The Naos Group

Map of Naos Group Operations: [1]

The Naos Group, named for the concept of the naos, the holy inner sanctum where the idols of the gods were kept in pagan temples of old, is an organization nearly a century old. The Naos Group is quite wealthy and influential, with branch offices all over the world.

The Naos Fanums

Currently, there are eleven active Fanums, though twelve have been built in the past century or so — the third of them, the Berlin Fanum, was destroyed during the twilight years of World War II.

The Naos Group offices are small affairs, generally consisting of three to five offices, a lobby and conference room, a director’s office and a small attached emergency bedroom suite. These offices serve the public face of the Naos Group, serving as offices for the charity and research grant functions of the Group.

These offices always connect to nearby buildings through secret passages, however — generally speaking, while it may seem that the Naos Group is only a small suite of offices in a larger building, the truth is that the Group as a whole generally owns the whole building. These buildings, in addition to providing office space, also boast extensive living areas to shelter Naos Group operatives.

The Athens Fanum

The first of the Naos Fanums, the Athens Fanum was built in the 1890s. The small four story building that houses the Fanum has seen many incarnations, including a short period during World War II where any traces to the Naos Group were expunged.

Currently, the Athens Fanum acts as an office for the Naos Group, with six offices in addition to the director’s office. The other offices around the Naos Group are rented out to short-term corporate ventures, such as come-and-go travel agents, telemarketing ventures and the like.

Between these offices run a corridor of secret passages providing egress from the Naos Group offices as well as access to various janitorial closets and electrical rooms. The second story of the Athens Fanum consists of vaults, archives and archaeological research labs and storage warehouse space. The materials stored here consist primarily of relics, artifacts and lore associated with the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. The only public access to this floor is a small lobby with doors to six small apartments, all kept for the use of the Naos Group (though three of them are occupied by agents of the Athens Fanum).

The top two floors are nothing but apartments, half of which are kept for the use of the Naos Group employees, and the other half of which are rented out to promising university students that the Naos Group wishes to cultivate, or others with interesting and promising skills that might find use by the Group.

• Director: Nethele Odenathus

The New York Fanum

The second of the Fanums, the New York Fanum was built in the first decade of the 1900s. Located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan Island, the New York Fanum is best known for housing the Richston Center for Anthropological Studies, with the small Naos Group offices tucked into the back upper floors of the museum.

The Group offices here boast only three offices, plus the director’s office and guest suite. The vault here stores relics and similar items taken from the Eastern and Middle United States, as well as most of Canada. The Group also owns a brownstone across the street, however, where many of the Group’s agents and employees live.

• Director: Kelly Rollinson

The Mexico City Fanum

X – Mexican/South American

The Cape Town Fanum

X – Southern African

• Director: Eduwart van der Vlucht

The San Francisco Fanum

The San Francisco Fanum is housed in the Paradise Heights Building, a luxury short-term residence/hotel building with a public restaurant, night club and spa on its first floor, and a variety of fine retail shops throughout its floors. Its vaults contain Relics from the Pacific Islands, Trans-Polar regions and the American West Coast.

• Director: Dr. Glenn McMurtry
• Assistant Director: X
• Archaeological Divison: X
• Academics Division: X
• Archival Division: X
• Defense Division: X
• Finances Division: X
• Special Projects Division: The San Francisco Fanum acts as the host for the Special Projects Team, lead by Alfonso de Valencia and his assistant Sambethe Fatemi.

The Tokyo Fanum

X – Japanese and Asian lore

The New Orleans Fanum

X – Caribbean and American South items

• Director: Antoine Rigaud

The Makkah Fanum

X – Middle Eastern & Muslim

• Director: Sajid Makram Sulimani

The Cairo Fanum

X – Northern African relics

The Belfast Fanum

X – Celtic and Western European

• Director: Dr. Shannon Donnelley

The Hong Kong Fanum

X – under construction

Future Fanums

After the Hong Kong Fanum is constructed, the next three proposed sites for new famums are Caracas, Venezuela, Sydney, Australia and Santiago, Chile.

Divisions

The Naos Group International is made up of the following Divisions, most of which are divided among the various Fanums. In essence, there are two categories that a given member of the Naos Group belongs to: his Division, which is organizational, and his Fanum, which is geographical.

The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors, made up of the Directors of each of the Naos Group’s Fanums, tend to the administration of the Naos Group as a whole. In essence, each runs his own Fanum with near-complete autonomy. The Board of Directors cannot collectively make decisions regarding individual Fanums — they can only propose and then vote on changes that will apply to all the Fanums as a whole. The only exception to this is the Vaults of the Fanums, the contents of which are under the collective authority of the Board as a whole.

