The Requiem gives an organization for characters to belong to for people who like to play D&D-ish monks in the setting, which has proven to be a surprisingly popular option over the years.
Nobody in my games ever seems to trust the Rooks, but unlike the real-world Pinkertons WotC can't send them to your house over some illicit Magic cards.
The Requiem
The Requiem is a monastic order of warrior ascetics who believe that study and contemplation of the divine mathematics underlying all creation is the true path to spiritual redemption.
• Each monk of the Requiem inscribes their body with angelic seals and complex mathematical formulae to channel the power of the divine.
• The ascetics of the Requiem prize cold, passionless logic.
• Monks of the order venture into the world to obtain evil or accursed magical artifacts to be taken for safekeeping in the well-protected vaults below the Monastery of Saint Menoch.
The Rooks
The Rooks are a guild that engage in “night work”—clandestine investigations, strike breaking, and bounty hunting.
• The Rooks maintain guildhalls throughout Krevborna where they can be contracted as private detectives, hired muscle, spies, discreet couriers, bodyguards, and manhunters.
• Over the years, the Rooks have gained renown for disrupting the illegal slave trade in Piskaro, capturing several bandit chiefs, and solving a number of mysterious murder cases.
• However, rumors that the Rooks will take innocent lives for the right handful of coins continue to dog the organization and tarnish its reputation.
• The Rooks have established routes upon which specialized agents deliver mail and parcels sent through their guildhalls.
