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<blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 8628588" data-attributes="member: 2012"><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)"><span style="font-size: 18px">Tiger Guild</span></span></strong></p><p><strong>Source:</strong> Homebrewed</p><p><strong>Origin:</strong> Kingdom of Thallin (before it became a theocracy)</p><p><strong>Symbol:</strong> A roaring white tiger's head on a black field.</p><p><strong>Leaders:</strong> Guildmaster Carl Tigerstorm [ISPOILER](NG male Maviun human, fighter 10/rogue 10)[/ISPOILER]; Crystal Tigerstorm [ISPOILER](NG female Maviun human, wizard 16)[/ISPOILER].</p><p><strong>Notable Members:</strong> Dabuk Tigerstorm [ISPOILER](CN male half-elf, ranger of Rillifane 9/urban ranger 7)[/ISPOILER] [part-time member]; Kenneth "Wheezy" Rosser [ISPOILER](NG male Minari human, rogue 4/wizard 6)[/ISPOILER]; Lyle Outlawe [ISPOILER](N male Vindi human, rogue 6/ranger 6)[/ISPOILER]; Mesik Tindertwig [ISPOILER](LN male fate-touched hairfoot halfling, rogue 7/cleric of Hades 7)[/ISPOILER] [part-time member]; Minx [ISPOILER](CG female Qualitian human, rogue 14)[/ISPOILER]; Snyder Tolle [ISPOILER](LN male Denilan human, rogue 10)[/ISPOILER].</p><h3><span style="font-size: 18px">Purpose</span></h3><p>The Tiger Guild is a spy network dedicated to protecting the stability of the lands of the Eastern Shores. The guild originally was located in the City of Fruen in the old Kingdom of Thallin, but after King Varath outlawed the guild its leader, Carl Tigerstorm, moved the guild’s headquarters to the City of Tian in the Duchy of Minar. The guild still has a presence in Thallin but it is even more clandestine than it use to be. The guild played a major part in the protection of Tian during the Bugbear War that ravaged through Minar, and it still works to protect its adopted city’s citizens, as well as the rest of the duchy.</p><h3><span style="font-size: 18px">Notable Activities</span></h3><p>The Tiger Guild is known for its sly members and worthy goals. The guild is more concerned with the protection of the people and the noble of heart than it is with the protection of the wealthy and the powerful. Its members often skirt the edge of law to achieve their goals; they'll even break the law if it benefits society as a whole. Thus, most who oppose the activities of the guild see it as nothing more than a thieves’ guild with slightly higher morals, which is closer to the truth than the guild’s leader, Carl Tigerstorm, likes to acknowledge.</p><p></p><p>The Tiger Guild once held a considerable place of power in the old Kingdom of Thallin as the previous king, Travathian Dragonguard, relied heavily on Carl Tigerstorm to watch over the people and borders of the kingdom. (Carl and the king were steadfast friends.) The guild never acted against the Dragonguards, which ultimately led to King Travathian’s downfall. Carl knew that his old friend’s son was a horrid man but not even he new the depravity in Varath’s soul. Nor did he know that Varath had corrupted Carl’s closest advisor, a man named Tallos, who now serves the new king.</p><p></p><p>This betrayal has made the Tiger Guild’s membership even more distrustful than normal, which has impeded the guild’s ability to recover. Now located in the City of Tian, the guild works to overthrow King Varath’s evil reign. Tiger Guilders work clandestinely to support the Thallinite Resistance, and the guildmaster’s own granddaughter, Crystal Tigerstorm, is still in Thallin leading the way against the Fury of the Dragon and the evil humanoids that the king has recruited. She and her followers smuggle out goodhearted people who wish to relocate beyond the reach of the Fury of the Dragon.</p><p></p><p>In Tian, the Tiger Guild has found a new home. They have been accepted by the citizenry and by the Duke of Minar, Jace Brookwater, although he doesn't rely on the guild for the duchy’s protection or the welfare of its citizens. Yet, the Tiger Guild does in Minar what it did in Thallin just not with the official support of Duke Jace. After what happened in Thallin, the guildmaster decided it was in the guild’s best interest to remain more autonomous in future dealings with external ‘clients’. The guild’s influence in Tian cannot be underestimated, however. Its members protects the people and integrity of its new home without hesitation or remorse.</p><p></p><p>In the past, the Tiger Guild has ignored regions and events beyond the Eastern Shores (except when Carl was specifically asked to look into something by Travathian), but now it looks towards the Thunder Lands and north of the Wind Cities for anything that would threaten the lands of the Eastern Shores. Of course, getting accurate information from beyond Thallin’s northern border is harder now that the theocracy’s borders are closed to those that King Varath considers seditious or subhuman. Still, Carl Tigerstrom is a resourceful man who is believed to have contacts throughout the Eastern Shores and beyond.