The Crows

The Crows are an organization, a city, a family, a living and breathing collection of souls.

The lesser among men always hate those that oppress them, the crows were no different. Created at a time when the wealthy flaunted their superiority over their citizens, The Crows stepped in to tip the balance back. Stealing the wealth that was taken from the lords that taxed their people into starvation, killing those nobles who made sport of their servants, even selling lords who trafficked in flesh into slavery in foreign lands. The Crows were not to be messed with, though so many tried.

In 81 MA, Karruch Venn created a mercenary group designed to track down Crows and kill them. Anyone suspected of being a Crow was left dead, with the corpse of a crow pinned to their body. Of course the activity increased, and in 88 MA Karruch claimed he had found the location of the Rookery, the fabled home of the crows. The assault was a massacre, for Karruch and his men. In the heart of Drachenholme a screaming man was kicked from a carriage, bathed in tar and black feathers. Karruch did not live long afterwards, but the clarity of his failure was punctuated by hundreds of masked Crows bellowing their caws from the rooftops around the crowd gathered. The Murder, as it was aptly named, had gathered to send the Magister Brinn a clear message. Three months later the Red Queen herself named the Crows keepers of the balance, and waged her own war against nobles who felt they were above the people. Many thought it would be an appeasement, but true to her word, many lords were stripped of land and title, some were executed, and while it seemed to end all the abuse from those who lived within B'nar, The Crows were never without purpose or target.

After the Sundering, The Crows took their role far more seriously. Many nobles were clueless how to live in a world ruled by chaos, but bandits, raiders, and mercenaries had no problem filling the void. Remaining true to their purpose of balance, The Crows have become the law in many areas, albeit one with far less formality. There is no court, and the punishment fits the crime, so beware what ill you wish to perpetrate. They operate within every city in the realm both free, and neutral, as well as their keep, The Rook. Gossip even mentions the sighting of a Murder of Crows recently within Pax Praetor, but what could they want in the Capitol of the Tribunal?