“Secrets Cut Deeper than Swords” - The Pillars
The Pillars are the unseen architects of the global order, weaving a web of influence and infrastructure onto the invisible framework that supports and manipulates the world's power structures. Born from defiance and refined through centuries of quiet expansion, they are not conquerors but indispensable facilitators. Their loyalty runs only to their own ambitions, their allegiance is to the network they’ve built, and their currency is the control they wield over the world’s resources and secrets.
The Pillars are an elite faction of brokers, smugglers, and power players who shape the world to their ends. With origins in a group of Chinese visionaries who rejected isolationism, choosing instead to embed themselves in global trade and diplomacy, over time, this underground network evolved into a force so deeply entrenched in the world’s logistics and politics that removing them would bring everything crashing down.
The Pillars are couriers, fixers, and silent kingmakers. They operate through a network known as the “Secret Silk Road,” a vast web of hidden supply routes, front companies, and safehouses. This infrastructure allows them to transport anything - resources, people, secrets - without detection, ensuring their silent control over global commerce. Their word is ironclad; once a contract is made, it will be fulfilled. This reputation grants them access to the most secure locations and the trust of those who should know better.
Their leader rules like a Master Go player, setting moves into motion long before their opponents even realize they are playing. The Pillars have become indispensable, manipulating economies, destabilizing threats, and ensuring their influence is woven into the fabric of the world itself.
But trust and reputation are a double-edged sword. The Pillars’ rigid adherence to fulfilling contracts means they sometimes empower their own enemies or enable competitors to rise. Their obsession with secrecy isolates them, making it difficult to form lasting alliances. Their grand design, one where they are the indispensable foundation of the world’s economic and political systems, constantly risks unraveling if too many see the strings they pull.
The world doesn’t belong to those who take it by force. It belongs to those who make themselves indispensable. The Pillars don’t just play the game, they are the game. Are you ready to move unseen and reshape the world?