Breeding Cult
A subset of Secret Circle of Secrets, and usually an Ancient Conspiracy, a Breeding Cult is usually either an attempt to create a Chosen One or a Master Race.
This type of Cult takes one of two forms:
- controlling the world's marriages/relationships/pregnancies to create a new generation, closer to fulfilling its Prophecy or Grand Plan.
- where the members of the cult are itself the result of the Breeding Program, secretly choosing their partners inline with the aims and desires of the Cult.
Examples:
Literature
- In Dune the Bene Gesserit have worked for 90 generations to create the Chosen One, the 'Kwizatz Haderach'.
- The Howard Families are a fictional group created by Robert Heinlein, featuring heavily in books such as Time Enough for Love. The Howard Foundation was started in the 19th century by Ira Howard, a millionaire dying of old age in his forties, for the purpose of extending human lifespans.
Live Action TV
- In Dark Angel's second season, the enemies of the X-series are Breeding Cult members of "pure-blood" that have comparable abilities to the impure, gene-hacked super soldiers. The transgenics are obstacles to the realisation of the cult's planned extinction of the rest of humanity