Silver Cloaks

The Silver Cloaks are a criminal organisation with a focus on attaining as much power as possible. Though they are extremely infamous, with charters around the world, they are also recognised as a necessary evil, keeping the criminal underworld in check alongside The Caged.

History
Started by two brothers, Alviron and Terry Strepe, the Silver Cloaks represent the idea that the thing that matters most in the world is power through any means possible.

Originally, this faction was nothing more than a group of highwaymen who targeted the upper class. Seeing themselves as justified by targeting those with excess to give to the less fortunate (themselves), they slowly grew in numbers, split off into various different groups to cover more ground, and gain more power. Over the years, they had amassed enough power that the other factions realised that they had to accept the Silver Cloaks as a necessary evil to maintain important and valuable power dynamics. This led to an event known as the Peace of the Factions, where all of the other major factions came together to acknowledge the Silver Cloaks as one of the major building blocks that the entirety of Sprin'Torelian society was developed upon.

Of course, knowing that they were essentially immune to persecution on a grand scale led to many Cloakers getting cocky and targeting people without any secrecy. As such, the Gold Helms gave the Silver Cloaks two options -- either they deal with it themselves or the Gold Helms shut the entire group down and deal with the inevitable power vacuum. So, they chose to deal with it themselves in an event known as The Great Execution, personally hunting down and publicly executing every single Cloaker who broke the internal rules before having the executor turn themselves over to the Gold Helms to be persecuted for the mass murder.

Since then, the Silver Cloaks have worked more in the shadows, still doing what they can to amass as much power as possible without overreaching.

Philosophy
To be a Silver Cloaker is to show that you desire power above all else. This does not mean taking power from those who don't have any, or asserting power over those without, but rather to demonstrate your yearning for power by stealing that which belongs to the more powerful. However, this desire for power must show a degree of restraint.

To gain power and retain it is much more essential to the Silver Cloaks than losing it all in a failed grab for power.

Notable Members

 * Alviron Strepe
 * Co-Founder of the Silver Cloaks
 * Terry Strepe
 * Co-Founder of the Silver Cloaks
 * Eowyn Verilux
 * Head of the Silver Cloaks during the Peace of the Factions


 * Jasper Relia
 * Head of the Silver Cloaks during the Great Execution