Shadow Dancers
A well hidden organization operating across the nations as a power check. They act rarely, allowing them to stay well hidden for so long with eyes everywhere. They exist to ensure another Judgement does not happen by any means necessary.
Structure
Title
Role
Responsibilities
Master of Shadows
Leader
Guards the entrance to the pool; Selects candidates for ascension; Presides over trials within the organization
Left Hand of the Shadow
Head of Logistics
Oversees management of resources and supplies
Right Hand of the Shadow
Head of Personnel
Oversees management of personnel and has final approval of mission dispatches.
Keeper of Shadows
Head of Crafting
Reports to both hands of the shadow, manages supply of crafted items and the crafters
Walking Shadow
Infiltrator
True Shadow Dancers; Typically take roles as squad leaders and other command roles; Primary infiltrators and executors of missions.
Shade
Soldier
Direct support for Walking Shadows. Assist in infiltration, assassination, theft, etc. Commonly watching the back of their Walking Shadow and covering their tracks.
Unseen Eyes
Spy
Information gatherers for the organization. Commonly employed as servants, maids, soldiers, etc. where they can gather information and relay back to the organization.
Face of Shadow
Support
Average members of the organization, typically in roles where they are seen in public. Responsible for the mercantile side of the organization
Public Agenda
Publically, the Shadow Dancer's organization is fronted as the Tiger's Eye Trading Company.
Behind the scenes, the Shadow dancers are spread thin through the world, watching to ensure that balance is kept in the world and eliminating threats to that balance, trying to prevent another Judgement.
Assets
Assets stem from the Tiger's Eye Trading Company and the black market sales of several of their crafted goods, small trinkets that cannot influence things, such as 'beauty enhancing jewelry'.
History
The Shadow Dancers were established by Bahamut after the first Atlor's Judgement. He is one of the few survivors of this conflict. Determined not to repeat this, he established the Shadow Dancers.
Fully establishing the guild took centuries as he mastered his own abilities and reached out to the various budding races. Recruitment was difficult at first due to Bahamut's race and the inherit fear that comes with staring down a bull dragon.
The first recruit to join Bahamut's cause listened out of pity for a desperate creature. Prydwis Thistledown was moved by the determination and passion of Bahamut and took lead on recruiting others. Within a year, the ranks began to flourish.
After five years setting up their networks Prydwis and nineteen other candidates entered the Aethyric Whirlpools. Only Prydwis survived and took the code name Echidna. He was named the official master of personnel, the Left Hand of the Shadow.
After the second Judgement occurred, Bahamut had the unique opportunity to recruit dwarves into the organization. After adding them to the ranks, the Tiger's Eye Trading Company was established to fund their efforts. Rothbaar Ironhoof joined the ranks, taking the name Centipede and the roll of logistics master.
Missions began shortly after the establishment of Tiger's Eye Trading Company to cover extra costs as well as instill more surveillance around the nations. The Dancers started taking odd jobs securing villages, eliminating bandits, spying, and distributing information. Assassinations were few and far between, often to deal with the most stubborn, violent, and destructive of individuals.
We suffer so others will not
Type
Secret, Brotherhood
Alternative Names
Syndicate of Shadow(s), Shadow Syndicate
Demonym
Dancer, Shadow, Shade
Leader
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