The Golds Gallow

Built upon the ruins of the old Weavers Thieves Guild founded under the rule of Albus Lun Noxen, the Golds Gallow is a very well established secret organization consisting of thieves, fences, assassins, saboteurs, spies, and smugglers. Based largely in and under Reunian through a network of subterranean tunnels, they run smaller outfits in Aridell, Elucidien, and The Free Trade Isle. Members are branded with the guild’s symbol on their shoulder, signifying allegiance and commitment. The Golds Gallow operates like a business-minded crime family, celebrating loyalty and truth to one’s word over most other merits. A member pays their debts, keeps their promises, and always seeks opportunities for the betterment of the Guild. Leaders of a Golds sect are titled Kinlings, and they oversee assigned elements of the organization’s functions. Kinlings hold equal power within a sect, and there is always an odd number acting within that location to break any disagreements over business ventures and actions.
While the immediate assumption is that the Golds Gallow is merely interested in profit at any cost (and that is a merit of the Golds Gallow), they also wish to preserve the function and prosperity of civilization. It is well known that a thriving city is a profitable one, and an enemy of civilization is a foe of the Golds Gallow. They largely consider themselves a necessary dark underbelly, willing to do the under-the-table deeds that the wealthy and powerful cannot commit with their own hands. The Golds Gallow also understands that conflict breeds a healthy economy, and has occasionally kindled the flames of unrest to keep things tense and profitable.
While some of the Golds Gallow activities are secretly state-sanctioned, it is highly illegal and extremely dangerous to be a member or be caught doing business directly with them. Most city guards have orders to arrest upon discovery, and raids are occasionally conducted with varying degrees of success. Having friends in the barracks makes for an easy escape. The Golds Gallow frowns upon dogmatic religion or cultish behavior, as these have conflicted with the organization’s business in the past, and always ended messily. Since the arrival of the Bones Marrow within Ol Andem, the Golds Gallow has been on extremely high alert, seeking information on them and any means of banishing this new competition. Their Loudwater sect has already gotten into a few bloody altercations with the Cleave, and rumors of a coming turf war instill worry in the local mercantile.

Related Ranks & Titles

• Kinling