InsaneJournal

- An organized, elusive, & mysterious crime syndicate of nefarious means.
- run predominately by pure-bloods but utilizes full & half bloods as well.
- focus not as much on blood purity as on world domination in general.
- seeks to do this through infiltration and through the control of certain artifacts, both magical and muggle.
- higher ups "masterminds" that control groups of others including the middle management - cells almost.
- the lower levels might be: assassins... foot soldiers who stop conspiracy theorists getting too close to the truth, or generally anyone who might get in their way. there are the companions (this is the category most likely to have "unwilling participants") who are... well, kind of like escorts. they're usually entertainers (singers, dancers, even skilled conversationalists) in ZCs employ who are usually assigned jobs to people with knowledge, though some may even have assassin-duties... mostly though they're used to entice and coax information, wealth, and in some cases even the very artifacts wanted... there are ~tech guys~, people assigned to just keep watch (taking a m.o.m. job, or marrying a high ranking official, for example), and obviously ~middle management~ who seem to be in charge and orchestrating things, but ultimately answer to higher up folk.

zc is not an officially known entity. it's a conspiracy theory. a superstition. a story you tell your kids to scare them. anything that is "known" to be a ZC plot or connection is not a publicly known thing. some characters have never even heard the legends about it. others don't believe them even if they've heard them. so yeah.