The Talons of Camara

There are Seven Talons of Camara.

Listed below is the information publicly available, and a few ongoing schemes pursued by individual members.

**Baragon** – A brutal, power-hungry Camaran warlord. A troll of terrifying stature and martial prowess, the Talons’ battle leader. Believed to be currently leading forces in the Provinces of Ash.

**Absinthe** – An elven speaker and a planner, specialising in political schemes and manipulations. The Talons’ level-headed central strategist. Hails from Lenore, was once apprenticed to Varamir the Revenant.

*Absinthe’s Children* – Absinthe runs a kidnapping ring that has children stolen from across the world and brought to Camara. There, they are programmed and brainwashed, and sent off across the world to do her bidding. Absinthe initially targeted children from families of importance, then returned them to those families when the process was complete. After her scheme was uncovered by the Sunstone Sisterhood, she began placing them as orphans in various communities instead. Some of these children are magically influenced to forget what has happened to them, and act as sleeper agents, to be activated via a trigger word. Absinthe has done this to a lot of children, and she is always trying new reprogramming techniques.

**Vasilla** – A hedonistic ectochoir, original race and origins unknown. Vasilla is obsessed with the beautiful and the unique, and has mastered a method of transferring their soul from body to body. When they discover an individual who meets their criteria, they will obsessively pursue them and then take over their body. The original personalities do not survive the transfer.

*Vasilla’s body-snatching* – Vasilla has their own ring of agents tasked with finding the most interesting and unique people in the world. Once identified, those individuals are then snatched up and spirited away to Camara, where Vasilla takes their body for their own. Vasilla will go to great lengths and great expense to acquire specific individuals who have caught their eye.

**Dancell-Praise-Cesar** (‘Dancell-Praise’) – An elven mind-mage from Vernon-Lament. A cheery, smiling man who delights in a very specific area of control. Dancell-Praise enjoys putting people in terrible situations, and then making them thank him, and act like they're happy. Around 50 years ago, Dancell-Praise discovered and used a mind magic sigilsite under Sarea to mentally enslave the entire population. He is suspected to have been the one who summoned the Sorrow 30 years ago and has been missing since that time.

*Slaving* - Before Dancell-Praise’s disappearance, he delighted in conducting slaving raids on nearby countries, and seemed to especially enjoy raiding orc communities in what is now south eastern Mosshaven. These slaving raids have petered out in recent years, partially because Dancell-Praise is missing, and partially because everyone else has started attacking Camaran ships on sight.

**Sylph Bluedew** – A halfling ectochoir, originally from Puck. Sylph is a genius in both alchemy and magic, obsessed with knowledge, and has no ethics to temper this thirst. She seems possibly the least invested in the Talons’ goal of world conquest, her membership seems to primarily be about furthering her research. Sylph has an oddly sunny disposition, has trouble staying on track, and has been known to disappear for long periods of time to pursue a new interesting line of discovery. Despite this, her skills and inventions have been an invaluable Talon resource.

*Sylph’s experiments* – Sylph loves knowledge. She loves in setting up magical traps, creating horrifying monsters, building complex and deadly apparatuses, and analyzing soils. She is less interested in packing down once she’s done. Sylph is known for 1) performing large-scale and scary experiments on random people/villages, and 2) leaving highly dangerous traps and magical experiments just lying around once she’s done. Two examples: placing spell circles in the basements of houses that make people forget they need to eat, and spiking an oasis with a potion that makes people’s hands attack them (and then just leaving).

**Craw** – A human ectochoir, mage, and vicious, vengeful killer, with a taste for cruelty that outstrips even most of his allies. His core motivations are to destroy and hurt, his origins are unknown.

*Craw’s Recruitment* – Craw runs a recruitment wing. Essentially, he will find the most vile and evil people, often after they’ve been imprisoned or are being put on trial, and will bring them into the Talon fold. Often, this involves breaking into prisons and other such places.

**Azaliah** – The seventh Talon. Literally all that is known is the name.