The Peons of Adrian

The Peons of Adrian are a group of like-minded magic practitioners founded by their namesake. They consider themselves nihilistic but strive to protect social minorities, such as the LGBTQ+ and the neurodiverse.

Tenets
Informally, the tenets of the Peons of Adrian include:
 * 1) Harm none,
 * 2) but be not a hero.
 * 3) Empathize,
 * 4) and allow none to be harmed.

Most members will tell you that item 1 is flexible if item 4 requires it. In general, the Peons don't like to involve themselves in things unless they absolutely have to. But when they do, they are merciless. A lack of empathy (or a lack of effort to build it) is taboo and will get one promptly removed from the group.



"'We are the queer and the strange'"- eventually-official motto of the Peons. Most insist that empathy is enough to utter it with conviction.

Trivia
"'I thought there wouldn't even be a dystopia to work with, but you people are HOPELESS!'"
 * The Peons were founded approximately two hundred years after the time warp, long after Adrian's surviving friends and relatives lived out their natural lives.
 * The group favors ordered, cold, and dark magics, and many members specialize in bodily affliction, alteration, and/or mind control.
 * Nora/Norm/Honor eventually joins the Peons as a way to bring meaning to their life after the time warp. They are especially instrumental in the group's neurodiversity initiatives and teach Adrian a great deal about that.
 * Lucian seems to assist the group quite regularly.
 * Critics consider the Peons to be vigilantes, though they commit little to no obvious violence. Some likewise believe that the Peons take alteration hexes too far and downplay informed consent.
 * In Second City, the Peons go by a different name and act as a political party that opposes Garamond Gray.
 * The Divergents spawned from the neurodiverse segment of the Peons but were denounced and disassociated from the group when they became violent.