Howling Voice Guild


 * "Howling Voice, shadow upon the ground! Howling Voice, flash of thunder from the gods! Cursed Voice that separates Life from Death!Right here, right now, these guns want to shed blood.They want to feast on souls!Listen you cursed Guns!We are it!The final blast to signal war!"
 * —Howling Voice Guild dueling rites.

The Howling Voice Guild is a powerful espionage and assassination guild that operates across the continent. Guild members often have one of three important tasks entrusted to them: to gather information on targets, protect them, or assassinate them. The guild is often used by those that can pay, to eliminate threats to governments.

Though known for the powerful, unique weapons their members carry – guns, and the gun powder that powers them - the Howling Voice Guild also specialises in other fields, such as toxicology. Members are raised from childhood onwards in the guild, never leaving save when on a mission, each apprentice training to become part of the elite gunner classes. The training of the Howling Voice Guild is known to be extremely rigorous, and fatality rates run high; not all apprentices survive to adulthood. The process relies on Apprentice Class Gunners traveling for a period no less than five years, developing the skills taught within the garden and learning useful information to offer back the the guild master.

The Tower
Also known as the “the garden” to members of the guild, the Tower itself is a single, small fortress with one central tower. Within it’s confines live the entire guild, who once knighted are not permitted to leave unless on a mission.

Ranks of the Howling Voice Guild
Apprentice Class

All Howling Voice Guild members start out as part of the apprentice class. Here, they begin to learn the powerful espionage and killing techniques that will make them into effective agents of the guild. Apprentices are sent out on assignments; however, they are not allowed to handle the firearms more elite classes may.

Squire Class Gunner

Squire Class members are those who have proved themselves as apprentices. They are allowed to wield firearms, and are regularly sent out by the guild on missions. To be promoted to a Knight Class Gunner, they must take a test – a test so grueling it is rare that many students survive it.

Knight Class Gunner

If they can pass the test, however, they will become Knight Class Gunners. It is very rare for there to be more than a handful of Knight Class Gunners in a generation; they are usually chosen to become Guild Master by the Elders.

Guild Master

The title of Guild Master is the pinnacle of the order and one must employ great skill and luck to make it to the position. In order to become Guild Master, a Knight Class Gunner must be able to wield Sturm, one of the guns of the Howling Voice Guild – or defeat another gunner who can.