Raven's Talon

The Master Curator controls acquisitions, deals, and contacts. The Shadow Council advises on major transactions and searches for internal threats.

Master Curator — Lira Vale directs acquisitions and trade with absolute authority.
Shadow Council — Advises the Curator and roots out traitors and internal threats.
Relic Hunters — Retrieve items from forbidden locations using stealth, thievery, and magic.
Smugglers and Brokers — Transport artifacts and arrange black-market sales.

Recovery — Seek relics in ruins, tombs, the Veins, and other planes.
Trade — Smuggle cursed objects, negotiate dangerous bargains, and hold secret auctions.

Acquire relics from the Veins of Altoria, forbidden ruins, and magical planes.
Eliminate smaller competitors and secure noble and underground clients.

Control the forbidden-artifact market across Pallasia.
Obtain relics granting immortality, control over death, or destruction on a large scale.

Smugglers, thieves, rogue mages, artifact hunters, occultists, and scholars join through experience with dangerous items and contacts able to sell them. Most work as brokers or collectors.

Bring experience with illegal or cursed items, or relevant occult knowledge.
Take the magically binding blood oath.

Forbidden knowledge and access to cursed artifacts.
Black-market profits and protection through underground contacts.

Find relics and contribute items or contacts to the Dark Auction.
Remain loyal; betrayal brings lethal punishment and the Binding Oath’s curse.

Binding Oath — Initiates bind their blood to the guild by magic. Betrayal triggers a curse draining their life force.
Dark Auction — Trusted clients attend a hidden auction each season. Purchases may require sacrifices or dark favors.
Relic Unveiling — Seers assess a newly acquired artifact and decide whether to sell, store, or use it.

Lira Vale — The Master Curator knows cursed artifacts and directs acquisitions and deals without revealing her intentions.
Kallen Draeg — A Shadeblade who retrieves valuable artifacts from dangerous tombs and realms.
Aela Duskwind — A seer and occultist who locates relics and negotiates with extraplanar entities.

Black Veil — protects smuggling routes and eliminates threats.
Arcanum Obscura — certain members buy dangerous relics and exchange forbidden knowledge.
Ebon Inquisition — pursues the Talon’s illegal trade in cursed items.
Grim Court — competes over powerful relics and their ownership.

Only senior members know the primary base’s location. The Obsidian Nest is reported to lie in Altoria’s sewers or caverns.

It stores dangerous artifacts and hosts meetings, protected by wards, traps, curses, underground operatives, and enforcers.

History

Rogue mages and smugglers founded the Raven’s Talon to profit from cursed relics. Its leaders expanded the trade through underground contacts and bargains with entities beyond the mortal realm.