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16**Summary of GROUP MENDES - Children of the Scarlet King
Six Cells (3 in NA, 2 in Eastern Europe, 1 in North Africa)
Funding comes from low-level members, and it has several wealthy backers, though
Links to Extremist Paranormal Groups (org. is largely shunned)
GROUP MENDES, composed of psychopathic demon-worshipers
Posses fragments of paranormal knowledge (1 or more paranormal artifacts/entities)
*Outer Circle:
Outer Circle = Right-wing Millennialist Christian Church
Outer Circle around 60k (1/3 attend churches associated with main branch)
Outer Circle = 'Second Amendment Activists'/Paranoid belief in need to defend against government tyranny
*Inner Circle:
Inner Circle = Philosophy of Enlightenment through violation (Eschatology involving Satan)
Inner Circle around 8k (1/4 main branch in Alabama)
Inner Circle stockpiled weapons/money/influence/potentially parathreat artifacts
Most recent reports from the brief state that high-ranking cult members along with several cultists suspected of being low-level Type Blue threat entities left for an undisclosed location
Rusted metal staves/potential ritual implements loaded into vans