The Sentinels

To the common citizen of the Hegemony, the Sentinels are a whispered legend of an organization that moves in the shadows to keep the horrors of the world at bay. They are the nation's necessary blade in the dark and an elite and clandestine order of spies, investigators, and warriors whose sacred mandate is to serve as the hegemony's first line of defense. Their authority is absolute and flows directly from the hegemon, allowing them to operate outside the confines of local law and bureaucracy.

The order itself is not a monolith, but a complex tapestry of sophonts who each reflect a different facet of their duty. Their ranks are a strict hierarchy from the greenest initiates training at their hallowed academy to the legendary and lethal 1st Class masters who direct operations across each commandery as well as outside of Mistoria. Their methods are as varied as the threats they face as one mission may call for the quiet infiltration and extraction of intelligence from a rival nation, while the next demands the direct and brutal extermination of a monstrous beast that has slipped through a city's arcane wards. Within their ranks are idealists who fight for justice and mentor the next generation with a compassionate hand. Nontheless, there are also ruthless pragmatists who will execute a defeated foe without hesitation or zealous inquisitors whose duty is to purge any corruption with terrifying efficiency. They are a necessary, and at times brutal, tool for a nation besieged by existential threats.

Yet, for all their power and vigilance, the Sentinels have recently displayed chinks in their armor. Their catastrophic failure in the Chromatic Union and the loss of their best agents was not the result of a tactical error, but of a betrayal from within their own ranks. The knowledge that a traitor walks among them has poisoned the order with suspicion, proving that the greatest threat to the Hegemony's guardians may not be the monsters they hunt, but the shadows they harbor within.

People

Sentinels

• Garma Rummel
• Valeria Raltus

Academy Students

• Drazhomir Yarnask
• Mina Lee
• Ariya Malanti