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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7209442" data-attributes="member: 20323">The Watchers of the Gate (also known as "The Watchers", "Men of the Gate", or "The Long Watch") were created by the High Holy Abjurer when the Compact was sealed between the masters of the Eight Great Schools of Magic, preventing them from interfering directly in the politics of the land. However, the College of Abjuration knew that mages would always chaff against being regulated by their own. They may be mighty mages, but they were still mortals and subject to all the temptations thereof. So, in his wisdom, the High Holy Abjurer created The Watchers as a secret and silent arm of the College of Abjuration, to intervene when a mage abused their power or sought forbidden/dangerous lore. When the High Holy Abjurer's secret was revealed, however, the other mages condemned the creation of The Watchers behind their backs; some wished them to be exiled, others burnt alive as traitors, but others still sought to sway the loyalties of The Watchers. Though the order has fragmented over the years, with many offshoots, retired Men of the Gate, and fallen knights, there is a small core still active at their arboreal mountain stronghold – Tir Aurendil – and from here they continue their Long Watch about the ruins of the very gate upon which the original vows of the order were sworn. The Nameless Gate is said to hold mighty magic binding one of the archmages who would not join the Compact, master of an alleged 9th school of magic that fell to a megalomaniacal leader; this serves as their vigil and a symbolic reminder of the danger of mages who succumb to power lust.</blockquote>

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