>Location: Lost in Nature
The temple is buried deep beneath a mountain, the only access point being a trapdoor hidden in a small shrine at the peak of the mountain. The climb alone is enough to make professional mountaineers scoff at the idea that any mere human could have reached the peak, and the legends of a thousand years worth of corpses frozen into the mountains slopes are entirely true. The temple itself is warm though, heated by the earth itself, with large spacious chambers dedicated to the continuous training and education of aspirants, initiates, Masters, and even the High Father himself is found regularly training alongside his 'sons' when his duties permit. A strange quirk of the architecture traps sounds within each room, echoing and magnifying each noise, this provides guaranteed quiet in your chambers, and a true test of skill when the brothers are training.
>Recruitment: Lethal Test
Potential recruits are selected by scouts at a young age, selecting for introverted character and signs of dexterity in their youth. When the boy has reached the age of 13 he will be approached and given a test, a single clue pointing him on a long trail of revelations that ends in the mountain top shrine as a test of his mental capabilities. There are numerous lethal threats on the path to the mountain (environmental, animals, more than a few criminals) but once the climb starts initiates watch from a distance, hidden among the crags of the mountain, and fire arrows at the climbing Potential. These shots are much harder than anything they will face elsewhere as the strong winds across the mountainside change direction and strength imperceptibly and randomly, this challenge is good for their training and gives the potential a chance. If he reaches the top then he is welcomed into the brotherhood and his training begins.
>Major Skills: Sharpshooter, Patience, Stealth
>Minor Skills: Master of Poisons, Pain Tolerance, Supreme Agility, Observation/Deduction, Infiltration
Mastery of the bow, brain, and body is the main focus of their life from the moment they step through the door, the first indication the target has that an assassin is after him is the moment the arrowhead pierces his skull. They need no magic or mystical assistance to select the right firing position based on their observation of the target and can wait there for weeks, perfectly hidden and motionless, until it is time to strike.
>Contact: Disturbing Stranger
Initiates spend alternating years training in the temple and on scouting missions across the 17 Kingdoms, while this method of contact may appear supernatural to the client it is only based on quiet, detailed, information gathering - many of these scouts will also work to help spread the myth of a wandering faceless demon who will offer to exchange the death of a rival for a price.
>Price: Nobody Knows
As part of the myth involves trading with a demon many people assume that the random prices and strange requests are some form of dark magic. In fact the brotherhood makes its many from a small number of major contracts annually, other assignments are chosen to develop and maintain the assigned brothers skills, the 'price' requested for these contracts are mostly to give the impression that a price has been paid, they very rarely do more than cover the low cost of the one arrow fired.
>Uniform: Lightweight Leather Armour
Designed to maximise their mobility, blend into the background, and protect them from the elements as they wait for their moment.
>Rival: Al-Yassir, The Legion of the Dunes
Whilst The Legion is welcome to do as it pleases in its own territory incursion into our land will not be tolerated. The first stage of the war will be to find and remove their agents, and ask for favours that help keep them out as payment for jobs (a city administrators price for the death of a romantic rival is to 'accidentally' lose or forge paperwork the Al-Yassir agents need to set up their temples in our territory), if that doesn't work then the war will intensify, with confirmed A-Y agents walking into arrows on a regular basis, and their scimitar wielding masked men attacking my sons. The rumours of mystical practices used by the A-Y would provide a useful point to target, if they're true. The man who needs magic to do his job has a vital tool he relies on that can be taken away from him. If the war progresses beyond that point though every brother of my order will be deployed out of the temple and into a non-stop guerrilla war against these foreign invaders, even I - the High Father - will pause my administrative duties, take up my bow once more, and walk the earth with my sons.
