Fenris

Fenris is a mysterious international seditionist organization and faction in the 1920+ universe.

They are led by Rasputin, and their motives were only be guessed at until their second attempt to take over the Factory.

Overview

Tied to not one entity, the organization works in the shadows, and as such little is known about it. The few who discover them, like Nikola Tesla, rarely live to tell about it. It is comprised of members from, very likely, all the nations of the world. They build power by undermining and destabilizing governments by starting wars, taking advantage of the following political turmoil to install their own members into governments and slowly remove their opponents.

Although not a nation, they do have a small standing military drawn from hand-picked members of all the nations armies, with many of their members being unscrupulous criminals seeking their own power. Their units are powerful, but nothing is stronger than their use of fear and misdirection to weaken their enemies. Rather than a crushing hammer, their forces are like a needle on the right nerve point, a surgical scalpel that, in the right areas, will disrupt the entire body of Europe and possibly the whole world if left unchecked.

Their symbol resembles a gas mask, and the colors are orange and black.

Scythe Lore

There are reports from the countryside of strange soldiers with glowing eyes, but they seem distant and harmless.

They are far from harmless, however. When in open combat, their massive bipedal walkers instill fear just by being seen, and back up their terrifying appearance with devastating firepower. Fenris's true strength, however, is to strike fear and spread rumors, forcing enemies to think twice about confronting them or even just moving into any territory where Fenris has just been. They are also harder to contain, able to circumvent blockades and defenses.

Iron Harvest History

No one knows how long this organization has existed, but it seems to originated long before the Great War. They are currently under the leadership of Grigori Rasputin, although it is unknown if he founded the group or took the mantle of leadership after the previous leader.

Rusviet, likely under the heading of Fenris, attempted to seize The Factory in 1905 but were utterly defeated. In 1920, Nikola Tesla finally learned about the organization, came out of his 15 years of self-isolation to warn the governments of the major European powers including Tsar Nikolaj of the Rusviet Union and Kaiser Friedrich of the Saxony Empire.

In an effort to depose the Tsar, Fenris took advantage of the murmurs of revolution in Rusviet and sent revolutionaries to attack the Tsar's palace in St. Petersburg during the peace talks while having the guarding garrison poisoned. Colonel Lev Zubov defended the palace but secretly aided the revolutionaries by trying to collapse the building with his mech. Despite all this, the Tsar was saved by his Head of Security Olga Morozova and Polanian soldier Janek Kos. Janek was nearly killed in the collapsing building, but Olga had him secretly replace a soldier named Viktor and put him in an advanced exosuit to keep him alive. Shortly after, she managed to infiltrate a Fenris meeting in a castle and overheard their plans.

Still determined to get their hands on Tesla's most powerful prototypes and designs, the organization had managed to get a list of Tesla's previous employees who had left the Factory, including Piotr Kos (under his previous name Dyobowski) and Heinrich Steinmetz. Tracking them to the Polania Republic, Rasputin dispatched Zubov to attempt to make up for his failure in St. Petersburg. He succeeded in catching Piotr and tortured him, getting no information out of him but taking his prosthetic arm and leaving him to bleed to death before being driven away by Piotr's daughter Anna Kos, his brother Lech Kos, and the Polanian resistance.

Zubov then went to Kolno where Steinmetz was rumored to be hiding. When Anna and Lech arrived, the latter started a revolution allowing Zubov to invade the city to look for him. The Saxonian managed to escape in his blimp, unable to be shot down as Fenris needed him alive. The ship crashed just short of the Saxonian border, so Janek and Zubov were able to capture him. Rather than be taken alive, however, Heinrich commit suicide by blowing himself up with a bomb concealed in his fake eye. Uncovering a transponder in Piotr's arm that would let Fenris forces finally invade the factory, Zubov and Janek fought their way in all the way to Tesla's own doorstep. This victory would be short lived, as Anna Kos's Polanian forces arrived and were soon joined by Saxonian rebels under Gunter von Duisburg's command, quickly driving out the Fenris forces and almost capturing Zubov. However, Zubov's attempt to take control of the Factory by force cause the "Icarus Protocol" activated, forcing the alliance of Saxonian, Polanian, and defecting Rusviet troops to stop the three-legged unmanned walker while Zubov fled.

The Factory is now vulnerable to future attack, and Fenris likely intends to swoop in and take all of Tesla's technology for themselves. However, with the recent alliance of the three forces, Fenris will likely have a much tougher time taking over the Factory and securing its resources.

Known Members

Icon	Member	Short-Description
	Grigori Rasputin	Insidious leader with a hold over the Tsar of Rusviet
	Lev Aleksey Zubov	Aristocrat and tactician piloting a state-of-the-art heavy melee mech.
	Janek Kos (previously)	A cyborg kept alive by an advanced exosuit with heavy firepower.
	General Sturmm	Saxonian military officer.

Exo-Skeletonsedit | edit source


Icon	Infantry	Short-Description
	Fenris Šetač	Soldiers using exosuits built with cutting edge technology. Their eyes glow orange instead of blue.

Mech

Icon	Mech	Short-Description
	Annihilator	A tall and powerful mech only seen in Scythe.

Trivia

Fenris is the name of a monstrous legendary wolf in Norse mythology, who is foretold to kill Odin in the days of Ragnarok.
In Iron Harvest, Fenris was seemingly responsible for the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand and possibly starting the Great War.
Wilhelm is the only main villain who does not work with Fenris.