Grey Owl
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The Grey Owl is the secret service of The Empire. Its agents, men and women alike, work in the shadows to eliminate threats both within the Empire and outside it. They are feared by every high-ranking member of the Empire, even by the Inquisition.1
The life of an agent
An agent of the Grey Owl lives a life of secrecy, and that life belongs to the Empire rather than to the agent. Agents are sent to places on specific missions with specific instructions. Over a career they make allies who never learn their real names, and enemies who seek to destroy them for what they have done.1
Agents build networks of contacts, among them people skilled at forging documents and official papers, and in large cities people who can shelter refugees for a few nights or supply the papers an agent needs. Such contacts know that the agent is tied to the Grey Owl.1
How agents see their work
Agents speak of their calling in different ways. Some say their work is necessary for the Empire's survival, unpleasant but unavoidable. Others hold to the service's sense of duty: the Grey Owl watches over the Empire and protects its people from threats unseen. Others again liken the Empire to a machine whose gears the Grey Owl maintains, sometimes replacing broken gears with new ones and greasing the whole.1
Notlar
- ↑KitapShadow Over Vansreik, p. 52
Kaynaklar
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- SoVShadow Over Vansreik(Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 52
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