</p><h3><span style="font-size: 18px">Campaign Notes</span></h3><p>The Tiger Guild’s purpose is a bit of an open secret. While it’s primarily a spy guild, almost everyone in the Eastern Shores knows this fact. It is the fact that the guild’s ideals have always been honourable, which has endeared it to the peoples of the Eastern Shores. Yet, it isn't the common man’s guild. The guild is based on a military order originally created during the Second Ogre War by its guildmaster, Travathian Dragonguard, and Jacard Winternight (a renown knight who now rules the Kingdom of Navirosov). During that time period, <strong>The Tigers</strong>, as they were called, were a special unit of soldiers designed to spy on and fight the enemies arrayed against the allied lands of the Eastern Shores.</p><p></p><p>The Tiger Guild, now, operates openly in the City of Tian and much of the Duchy of Minar. Its military background helped save the land and its people when the bugbears of the Sunus Mountains attacked the duchy. Those evil armies believed that they would run roughshod over the citizens of Minar without any real resistance. This was a perilous mistake that decimated the bugbears and their gnoll allies. Duke Jace knows that his country would have fallen without the help of the Tiger Guild, yet the guild remains separate from the military structure of the duchy. Duke Jace pays for the guild’s services as if he was paying for the fealty of a group of mercenaries. It’s simply that he get more for his gold lakes than he would for actual mercenaries.</p><p></p><p>The guild also operates openly in such lands as the Barony of Wolffire, Domain of the Arcane Alliance, the Highlands, the Qualitian Protectorate, and the Wind Cities. However, the guild isn't welcome everywhere. Of course, Tiger Guilders are now hunted in the Theocracy of Thallin, and they have never been welcome anywhere throughout the lands of the Jagged Peninsula. Also, despite a past friendship between the guildmaster and High King Jacard Winternight, the guild is no longer welcome in the Kingdom of Navirosov or in the Honoured Islands of the Light. (It is rumoured that King Winternight has his own group of loyal ex-Tigers who protect only the Kingdom of Navirosov.)</p><p></p><p>Tiger Guilders are famous for showing up where you least expect them. This includes current members as well as those that never quite made it within the guild. The most famous of these is the guildmaster’s own grandson, Dabuk Tigerstorm. He and his fellow companions have been closely tied to the guild from time to time, but he and the halfling cleric-rogue Mesik Tindertwig are the only ones in their social circle that are official members of the Tiger Guild. Dabuk is famous for his hatred of ogres, and his need for vengeance on those that cross him or his family.</p><p></p><p>An ex-member of the guild learned this the hard way during the Bugbear War. Jacob Diamondeye was an assassin that tried to poison Dabuk’s grandfather. The young half-elf tracked and killed the assassin. No one every found the man’s body.</p><p></p><p>Another famous Tiger Guilder is the roguish woman named Minx. Born on the streets of Fruen, Minx was granted a special exemption from the initiation fee required by the guild. Guildmaster Tigerstorm saw something in her that others missed, and he felt that she deserved a chance to prove herself. Once she graduated from the training program she quickly became one the guilds most renown members. She is considered a hero in the Wind Cities, and she continues to operate out of that region. As a former citizen of Fruen she sees it as her duty to fight against King Varath’s tyranny, so she often supports the Thallinite Resistance and not just clandestinely. This makes her a very controversial member of the guild.</p><p></p><p>As noted above, the Crystal Tigerstorm continues to live and operate guild activities in the Theocracy of Thallin. It is her responsibility to capture Tallos, escort him from the theocracy, and bring him before her grandfather to be judged for treason against the Tiger Guild. This task is proving to be quite difficult as Tallos is a high-level member of the Fury of the Dragon and not easily reachable. Every attempt to capture him has failed. Also, another ex-member of the guild, Bella del Hall, is now a member of Nether’s Deathtide. Rejected from the guild at an early age, Bella took the disgrace very personally and vowed vengeance. However, the guild doesn’t consider her a traitor to the guild since she was never a full-member. Regardless, Crystal has marked her for judgment.</p><p></p><p>Crystal has a great deal of help in Thallin from other famous members of the Tiger Guild. The most notable of these is the rogue/ranger known as Lyle Outlawe. Lyle was once a trainee in the guild alongside Dabuk. Now he watches the Silver Witch’s back almost everywhere she goes. They have become good friends, and the young man is one of the few people that Crystal trusts. Lyle is smitten with Crystal, but he knows better than to mix business with pleasure. Lyle took Bella’s betrayal of the Thallinite citizenry very personally, since she was also a trainee alongside him and Dabuk. (Minx was part of that group too.) He has made it his personal goal to “gut her like a fish on the docks” as he likes to phrase it.