Affiliations

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Affiliations are one of the defining characteristics of your Captain. They can be obtained by choosing certain Facets, or by recruiting Officers. Some storylets, prospects and dialogue options depend on what Affiliations levels you have.
There is currently no known way to lower your Captain's personal Affiliations, but it is possible to raise and lower your effective Affiliations by choosing which Officers you appoint at any given time.

There are four different affiliations.

Affiliation	Description
Affiliation: Academe	Your associates among scholars and scientists.
Affiliation: Bohemia	Your associates among artists, authors, poets, and dreamers.
Affiliation: Establishment	Your associates among the authorities, the moneyed, and the aristocracy.
Affiliation: Villainy	Your associations among thieves, outcasts, and pirates.

Obtaining

Facets

Each origin story for new characters has an affiliation associated with it.

Origin	Subgroup	Affiliation bonus
Origin: Urchin	All	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
Origin: Soldier	In the Royal Horse Guards	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
	In the Corps of Royal Engineers	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
	In the Commissariat	+1 Affiliation: Establishment
Origin: Poet	All	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Origin: Academic	All	+1 Affiliation: Academe
Origin: Priest	A Bright-Eyed Sequencer	+1 Affiliation: Establishment
	The Bishop of Southwark	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
	Your parishioners	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Origin: Zailor	You smuggled	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
	You explored	+1 Affiliation: Academe
	You bought and you sold	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Origin: Auditor	All	+1 Affiliation: Establishment
Origin: Revolutionary	With your feet and your fists	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
	With your mind	+1 Affiliation: Academe
	With your art	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia

Some later Facets also offer the opportunity to increase your affiliations.

Facet Name	Unlocked With	Subgroup	Affiliation bonus
Past: Mentor	Level 3	A Blind Bruiser	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
Past: The Battlefield	Level 3 Origin: Soldier	In defeat	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
		In victory	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Past: Fifteen Minutes of Fame	Level 3 Origin: Poet	You flourished, like a rose in the sun	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Past: Your Masterpiece	Level 3 Origin: Academic	A marvel of engineering	+1 Affiliation: Academe
Past: A Letter of Resignation	Level 3 Origin: Auditor	your compromised allegiances	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Deed: A Knight of the Brazen Brigade	A Marcher in the Brazen Brigade = 616 (Arise, Knight of the Brazen Brigade.)	You share their ideals	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
		Mad, bad, and dangerous to know	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
Deed: the Witness	A Friend to the Heart-Catchers = 40 (Henceforth, you may seek audiences with the First of the Heart-Catchers.)	Poetry	+1 Affiliation: Bohemia
		Profanity	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
Deed: The Final Month	Winter's Reside: Something More Than Revolutionary = 5 (You have dined with December.)	For the hope of a better future	+1 Affiliation: Villainy
		For the sake of revenge