League of Dishonest Balladeers

The League of Dishonest Balladeers is a continent-wide faction of heretics, blasphemers, doomsayers, storyellers, and bards, as well as a few thieves and assassins here and there. Although the group has no true center or origin (known, at least), the highest concentration seems to be in Tellarym's capital city Tallendus.

Creed
The League's creed is simple: preserve all knowledge. The League Compendium instructs the members to allow no scroll, tome, journal, account, song, story, or song to be lost. There are League headquarters across the land, and most house expansive libraries containing forbidden texts and ancient scrolls.

Positions
There are several positions within the League that are responsible for various tasks. However, there is no official hierarchy, and the members usually operate individually, only convening on rare occasions.


 * Seeker - Official wanderers, nomads, gypsies, or adventurers entrusted with the task of learning and collecting new knowledge for the League's libraries. Seekers are equipped with an official signet ring, a set of lexicons for translations, and an archaeological toolkit for delicate operations in old ruins.


 * Keeper - Holders and protectors of valuable knowledge. Keepers often have excellent memories by necessity of their craft. They usually have several secret caches of particularly treasured items to preserve them. Keepers spend a significant amount of time scribing additional copies of various texts and drawings.


 * Teller - Tellers wander Ademre, spreading tales and knowledge that they consider important. This could be ancient histories relevant to current events, or particularly beautiful songs and ballads. Tellers could have any variety of reasons for doing what they do, but every one seeks an audience, and excels at controlling it.

In Ademre
The League most often operates in indivual or small group capacities, and rarely congregates in plain sight. In many societies, the League is outlawed for its heretic and sometimes treasonous tales. However, the extent to which this is enforced varies. Sometimes it is possible to openly state yourself as a member of the League without fear of prosecution. At other times and places, you might be killed on the spot. Wrenn is fairly tame, however.

Notable Members

 * Lucious
 * Yueluk
 * Aldair