The Collective is an international guild of impressive minds ranging across the fields of magic, medicine, alchemy, technology and everything tangential to these. With their fingers in so many pies and their hands in so many places, they eventually began to have megalomaniacal delusions of grandeur and world domination, which they attempted to realize by means of a number of projects: some of which succeeded, and most of which failed.
Perhaps the crowning achievement of the Collective was the successful detention of an otherworldly being of immeasurable power, discovered in a state of stasis and captured for use and exploitation by these scheming madmen.