Caradhaker

A few dwarven clans actively work to overcome the illithid threat. To this end, select dwarves are trained specifically to hunt and slay illithids (mind flayers). The dwarves call such hunters Caradhaker, which loosely translates as "mindstalker". Mindstalkers are at their calmest and most confident when an encounter with mindflayers is imminent, and they are violently competent in the midst of an illithid encounter.
Those who take up the training to become a caradhaker are devoted for life. The skills, once learned, cannot be unlearned, and the secret passwords and signs used by fellow members to identify each to the other are also not easily forgotten. Whats more, the sect gives special quests to those dwarves whose devotion is found wanting, and those who do not perform the quest are marked as no better than illithids and are treated as fair game by all other mindstalkers. Mindstalkers wear their heads shaven, except for a long queue (reminiscent of githyanki hair style) (Their beards remain inviolate, of course) and experienced Mindstalkers wear mummified, shrunken illithid heads on their harnesses as a mark of their dedication and proof of their successes.
Category:Assassins Guild
Category:Mercenary Company