Adamantine Order

The Adamantine Order is a paramilitary group spread throughout Dionisia. A religious organisation that reveres death and order, they hold that the world has a tenuous grasp upon stability, and that to endure, radical elements must be forcibly removed from the cycle. They promote murder and assassination, particularly targeting those who are well beyond the status quo: very good, very evil, and very powerful beings are all to be suppressed, as well as outsiders and other forces that might enact severe change upon the world. Slavery is a beneficial practice, allowing criminals and vagabonds to be used for productive ends, but cruelty is worthy of punishment as well. In practice, many unsavoury people join the Order, such as those who have a taste for death and combat, and those with nihilistic goals. As a result, many of their templar are evil paladins and clerics of reasonable power. 
Though many people are unsettled by the Order itself, its practices and particularly its adherents, the group is regardless a strong force of law, and has benefited greatly from a very good public relations campaign. Rather than try to act in the shadows, which would make them feared and reviled, they actively seek out problems and requests from governments and organizations, sending their templars to complete contract adventurer work and large military projects. This has the two-fold benefit of lending them an air of legitimacy and connection to local communities, as well as allowing them to pursue their primary goal, the merciless and bloody destruction of rogue elements, with significantly less legal ramifications. They are particularly coveted as military mercenaries and assassins, though they do not publicly admit to offering the latter as a service, and the governments of Dionisia are usually more than willing to let them take command of rural areas that have fallen prey to crime, as is exemplified by what used to be the Cantican town of Southwood, now known as Fort Inevitable.
Koshik is a templar of the Adamantine Order.
Category:Organisation
Category:Dionisia