Children of Yoshino
I will say this about the Greenmounts: they smell of the wild, they have no respect for boundaries or authority, and they give more thought to four-legged things than two-legged ones. But despite all that… they’ve saved the citizens of this realm countless times, and I’m always glad to ride alongside them.The Children of Yoshino are a unique following unlike the conventional means of worship the group acts and functions more like a guild protecting the wilds of Talos in Yoshinos's absence. The group is made up of outlanders and hunters that have mastered exploration and survival, as well as the taming and breeding of wild beasts. They use their unmatched wilderness tracking skills to hunt down animals that pose threat to civilization and capture them, often turning these deadly creatures into new allies. They then use these new allies to defend the wilds from any that upset its balance. The Greenmounts are famous for their exotic and powerful mounts, as well as their knowledge of the untamed parts of the world.
Structure
| Rank | Responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Stablehand | Caring for less dangerous animals in captivity, learning from Handlers |
| Outlander | Accompanying Rangers on missions, preparing gear for expeditions |
| Ranger | Undertaking missions to capture or fend off wild beasts |
| Tamer | Caring for beasts, training beasts, animal husbandry |
| Handler | Selling mounts, pets and transporting beasts |
| Master Ranger | Hunting and capturing beasts, monitoring the growth and migration of creatures |
| Master Handler | Taming beasts, overseeing the training and care of creatures |
| Master Hunter | Hunting down and capturing the most dangerous beasts |
| Master Tamer | Managing the guild, assigning missions to recover, breed, or hunt down beasts. |
Culture
The strongholds of the Greenmounts are called ranches, and are normally named after a shade of green; the Viridian Ranch and Emerald Ranch are notable examples. Ranches are often built in difficult-to-reach places, such as high in the treetops or in deep canyons, and tailored to the creatures kept there: a ranch meant to primarily accommodate flying creatures may have its own aeries
and roosting places, for example. Though much of the space in these strongholds is designed to hold animals, all of them include meeting halls and training grounds. The group's method for taming creatures is closely guarded.
Public Agenda
While the Greenmounts are best known for calming raging mammoths and wrestling manticores, their true goal is striking a balance between civilization and the natural world. Perhaps their loftiest pursuit is to prevent rare species from going extinct; to this end, they launch daring quests of immense danger to recover and protect such creatures. In addition, they will protect settlements and cities from the wrath of nature, whether it be a swarm of wolf locusts ravaging a kingdom’s crops or a green bullworm battering down the walls of a city. Whenever possible, the guild strives to keep
both beasts and humanoids from coming to harm.
Assets
The Children of yoshino are equipped with the best gear that money can buy (and in some cases, can’t). The guild’s members know that killing any animal—whether it’s a beast, monster, or other creature—can have devastating long-term effects on the ecosystem at large, and thus they use non-lethal methods of capturing and releasing dangerous animals whenever they can. These methods include invisible nets that they string up between trees to capture rampaging young dragons, paralysis poisons loaded onto crossbow bolts fired at charging mastodons, and using spells to speak with animals in an attempt to calm them down.
We are the balance to the wilds
Type
Religious, Other
Alternative Names
Greenmounts
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