The Jaeganrad
The Jaeganrad is a group of pomenysh insurgents regarded as savage, inhuman terrorists.
• The Jaeganrad fights a guerrilla war against mankind in Krevborna, hoping to one day reclaim their land.
• The Jaeganrad ventures forth from Aeldentree to raid human settlements and wage a war of terror against humanity.
• Powerful fey from the Verdant Lodge support the Jaeganrad.
The Linden Gallows Gang
Squires who do are judged unworthy to join the Knights Labyrinthian are cast out into the wilderness in shame. Most die. A handful of the survivors have found each other and banded together as a posse of bandits calling themselves the Linden Gallows Gang.
• The Linden Gallows Gang share the Knights Labyrinthian’s mania to collect artifacts from Grail Tombs, but they are more apt to ambush successful delvers than they are to explore vlaak dungeons themselves.
• Like the Knights Labyrinthian, the Linden Gallows Gang are skilled gunfighters, though they lack the Knights’ mystical techniques.
• The biggest coup a gang member can achieve is to kill a Knight Labyrinthian in a duel.
• The Linden Gallows Gang are led by a dhampir pistolero named Wagner Highcross.
The Syndikor Ministry
The Syndikor Ministry is a special branch of the Church of the Holy Blood tasked with performing the sacred rite of exorcism.
• Clergy selected to join the Syndikor Ministry are invariably marked from birth by obvious spiritual gifts.
• Though some Syndikor exorcists are permanently stationed in the Church’s larger bastions, others wander the land to confront malicious demons and spirits.
• As an occupational hazard, members of the Syndikor Ministry are prone to becoming hosts for unclean spirits; “fallen” Syndikor are mercilessly hunted by their compatriots.
I’m not saying The Ministry’s iconic NPCs absolutely have to include a pastiche of Mr Russel Crowe’s character from THE POPE’S EXORCIST, but they absolutely Should.
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An exorcist with a formidable record and an incredible accent, Brother Panza hails from a long line of cunning men & women (peasants all) and came into the land of Krevborna in order to offer his long experience in the arts of banishment, indomitable self-confidence and inexhaustible fund of applicable anecdotes to his brothers & sisters in the Blood.
Some of them can even understand what he says on the FIRST repetition.
- APPEARANCE: A stocky little man with wiry hair, an florid face and a lazy eye, Brother Panza can generally be relied upon to carry the traditional vestments of his order, a businesslike aura and a smile.
Sometimes the smile is even trustworthy.
- PERSONALITY: A man who found his Vocation and has been pursuing it like a terrier after a rabbit ever since, especially when it lets him get away with ‘forgetting’ little details of dogma and ecclesiastical hierarchy in extremis.
Ask him for advice and he will be Delighted to give you a story which will always eventually make a very useful point.
- MOTIVE: Demons are too damnably dangerous (and too much like hard work) to be left to the incurably superior.
- FLAW: That Estborna accent can be absolutely Impenetrable to Krevites and he’s been know to wilfully abuse that fact.
Oh, and there’s a small but carefully-unmentioned possibility he could suffer a slight heart attack at times of great stress.