Inheritors
As they see it, the Inheritors are the only faction within the Guardians of the Veil really dedicated to keeping the Mysteries from the eyes of the unworthy, and there’s little the Inheritors won’t do to keep the unAwakened from nudging aside the Veil and seeing what they’re not supposed to.
Inheritors have earned the Guardians of the Veil a bad reputation due to the Inheritors’ clear sense of entitlement, their willingness to administer rough justice to other mages and their poorly hidden authoritarian bent. The Awakened don’t have a problem with the Guardians policing Sleepers — after all, it’s clearly necessary — but policing the ranks of the Awakened is another thing entirely, and it makes the mages of the other orders more than a little nervous and hostile. The other orders, for example, don’t necessarily accept the Guardians’ assertion that Paradoxes strengthen the Abyss. In the absence of that belief, those other mages feel that it’s no one else’s business if they use vulgar magic. The Inheritors, predictably, disagree, and that disagreement is at the root of the Guardians’ alienation from the rest of Awakened society. When mages from the Inheritor Guardians step in to enforce their particular perspective on those mages, all the temper, resentment and hubris of the Awakened can quickly bring the situation to a flashpoint.
That’s one of the many reasons why Guardians of the Veil rely on stealth and guerilla tactics to achieve their goals. And that works well. For one thing, the mortality rate is lower.
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