Brotherhood of the Grand Hunt

Author: NineOfSpades

While Dragonslayers and would-be-dragonslayers have been around since before recorded history, The Brotherhood Of The Grand Hunt traces its origins back to shortly after the Founding of Tandem. Initially created as a mercenary force to slay a perticularly foul dragon which had taken to devoring young maidens all across the country side, the Brotherhood (Or as its more commonly called, Foxhorn, due to their iconic hunting horn emblem) was later instituted as a more permanent force to seek out and eradicate Dragons and Wyverns, protecting the peoples of Al-Jura from the greatest beasts to roam the land. Nowadays, their focus has shifted somewhat. True, they still hunt dragons, and have lost none of their vigor for doing so. But unlike their more noble goals, modern Hunters are frequently motivated by more selfish ambitions. About 70% of the Brotherhoods membership is drawn in on the promises of wealth, selling their services to villages that are threatened by repeated wyvern attacks. The remainder see the hunt as a matter of sport, and compete with each other for glory and fame by hunting the most dangerous or ellusive creatures they can find. Every fifty years or so, the Brotherhood will initiate the Grand Hunt, selecting a True Dragon and mustering their entire membership (Approximately five thousand strong) to slay it, and they are almost always successful in doing so, though not without considerable casualties. Officially, they don't condone hunting of Sentient Wyvern, those born of the intelligent races who possess the capacity to reason. But the Brotherhood has also never taken meaningful measures to punish its members who violate this rule either. In Truth, Foxhorn rarely shows any Wyvern, no matter their nature, any sort of mercy when the opportunity to strike presents itself.