Common Names or Actual Name: The Magnificent Congress of the Wielders of the Red Rapiers

Form: A dueling club.

Typical Homeland: Kaitaine

Cultural Context: A club that, due to it's powerful membership, many aspire to join

Ideology: "When it comes to the sword, we can't be beaten."

Look and Feel: Young nobles trying to outdo each other with the blade.

Purpose: Social climbing opportunities for the physically gifted.

Headquarters: The Red Rapier Hall, a well appointed building with a huge central hall suitable for dueling or sword practice.

Reactions: Most Ikaiti suck up to the members of this club.

Resources

Leader: Merudian?

Renowned Members:

Membership: Almost exclusively from the noble class of Kaitaine, with a few important exceptions (often recruited for the sheer novelty of having them aboard).

Other Contacts:

Organization

The club has a pecking order that's determined in theory by the best duelist. In practice, however, some members throw duels to social superiors in order to gain favor from them outside of the club environment.

Membership Keyword

Membership Requirements: Members must be either noble, and socially adept, or they must be a novelty. Joining involves proving one's ability with a blade (not neccessarily a rapier), and shedding blood in an honorable duel with a member.

Skills taught:

• Social Climbing

Typical Personality Traits:

• Ambitious

Magic:

• Dramatic Backflip Spell

Guardian

Ostentatiously entitled "The Blood" by the members, it is a landscape essence that embodies genetics, violence, honor, and actual blood.

Method: Archetype

Form: Rarely may appear as a large blood stain (actually insubstantial).

Communication: Any member who gets his blood up can feel the meaning of The Blood, especially clearly if they're in the headquarters.

Guardian Requirements: Shed blood honorably in it's name.

Functions

• Blood Trail - Follow a wounded foe
• Blood Brothers - Cooperation
• Blood Sacrifice - more dangerous when wounded