Secret Imperial Society

A conspiratorial magical group, based in the Mana Dimension, dating back to the Vandole Empire. It is dedicated to unlocking the highest secrets of magic and using them for personal power. The Society has Lodges hiding in plain sight throughout the Mana Dimension and the Tasnica Republic. Many dues-paying members think of it as little more than an elite social club, a place for wealthy, and powerful people to hobnob. Only a few people really know the organization's more nefarious purposes. These "Initiates" to the Society are all magically active, and the vast majority are Mana Mages. Sometimes, to recruit new members, the SIS will feed promising young mages a line about Merge League-style magocratic progressivism. In reality, the prize is mastery itself; power is an end of itself.

In popular culture, the Secret Imperial Society are the sort of people to conduct magical rituals to influence elections or use a Mana Seed to manipulate the stock market and the like. This is basically true, but the fact that it's the popular image of the organization makes sure no one actually believes it.

There are, perhaps, only a few thousand Initiates in the Web, and only 256 people have the rank of Imperial Wizard. The whole organization is led by a mysterious figure known only as the Master of Mana, who only a handful of people have ever met, and most people don't believe actually exists. One of his cleverly fiendish plans was wrecked by Fara Somers in her maiden outing as Mana Knight, though, so you can bet he's pissed at her.