Factions, Cults, Orgs and more
This page details some of the more commonly known factions, cults, businesses and organizations that operate independent of their country of origin (and will sometimes even strike out against their own countries when beneficial.) A country tab will eventually be added to this website, which will be a similar page to this but regarding countries specifically. This page covers smaller subfactions and other groups of interest that while potentially attached to said countries are not always loyal to them.
Society (Cult) of The Open Hand
The Cult of the Open Hand is a religious organization which believes The Helping Hand, an anomalous being with unknown abilities and power, is the agent of some sort of god or greater power. Originally an offshoot of The Church of the One True God, the cult quickly adopted more extreme ideologies similar to Angelic Salvation.
In recent years their numbers have grown, directly opposing dark entities like Strife and The Mother while fighting The Trophy Organization and local governments in their search for knowledge and efforts to serve what they call The Hand of Truth.
The facts behind The Helping Hand (or The Hand of Truth) are hard to pin down due to the elusive nature of the anomaly, however it seems to pick individuals to follow. The current individual the hand follows is Vincent Holliday, a man under surveillance by The Trophy Organization. When the cult learned of Vincent's existence, they started preparations to break into site M-19 and kidnap Vincent.