User blog comment:ThePremierArbiter/Requesting Assistance/@comment-25573194-20150209190113/@comment-5108785-20150209195323

The same basic idea- of a fear enthralling people to work for them while they start developing their own ideas- could work equally well for The Wooden Girl as for The Unnamed Child, and has much more freedom in the age of the actor cast to play (Or actors, for that matter), and basically just required makeup and a bit of creativity with strings and glue.

The Blind Man and EAT all hold their own distinct possibilities, although they may work better as a third party rather than the one Gabriel is working for, due to their own extensive webs of servants. What would be interesting would be to have them present as a "Semi friendly" faction, people who can be gone to and can be traded with for information, but who ultimately are working at cross purposes with Gabriel, and who Gabriel knows he'll have to fight against in the end. Perhaps The Wooden Girl, Or The Child or whoever you use could introduce them, have a meeting to trade information Gabriel is present for and is essentially told to sit in the corner and be quiet while adults talk for, and decides to go investigate and talk with them himself to further his own private investigation independent of his controlling Fear at a later point.

Don't know enough of Nobody to comment on his use and no ideas spring to mind as to The Cold Boy or The Quiet, unless you want to get The Sine Cordia involved. It'd make sense if they were the only group to know for SURE what the gate contained, as if it's some kind of prison for fears it clearly exists extra-dimensionally, but there's no way they'd be forthcoming about it. Trying to get the least bit of information out of them would be an interesting storyline, although i doubt they'd be an active faction in the sense of going out and trying to open the gate. The Quiet claims all in the end, after all, with or without the gate.

Edit: Also, i never said they had to all think the gate was a prison. One group thinks it holds the Architect, sure, and maybe another think it's really the brute that's in there. But perhaps a third thinks it'll just tear open a rift in spacetime and let the Quiet in. Maybe another thinks it's a portal to another 'verse (Such as The Empty City) where they can rule as god.. It could be a trans-dimensional toaster for all we know, get creative :P