Scarlet Jackals

The Scarlet Jackals are decentralised and cell-based, favouring obscured hierarchies, burner identities, and coded names. Still, rumours persist of a core leadership known as the Triad of Teeth, each 'Tooth' controlling one major market:

• Golden Tooth: Oversees bribery networks and elite clients, including corrupt nobles and military officers.

• Obsidian Tooth: Handles relic theft, arcane smuggling, and infiltration of the Shemsu-Ra.

• Ivory Tooth: Controls narcotics trade, flesh markets, and street-level smuggling from Zhinra and beyond.

Each cell reports up to a local handler, known as a Whisper Fang, who ensures operations run quietly and efficiently. No single Jackal knows too much.
All Jackals wear stylised masks when interacting with one another, disguising voice, features, and sometimes even height. These masks range from ceramic jackal visages to enchanted scraps of fabric that shimmer when viewed head-on. Identity is privilege—anonymity is protection.

Ranks & Roles

• Runner

• Fang

• Broker

• Tooth of the Triad

The leader of the Scarlet Jackals is known as the Red Jackal. it is said that this figure sees through all masks.

Common Tactics and Methods

• Use of trained street urchins, beasts, or cursed objects as couriers

• Glyph-sealed crates that explode or teleport when opened incorrectly

• Bribery and blackmail of civic officials

• Counterfeit temple artefacts sold as real to distract authorities

Player Options

Diplomatic Ties

"What you bind, we break. What you bury, we sell."

Mission Statement

To profit from that which others fear to touch. The Jackals operate by moving the unmovable, selling what should not exist, and outwitting those who try to contain knowledge, freedom, or wealth. Where law brings walls, they bring keys.

Type

Guild, Thieves

Location

Y'Matara

Related Ranks & Titles

• Broker
• Fang
• Red Jackal
• Runner
• Tooth of the Triad

Notable Members

• Khadi Naresh
• Nari "Ashmark" Veshet
• Tavo "Half-Tail"

Founding

According to legend, the Scarlet Jackals began centuries ago as tomb-robbers and relic-diviners who looted the ruins of the Age of Titans.

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Cooperative

Scarlet Jackals

30

The Gilded Hand

30

The Jackals grease the wheels of Y’Matara’s economy from the shadows. The Gilded Hand tolerates their presence so long as profits flow. Risk of exposure. If the Jackals draw too much attention, the Hand may publicly disown or turn on them.

Hostile

Scarlet Jackals

-60

Shemsu-Ra

-60

Jackals regularly steal from Eternal Vaults; many are former Collegium dropouts. Shemsu-Ra attempt quiet containment to avoid scandal, but resentment is growing.

Open Conflict

Scarlet Jackals

-85

Order of Sekhrem-Ra

-85

The Templars consider the Jackals heretical and lawless. Executions and crackdowns are common.

Open Conflict

Council of Voices

-100

Scarlet Jackals

-100

While some of the individual factions may cooperate and work with the Scarlet Jackals, as a policy the Pharoah and his council want to rid the city of the faction.