Ossuary

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<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <header>Information</header> <label>Alignment</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Status</label> <label>Location</label> <label>First Appearance</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> Ossuary, originally known as Elephant Graveyard, is a constantly shifting group of environmentally-conscious 'villains'.

Modus operandi

Were originally an animal rights group that called themselves elephant graveyard that expanded their purview to include stewardship of the entire biosphere.<ref name="II1.8 e1">He didn’t respond to that. He picked up a file, paging through it.

“Which one is that?”

“Ossuary. Why leave it out?”

“They’re back, or they will be soon,” I said. “Activist villains with a heavy focus on environment. They wouldn’t call themselves villains, I don’t think. Long list of really messy executions, longer list of leaders with very short tenures, who try to pull a very disparate group together, fail, and abdicate.”

“Were they the ones who used to call themselves Elephant Graveyard?”

“That’s the one. One of the early leaders pushed the name change along with a shift away from focusing on animals and animal welfare,” I said. “I liked Elephant Graveyard more, I think. Clunky, but clunky in a way that stands out, and it made for really good imagery, when they left a spray painted calling card.” - Excerpt from Daybreak 1.8</ref>

When they were Elephant Graveyard they used to leave cards spray tagged with their initials.<ref name="II1.8 e1" />

Structure

Leadership had a high turnover rate, given the need to get multiple disparate capes working together.<ref name="II1.8 e1" /> This possibly meant that the group had rapidly mutating agendas and tactics, along with its eclectic membership.

PRT Response

While Ossuary would not strictly call themselves villains they were labeled as such by the authorities. With the groups history of executing their targets the authorities would see this label as justified.<ref name="II1.8 e1" />

History

Background

A group of empowered environmental activists that banded together.<ref name="Sv1">It's worth stating that one of the underling ideas driving the formation of groups and ideological factions in the Wormverse is the notion that some people get a voice where they otherwise wouldn't. Give an immense amount of power to a (relatively) random section of the population and you'll see certain shifts in the overlying sentiments.

All the more so when you think that a parahuman with aspirations might latch on to an idea, concept, or group to get reputation, resources, and contacts. - Comment by Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity</ref><ref name="R1">In Worm, minority groups get empowered due to, well, members get actual powers. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Post-Gold Morning

Two years after the multiverse was devastated the group was reforming in some way, shape, or description.<ref name="II1.8 e1" />

Trivia

• Ossuary is any container, be it object or building, where bones are kept.
• Purportedly "Hard Green" organizations exist in real life. Examples include the Animal Liberation Front and Greenpeace. The fact that accounts of their activities are overblown by corporate media sources will not be commented upon.{cite}

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