Factions and Groups

Information on various factions will be placed here. If a specific important NPC is mentioned here, they will be linked to a more detailed post about them.

In the midst of rebuilding civilization after the end of the Desolation, Feyshear citizens found themselves in need of a way to easily transit their ever growing city. Enter The Sparksteel Guild. Originally a dwarven mining guild, they found a vein of alchemical adamantine deep under the surface of Feyshear. The alchemists of the time posited that it could be the proximity to the Feywild gate that imbued the metal with the alien magic. Regardless of how it happened, they realized it had strange reactions to arcane magic. It produced a pull powerful enough to move the heavy mining carts with little effort. They were able to replace their entire draft animal supply with a just a few tons of the metal. Fashioned into a thin strip pressed into one of the rails, all it took to move an entire train of ore was a single arcane spellcaster trickling a steady stream of power into a focusing crystal. In just a century or two, they monopolized the practice of obtaining the metal and manufacturing it into the rail strips as well as supplying the spellcasters to drive them. They moved from mining carts to cross-city trains for the elite. Now, nearly 800 years after it started, the Adamantine Rail provides affordable transit all over the city.

Costs vary, but frequent travelers can purchase a Transit Cuff. These silver arm bands studded with pearls taken from the raging sea are enchanted by the Sparksteel Guild to glow with a soft white light. Every trip, one of the pearls will darken, showing that the ride has been claimed. Holders can pay a nominal fee to have their Cuff recharged for more rides.

More than the normal "city guard", this well-trained soldier corps acts as the Feyshear city guard. They patrol the streets and are responsible for executing warrants of justice within the walls of Feyshear. Two distinct groups of the Legion exist apart from the normal ranks. The oldest, called the First Squad are responsible for the direct security of Nightspire Keep. The other, Daemon's Brigade, are responsible for the security of the Southern Wall.

A notorious children's gang. Most of their area of operations are centered on a few miles of territory in the north of the city. Just below the Northern Wall, next to the foothills where the entrance to the Dark Market exists. Just where the housing goes from the slums to the more well-to-do middle class, that's where they strike. Preying on well-off guild members and low-ranking members of the lesser noble houses.