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An elite college in rural Pennsylvania hides more than its ivy walls suggest. Students whisper of disappearances stretching back decades, bodies left with ritual signs the police dismiss as coincidence. Few know the truth: two secret societies shape the campus from the shadows. One is bound to Persephone, a witch coven. The other is cursed to serve as vessels for demons. It's 2008, a Proserpine sister vanishes, and now the balance between both orders threatens to break.
The campus is set to become a stage for prophecy, betrayal, and survival.
Blair
Band Role: Bass, Public Relations
A liminal presence in both gender and temperament, Blair embodies the Cresset’s most paradoxical virtue: the ability to enchant without entrapment. Gifted with Asmodeus, a demon of glamour, crowd-sorcery, and the subtle linguistics of desire. Blair channels the entity’s power into an ethic of consent and transparency. Offstage, their effortless charisma dismantles binaries as readily as it dismantles defenses, making them the band’s unofficial diplomat and crisis-diffuser.
Though aware of Heath’s contempt, Blair’s response is measured pity rather than retaliation, a stance that has earned them the guarded trust of Rod and the unguarded affection of Corey. Their basslines are as fluid as their identity, anchoring the band’s sound while refusing to be confined by it.
Rod
Band Role: Lyricist, keyboard, Guttural Vocals
Rod is the Cresset’s fifth-gift anomaly: a solitary tactician whose pact with Paimon, a hound of hell manifesting as an infernal lycanthrope, renders him both apex predator and reluctant shepherd. His vocals, a subharmonic growl that seems to emanate from the earth itself, are the sonic architecture upon which the band’s darkest narratives are built. Offstage, Rod’s asociality is less misanthropy than meticulous risk assessment; he trusts Corey and Blair implicitly, tolerates Liam’s performative affability, and regards Heath as a vector of entropy best kept at a snarling distance.
His lyrics, etched in the language of criminal jurisprudence and occult jurisprudence alike, serve as both indictment and elegy.
Liam
Band Role: Frontman, Guitar, De Facto Leader
Liam’s stage persona is a masterclass in curated magnetism: every smile calibrated, every anecdote focus-grouped by the demon Malphas, a entity of political corrosion and perception-alchemy. His gift, the fifth bearer’s sigil, allows him to transmute influence into capital and capital into loyalty, a cycle that has made him both the band’s public face and its most guarded enigma. Beneath the fuckboi veneer lies a strategist who counts Heath as a confidant and the disappeared girl as a variable in an equation he’s still solving.
Cordial to all, intimate with none save Heath, Liam’s guitar work is as precise as his social calculus, each note a transaction in the economy of desire.
Heath
Band Role: Lead Guitar, Production
Heath’s public image is a study in cultivated carnality: the rockstar as incubus, pursued and pursuing in equal measure. Yet the glamour he wields, channeled through Sitri, a demon of body-worship and ego-feeding, is less art than addiction, a transaction where adoration is both currency and contagion. In private, his misogyny and homophobia manifest as a need to dominate narrative as ruthlessly as he dominates soundscapes, his production work a lattice of control that disguises itself as collaboration.
Only the band witnesses the black-flag rot beneath the charm. His lead guitar is a weaponized seduction, each solo a calculated violation of sonic consent.
Corey
Band Role: Drums, Songwriting Assistant, PR Support
Corey is the Cresset’s living paradox: a kinetic savant whose demon, Legion, mints prosperity from thin air, yet whose inability to refuse anyone anything has rendered him the band’s most exploited asset. His hyperactivity is less mania than a coping mechanism for the psychic toll of constant transactional intimacy and the weight of the demons's voices in his head; his brilliance, a byproduct of a mind that processes emotional data like currency. Trusted only by Rod and Blair, Corey’s drumming is a polyrhythmic ledger, each beat a credit and debit in the economy of affection. He is the band’s heartbeat and its most fragile currency, a soft target whose wealth is matched only by the velocity of his emotional hemorrhaging.
The Cresset Oath is an ancient and secretive male lineage, predating modern academia by several centuries. Its origins trace to early medieval Europe, where select firstborn sons of noble and influential families were ritually “marked” to serve as vessels for demonic entities.
These Vessels were considered both a burden and a blessing: while physically and mentally susceptible to possession, they carried latent powers that, if cultivated, could influence mortal and spiritual realms alike.
By the 17th century, the Oath established roots in colonial North America, often operating under the cover of academic, political, or religious institutions. Its membership expanded selectively over time, drawing sons from families known for their prominence in art, music, commerce, and royalty. While only a fraction of its members engage in active rituals during their lifetime, the order maintains a formal hierarchy, with older alumni, “Claimed Vessels” who have fully submitted to their entities, supervising younger generations and guiding them in the cultivation of their Gifts.
The Oath functions on a global scale, though its convocations are deliberately infrequent. Members typically participate in major rites only when events of critical importance arise, most notably the prophesied emergence of the Sixth Gift: the potential incarnation of Lucifer’s vessel on Earth.
Such rites may draw dozens of alumni, though most remain passive witnesses, bound by secrecy and compacts stretching back generations. The 2008 cycle has drawn exceptional attention: for the first time in decades, two senior Vessels demonstrate the rare Fifth Gift simultaneously. Their emergence coincides with Pluto entering Capricorn, an alignment historically associated with transformation, death, and the rise of concealed powers.
The current Oath keepers include sons of prominent cultural figures, rock musicians, avant-garde artists, and one of British royal descent, highlighting the order’s enduring influence among global elites.
You are a Proserpine, part of a hidden sisterhood that has quietly endured on this campus for generations. The Daughters of Persephone are not a mere club but a coven bound by oaths: to protect one another, to guide younger women through the thresholds of change, to guard the spaces where light and shadow meet. You know the weight of secrecy, the solace of sisterhood, the rites whispered in gardens and woods while the rest of the college sleeps. But now your own sister has vanished, and with her, the fragile trust that your circle could keep the darkness at bay. To find the answers to your questions, you must decide how far you will go, and what you are willing to sacrifice of the bond that makes you a Proserpine.
Founded in the late 17th century, the Daughters of Persephone trace their origins to survivors of the Salem witch trials who sought refuge in the rural highlands of what is now Pennsylvania. These early practitioners preserved the knowledge of ritual, herbalism, and liminal magic in secrecy, forming a sisterhood dedicated to the protection and guidance of women within closed communities.
By the 19th century, the order had formally established its presence at St. Gertrude's College, integrating select families whose female lines demonstrated both aptitude and resilience in occult practice.
Over time, the coven expanded through international scholarly and magical exchange. European witches, particularly from Italian, Irish, and Iberian lineages, as well as practitioners from the Caribbean and South American traditions, joined via academic and cultural exchange programs. Today, the Daughters of Persephone function as a globalized coven, sustaining a network of women who mentor and protect one another within the elite academic environment of the college. The order emphasizes the cyclical balance of life and death, secrecy, and the cultivation of magical and intellectual skill.Notable alumni include women descended from the Parris family of Salem, the Eastwick line of New England, and the Italian Maglione family, all of whom contributed to the coven’s modern ritual framework and ongoing preservation of its traditions.
St. Gertrude's College
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