Obsidian Blades

Type

Adventuring guild

Focus

Covert contracts, assassination, and protection

Operating Area

Altoria and wider Eldranis

Leadership

Grandmaster Kaine “Shadeblade” Valcoris

Headquarters

Shadowspire Citadel, Veins of Altoria

Motto

“In Shadows, We Strike; In Silence, We Succeed.”

The Obsidian Blades take sensitive contracts: assassinations, covert operations, thefts, and protection details. They favor precise strikes and concealment, often choosing work for its reward or difficulty.

They operate outside the law, though the Guild Accord and Sovereign Watch sometimes hire them for missions requiring discretion. Their code demands loyalty to clients and comrades.

Complete dangerous contracts while concealing the guild’s involvement.
Provide combat and stealth specialists for sensitive missions.

The Grandmaster directs the guild. Shadowmasters oversee major contracts and teach recruits; full Blades carry out the work.

Grandmaster — Kaine Valcoris directs operations.
Shadowmasters — Oversee sensitive contracts, train recruits, and learn the guild’s secret techniques.
Blades — Full members who have passed the initiation trial and carry out contracts.
Initiates — Recruits preparing for the Night’s Edge trial.

Covert operations — Infiltrate secure sites using stealth, close-quarters combat, and magical concealment.
Contracts — Carry out assassinations, thefts, and high-profile protection details.

Recruit skilled operatives and refine their training.
Secure high-paying contracts with nobles and criminal syndicates without exposing operations.

Expand covert work across Eldranis without compromising secrecy.

The guild draws former soldiers, assassins, and mercenaries from varied backgrounds. Selection is strict, and training tests physical, mental, and magical abilities. Members are expected to adapt beyond their own specialties.

Demonstrate skill in combat, stealth, or subterfuge.
Complete training and retrieve a token undetected during the Night’s Edge trial.

Advanced combat, assassination, stealth, and concealment training.
Intelligence contacts, guild resources, and high-paying contracts.

Complete contracts and keep their details secret.
Remain loyal to clients and comrades, and help train recruits.
Violating the code can lead to expulsion or worse.

Night’s Edge — An initiate infiltrates a heavily guarded site and retrieves a token without detection.
Shadow’s Oath — Members renew their loyalty and commitment to precision and discretion each year.
Veil’s Edge — Selected Shadowmasters learn forbidden techniques of magic and stealth in a secret ritual.

Kaine “Shadeblade” Valcoris — A calculating leader skilled in stealth and assassination. Some believe he can enter even heavily guarded sites unseen.
Velora “Nightstalker” Venris — An archer and tracker assigned to high-value targets in remote locations.
Arkyn “Ghost” Draegor — A fast, precise swordsman who uses magical concealment.

Guild Accord — hires the Blades for sensitive missions.
Sovereign Watch — sometimes collaborates on high-risk matters of state security despite the Blades’ unlawful work.
Nightblades — competes for contracts, favoring espionage and manipulation.
Iron Talons — competes for contracts and favors direct force over stealth.

Shadowspire Citadel is hidden in the Veins of Altoria. Only members and a few trusted clients know its location.

The fortress uses traps, secret passages, and magical wards. It contains training facilities, briefing rooms, armories, and trophies from past contracts.

History

Warriors and assassins founded the Obsidian Blades centuries ago around stealth, discipline, and precise combat. The guild developed a trade in dangerous, sensitive mercenary work.