Working my way slowly through The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, it struck me that some of this is pretty gameable. His entry for Regalia reads like a list of weird knightly factions or Troika backgrounds. I particularly love the "Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted."
I have edited these slightly as they were originally in a long wall-of-text paragraph.
REGALIA, n. Distinguishing
insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as:
- Knights of Adam
- Visionaries of Detectable Bosh
- Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes
- League of Holy Humbug
- Golden Phalanx of Phalangers
- Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums
- Mystic Alliances of Gorgeous Regalians
- Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog
- Oriental Order of Sons of the West
- Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff
- Warriors of the Long Bow
- Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon
- Band of Brutes
- Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters
- Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants
- Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine
- Shining Inaccessibles
- Fee-Faw-Fummers of the Inimitable Grip
- Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock
- Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple
- Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians
- Associated Deities of the Butter Trade
- Garden of Galoots
- Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted
- Flashing Astonishers
- Ladies of Horror
- Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight
- Dukes of Eden
- Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith
- Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog
- Holy Gregarians
- Resolute Optimists
- Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs
- Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity
- Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool
- Society for Prevention of Prevalence
- Kings of Drink
- Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential
- Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll
- Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats
- Monarchs of Worth and Hunger
- Sons of the South Star
- Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword
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