ATELLIN

Name: Atellin (ah-TEL-lin)
Type: Secret
Original aim: Unification
Original membership: Intellectuals and soldiers
Current aim: "Safety and stability"
Current membership: The military, industry, diplomatic corps, police
Headquarters: Avenira, Mizeret (Kagere, NLR)

ATELLIN has the distinction of being the only Society that was formed after the revolution began.  The soldiery as a whole had resisted the urge to form cliques and instead served their lords, or their cities, dutifully (more or less).  During the revolution, there were mass desertions, betrayals and surrenders by these forces, perhaps as many as there were pitched battles and sieges.  Among the intellectuals of the cities, especially, came the idea of a nation-state, that all the Lelane peoples should be united into a single state, transgressing (then-) current national borders.  It was these intellectuals who sparked the flame of nationalism among the soldiers and mercenaries in Neoliliana and who spread the revolution outside the kingdom of Neoliliana to its neighbours.  Although these revolts were quickly and mercilessly stamped out, they paved the way for the later wars that were fought between the First Republic and its neighbours, annexing first the Kingdom of Aurore, then the Kingdom of Goramia and finally, almost as an afterthought, the Grand Duchy of Estontalle.  It was this latter conquest that would lead to the distastrous war with Estontetso.

Thanks to that war, ATELLIN became seen as an underground defender of Neoliliana, an ideal more than a society devoted to the protection of Neoliliana and its traditional borders.  Both imperialists, who wish to extend Neoliliana's borders to include Estontal, Ennes and occasionally Eastern Gorami, and isolationists, who wish to avoid contact with the outside world which has mostly conquered and forgotten Neoliliana, fill the ranks of ATELLIN.

ATELLIN's influence is strongest in the Ministry of Defence and the military itself, as well as police forces across the country.  It also has influence in the Department of Security.  The primary role of ATELLIN at the moment seems to be fighting ISOLE (q.v.) as opposed to any military actions outside of Neoliliana proper.