![[vlandia 1.png]] # Brotherhood of the Woods ## Former Peasant Movement Turned Mafia ### Tier 4 Outlaws / Mafia The Brotherhood of the Woods started as a [[Vlandian]] peasant movement, hiding out in the forests, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. However, it encountered the problems that any long-running rebel movement might - it needed to ensure a steady supply of food, and also ensure that none of the poor would dare earn a bag of coins by informing on them. Slowly but surely, it began to make use of extortion, terror, and corrupt deals with the local authorities to survive, becoming little different from any other organized bandit group in [[Calradia-Conti.]]. This clan is from [[Kingdom-of-Vlandia]]. Former members: '[[the-Huntress]]'. Tracked by '[[the-Tracker]]'. This mafia originated from [[Jaculan]]. # Game Files / Developer Diaries [[the-Huntress]] > I wasn't the type to take that meekly. My cousin, he'd lost his land too some years before, and he'd run off to join the [[Brotherhood-of-the-Woods]]. People said that they stood up for the poor. Took money from those who did injustice, and gave it to those who were wronged. So I went to join them too. [[the-Tracker]] > He had me find a group of outlaws, Brothers of the Woods (the [[Brotherhood-of-the-Woods]]), they called them. Oh, we knew of their crimes well enough, the robbing, the murder. I managed to find their lair in the hills. They had no chance against knights, and gave up. > > I don't know what I thought would happen... A good clean fight? The leaders executed, the rest let go? No, they took all 20 of that gang, including some who were barely old enough to grow a beard, and left them hanging to die outside the castle. I'd see those bodies twisting and think, 'This is my work,' and that was something I want no part of. [[Jaculan]] sits in the warmer southern reaches of the Biscan coast, in rolling hills known for their olive trees. It was once a favored resort of the [[Imperial]] aristocracy ([[Calradian-Empire]]), who hunted wild boars amid the oak forests. The independent peasantry of this region are known for their heterodox ideas. The [[Brotherhood-of-the-Woods]] is but the latest of a series of rebellions to have broken out here, sometimes aided by an aristocracy that considers them a tool to use against rival [[Vlandian]] houses ([[Kingdom-of-Vlandia]]). | | | | ---- | ---- | | Source(s) | Text | | comment_strings.XML | string id="str_comment_special_clan_intro_brotherhood_of_woods.default" text="{=a5LChqbr}The common folk of these lands need someone looking after them. That's where our Brotherhood comes in. You'll hear us called bandits or robbers. Don't believe a word of it."> |