE Factions and the Libres Truth
AXE is the modern incarnation of Libres - the Order of Libraries (plural!) - an agency devoted to restoring knowledge to the world. 10 years before the miasma resided and it was time to venture outside of Bastion, there were those who thought Libres was entirely too powerful with its repository of artifacts and influence throughout the Bastion government.

In addition to AXE itself which came from Libres there are two “secret” factions in AXE: the Shadow Walkers (who some scholars think are their own, ancient, organization), and Agents of Legion. Legion is believed to be a demonically inspired and powered cult. The Shadow Walkers have long been whispered to be guardians of people-kind from before Bastion was born, but this is only rumored.

MOM - Mercantile Operations Monitors
Keeping a wary eye for shadowy uprisings is MOM (Mercantile Operations Monitors). Though their outward job is to monitor the mercantile houses that have sprung up, they have a unit which is constantly watching for the re-emergence of the many missing artifacts and persons from Libres. They believe that Libres will attempt to re-gather the devices and continue to operate clandestinely through AXE… they just can’t prove it. Yet.