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]156876[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knightfall, post: 8628588, member: 2012"] [B][COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][SIZE=5]Tiger Guild[/SIZE][/COLOR] Source:[/B] Homebrewed [B]Origin:[/B] Kingdom of Thallin (before it became a theocracy) [B]Symbol:[/B] A roaring white tiger's head on a black field. [B]Leaders:[/B] Guildmaster Carl Tigerstorm [ISPOILER](NG male Maviun human, fighter 10/rogue 10)[/ISPOILER]; Crystal Tigerstorm [ISPOILER](NG female Maviun human, wizard 16)[/ISPOILER]. [B]Notable Members:[/B] Dabuk Tigerstorm [ISPOILER](CN male half-elf, ranger of Rillifane 9/urban ranger 7)[/ISPOILER] [part-time member]; Kenneth "Wheezy" Rosser [ISPOILER](NG male Minari human, rogue 4/wizard 6)[/ISPOILER]; Lyle Outlawe [ISPOILER](N male Vindi human, rogue 6/ranger 6)[/ISPOILER]; Mesik Tindertwig [ISPOILER](LN male fate-touched hairfoot halfling, rogue 7/cleric of Hades 7)[/ISPOILER] [part-time member]; Minx [ISPOILER](CG female Qualitian human, rogue 14)[/ISPOILER]; Snyder Tolle [ISPOILER](LN male Denilan human, rogue 10)[/ISPOILER]. [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Purpose[/SIZE][/HEADING] The Tiger Guild is a spy network dedicated to protecting the stability of the lands of the Eastern Shores. The guild originally was located in the City of Fruen in the old Kingdom of Thallin, but after King Varath outlawed the guild its leader, Carl Tigerstorm, moved the guild’s headquarters to the City of Tian in the Duchy of Minar. The guild still has a presence in Thallin but it is even more clandestine than it use to be. The guild played a major part in the protection of Tian during the Bugbear War that ravaged through Minar, and it still works to protect its adopted city’s citizens, as well as the rest of the duchy. [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Notable Activities[/SIZE][/HEADING] The Tiger Guild is known for its sly members and worthy goals. The guild is more concerned with the protection of the people and the noble of heart than it is with the protection of the wealthy and the powerful. Its members often skirt the edge of law to achieve their goals; they'll even break the law if it benefits society as a whole. Thus, most who oppose the activities of the guild see it as nothing more than a thieves’ guild with slightly higher morals, which is closer to the truth than the guild’s leader, Carl Tigerstorm, likes to acknowledge. The Tiger Guild once held a considerable place of power in the old Kingdom of Thallin as the previous king, Travathian Dragonguard, relied heavily on Carl Tigerstorm to watch over the people and borders of the kingdom. (Carl and the king were steadfast friends.) The guild never acted against the Dragonguards, which ultimately led to King Travathian’s downfall. Carl knew that his old friend’s son was a horrid man but not even he new the depravity in Varath’s soul. Nor did he know that Varath had corrupted Carl’s closest advisor, a man named Tallos, who now serves the new king. This betrayal has made the Tiger Guild’s membership even more distrustful than normal, which has impeded the guild’s ability to recover. Now located in the City of Tian, the guild works to overthrow King Varath’s evil reign. Tiger Guilders work clandestinely to support the Thallinite Resistance, and the guildmaster’s own granddaughter, Crystal Tigerstorm, is still in Thallin leading the way against the Fury of the Dragon and the evil humanoids that the king has recruited. She and her followers smuggle out goodhearted people who wish to relocate beyond the reach of the Fury of the Dragon. In Tian, the Tiger Guild has found a new home. They have been accepted by the citizenry and by the Duke of Minar, Jace Brookwater, although he doesn't rely on the guild for the duchy’s protection or the welfare of its citizens. Yet, the Tiger Guild does in Minar what it did in Thallin just not with the official support of Duke Jace. After what happened in Thallin, the guildmaster decided it was in the guild’s best interest to remain more autonomous in future dealings with external ‘clients’. The guild’s influence in Tian cannot be underestimated, however. Its members protects the people and integrity of its new home without hesitation or remorse. In the past, the Tiger Guild has ignored regions and events beyond the Eastern Shores (except when Carl was specifically asked to look into something by Travathian), but now it looks towards the Thunder Lands and north of the Wind Cities for anything that would threaten the lands of the Eastern Shores. Of course, getting accurate information from beyond Thallin’s northern border is harder now that the theocracy’s borders are closed to those that King Varath considers seditious or subhuman. Still, Carl Tigerstrom is a resourceful man who is believed to have contacts throughout the Eastern Shores and beyond. [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Campaign Notes[/SIZE][/HEADING] The Tiger Guild’s purpose is a bit of an open secret. While it’s primarily a spy guild, almost everyone in the Eastern Shores knows this fact. It