Hidden Tribe
The Hidden Tribe officially does not exist. The leadership of the Sypi Confederacy has typically refused to acknowledge the rumors and theories about this group which monopolizes organized crime in the towns and Wofslar. Hidden behind a variety of closed doors in Wofslar, the Hidden Tribe has made more than its fair share of enemies. As no uniform system of law and order exists throughout the Confederacy, varying from tribe to tribe, the Hidden Tribe exists in a gray area in the Confederate social system.
Structure
The majority of the employees of the Hidden Tribe are nonhuman, thanks to the increasing discrimination of the Church of the One Sun in the time leading up to the Sypi Civil War. Of these, most are elves and goblins, taking the chance to get some form of revenge against those who persecute them. Plenty of humans support the Tribe, while maintaining a façade of allegiance to whatever town or community they reside within, acting as front men or women, and keep a veneer of legitimacy over the Tribe’s operations. The leadership of the tribe is somewhat nebulous, and the Chief is typically the individual who has schemed his or her way up to the top by making the right friends and allies. Elevation through the ranks is often through the means of blackmail or assassination.
Public Agenda
The crimes undertaken by the Hidden Tribe depends on the laws of the tribe or town in which they operation. Smuggling is by far the most lucrative of their endeavors, but they also take a cut of actions by member thieves and pickpockets. Due to the urban nature of these crimes, the Tribe has hideaways and strongholds in each of the major towns of the Sypi Confederacy, and of course multiple establishments in Wofslar. They have also been known to extort groups continuing the secret worship of the One Sun, for protection against arson, sabotage, or exposure.
Assets
The Hidden Tribe has a number of enforcers but no organized military or paramilitary force. For the most part, they hire local thugs and other miscreants to do any dirty work that involves violence or intimidation. The leadership and regular employees are mostly thieves, smugglers, and merchants who dabble in the illicit proceeds of the former two. Quite a few halflings are involved in the Tribe, working caravans of both legal and illegal nature throughout the Confederacy. The smuggling has grown to be the largest part of the Tribe’s operations, as they use support from several other tribes and hidden elven enclaves.
History
The exact date when the Hidden Tribe was established is unknown, but legend claims that the tribe was originally an actual tribe in the Confederacy, but was purged and stricken from the records due to some unknowable offense. The sigils and tabards in the collections of the Tribe’s leaders somewhat support this theory, but the truth is unlikely to ever come out into the open. For most of the Tribe’s history they were only involved in petty extortion or thievery, and are now at the greatest strength they have ever known thanks to their opposition to the One Sun and the legitimacy their mercenaries and assassins gained during the Sypi Civil War. Unfortunately, they have recently begun fighting off their rivals in the Conino Tribe, who have been slowly but surely entering the smuggling markets and dominating the lucrative trade route between Smitlaw and Wofslar.
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