Order of the Black Dawn

Originating from the Sahale Federation, the Order of the Black Dawn (or dawnies for short) are a sect of Grimm Worshiping cultists. In recent years, the Order has propagated to the rest of Remnant. While originally docile, if not eccentric, the Federation has declared them to be a terrorist group due to a sudden rise of mass bombings and assassinations of which the Order has claimed responsibility for.

Doctrine
Excerpt from a Order propaganda pamphlet ...

The basis of the Order's teaching is that the Grimm are the planet's wrath on both Humanity and Faunus for disturbing the balance of Remnant. According to their texts, Remnant is considered a sapient being that created all life on it. Grimm were to be the manifestation of negativity and everything else the manifestation of positivity. Humanity and Faunus failed in being this manifestation which caused the Grimm to congregate on the negativity. Remnant took pity and gave humanity dust and therefore, a second chance. However even with dust, humanity failed in this task as clearly evidenced by the continued Grimm attacks.

We, the Order of the Black Dawn, have seen the truth behind this world. Remnant has given Humanity one final blessing and chance. Humanity has failed in the task given to it by Remnant and cannot be allowed to continue, but the humans who assist Remnant in executing this purge will be permitted to live.

Organization
Order command is focused around a female officer known as a "Matriarch". Each Matriarch is in command of a cell and the only individual within the cell allowed to communicate with other cells. Said Matriarch is also hooked up to an elaborate network of dead man's switches. Should she be compromised, any equipment and operatives associated with the cell under her command will initiate self-destruct. All these are precautions to prevent the Order's downfall should one cell be compromised.

Order funding originally came from open donations of their followers, but as of the Federation's lockdown on their crowdfunding sites, the Order relies on front organizations and money embezzlement. As each cell maintains its own independent fronts and embezzlement agents, it is difficult to estimate how much income the Order makes yearly.

Arsenal
Through the use of heavy fortifications and underground construction, the Order is able to create military bases within Grimm territory. This same methodology of construction is used in base construction within human controlled territory as well.

Much of the Order's paramilitary equipment is a mixture between surplus and outdated munitions from across Remnant, in-house manufactured WMDs, and embezzled Federation and Atlesian equipment. Their combat forces range from poorly-trained conscripts and militia and mercenaries and deserters of varying caliber. However, these are merely cannon-fodder and diversions from the Order's true underhanded might: their Paladins.

Paladin
Paladins are the misinformed and privately trained Hunters and Huntresses fielded by the Order for covert and surgical operations intended to severely cripple an enemy in a single strike. Thoroughly indoctrinated with the Order's perverse teachings, Paladins operate primarily alone on their mission. Paladin training has a 72% mortality rate, but those that survive are revered as some of the deadliest individuals on Remnant able to decimate battalions of ordinary troops alone. Paladins are also taught to never attack Grimm no matter what.