C.H.E.S.

Connoisseurs of
Herbally-Enriched Substances

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C.H.E.S. Grand Masters at the 100th annual Oolong Drinking Contest

Founded	13 October 1757
Founders	Nuck Chorris, King Arthur, Murdock mac Leod
Time Period	1757–present
Goals	A deeper understanding and furtherance of personal Sterility
Political Ideology	Tea
Enemies	The Leafeaters

The Connoisseurs of Herbally-Enriched Substances, or C.H.E.S. (IPA: /kʰɛs/), founded in 1757, are an organisation dedicated to maximising their Sterility via the consumption of increasingly elaborate and concentrated tea-based concoctions.

C.H.E.S. members that possess a Sterility level of at least 114,942,432.044 are dubbed ‘Masters’ and traditionally ranked on the following scale:

C.H.E.S. Mastery Levels

Rank	Required Sterility
Master	114,942,432.044
Intranational Master	739,085,572.133
Extranational Master	1,414,213,613.562
Grand Master	2,718,281,828.459

While there technically is no strict hierarchy in C.H.E.S.—the mastery levels merely indicate how much sterility a member has, and members are free to act as they wish, so long as they do not act against other members—it’s de-facto leader is, and has been for over 2 centuries, Nuck Chorris, who assumed the role after the Battle for the Leaf in 1822.

Among C.H.E.S.’s core tenets are:

• A requirement for each member to imbibe at least 3 cups of tea per day (increased to 3 per hour for Masters and above).
• A ban on the consumption of coffee.
• A ban on the killing and consumption of crab.

Known C.H.E.S. Grand Masters include Carlos Søren Magnussen, Nuck Chorris, King Arthur, Sir Timothy Angus McLeod, and Júlio da Silva Fenton-Awnthorpe.