Eldritch & Profane

The Eldritch & Profane Agency (referred to as "EPA", “Eldritch & Profane” or “the Agency”) is an administrative entity formed by CAWW. It regulates various research groups studying forces similar to those studied by the British Department of Mysteries - time, death, love and so on.

Eldritch & Profane also regulates groups in Canadian and Mexican jurisdiction.

Agency Staff

• Head: Augustina Flores (2015 - Present)
• Deputy Head: Cyrus Hawthorne (2012 - Present)
• Former Deputy Head: Yavin Morgenthau (1991 - 1996)

EPA Research Groups

Although many research groups are independent and do not consider themselves beholden to CAWW, others are federal employees. The more independent groups harbour resentment towards CAWW’s increasing encroachment on their research material.

Among EPA's many groups...

• Institute of the Alleghenies (Federal) - Known colloquially as “skulls”. The institute is located in the Appalachian mountain range, where an immense cavern holds a seemingly bottomless pit that serves as their border between life and death.

• Clockmaker’s Guild (Independent) - Also in the Appalachians, they have a contentious relationship with their neighbours. Unspeakables here (sometimes called “tinkerers”) study time and build objects such as Time-turners. They guard their craft jealously and resent CAWW interference. This has prevented smooth cooperation with Federal research groups, sometimes at the cost of progress.

• Tonopah Observatory (Federal) - Located more or less where no-maj Area 51 might be found, the observatory is home to Unspeakables who study space. They work closely with undercover counterparts in NASA.

• Cerebrum (Independent) - a mind magic consortium with its own building in New York City, which can only be entered by Legilimens. It maintains good relations with international associations of the same nature, and is sometimes accused of meddling in the affairs of other research groups.

• R.E.S.O.N.A.N.C.E. Institute of Magical Inquiry (Independent) - Housed in an enchanted complex in the coastal hills to the west of Malibu, the secretive RESONANCE group was founded in the 1960s to study the connection between magic and souls. It is rumoured to dabble in other eldritch studies, such as apparitions, mirror universes, and lee lines.

• Coven Cascadia (Independent) - A wix-vampire blood magic research group in the Pacific Northwest that is run in tandem by a wix and the head of a vampire coven. Its vampiric members have an especially contentious relationship with EPA and CAWW, and do not like to share their knowledge with any governing body. It's difficult to become a researcher here if you don't know someone or aren't a member of the coven.