The Factions

This page details the 6 major factions in the city of Drakkenheim at the time of the adventures of the Drakkenforce.
Please note that this entire page contains significant spoilers.

## The Hooded Lanterns

Main article: Hooded Lanterns
    The Hooded Lanterns are a militia defense group of the city of Drakkenheim. They are led by Lord Commander Elias Drexel, who formerly served the King and Queen of Drakkenheim and who remains very devoted to the Royal Family. The Lanterns are virtually the last remnant of Westemärian rule still operating in or around Drakkenheim (in contrast to the Amethyst Academy, which has always been an independent guild).

## The Followers of the Falling Fire

Main article: Followers of the Falling Fire
    The Followers of the Sacred Flame are the main religion in the Dungeons of Drakkenheim campaign world. There is, however, a splinter cult that has branched away from this faith and which follows the influence of a former flame keeper named Lucretia Mathias. She, like Sebastian Crowe, also had a vision of the Meteor falling on Drakkenheim and took it upon herself to compile sacred text and publish it for followers of her sect.

## The Silver Order

Main article: Silver Order

The Silver Order is the military arm of the Church of the Sacred Flame in Elyria. They consist primarily of paladins and battle-priests. A company-sized expedition of approximately 200 combatants and 100 support staff has been dispatched to Drakkenheim. Ostensibly the expedition's mission is to destroy all traces of Delerium and to free Drakkenheim from its curse. Others, however, criticize them as being little more than unwelcome foreign invaders.

## The Queen's Men

Main article: Queen's Men
     The Queen's Men is by far the largest and most influential criminal organization operating out of Drakkenheim. They are a loosely allied group of thieves, murderers, and cutthroats who are devoted to the acquisition of profit in any way. As a faction they owe allegiance to the Queen of Thieves, a being of unknown form, gender, race or class.

## The Amethyst Academy

Main article: Amethyst Academy
     The Amethyst Academy is an elite guild of magic users in the Dungeons of Drakkenheim campaign world. They have great influence in the world and have strongholds in many cities.

## Caspia

Main article: Caspia
Caspia is a country which lies to the south-east of Westemär between the Glimmer Mountains and the Diamond Sea. It is the home of Prince Pluto Jackson and Lord Jupiter Jones. It is also the homeland of the queen of Westemär at the time of the meteor strike, Queen Lenore von Kessel.

Caspia is known as a land of loud, proud, and boisterous warriors. Caspians are renowned for their noble bearing, and the men in particular are often quite large and of powerful build. However, Caspians are also often perceived as being not particularly cerebral or concerned with details and intricacies.

## Faction Interplay

Main article: Faction Interplay
In several Q&As, Dungeon Master Monty Martin revealed that in creating each faction, he wanted each faction to have reasons to work with any of the others in the short term, but reasons not to work with them in the long term. He also expressed that a single faction rising to power would spell a bad ending for Drakkenheim, but also all five working together would be a bad ending, though one might question under what circumstances all the factions would work together.