Byzantine and complex, the Order of Goetica wraps itself in cloaks of ritual, minutiae, and meticulous record-keeping. The collected bylaws and guidelines of the order fill six large books. The requirements for joining and advancing are intricate, involving all manner of rites and proper acts of obeisance to various entities and so forth.
It is likely that no one Goetic truly understands the hierarchy of the order, let alone all the bylaws.
The leaders of the order are known as Ultima Mysterions (6th-degree Goetics), with each overseeing a specific area. Those ascending to the 6th degree gain a secondary title to match their purview, such as Master of the Initiations, Master of Namekeeping, Master of Pact Records, Master of the Ceremonies, and Master of the Libraries, to name just a few.
For all their convoluted organization, most Goetics are loners and introverts, spending their time poring over old, dusty tomes to find some aspect of an ancient pact they can exploit in their next colloquy with a conjured entity. “I’d rather spend my time with the dark powers than in a room full of other vislae,” is a common Goetic sentiment.
More than members of other orders, Goetics often see their fellow Goetics as rivals. They don’t share their knowledge unless they have to or they think they’re getting something better in exchange.
To the rest of the world, the Order of Goetica is off-putting and strange, even by vislae standards. An individual member might be okay, but even to the most open-minded non, a group of people who potentially spend their time shut up in dark rooms talking with demons is best held at arm’s length.
The Goetic Hall of Records is a large, gothic structure dripping with leering demons, noble angels, and other spiritual beings immortalized in stone. Inside, in addition to the offices of all the high-ranking members of the hierarchy, the building has a huge catalog of members, member activities, summoned entities, pacts, and more. There are billions of spiritual beings in the Actuality (unless their number is infinite, of course), and a great many of them are detailed here.