Realm Rangers

The Realm Rangers, a band of explorers lost to time. This once great group of travellers, heroes and scholars were known for being one of the first groups to record, organise and map all the weird and wonderful encounters of the realms. Dedicated to learning anything and everything they could about the known realms. Things such as, what resources it had to offer, what dangers would be encountered and if intelligent life existed in the vast wilds of this ever expanding list of unknown worlds.
As portal magic and realm travel became more and more popular during the Exploration Age, the Realm Rangers opened their doors to the public allowing anyone with a thirst for knowledge, adventuring or research to offer their skills. Setup in the city of Birohhal the rangers occupied a number of towers interconnected with hanging bridges to call their headquarters. Generations later they expanded operations overseas to the continent of Ascor, in the kingdom of Shenaria, to allow them to be closer to The Crossroads.

The Responsibilities

Within the organisation itself, there was a variety of jobs a new sorcerer or sorceress could take on. From exploring to research, if you had the skills the rangers would utilise them to further the knowledge of the realms.

• Portallers - Part of the field teams, responsible of opening portals and keeping them open for the rest of the team to return
• Defenders - Heroes responsible of taking on any dangers encountered in the realms
• Monitors - Part of the field team that record everything they encounter in the realms, reporting back to the Librarians
• Waystone Experts - Research team following the original research of Apatur, Acuran of Waystones, refining portal magic and the magical connections between the realms
• Librarians - A separate research team responsible of recording and organising information about the known realms. Usually having one or two members becoming experts in a particular realm
• The Mapmaker - A single member of the rangers elected to map all the known realms. Arguably one of the most important roles in the organisation

History:

What the public believe to be the Realm Rangers was only around for 700 years during the age of Exploration. Eventually disbanding after the band of realm travel, resulting in many thinking the group to be obsolete. But this is far from the truth.
A smaller group of realm rangers existed earlier in the timeline. Although they did not calling themselves Realm Rangers, they served the same purpose, this generation of scholars, adventurers and explorers was led by Apatur. Made up of only a select few he deemed trustworthy to share his findings with. Thus creating the first iteration of the Realm Rangers.
Realm Rangers became a well known profession for the remainder of the Exploration Era. Once the realm travel ban began however, the rangers quickly became a very dangerous job. Many cities and kingdoms would not give the rangers enough time to return all members safely back to Violem, thus upon return many of the field teams were penalised for travelling between realms. Resulting in members of the group being arrested, chased and in extreme cases killed for their "crimes" against the new laws surrounding travel. The extreme measurements of the cites and kingdoms quickly led to the disbanding of the Realm Rangers.
Many members would continue to work in secret to preserve the knowledge gained about the known realms and develop the portal magic used to travel between the realms. Knowing what dangers lived beyond the world of Violem, the new mission of this secret team of Realm Rangers was to prepare and protect the world from external threats.

Type

Intelligence Gathering