The Score of Revenants
In wretched Galgenbeck it is said there resides a sinister and selfish death cult. Their numbers are unknown, but they call themselves the Score of Revenant as a hint to their true ideals, their secret nature. Each member of the cult pledges themselves to death in a secret ritual, in hopes of touching against an unfathomable destiny and returning from the dead.
Their arch-occultists claim that for those who die and return from the beyond are granted one of a sum of 20 rewards. If one man each, each carrying one of all twenty rewards, gathers below the dawning sun on the day of one of Nechrubel's hated Miseries, they shall ascend life and death and gain untold power beyond the waking world.
The Score of Revenants thus believe that their loyalty and devotion shall be rewarded by the thankful spirit-forms, and they shall gain all twenty powers in their time upon the earth, then come to their allies' side in the world beyond worlds when their time of death has come.