lørdag den 3. maj 2014

The Short Brothers

The Short Brothers' are more like a cult than like a guild. I once interrogated one of their low-level operatives for more than a week. I did unspeakable things to the half-man, and yet, he wouldn't give up anything about the guild or the other members. Zealots!
The Short Brothers, commonly called the Brothers, is a nation-wide halfling-only thieves guild, run by Jack, the King in the Shadows.

Although membership of the guild is for halflings only, they are frequently employing big and strong members of other races as muscle, when that is needed. It is not uncommon for leading men of the guild to have 7' foot tall bodyguards.

The Short Brothers primarily deal in information, ladies and boys of the night, fencing and gambling, but as many other shady operations, not much is known. Of course, rumors abound about them. Many of those rumors center around the Brothers having much more power than they appear to have. Some even go as far as claim and they from behind the scenes run most thieves' guilds in the Seven Army Nation, all while keeping their hands clean with the authorities. One thing is for sure, the Short Brothers always seem to know a lot about just about everything, and often before others. Some say that all halflings are secretly working for the guild and that the many traveling halflings help pass on messages and information, while others say that Jack uses devils to communicate with the other cities. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

What is known, is that Jack runs the guild from Laketower and that every single member seems to be utterly and completely loyal to him, even though most could never have never met him. Is it fear, is it devotion? Hard to say for sure.

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