The Caged

The Caged are a semi-secret criminal organisation made up of people who tend to take on the jobs that most people would find unseemly for the right price. Assassins and thieves, the members of The Caged aren't seen as a necessary evil as much as they're an evil that can't be stamped out.

History
Nobody is quite sure how or when The Caged originated. When the rest of the world had learned about them, it was discovered that their leader, Zayin Hook, and half of their forces were in the prison already. Hook admitted he didn't found the faction but that he had inherited the title from someone who got it from someone else - the only connection between all of them being that they were all prisoners who either were still in the system or dying in their cell.

In an attempt to cut The Caged off from the world, the prison guards isolated Hook and the rest of The Caged. Instead of slowing down the degree of crime that resulted from The Caged, the number of high profile crimes went up. As a result, the guards simply executed Zayin in an attempt to dissuade members of The Caged from following in his footsteps. Like their previous attempt, this ended with a crime spree that the public deemed inexplicable.

The Gold Helms, trying to do anything in their power to stop them from committing these crime, offered to simply let The Caged go free. Their response, to everyone's surprise, was a polite refusal along with a promise that they would stop their spree if the Gold Helms promised to stop executing them. Since then, the powers that be turn a blind eye while members of The Caged still commit crimes and fill their purses so long as they aren't as extreme as they were during The Inquisition.

Philosophy
For some of The Caged, to kill and steal is purely for fun. For others, its a means to an ends. At the end of the day, one of the most important factors to being a member of The Caged is to leave everyone wondering how they did the crime. That isn't to say that all of the members of The Caged are masters of this art, and plenty of members exist outside of the various prisons that scatter the world.

Instead, members of The Caged are more likely to care about the thrill of the crime than the actual crime itself.

Notable Members

 * Zayin Hook
 * First Leader of The Caged during The Inquisition
 * Zilla Nox
 * Second Leader of The Caged during The Inquisition, and organiser of the peace with the Gold Helms
 * Scarlett Hunt
 * First and only Leader of The Caged who wasn't imprisoned.