Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon

The Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon is a secret society which achieved its height of popularity in the Victorian Era.

History

 * 1796
 * Laurent de Mer forms the Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon, a cult founded on garbled interpretations of Black Spiral Dancer lore, in France.


 * 1821
 * The Jeweler becomes proscribed reading for members of the Enlightened Society.


 * 1838
 * The Enlightened Society opens lodges in California and Oregon.


 * 1849
 * Laurent de Mer, over one hundred years old at this point, vanishes mysteriously. Lloyd Fairweather takes over directorship of the Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon.


 * 1873
 * The Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon begins an "enrolment drive." Membership soars to over a thousand full members.


 * 1913
 * The last anyone hears of the Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon. Its coffers raided, occult libraries plundered and allies scattered, the sect dies as members of the different Moons undertake their own endeavors.

Background Information

 * The Latin in the Society's crest, Societas Erudita Lunae Lacrimandi, translates as the Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon.