This post instantly made me think of Thanksgiving dinner. Why, Mek, you crazy bastard, would you think such a thing? I'll tell you why. If you go to a Thanksgiving dinner where there are at least a dozen or so more adults (usually 20+ for my family), and a whole friggin flock of little kids, do they sit and/or play together much? Well, the adults look after the kids and keep them in line when necessary, but the kids pretty much run their own little show - complete with a mini table, little chairs, and assorted inflatable pieces of furniture to emulate their up-and-coming adult lives.

What if the same type of stratification were applied to cabals? What if the cabals had one main HQ (the ones that exist now), and at least one other mini-HQ where the adults aren't allowed to play. What if the Fortress of Light, after all these centuries, decided to set up a forward observation post in hostile territory. A post manned by its younger, less experienced members? These members could have lower-level abilities attached to an item that, if taken, would be held at their enemy's mini-HQ as well? Hell, you can just add on to cabal areas that already exist. Instead of a forward observation post, you could have guard towers placed at the entrance of the Fortress approach route.

Anyhow, I could rant on that forever...it's fun.

At some point these people would have to graduate to the "big" cabal, because we can't be having level 35+'s pwning the mini-HQ system.

This is just one idea. I will try to think of something else.