Immolators Guild (Nightchilder canon)
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In Nightchilder, the Immolators Guild have a fairly elaborate plot attached to them.
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Independent
Beginnings
Narayan Steele and Mercurian Steele (actual birth names undisclosed), the brothers in charge of the Immolators Guild, were born in the early 1400's. Narayan was turned in 1436 and gifted that immortality to his brother, in turn, despite not initially perceiving it as a gift from his sire. In fact, things were so tense with the head of their bloodline that the two brothers banded together, and with the help of new vampire acquaintances, friends, destroy their sire by light of the sun in 1439.
The Daywalker Mythos
Themselves rather intimidated by the power of sunlight, they begin to invest all their efforts into true vampiric immortality. Exactly when they achieved their daywalker power is unknown, and they've shared the knowledge of how to attain it only with Aranel, an Australian vampiress leading the Immolators Guild down under. What they do share, of course, is their general knowledge of hardening vampiric individuals: Stamina, most notably, and to higher degree their own Immolator kin.
Steele Industries
Claiming to have been established in 1437, Steele Industries is the primary source for transit hulls, transit rails, trusses, girders, rafters, and any other large-scale metal implements in and immediately around RavenBlack City, monopoly within city limits, less successful outside. The company is the daytime facade of the Immolators Guild, even if staffed differently, Steele Industries almost entirely made up of human beings and the Immolators Guild of vampires, with the most notable overlap being the daywalkers on their twenty-four schedule.
The headquarters can be found at Umbrella and 44th, in close vicinity of an Omnibank, and the Hall of Binding and Hall of Severence.
Interactive
Splinters of Dusk and Gehyra
The Splinters of Dusk were a radicalist branch-off of the Immolators Guild, founded by the ex-Immolator Zyan Quetzal (Zerachiel Aquila), originally with the sole purpose of driving the Guild into submission after Zyan felt slighted by Mercurian's clan leadership decisions with the Immolators - a clearly failed endeavour.
Nonetheless, with clever use of print media, public relations efforts and propaganda, the Splinters of Dusk peaked in managing to take a large chunk out of the sparkling reputation of the Guild in the 30's - until taking it too far resulted in Mercurian having Zyan hunted down and killed for the numerous acts of aggression from him.
Unfortunately, the attempted assassination failed - unbeknownst to Mercurian, Zyan was saved from utter destruction by the sun by back-up moles, and, while unconscious and well beyond anything one might class as Torpor for decades, was still very much alive. He was nursed back to health by the very friends that saved him - and finally resurfaced in semi-public perception in 2004, where he began to re-involve himself in clan matters of the Splinters of Dusk.
Much to his chagrin, the clan had changed a lot. Most notably, instead of being locked in a cold war with the Immolators, they were actively pursuing an alliance with them - and they'd lost much of their carnal, aggressive drive, becoming far more monk-like, despite the mercenary business that had survived as a tradition (originally thought up by Zyan as a source of income). However, for a while, Zyan was willing to overlook these things and treat them like his children, protecting and nurturing them.
When Mercurian found out that Zyan was still alive, however, it prompted a miniature war between the Immolators and the younger clan - one the Splinters of Dusk had no chance of winning even if they codex had allowed them retaliation. Fortunately, the situation was rather quickly defused by Narayan, who stepped in and stopped the mindless bloodshed. He forced a blood truce on Zyan and Mercurian, Mercurian having to swear not to touch the Splinters of Dusk and Zyan having to swear to stay apolitical.
Then...
Sometime mid-2009, after he'd watched the clan fold twice and come back thereafter, a break of the codex came to Zyan's attention. It had the quality of a last straw to him. Deeming the Splinters of Dusk undisciplined louts having strayed too far from their roots, and fueled by new vengeance, he created Gehyra, swearing to either annex or destroy the Splinters of Dusk, retake 'his' clan name and resume what he'd initially started...
