The Roseate Shield
Committed to nature and convinced of the importance of a societal union with the natural world, the Roseate Shield was founded to defend the weak and champion the cause of druids and rangers across Syrel. Similar societies under similar banners, predominately elven, existed in the time of Alsinvale and Sinokar, with the Roseate Shield partially the product of a human consolidation of these ancient sects during and after the Great Incursion. To this day, the Shield proper resides over a host of druidic circles, ranger enclaves, nature-god temples, and other naturally-inclined sects scattered across Northwestern Syrel, uniting them into a collective Roseate Shield, though the most recognizable form of the Shield's influence is seen in its crimson-clad agents scattered throughout Northwestern Syrel's cities and towns.
The Shield in its modern form lacks a truly centralized government, instead preferring to operate as a conglomeration of groups acting under a universal code and a Red Council of twelve high-ranking Roseans. The most well-known and outspoken of this Red Council today is Melan Felbrachenmil, a Lacran native who operates largely around the Lacryn-Hydaera border.
Structure
The Shield consists of a multitude of sects centered around twelve core organizations, each headed by a spokesperson for the Red Council. Beyond the leadership of the Red Council, hierarchies and responsibilities vary from sect to sect, though they typically revolve around a mixture of harmony with the natural world and accomplishments in regards to serving the Shield and its mission.
Culture
Devoted to the natural, Roseans are vehemently opposed to any form of unnatural being or occasion, unnatural referring to extraplanar threats. As such, the Shield is especially vigilant in guarding against aberrations, undead, fiends, and other threats abhorrent to nature.
Public Agenda
The Shield's mission entails establishing healthy relationships between communities and nature, often taking the form of shrines to nature deities or education on better agricultural techniques.
To uncover and protect Nature's secrets for the healing of Society
Type
Civilian, Knightly Order
Alternative Names
the Shield, the Circles of the Roseate Shield
Demonym
Roseate, Roseans
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