Renaissance Pleasure Faire - RenQuest

The Lunar Tribe

When the Order of the Sun was first established back in the dark days, one of them questioned the order's right to lash out at what he saw as "nature unleashed". Certainly survival had its merit, but in the grand scheme of things this confused paladin wondered if there wasn't a better way, perhaps some method of reasoning with these seemingly unreasonable abominations.

This knight was Sir Henry Carrington, the youngest of the Order. According to legend, he was there when the Order assaulted Tiamat's lair, but during a break in the action he snuck behind enemy lines and spoke with the "wicked" goddess herself. He learned that she was not necessarily evil, but vengeful for her famous defeat at the hands of Marduk millennia hence. She wished to destroy the world that had been carved from her very body, to reclaim that which was once hers. Carrington, or so the legend claims, actually began to reason with the Dark Queen, and if not for the untimely arrival of his war-hungry comrades he might very well have found a peaceful resolution to the conflict. But alas, despite his protestations, the rest of the Order simply plowed ahead, and when Tiamat at last fell Sir Carrington was not in as cheerful a mood as the others.

The next day Carrington broke away from the Order, running out into the wilderness to try and gather Tiamat's children and find out just exactly what their motives were. He managed to establish a rapport with many of them, along with other magical creatures and denizens of the wild. In an act of defiance, Carrington denounced the Order of the Sun and formed his own coalition: the Lunar Tribe. He found and recruited other humans like himself who wished to work alongside the mysterious forces of the world rather than take a vengeful blade to them.

Eventually the Order of the Sun and the Lunar Tribe came to the inevitable conflict, as a feud broke out between them. The Order saw all unnatural creatures as a threat to mankind, while the Lunar Tribe fought hard to protect those they felt were simply misunderstood. Sometimes the line between good and evil blurred; some Tribe members stood up for legitimately evil and dangerous creatures, while at other times the Order became so zealous it attacked beings of a completely peaceful nature. As the years passed, the feud settled somewhat, and the sheer level of bloodshed sank as cooler heads prevailed.

The present day finds the factions still feuding with each other, but not nearly as vicious as in days past. The Tribe is wiser now, not so blindly devoted to the protection of things outside the realm of mortals, and even they cannot ignore the danger Bloodtharken presents to Deptford. Members of the Tribe still value the traits they learned from Tiamat's gentler children, including cleverness, imagination, creativity, and harmony with the world around them. They still find the Order's dedication to structure and the old ways to be insufferably self-righteous, but they have, at least temporarily, agreed to a truce until the dragon is dealt with.