The Order of the Rising Dawn

The Rising Dawn is a martial religious sect, having splintered off from the Sworn Sons due to their different beliefs over the meaning of their holy vows: to protect and defend the people of Eorin from the threat of the rifts and the creatures and dangers that came through them.

The Cleansing Flame

While the Sworn Sons believe that their primary duty is to provide safety and protection to all people, building fortifications and riding out to answer calls for aid, the Rising Dawn take a different view. They believe that their duty to protect the people from the dangers of the rifts is best accomplished by actively hunting and destroying these dangers, the primary of which being magic and all who wield it. In order to hunt down and kill magic users, they needed a way to incapacitate them and block their use of magic. Originally they used nightshadow to encase magical items and to forge full-body restraints to hold their foes. However, nightshadow was far too expensive and rare for the Rising Dawn to create enough of these items and they could only be used once the magic user was subdued, which usually cost the lives of several of their members. For fifteen years they carried on this way until one day they unleashed their new weapon, riftsteel.

Riftsteel

How the Rising Dawn exactly creates riftsteel is not known to any outside their order, but it is common enough knowledge that it involves combining iron, nightshadow and a substance they harvest from monsters. The result is a hard steel-like material that has a subdued wine colour, and somehow prevents any living thing in contact with it from channelling magic. Again, how this is achieved is a mystery, but as soon as your flesh touches it you lose all connection to the Veil and the ability to manipulate magic and rifts. The creation of riftsteel has allowed the Rising Dawn to greatly increase their effectiveness against magic wielders, creating restraints and weapons that remove all their powers as long as they are in contact. The pinnacle of its use is in combination with their brand new black powder weapons. While an arrow, bolt or blade can be pulled out of someones flesh, no longer incapacitating your opponent, the riftsteel balls shot out of these weapons lodge themselves deep into muscle and bone and are almost impossible to remove without surgery.

Founding Date

Myrkuli 214 4E

Type

Religious, Holy Order

Alternative Names

Mage-Hunters, the Branded