Cabal

The Cabal is an underground organisation with a lot of resources that they spend trying to control the way stories get told, what stories get told and how they get told in order to mainly control the narrative of how the common people of perceive the world and don't get an understanding of how stories actually interact with the "real" world.

One reason is also power, which the leader of the Cabal enjoys over the people of the world.

It is heavily associated with Mr Pullman (who possible helped to start the organisation).

It also have a room full of employees just reading novels in order to feed stories to (what I believe) is the Leviathan and therefore influence stories impact on the world. Which is located underground of a famous Oxford library.

They have also constructed a grid where they can read how the story-world is being made influenced by the "real world".

Wilson Taylor was primarily a member of the Cabal comes to see this as a limiting force on the human potential of making stories and being free agents. This leads him to the project to merge a story of his creation: '''Tommy Taylor '', with his son Thomas "Tom" Taylor. He sets up a scheme in which through a convoluted process Tom is meant to bring down the Cabal in order for a new worldorder to arrive.