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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6748753" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by Hellcow:This is certainly my view. An elite force capable of handling a diverse range of situations and employing unconventional tactics - and possibly acquiring intelligence in the process - but fundamentally soldiers, not spies. While they might be better at acquiring information than a typical army unit, their main job was eliminating targets. I can certainly see a Seeker order that specifically gathered intelligence through use of speak with dead, ghosts, and other forms of applied necromancy, but I never considered that a wartime role of the Emerald Claw; I definitely saw them as a battlefield unit. Where's the spy angle come from - Forge of War?The present day is a different thing, but that's because the name is really the primary legacy. There's far more people in the modern EC than there ever were in the chivalric order; the command structure is entirely different; the level of skill is generally lower. It's mainly about brand recognition.But again, no reason you can't go another way. I'd just never have identified the EC as an intelligence agency in the same paragraph as Phiarlan, the Lanterns, and the Royal Eyes. </blockquote>