Secret societies are organized groups that exist outside public knowledge, bound by:
Shared belief systems,access to forbidden knowledge, control over Spirit Energy, curses, or summons. Some seek power, others seek control and a few seek to delay the inevitable collapse of reality.
Examples include Spirit Hunter orders, Occult Societies, Political and Economic Societies,and Independent & Fringe Societies.
These groups often become:
Victims of their own rituals or the birthplace of new curses