The Court of Gallows

Summary

Type Crime organization. Affiliation It has ties to certain merchant families and Houses in Alliria. These are tightly kept secrets though. Leader(s) The Hanged Man. The King of Hemp. The Dead Dreamer. The Undergod. The Upside Down Man. The Great Lopsider. Sewer Lord.

Few know who started the Court of Gallows. A mysterious figure shrouded in legend and folklore. People speak of a nameless convict who was hung and yet survived. When the authorities of Alliria hung him again, he kept resisting the hempen cord, waking up after each hanging, sometimes even clawing his way out from his own grave. Finally, he was hung, drawn and quartered -- and days later, he was found walking the streets miraculously.

They say that after this, Alliria rarely assigned the death penalty to its convicts ever more.

Blueskin Blayke, Archrogue. Members List members

Geography

Headquarters Somewhere in the vast sewers below Alliria City. Location(s) Tenuous footholds in Vel Anir, Lazular and the Spine.

Out-of-character information

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Thieves get involved in the Court of Gallows once they begin to make a name for themselves. In Alliria, it claims ownership over every street urchin and pickpocket, even before they are acknowledged by this organisation. Each stage a thief goes through has a different hierarchy.

Urchin / pickpocket (Known as knuckles, pages or foins)

Experienced pickpocket (Known as anglers, nips or handmen)



Thugs / muggers (Known as knights of the blade, academy knights or bully-blades)



Burglars / housebreakers (known as crack-clerics, draw-latches, ken-millers)


Gentlemen/lady thieves (known as spruce pigs, barrel baron/baroness or leaky lords/ladies)

Highwaymen (known as rank riders, gentlemen/ladies of the road, visiting viscounts)

Ringleaders (known as pimper pampers, archrogues, prince/princess prigs, counts)

Court councillors (known as dangling dukes or hempen courtiers)

The Hanged Man.