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The Fraternity of Order
One Good Law Deserves Another
For the Guvners, Sigil’s lawmaking faction, there could never be enough rules. Laws, they reckon, give a body structure in life, telling them what they can, can’t, shouldn’t and should do in any given situation. They remove the problematic tasks of decision-making and moral quandaries. “If everyone followed Our Laws,” they say, “the Multiverse would run smooth and sweet.”
It ain’t all blind obedience and compulsion, though. See, if a cutter figures out the natural Laws of the Multiverse too, then he’ll not only understand how to follow them better, but he’ll also know what loopholes exist. Some Guvners have discovered and exploited these loopholes, granting them strange and useful powers, like magic, but not. One factor’s reportedly able to open his own portals, another can slip into the Astral Plane at will…
‘Course, all this provokes howls of laughter from Xaositects who’re watching closely. “The Guvners only study Laws so they know how to break them!” they shout. Fraternity factioneers are quick, perhaps too quick, to deny this, of course — that would be bad publicity…
“You may do one of three things:
—Guvner, to a cornered Anarchist
One: Surrender.
Two: Die.
Three: Renounce your beliefs.”
“Four: This!”
—The Anarchist, swinging his sword
Faction Headquarters
- The City Courts — where the Full Force of the Law is Applied to Criminals
Movers and Shakers
- Jimmy Stitches — Who dangles from Puppet strings, and Knows far more laws than he’s Telling
- Factol Hashkar’s Proverbs — Being a Collection of Factol Hashkar’s more easily-remembered Proverbs Concerning Life on the Planes
Visionaries
- GrandMaster Lorill — Who wants to Learn the Rules, and make Sure he Plays by them
Coteries
- The Players — If the multiverse is a game then are we just pawns?
- The Literalists — Purity of Law ain’t the only thing bothering these Guvners—they’re aiming for purity of language too
Philosophies
- Speak like a Guvner — Being a Glossary of the Legalese that is Endemic in the Courts of both Sigil and Mechanus
Source: Jon Winter-Holt, mimir.net
See Also: kriegstanz.com, a Fraternity of Order D&D 3rd edition conversion here