Groups

The Arklow Knights are a band commanded by Laban that helps steer the mass escape from Wyndham in the final hours before Ganishka razes the capital.

The Bakiraka are a Kushan clan of hired killers who once served the empire's fallen royal line. Driven from their homeland long ago, they sell their extraordinary combat skills to whoever seems strongest, all in pursuit of restoring the…

Founded by the White Falcon Griffith, the Band of the Falcon is the mercenary company that rose to fame in the Hundred-Year War and won Midland back the fortress of Doldrey. Its glory ends when Griffith offers the entire band as sacrifice…

Raised by Griffith after his incarnation, the reborn Band of the Falcon fuses human soldiers with apostles into a single army. It liberates Midland from Kushan rule and becomes the standing military force of the risen city of Falconia.

The Black Swordsman Party names the shifting band of companions Guts collects during his wandering years after the Eclipse. What starts as one man, an elf, and a broken woman swells into a whole crew as the road toward Casca's cure carries…

The Elves of Misty Valley are the swarm of insect-like pseudo-apostles Rosine grows from stolen children, false fairies that mimic the real thing while butchering the villages around their misty home.

The Four Kings of the World are four vast, benevolent spirits dwelling in the depths of the Astral World, guardians of the cardinal directions whom mages call on to raise protective barriers against evil.

The God Hand is the fivefold council of demon lords who carry out the Idea of Evil's will, ruling over every apostle and presiding over the sacrificial ceremonies that turn beherit bearers into monsters.

The Holy See is the sprawling monotheistic church whose pontiff and clergy wield religious and political power across much of the world, enforcing doctrine, hoarding wealth, and condemning magic as heresy.

The Kushan Scouts are the silent reconnaissance and assassination arm of the Kushan Empire, Bakiraka clansmen who slip across rooftops and cut down their targets in an instant under Silat's command.

Mozgus' Disciples are the six disfigured torturers who serve the inquisitor as bodyguards and executioners, outcasts he took in who become monstrous pseudo-apostles during the Incarnation Ceremony.

The tapasa are the elite unarmed warriors of the Bakiraka clan, a pair or foursome of towering bodyguards who shadow Silat and shield him with bare hands alone all through his campaign to capture the White Falcon.

The Vandimion Family is one of the wealthiest noble houses in the world, its fortune said to rival a great nation's treasury and its bank quietly bankrolling both the Holy See and the kingdoms that wage its wars.