A sect of fanatical knights whose current leadership believe that Nod belongs to humanity and that every non-human creature within it is an infestation to be eradicated.
The Order patrols the human districts, driving out non-humans who wander too close and launching raids on establishments that cater to other species. They are zealots, but they are not incompetent. The Order is the most technically proficient group in Nod, procuring equipment from both the mortal world and the arcane domains. Their soldiers have access to everything from modern firearms and experimental weaponry to tools that have no equivalent in the waking world. Where other factions rely on magic or physical superiority, the Order relies on engineering and logistics. They are a human-supremacist militia armed like a special operations unit.
Leadership
- Regent Gregory White leads the Order. He is a warmongering racist by any measure, and makes no effort to disguise either quality. His leadership style is confrontational, his strategic vision is expansionist, and his tolerance for compromise is nonexistent.
- Commander Louis Bail serves as second in command and leads the Order's offensive arm, responsible for raids and targeted operations against non-human targets.
- Commander Far leads the bulk of the Order's regular troops and represents the organization's more moderate wing. Far is a military professional who follows orders but is not animated by the same hatred that drives the Regent. Instead Far sees the Order as a necessary counterforce to organizations like the Slaver's Guild. His daughter Coral has left the Order entirely to serve in the Mercenaries Guild, a choice that suggests complicated family dinners.
- Sir Redfang is a well-known knight with a personal vendetta against the Kaarn. Where the Order's general mission is broad-spectrum xenophobia, Redfang has narrowed his hatred to a single species and pursues their extermination with focused intensity.
Culture
The Order's rank and file are more culturally varied than its leadership acknowledges. Recruits come from human communities with different histories, languages, and traditions of self-defense. Doctrine is modelled on Earth's modern military structures but the culture absorbs whatever its members bring with them, and members can descend from immigrants arriving from anywhere on Earth. Commander Far's moderate wing draws disproportionately from communities whose home traditions included cooperation with non-human neighbors; people who joined the Order for its resources and protection, not its ideology. The Regent treats this diversity as an obstacle, seeking to flatten it to a single identity of 'Order Soldier'.