OOC Note: Not fully up and running yet. I just came back, and my server was dead in both RP and size. So, I moved myself over to a bigger server and re-rolled because I didn’t want to pay to move. I’ll be leveling for a bit but wanted to toss this out to see if there was interest and where things might go!
"You see, there are ancient, powerful relics found throughout this world that if they fall into the wrong hands could destroy our people. Magic and myths alike should be hunted down and & embraced. Knowledge and weapons lost to time I assure you, are a force that can be utilized free of corruption with proper teaching and study.
As it stands, the other races of the Alliance and even the Horde mock our kind for our half-destroyed capital, still-standing statues of Sunstrider and blunder after blunder across the world. But none of them have the wisdom and far sight to hunt down true power like our people do. The Reliquary has appointed The Society of Secrets and Antiquities to be the force that will locate and secure these items for the glory of the Sin’dorei and by extension the Horde.” - Synetta Fairglades
Introduction and Mission
The Society of Secrets and Antiquities is an actively expanding special operations unit under the command of the The Reliquary and High Examiner Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher, acting to support existing Reliquary digs in Azsuna and Suramar and building the needed strength of arms and minds to seek a powerful Highborne arcane treasure the Reliquary has reason to believe rests beneath the ancient Broken Isles.
The sect is especially focused on locating items that bolster the strength and defenses of Quel’Thalas, basing their operations at the Dawnstar Spire. While their primary work is in and around the Ghostlands, missions to uncover artifacts have led across Azeroth and into unknown pocket realms; the unit has a strong patriotism and is willing to take on great danger to ensure the safety and strength of their people, believing that only then can true healing come, whether it’s their botanists working to restore parts of their homelands, or their Knights clearing a path deep into Dwarf infested mountain sides.
The Society of Secrets and Antiquities, as with much of the Reliquary organization, will seek items of power in nearly any location provided they have compelling evidence of something of value within. The sect has also expressed interest in items held by the Burning Legion, contracting with a number of Illidari.
The Thalassian nationalist agenda which the Reliquary’s official mission only thinly veils is quite prominent among this unit, whom welcome allies of all races enjoying friendly ties to Silvermoon, but their membership, consistent with much of the Reliquary, is largely Sin’dorei, holding deeply to their order’s belief that only the expertise of the children of the Highborne is suited to possess the most powerful and dangerous of artifacts, if the notion of “safeguarding” them more often implies uses which expand Thalassian power, and the Southern Chapter is believed involved in a number of highly secret Reliquary projects with that aim.
The chapter is heavily guided by the philosophy of High Examiner Bloodwatcher, and holds a positive if cautious view of the arcane. Unlike other archaeological societies, the driving purpose of The Society of Secrets and Antiquities work, often conducted in secret, is the full restoration and unification of the people and lands of eternal spring.
The Society of Secrets and Antiquities seeks not only mages, scholars and archaeologists, but all sorts of personnel from Rangers to plate-wearing infantry and clerics, given the dangerous nature of so many excavation sites. Despite a strong Sin’dorei leaning membership, allies of other races are treated professionally, and judged by their skill and merit, as the work of the Reliquary ultimately seeks to strengthen the position of Silvermoon and of its allies.
> More to Come…