Requiem

**The Requiem** is an infamous guild of individuals loosely defined as "vigilantes". They're known for their radical ideals and tendency to muckrake in order to incite revolution.

Thieves, criminals, mercenaries, and others familiar with the underbelly of civilization may be associated with them.

## Description

Frequently labeled as rioters, The Requiem is an organized system of vigilantes that have done questionable things to get by and facilitate revolution. The Requiem offers protection from the Broker and other external threats. They also employ adventurers and shady mercenaries to hunt monsters.

The Requiem offers town guard-type services to towns and cities who don’t have their own guards.  The Requiem also offers private investigator services.

The Requiem has a good cop/bad cop relationship with its parent organization, the Crimson Consortium. The Requiem is perceived as the ethical/moral side, and can be used to rally support for a cause that is secretly used to benefit the Consortium.

Their Thieve's Cant is a series of short tunes and melodies that change irregularly.

Some reasons why people join are:

* **Familial Ties**. The Requiem is based on a patron-client system and family units are common in the guild. If you have a relative/friend in the Requiem, chances are you'll be recruited soon.
* **Greater Good**. Help fight inequality and get a chance to make your mark on history! This is what the Requiem may seem like through rose-tinted lenses.
* **Monetary Gain**. The Requiem is sponsored by what's literally a mafia.

* **Unfinished Contract**. Sometimes when people are in debt to one of the Requiem's sponsors and can't pay it off, they can exchange their money for time serving the Requiem.

### Structure

Patron-client model. Hierarchies are very important, and ranking or perceived importance weighs more heavily than merit.

### Code of Conduct

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### Leader

Reprisal is the current head of The Requiem. She firmly believes that revolution is an integral part of inciting change, even if it doesn't seem necessary. Reprisal has only been the leader for about a year, since the previous one was jailed and sent to Pothos to work in the landfills.

### Motto

"Stand on the right side of history; be the necessary change"

## History

The Requiem was originally made to <> but since then, it has lost sight of its vision. Now, the only thing that still hints at its original purpose is its name.

It has always maintained a close relationship with the Crimson Consortium.

## Locations

### Eastshire

The Requiem is very publicly anti-Occulox there.

### Han

Portia and Han are two well known Requiem cities.  Members of the Requiem have decent influence in those places.

### Knoxis

In around 550 PR, following the death of Seth Doxenleve, The Requiem overthrew the existing government. Currently, The Requiem still runs the town.

### Portia

Portia and Han are two well known Requiem cities.  Members of the Requiem have decent influence in those places.

## Notable Members

### Currently

* Dante
* Reprisal (leader)
* Sarchasis
* Strive

## Relationships

### The Broker

Because of the Broker's association with The Stave, The Requiem is not on good terms with them.

### The Crimson Consortium

the weirdest alliance in the history of alliances. the consortium is basically the requiem's sugardaddy, and those who owe debts to the consortium and are unable to pay sometimes are sent to do work with the requiem.

### The Stave

They have squabbled over Knoxis, and frequently come head to head. The Crimson Consortium dislikes the Stave because they are direct competitors, and the Requiem follows the orders of the Crimson Consortium.

### The Occulox Project

Fighting it for "the greater good", though lets be honest if the Requiem gets their way and dismantles the Occulox, the Consortium will probably take advantage of the situation and take over Eastshire.

## Trivia

* emma named a bunch of organizations after musical stuff and this was one of em
* meant to serve as a foil to the mudis and their guard system in Orlen on an older version of iporis when the mudis still existed lol
	+ Eventually that kind of got scrapped because of the rewrite.

## Notes (from Wikipedia)

Patron-client networks are defined by fluid interactions. They produce crime groups that operate as smaller units within the overall network, and as such tend towards valuing significant others, familiarity of social and economic environments, or tradition. These networks are usually composed of:

Hierarchies based on 'naturally' forming family, social and cultural traditions;

'Tight-knit' focus of activity/labor; Fraternal or nepotistic value systems;

Personalized activity; including family rivalries, territorial disputes, recruitment and training of family members, etc.;

Entrenched belief systems, reliance of tradition (including religion, family values, cultural expectations, class politics, gender roles, etc.);

and, Communication and rule enforcement mechanisms dependent on organizational structure, social etiquette, history of criminal involvement, and collective decision-making.