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Ranks - Overview

Squires -- New Recruits

Faction:  None. Powers:  1 Latency Duties:  To volunteer to work with each of the factions and to work with as many different huntsmen as they can.  

Huntsmen -- Journeymen

Faction:  1 of the 5 factions Powers:  1 Latency, 1 Talisman Duties:  To follow the direction of their Faction Commander, to encourage new recruits, keeping a keen eye for those who show an aptitude for the work of their faction.  Later, to take on a Squire and mentor them into being full Huntsmen.

Faction Commander -- Leadership

Faction:  1 of the 5 factions, having served in that faction for no less than 5 years. Powers: 1 Latency, 2 Talismans Duties:  To lend their voice to the citadel council, lead their faction by example, and to ensure the continued strength of their faction by approving squireships and petitioning the citadel council when a squire is ready to become a full huntsman.  Serves for a period of 1 year, with a limit of 5 consecutive terms.

Senior Huntsman / Knight Errant -- Former Leadership

Faction:  1 of the 5 factions, having served in that faction for no less than 6 years, the last of which as a Faction Commander.   Powers: 1 Latency, 1 Talisman*  Duties/Restrictions:  To serve as any other Huntsman might;  showing deference and faith in their Faction Commander.  Additionally, they are expected to share their wisdom and experience in ways that do not undermine their Faction Commander or the Order.  They are also charged with finding and recruiting new members to the Order.  

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Factions - Overview - All

Many fresh recruits to the Order expect that everyone serves the cause in the same function, and believe that role is front line combat.  The truth remains, however, that there are five different factions that work together (mostly) to ensure the overall success of the Order.  

No faction is prized over another.   No one faction is more important. All factions are relevant and necessary.  

While each faction will be getting their own article, this overview should provide you with a quick understanding of the breakdown and give some direction to new recruits.

Scythes - Slayers - Swords -- Often seen as the ‘glamorous’ faction, their role is on the frontlines.  Dispatched with all the information their fellow huntsmen have acquired, they set forth to vanquish the Tainted.  

Lanterns - Scouts - Scales -- Having a Scythe or a group of Scythes aimed at an innocent, or ambushed by the Tainted or the Lost is the exact reason why the Lanterns exist.  Their purpose is to scout ahead, to learn the habits of the target, and most important of all, to verify whether or not the target has been Corrupted.  

Scrolls - Scribes - Brains -- Considering the Order is built on the foundations of dozens of early organizations serving a similar purpose, the cause has been an ongoing struggle since the dawn of time.  It falls upon the Scrolls to take what observations the Lanterns bring them to uncover what the Order is facing.  It also falls to them to expand upon the Order’s august library of information.  

Hammers - Smiths - Tongs -- Tasked with not only the upkeep of the many weapons and armors of the Order, these Huntsmen also know the secrets to creating Talismans.  Sworn to keep these complex processes silent and to ensure that no Huntsman ever has more than one, they are often both popular and resented by their comrades in equal measure.

Sawbones - Docs - Hacksaws -- Considering their crucial part in keeping the Order in fighting shape, they are the least popular and the smallest faction.  Most citadels have no more than one or two at a time.  Historically, they are the most likely to become Lost to the Corruption.  Their studies often disturb the Scrolls, and their means leave the Scythes and Lanterns grateful if ill at ease.  Hammers tend to form their own opinions on a case by case basis.  

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Latent vs Talismans

As stated before in the Plot, gay men have a tendency to be different.  While certainly, this holds true for a variety of things, but for our purposes, it directly relates to enhanced innate abilities.  We call those abilities “Latent Powers” or simply, “Latencies.”  Some gay men are born with these enhanced capabilities, others come into them in puberty, a few only notice them once they accept their homosexuality.  For each man, coming into their Latent abilities is unique and very personal.     

Scrolls have long since suggested that whatever force imbued homosexual with these latencies did so with the intention of ensuring that they remain pure to purpose, and not coming to rule over humanity.  The role of the Order is to serve their fellow men, not rule their fellow men.  Which is important to note, Huntsmen are human.  Merely equipped with genetic quirks.  

Since the dawn of the Order, every huntsman has only ever had a single latent ability.  Although some may covet their brothers latent power, there is no way to change them or exchange them.  

Talismans, on the other hand, are quite a bit more flexible and forgiving.  Once a squire has been inducted into a faction and made a full huntsman, he is given a talisman of his choice, with full awareness of what it does and how to use it.  As the Order is entrusting their solemn mission into this new huntsman, so to does the huntsman fashion his own path within the Order, beginning with their talisman.  

Each season, the Hammers who act as the Wardens and Crafters of the talismans make themselves available to exchange talismans, repurpose, or augment an existing talisman.  Each talisman is imbued with only one talismanic power.  

The only time a huntsman ever holds two talismans at a given time is when they are a faction commander for their local citadel.  

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