is the fact that the guild’s ideals have always been honourable, which has endeared it to the peoples of the Eastern Shores. Yet, it isn't the common man’s guild. The guild is based on a military order originally created during the Second Ogre War by its guildmaster, Travathian Dragonguard, and Jacard Winternight (a renown knight who now rules the Kingdom of Navirosov). During that time period, [B]The Tigers[/B], as they were called, were a special unit of soldiers designed to spy on and fight the enemies arrayed against the allied lands of the Eastern Shores. The Tiger Guild, now, operates openly in the City of Tian and much of the Duchy of Minar. Its military background helped save the land and its people when the bugbears of the Sunus Mountains attacked the duchy. Those evil armies believed that they would run roughshod over the citizens of Minar without any real resistance. This was a perilous mistake that decimated the bugbears and their gnoll allies. Duke Jace knows that his country would have fallen without the help of the Tiger Guild, yet the guild remains separate from the military structure of the duchy. Duke Jace pays for the guild’s services as if he was paying for the fealty of a group of mercenaries. It’s simply that he get more for his gold lakes than he would for actual mercenaries. The guild also operates openly in such lands as the Barony of Wolffire, Domain of the Arcane Alliance, the Highlands, the Qualitian Protectorate, and the Wind Cities. However, the guild isn't welcome everywhere. Of course, Tiger Guilders are now hunted in the Theocracy of Thallin, and they have never been welcome anywhere throughout the lands of the Jagged Peninsula. Also, despite a past friendship between the guildmaster and High King Jacard Winternight, the guild is no longer welcome in the Kingdom of Navirosov or in the Honoured Islands of the Light. (It is rumoured that King Winternight has his own group of loyal ex-Tigers who protect only the Kingdom of Navirosov.) Tiger Guilders are famous for showing up where you least expect them. This includes current members as well as those that never quite made it within the guild. The most famous of these is the guildmaster’s own grandson, Dabuk Tigerstorm. He and his fellow companions have been closely tied to the guild from time to time, but he and the halfling cleric-rogue Mesik Tindertwig are the only ones in their social circle that are official members of the Tiger Guild. Dabuk is famous for his hatred of ogres, and his need for vengeance on those that cross him or his family. An ex-member of the guild learned this the hard way during the Bugbear War. Jacob Diamondeye was an assassin that tried to poison Dabuk’s grandfather. The young half-elf tracked and killed the assassin. No one every found the man’s body. Another famous Tiger Guilder is the roguish woman named Minx. Born on the streets of Fruen, Minx was granted a special exemption from the initiation fee required by the guild. Guildmaster Tigerstorm saw something in her that others missed, and he felt that she deserved a chance to prove herself. Once she graduated from the training program she quickly became one the guilds most renown members. She is considered a hero in the Wind Cities, and she continues to operate out of that region. As a former citizen of Fruen she sees it as her duty to fight against King Varath’s tyranny, so she often supports the Thallinite Resistance and not just clandestinely. This makes her a very controversial member of the guild. As noted above, the Crystal Tigerstorm continues to live and operate guild activities in the Theocracy of Thallin. It is her responsibility to capture Tallos, escort him from the theocracy, and bring him before her grandfather to be judged for treason against the Tiger Guild. This task is proving to be quite difficult as Tallos is a high-level member of the Fury of the Dragon and not easily reachable. Every attempt to capture him has failed. Also, another ex-member of the guild, Bella del Hall, is now a member of Nether’s Deathtide. Rejected from the guild at an early age, Bella took the disgrace very personally and vowed vengeance. However, the guild doesn’t consider her a traitor to the guild since she was never a full-member. Regardless, Crystal has marked her for judgment. Crystal has a great deal of help in Thallin from other famous members of the Tiger Guild. The most notable of these is the rogue/ranger known as Lyle Outlawe. Lyle was once a trainee in the guild alongside Dabuk. Now he watches the Silver Witch’s back almost everywhere she goes. They have become good friends, and the young man is one of the few people that Crystal trusts. Lyle is smitten with Crystal, but he knows better than to mix business with pleasure. Lyle took Bella’s betrayal of the Thallinite citizenry very personally, since she was also a trainee alongside him and Dabuk. (Minx was part of that group too.) He has made it his personal goal to “gut her like a fish on the docks” as he likes to phrase it. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]156876[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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