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The Loyalists of Thule spent the first decades of the last century looking for that Ultimate Source — to their eternal

shame. Back then, they were the Thule Gesellschaft, a German occult group that took its belief in that Ultimate Source to its
eventual conclusion: that a master race had descended from Lost Thule, the Aryans were the oldest and most highly evolved
of people, and the perfect Aryans were the German people. And then, two of their members founded the German Workers’
Party, which, in a couple of years, became the Nazi Party.
By the time the Nazis came to power, none of their leaders had anything to do with the Thule Society. Contrary to popu-
lar belief, in the end the Nazis banned mystical societies and eschewed the occult, ultimately suppressing the Thule Society’s
literature.
The majority of the Thule Society’s members dispersed, leaving a minority to hang on, illegally, to face the horrors their
theories and philosophies had wrought. When the truth came out at the end of the war, some didn’t believe it. Some denied
it, and joined even less savory Völkisch societies. And some admitted they were wrong.
Their horror at what their actions had helped create was compounded by the fact that throughout the 1920s and ’30s,
their studies had actually borne fruit. They had discovered the true existence of ancestral ghosts. Some had met the ghosts of
the Rmoahals, the tribesman who had roamed lost Atlantis and fought in the armies of the sorcerer-
kings. Some had sneaked into Tibet and found evidence of Shamballa, barely escaping with their
lives. Some had narrowly escaped confrontations with spirit-summoning witches, demons, were-
wolves, vampires and other, even more bizarre things.
There was a secret world, a world of the night, and the Völkisch
weren’t any kind of master race. To the hungry dead, humans —
Aryan or not — were just food. To the werewolves, they were
breeding stock and prey. And to
the demons, and the other, more
alien creatures that waited be-
hind the corners of reality, we
were just insects to be played
with and squashed. The newly re-
formed Loyalists of Thule stopped
looking for Atlantis, instead seeking
to find out more about this invisible

world. They wanted to know, needed to
know — but at the same time, they felt a
kind of duty to the world. They owe it to the human race.
They are the Indebted. They will never make full payment.
They still do it today. They’re a secretive group. Few know
they exist, and not all of their members and contacts know what
they used to be, or even the name of the group, at least until they’ve
done something illegal or immoral for the Loyalists, and are in
too deep.
Not that the Loyalists like blackmailing their new mem-
bers. It’s just that if they are to atone for what they are, they
have to keep themselves secret. They often fi nd themselves
working alongside other hunters. They appear as scholars and
collectors of information. They provide aid and information. They never,
ever say who they are.
They answer to secretive leaders, each of whom controls the compact
on a national level, and those leaders defer to the three founders, who still
reside in Germany. The founders — three men, all resident in Munich

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