The Nine Daggers

"**We are the Swords in the Shadows, We are the Protectors of the Crown, We are the Nine Daggers!**" ~ The Count during an encounter with the Blue Stripes, the Capital Guard, Lord Humphrey of Fork with his Guards.

The **Order of the Nine Daggers** is a secret order of assassins, which was initially formed Before the Roman Conquest by **Eight Leaders**, popularly known as the "**Smith**", the "**Empress**", the "**Crone**", the "**Count**", the "**Sheriff**", the "**Bishop**", the "**Mage**", and the "**Knight**" with one selected as the **Supreme Leader**, having the title of the "**Prince**". The Order was founded to control the **Balkan Empire** and its lands. Refounded in the Sternlands by four figures, who controlled much of the **Realm's Power** during the War of the Six Armies, when it was formed in 141 CE following the **Rise of Queen Elaine** and the **Kingdom of Stafford**, a war between the **Crown's Armies** and the **King's Loyalists** while Easternlands, South Vale, Long Island, and the Emirates of Southern Gulf stood up in rebellion against the **Crown**.

Marked by the "**Trade of Daggers**" by the Royal Crest of House Royne in Port Royale to remove Queen Elaine and her allies from power, the Nine Daggers played a vital role during the **War of the Six Armies** and went on to become a wider circle of assassins that operated in the Sternlands and across the **Blue Sea** in the Balkan States and the Summer Isles.

## Standard Information

### Founded

Before Roman Conquest by Nine DaggersFounded in Sternlands by the Baron, the Duchess, and the Governor in 141 CE

### Leader

The Prince {formerly}The Baron, The Duchess, The Governor

### Allegiance

King of Valmont {formerly}King of Hampshire

## General Information

### Military Strength

estimated 4,000 men

Though, the Order acts as **Assassins**, they are loyal to the crown and the blood heir of **House Royne**.

## History

### Origins

The **Order of the Nine Daggers** is a secret order of assassins belonging beyond the Blue Sea from the Old Kingdom. The Order was once a mighty hand in the "**Play of Sulla of Rome**, **Augustus of Rome**, **Xerxes of Egyxos**, the **Rise of Tyrinia**, **the Fall of Old Kingdom**". Long since then, the order faded away in time, though had many hands in power.

### Foundation

Formed in the **Sternlands** in 141 CE following the demise of the **Royal House of Royne** (King **Bradford** and King **Otto** Royne) and the **Rise of House Stafford** (Queen **Elaine**) that led to the War of the Six Armies, marked by the "**Trade of Daggers**" by the Royal Crest of House Royne in Port Royale, after **King Bradford** suffered paralysis and **Queen Elaine**, his second wife secretly captured the capital and proclaimed herself Empress of the Kingdom, conspiring alongside most of the War Council and the Vassal States. Refounded by the three figures, popularly known the "**Baron**", the "**Duchess**", and the "**Governor**", the **Order of the Nine Daggers** remerged from the shadows in **Sternlands**, playing a vital role in **Restoring House Royne's Power**.

## Composition

The **Order of the Nine Daggers** was founded by **Eight Leaders** to rule the **Balkan Empire**, with the order selected the **Supreme Leader**, naming him/her as the "**Prince**", neutral to gender.

As goes the story of the Legendary Leviathan from the Scrolls; cut off one head, another goes in its place. The same ideology is set with the **Nine Daggers**, if one head dies, another replaces it.

### Members of the Ancient Order

* **The** **Smith**
* **The Empress**
* **The Crone**
* **The Count**
* **The Sheriff**
* **The Bishop**
* **The Mage**
* **The Knight**

However, when the Order was refounded in Sternlands in 141 CE, the role of the "**Prince**" did not exist, and only three leaders controlled the order in the **Region of Sternlands**, the "**Baron**", the "**Duchess**", and the "**Governor**".

### Members of the Order of Sternlands

* **The Baron**
* **The Duchess**
* **The Governor**

### The Council

The **Nine Daggers** led by the **Three Supreme Leaders**, appointed various members to the **Council** (that acted as the **Clergy of the Finest Assassins** of the order). The **Council Members** were known to all by their pseudonyms, consisting of forty members, divided in two clergies, **Master Assassins** and **Knight Assassins**;

#### Master Assassins

* **Dragon**
* **Kraken**
* **Storm**
* **Hermit**
* **Emir**
* **Sensei**
* **Curaré**
* **Lady Shiva**
* **Kingfisher**

#### Knight Assassins

* **Fox**
* **Serpent**
* **Sea Lion**
* **Cobra**
* **Sheriff**
* **Knight**
* **Prince**
* **Owl**
* **Canary**
* **Onyx**
* **Cheshire**
* **Salamander**
* **Tigress**
* **Hunter**
* **Huntress**
* **Hawk**
* **Talon**
* **Spade**
* **Darius**
* **Caesar**
* **Ironfist**
* **Captain Silver**
* **White Shadow**
* **Black Flame**
* **Raven**
* **Orphan**
* **Artemis**
* **Spider**
* **Dragonfly**
* **Firefly**
* **Black Cat**