Forbes Park Orchids

The Forbes Park Orchids is a special-interest club of wealthy wives of influential politicians and businesspeople whose base of operations lies inside the opulent Forbes Park Gated Subdivision. The Orchids fashion themselves as a community building organisation whose efforts are skewed towards beautification and rehabilitation projects with the mandate that a beautiful city is a safe city.

Many of the local government units welcome the projects of the Orchids as they always seem to have the funding and the connections to push their projects to fruition. They’ve managed to clean up garbage-choked waterways and resurrect dilapidated parks and public spaces by the use of their influence.

Slow and Steady…

What the public isn’t aware of is that the Forbes Park Orchids is a Seer of the Throne Pylon in the service of Mammon, the Ministry of the Chancellor, Exarch of Matter. Their methodology is exceedingly subtle and almost benign to the common Willworker.

The Orchids operate by creating projects that encourage the gentrification of a location, fulfilling aspirations just enough to stop people from wishing for more. They cut off the urgency of need by fulfilling minimum expectations and encouraging the Filipino mindset of “pwede na.”

In doing so, they suppress the urge to Awaken in the general populace by making them settle for less. With their eyes fixated on the small material projects that make them feel like they’re getting somewhere, the community is left abandoning their drives for greatness.

Madam Elena, Thyrsus Social Apex Predator

Madam Elena’s life is a carefully constructed lie. Born among the poorest families in Metro Manila, Madam Elena clawed her way up the corporate and social ladders through sheer grit and hatred for her social strata. By virtue of her relentless cunning and social graces, Madam Elena rebuilt herself to become an icon among the wealthy and successful.

She married her husband as a strategic move, letting him carry on his clandestine affairs with other men in exchange for a marriage that would allow her automatic access to the upper crust. Her awakening was a nightmare that brought her face to face with the horrors of her origins, killing her former self as a prey animal to stake her true claim as an apex predator in the Primal Wild.

It was only natural then that she would be approached by one of the Seers.

Now she operates her own Pylon in the form of the Forbes Park Orchids. She gathers wives and daughters of wealthy and influential families, cultivating them as ruthlessly as she does her perfect plants. Some have born fruit already, and have been inducted to her pylon and pursue their own gardening “projects” across the metro.