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[[Category: Starlit Court]]

 

 

 

==Origin==

 

This was the case until Lady Astrid McAngus-Sethdragon, Lady Elenore Von Bathory and their entourage arrived in their flotilla of vessels searching for a new base of operations a year after the crisis that had gotten them exiled. While Kitina had formed the basis of what would become The Gilded Knife, it would not fully take shape until a few years later when Astrid would slay Kitina in an honour duel to the death after she questioned Astrid’s true loyalties. While many were skeptical, a large enough group of the people had praised Astrid for freeing them from Kitina’s incompetent leadership. While she wouldn’t go on to lead the group singularly right away, the prestige she gained led to her holding a great deal of pull over the two remaining power structures, Lady Syr Sarahlee Brenner The Grandmaster of the Umbral Forge and The Grandmaster of the Order of the Shattered Fae. The three would form a council with the assistance of Countess Bathory who would later leave, returning to her base on Dachia.

 

==Astrid’s Backstory==

 

Syr Elenore von Bathory had taken Astrid under her wing and personally trained the girl in all of the dominionist ways. She focused on advanced interrogations, assassination, manipulation and covert operations. She had also spent time mastering the bleed art of Meta-Magic, and Decay, a potent and deadly combination. Between Elenore’s brainwashing and that she felt abandoned by the people of the court, she grew cold and cynical against her former Kinsmen, especially because one of them had murdered her husband. After saving her daughter's life, Bathory would offer her a chance to create another child with the DNA of her dead husband. Foolishly believing that it was her late husband’s wish for it to happen, she accepted, creating Prince Arthur. Astrid delusionally believed that Arthur through his father was destined to be the reincarnation of the High King and would bring unity to the divide between the Starlit Court and the Dominion. This was used by Countess Bathory to further the woman’s control over Astrid.

 

Twenty-Two years later she would find herself the leader of the thirds largest Dominion SubFaction with her two children by her side. While the other dominionist sub-factions focused on outright combating the Sihian court, The Gilded Knife provided necessary services throughout Beacon Space, taking on contracts and being the face of the Dominion to the rest of the sector, accepting quests and consisting of more charismatic individuals than usual. They would take on quests, much the same as the bulk of the Starlit Court, providing confusion about if the organization was really a terrorist organization or a benefit. It also contains the largest of the dominionist spy networks, known as the UID (Umbral Intelligence Division).

Astrid was eventually made the grandmaster of the Order of The Shattered Fae after its original grandmaster went missing. The order specialized in manipulating knights’ sheaths along with their fae to great their own twisted "shattered fae" sometimes for the good or worst of the fae involved. It was at this same time that a large enough movement within the populous, expressed a public desire for Astrid to become their sole ruler, and thus she adopted the moniker “The Queen of the Free Dominion” While the other dominionist sub-factions focused on outright combating the Sihian court, The Gilded Knife provided necessary services throughout Beacon Space, taking on contracts and being the face of the Dominion to the rest of the sector, accepting quests and consisting of more charismatic individuals than usual. They would take on quests, much the same as the bulk of the Starlit Court, providing confusion about if the organization was really a terrorist organization or a benefit.

 

 

===Militant Force===

Total - 225,000

 

 

===Current Leadership===

 

===Notable Agents===

 

===Other Members===

 

==UID (Umbral Intelligence Division)==

 

They are spread out across the sector, including on Sihi, The Leviathan and Crucible. They funnel information, supplies and personnel back to the Fortress of Kamelot. The spies mostly operate solo, blending in with the locals of their assigned locations. On rare occasions, the UID will send lances of spies to investigate possible leads or high-value targets, usually, they will usually acquire disguises to blend into whatever local police force or military a planet might have in the event a planetary government is protecting a highly valued target.

==Known Orders==

The Gilded Knife maintains two active knightly orders within its power structure