The Equinox Institute doesn’t operate alone. There are many other groups of interest that are active in the world and which act as allies and foils to the Institute in its aims to study the paranatural and protect humanity from the threat it poses. By way of a summary, these factions include:
- The Agrippina Athenaeum (“The Athenaeum”) is a small academic institute based around the world which is fixated on collecting detailed records of paranatural events and encounters throughout history before wiping out any evidence of the event having occurred. Highly mysterious, their “recorders” have a cordial relationship with Equinox.
- The Central Paranatural Bureau (“The CPB” or “The Bureau”) are Equinox’s American cousins. Deeply affected by recent paranatural events, the organisation takes a considerably more aggressive stance towards the paranatural – believing it should be totally eradicated for the better protection of normality.
- CognitoHazard – an internet forum that acts as the hub for a decentralised international movement of anarchic artists who specialise in the theft of paranatural objects and distribution of paranatural art. The group has little care for the upholding secrecy surrounding the paranatural, often placing them at odds with Equinox.
- The Davies Group is a British charity that offers counselling and support to families affected by the paranatural. Most of its members have no idea that the paranatural exists. Founded by former Equinox agents, Equinox retains close ties to the group due to it having local knowledge and contacts with families affected by the paranatural.
- The Jessie Avery Company – a multinational, multimedia empire based out of the United States of America which sells childlike wonder and nostalgia to the masses. After decades of rapid expansion, they have recently expanded into the creation and trade of paranatural phenomena. They act as the settings expy to the Walt Disney Company.
- Noblesse Oblige (“The Nobility”) – an ancient organisation made up of noble houses focussed around the hero worship of notable artists throughout history. Knowledgeable in the paranatural, the group’s formation pre-dates all others and they have been both allies and enemies of the Equinox Institute at different times throughout its history.
- The Pact Britannia (“The Pact”) – purporting to be Britain’s “true” paranatural organisation, the Pact was born out of the bloody civil war that saw the Royal Society of the Paranatural destroyed and Equinox eventually take its place. Modelled on Arthurian knights, they believe all paranatural phenomena should be put to the purpose of bringing about the return of the British Empire.
- The Unified Arts Coalition (“The UNAC”) is an organisation created at the turn of the millennium to foster cooperation between international governments to handle paranatural events. Influential and powerful but slow to act, Equinox is one of the founding organisations that makes up the coalition.