The Rose Foundation is a mysterious philanthropic Defender/Imbued organization.
Overview[]
No one knows what man, woman or group is behind the seemingly philanthropic Rose Foundation, although theories are exchanged among the few hunters who have encountered the institution. The foundations' influence was felt before it was ever identified online or by presumably isolated imbued. Word of its first unsolicited acts of hunter charity included money donated to Cabbie22 to repair her wrecked taxi. It also supposedly financed an expedition into the Congo to track down a "serial killer." Someone else reported that the organization donated food and medical supplies to a group in Chile that was fighting zombies in the wake of an earthquake. These gifts appear to have come completely out of the blue, and no one requested that the recipients make reparations.
According to recent posts on hunter-net by someone going by the handle Rose21, the organization's founder(s) established it "to offer financial support to the world's inheritors." Since that cryptic message, the person or people behind the name have offered no further information, nor has anything more about the group been revealed. Indeed, Witness1 has cautioned the chosen online not to invest too much faith or enthusiasm into these seeming patrons, due to lack of knowledge about their identity, intentions or motivation.
Needless to say, many imbued have swamped hunter-net with requests for funding. In response, the Rose Foundation seems to turn a deaf ear, perhaps simply lurking in search of truly deserving individuals to receive assistance (if any do at all). If contributions ascribed to Rose this far are any indication, there's no fanfare involved. Rose's motives would seem to transcend thanks or adulation, but no one can say for sure.
Indeed, the Rose Foundation's anonymity disturbs many on the list, despite their own facelessness there. Demands that the group explain itself and reveal its founders have met with silence. Some posters even request that Rose be removed from the list, for fear that his/her "generosity" is actually a distraction from the activities of an invading enemy. The fact that Rose seems to know information about other imbued, as proved by the hunters' concerns. Nonetheless, the occasional hunter receives an unexpected delivery from time to time, a gift of money, information, documents or directions that allows him to continue the watch.
References[]
- HTR: Hunter Book: Defender, p. 42, 44, 94
- HTR: Hunter: Urban Legends, p. 5
- VTES: Nights of Reckoning