Keepers of the Veil

Public Seal

Public Role: Funerary and warding sect
Primary Resource: Influence
Known Ranks: Hermes → Themis → Forseti → Hades → Yama
Common Members: Morticians, record-keepers, wardens

Reputation

Keepers of the Veil is known throughout Vedrheim as a major pressure point in the city’s balance of power. Its public face is useful, even necessary, but its deeper ambitions are shaped by the same four resources that define the Godless City: Wealth, Property, Influence, and Manpower.

Methods of Power

Operating Methods

• Controls or contests: Influence, ritual authority, fear of the dead
• Uses reputation as protection.
• Turns obligations into leverage.
• Rewards those who bring useful resources.

Internal Structure

Each faction contains five public ranks. The strongest individual within a rank may be known by the divine name associated with that rank, taking on some symbolic traits of that god.

Political Tensions

Watch For

Anyone exploiting death or unrest

Campaign Use

• A source of jobs, patronage, rivals, and protection.
• A ladder for characters seeking status.
• A pressure system that can complicate even simple missions.

Related

Nine Major Factions · Power in Vedrheim · Vedrheim — The Godless City