Post by Velaryon on Nov 30, 2011 3:39:33 GMT -5
The Eyes of Night were the largest, most powerful thieves' guild in Myratma. Part Calishite, part drow, the guild was a fusion of two factions that managed to work together to dominate a majority of the city. This division ran all the way to the top, as the guild had two leaders, a drow priestess and a Calishite-style guild pasha.
The guild rose to prominence over a period of about four years, supplementing its forces with demons summoned by the drow priestess. As it smashed competing thieves' guilds, it absorbed their remnants, thus adding to its own power at the expense of its rivals. As recently as Flamerule of 1375, the Eyes of Night smashed the Shadow Thieves, the longest-standing guild in Myratma, who had once maintained total control of the criminal underworld there, and absorbed the surviving elements into itself.
The Eyes of Night hideout was a massive underground complex hidden beneath the city, with the main guild headquarters being located at the center of a maze filled with traps and bound demons. The guild hall contained not only quarters for all of the guild's major and minor members, but a treasure vault rumored to contain a hoard worth millions of gold pieces.
The guild's downfall was the culmination of a series of events which began in late Flamerule, when the locally famous restaurant the Efreetium (which was secretly connected to the Eyes of Night) sponsored a dance competition which eventually broke down into a full-blown riot and a five-way melee. In the confusion, the contest prize was stolen. The guild managed to trace the identities of those who had taken the prize, and began trying to retrieve what was taken.
Around the same time, the Silver Shield Mercenary Guild hired a group of adventurers to track down and eliminate the source of corruption within its own branch office in Myratma. The Eyes of Night had not one, but two sources of information within the Silver Shield office which they used to locate and hijack shipments of gold that were headed to the guild's main office. As it happened, the adventurers hired to deal with this problem were the same ones the Eyes of Night were already after. A clash between them became inevitable.
That clash came when the adventurers made temporary alliance with two other thieves' guilds, the Bone Claws and the Red Lotus, for assistance against the Eyes of Night guild. While the Bone Claws provided only the location of an entrance to the subterranean maze leading to the Eyes of Night headquarters, the Red Lotus sent in a substantial amount of its forces to attack the guild directly.
The end result was that most of the Eyes of Night's lieutenants were killed, as well as the drow priestess who was one of the co-leaders. The other guild leader and one of the lieutenants, the daughter of the priestess, were arrested and taken into royal custody. This defeat appears to have effectively finished the Eyes of Night as a guild, and left a power vacuum in Myratma's criminal underworld that has yet to be filled.
The guild rose to prominence over a period of about four years, supplementing its forces with demons summoned by the drow priestess. As it smashed competing thieves' guilds, it absorbed their remnants, thus adding to its own power at the expense of its rivals. As recently as Flamerule of 1375, the Eyes of Night smashed the Shadow Thieves, the longest-standing guild in Myratma, who had once maintained total control of the criminal underworld there, and absorbed the surviving elements into itself.
The Eyes of Night hideout was a massive underground complex hidden beneath the city, with the main guild headquarters being located at the center of a maze filled with traps and bound demons. The guild hall contained not only quarters for all of the guild's major and minor members, but a treasure vault rumored to contain a hoard worth millions of gold pieces.
The guild's downfall was the culmination of a series of events which began in late Flamerule, when the locally famous restaurant the Efreetium (which was secretly connected to the Eyes of Night) sponsored a dance competition which eventually broke down into a full-blown riot and a five-way melee. In the confusion, the contest prize was stolen. The guild managed to trace the identities of those who had taken the prize, and began trying to retrieve what was taken.
Around the same time, the Silver Shield Mercenary Guild hired a group of adventurers to track down and eliminate the source of corruption within its own branch office in Myratma. The Eyes of Night had not one, but two sources of information within the Silver Shield office which they used to locate and hijack shipments of gold that were headed to the guild's main office. As it happened, the adventurers hired to deal with this problem were the same ones the Eyes of Night were already after. A clash between them became inevitable.
That clash came when the adventurers made temporary alliance with two other thieves' guilds, the Bone Claws and the Red Lotus, for assistance against the Eyes of Night guild. While the Bone Claws provided only the location of an entrance to the subterranean maze leading to the Eyes of Night headquarters, the Red Lotus sent in a substantial amount of its forces to attack the guild directly.
The end result was that most of the Eyes of Night's lieutenants were killed, as well as the drow priestess who was one of the co-leaders. The other guild leader and one of the lieutenants, the daughter of the priestess, were arrested and taken into royal custody. This defeat appears to have effectively finished the Eyes of Night as a guild, and left a power vacuum in Myratma's criminal underworld that has yet to be filled.