• Athens Fanum: Nethele Odenathus
• New York Fanum: Kelly Rollinson
• Mexico City Fanum: Professor Santiago Domingo
• Cape Town Fanum: Eduwart van der Vlucht
• San Francisco Fanum: Dr. Glenn McMurtry
• Tokyo Fanum: Yeijiro Kuroda
• New Orleans Fanum: Antoine Rigaud
• Makkah Fanum: Sajid Makram Sulimani
• Cairo Fanum: Yushua Abaza
• Belfast Fanum: Dr. Shannon Donnelley

Archaeological Division

The Archaeological Division is made up of archaeologists, anthropologists and others with similar professions. They are responsible for keeping tabs on the state of archaeology in the world today, including finding out about important discoveries at dig sites all over the world. They are also made up of research specialists who examine the various artifacts and relics recovered in such digs.

• Athens Fanum: X
• New York Fanum: X
• Mexico City Fanum: X
• Cape Town Fanum: X
• San Francisco Fanum: X
• Tokyo Fanum: X
• New Orleans Fanum: X
• Makkah Fanum: X
• Cairo Fanum: X
• Belfast Fanum: X

Academics Division

The Academics keep track of university spending, giving grants and scholarships to those who seem to have unique talents that may be of use to the Naos Group in the future, as well as recruiting new graduates. They also give grant money to various universities in exchange for such considerations.

• Athens Fanum: X
• New York Fanum: X
• Mexico City Fanum: X
• Cape Town Fanum: X
• San Francisco Fanum: X
• Tokyo Fanum: X
• New Orleans Fanum: X
• Makkah Fanum: X
• Cairo Fanum: X
• Belfast Fanum: X

Archival Division

Archival tends to the collection, collation and storage of information. Though they've got a reputation as the Naos Group's librarians, they actually tend to be research specialists and archivists, the clearing house through which all informational findings pass.

• Athens Fanum: X
• New York Fanum: X
• Mexico City Fanum: X
• Cape Town Fanum: X
• San Francisco Fanum: X
• Tokyo Fanum: X
• New Orleans Fanum: X
• Makkah Fanum: X
• Cairo Fanum: X
• Belfast Fanum: X

Defense Division

Defense functions as the Naos Group's security team, training to not only provide security at the Fanums, but to also accompany Naos Group agents on digs and other excursions into areas that are less than secure.

• Athens Fanum: X
• New York Fanum: X
• Mexico City Fanum: X
• Cape Town Fanum: X
• San Francisco Fanum: X
• Tokyo Fanum: X
• New Orleans Fanum: X
• Makkah Fanum: X
• Cairo Fanum: X
• Belfast Fanum: X

Finances Division

Finances handles the money that comes in and out of the Naos Group.

• Athens Fanum: X
• New York Fanum: X
• Mexico City Fanum: X
• Cape Town Fanum: X
• San Francisco Fanum: X
• Tokyo Fanum: X
• New Orleans Fanum: X
• Makkah Fanum: X
• Cairo Fanum: X
• Belfast Fanum: X

The Special Projects Team

Recently formed, the Special Projects Team is the latest project of the Pontifex. The Naos Group was one of the first organizations to realize that Scions all over the World had received both Visitations and Birthrights. In response, the Pontifex formed the Special Projects Team with a single goal: to acquire the services of some of these Scions, offering them the resources, wisdom and guidance of the Naos Group in return for heroic assistance fulfilling some of the goals of the organization.

• Director: Alfonso Valencia. Alfonso is a former agent for InterPol, and still maintains extensive connections in the world of espionage.
• Assistant Director: Sambethe Fatemi. A young Iranian seeress who works as Valencia's assistant and second-in-command.
• Transportation Specialist: Claude Madden. He is United States Air Force trained and quite the hot-dog. He is responsible for flying the team from place to place using hired aircraft.
• Medical Specialist: Naser Arbnori. An Albanian UN-trained field medic specializing in combat wounds.
• Legal Specialist: Miriam Abrams. An American lawyer trained in international law.
• Combat Instructor: Yarok Kostov. A Spetznaz-trained soldier who served in black ops after the fall of the USSR, employed to work on combat training with the Special Projects agents.
• Agents: The following Scions work for the Special Projects Team:
  • Aiden Connor, Scion of Lugh.
  • Jonathan Davies, Scion of Ptah.
  • Chiyoko, Scion of Susano-o.
  • Lora Brovik, Scion of Heimdall.
  • Vladimir Norstrov, Scion of Anubis.
  • Riley Bannon, Scion of Ares.