The Ruby Quills



"'How we are considered a guild is beyond me... we are just a collection of insane weirdos lead by an even bigger weirdo... but i guess everyone needs information and knowledge... and well we have it.'"

"-Elianora Brighthorn, Grand Lore seeker of the Ruby Quills. "

Basic Info
The Ruby Quills Are a lesser faction that started an extremely long time ago, they focus on one knowledge and information specifically guarding, gathering and preserving knowledge of any kind legal or otherwise. While the Ruby Quills deny themselves being a cult recently there has been more cult like activity due to the strange nature of their leader, a strange figure whose identity is unknown.

General History
It is unknown to most when the Ruby Quills were first established but it is generally known they have been here for far longer the other greater and lesser factions. The story that the ruby quills tell about their start is simple, one day a strange cloaked figure walked into a village and started sharing his knowledge with anybody who would listen, eventually people started gathering with the figure sharing their own knowledge and so the Ruby Quills were born.

Cult?
While the Ruby Quills strongly Deny any cult involvement recently there have been more and more cult like activity as a small part of the Ruby Quill has started worshiping their mysterious leader. Hoping to separate themselves from that the ruby quill has recently separated into two divisions: The Quills and The Rubies.

The Quills
The Quills are a bigger of the two divisions of The Ruby Quills that focuses on the knowledge and understanding while mostly ignoring their strange leader and trying to stay away from the cult business. This division of The Ruby Quills is mostly lead by The Grand Lore Seeker Elianora Brighthorn.

The Rubies
The Rubies are the smaller of the two divisions of the Ruby Quills that while still gathering knowledge and information focus a lot of their attention to worshiping and understanding the strange leader of the Ruby Quills. They are generally tolerated but often disliked by Quill members as because of them some people think the all of the Ruby Quills to be cultists. They Rubies are mostly lead by The Grand Elder Loltrug The Wise.

Location
The capital of the Ruby Quills, the city of scienti has stood tall for as long as everyone remembers in the middle of the continent a perfect place to share and discover information. A tropical place with a great amount of rain which is always good for the great amount trees in and around the city. The city itself is a busy place full of all kinds of strange folk bringing their own cultures and architecture and shaping scienti with it, the red colour being the only constant in this strange place and wondrous place.

Notable Members
The Leader of the Ruby Quills Is a strange mysterious figure as there is virtually nothing known about her. He takes a strange approach to running her faction as sometimes she would take a very hands on approach to running the faction while other times he would just disappear for a great period of time (The current one lasting 70 years). The Ruby division is focused around understanding this mysterious figure, trying to figure out her name as it is believe the figure promised he would share all the knowledge she has if they figured out her true name. The figure has been leading the ruby quills since their inception and because of this many believe them to be immortal, while to Rubies believe them to be a god despite the protests of the Quills.



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The Grand Elder Loltrug The Wise Is one of the oldest members of the Ruby Quills being around for 80 years and joining the guild at a young age. In his time in the Ruby Quills Loltrug became obsessed with the leader of the Ruby Quills hoping to find any information about the strange figure. Eventually their leader disappeared again which gave Loltrug time to think, and so he came to the conclusion that The Leader of The Ruby Quills must be a god and he started worshiping him and spreading his beliefs with anyone who would listen eventually becoming the leader of The Rubies after the two divisions were created.



The Grand Lore Seeker Elianora Brighthorn is the youngest member of The Ruby Quills to ever become a Grand Lore Seeker (The Second Highest position in the guild) becoming one at the age of 19 and leading The Ruby Quills in their leaders absence ever since. Elianora while respecting the leader of the ruby quills cares little beyond that. (not helping the fact she has never seen him as she joined the guild in a period of his absence) Elianora was one of the members of the Ruby Quills that pushed for separation into two divisions as she wanted to separate the rest of the Ruby Quills from the cult rumors, and so when The Ruby Quills separated into two divisions she became the leader of the bigger of the two divisions The Quills.

Rumours
Being the oldest of the factions the Ruby Quills have a great many rumours regarding them. It is hard to decide on which are true and which are false as The Ruby Quills don't comment on them, here are some of the more prominent ones:
 * The Ruby Quills managed to completely destroy a great number of factions by selling information to their rivals or using information to destroy them from the inside.
 * Some of the higher up members of the Ruby Quills are children of the Leader.
 * The Ruby Quills sometimes teach people how to make friends even having a special section in the library for information useful to this goal.
 * The Leader of the Ruby Quills not being mortal is something some people believe but there are different beliefs of what he actually is some believing him to be a god, fey, great old one, demon, devil etc.
 * The City of Scienti (Capital of the Ruby Quills) is built on the remains of a capital of a great destroyed nation that used to rule most of Timmeran.
 * The Leader of the Ruby Quills is a title passed down from person to person.
 * The Leader of the Ruby Quills is not real but in fact a simple folk tale.
 * The Ruby Quills have been breeding dragons in Scienti for unknown reasons.


 * The Ruby Quills have been buying a large amount of goats recently.


 * The Ruby Quills have been establishing an espionage division for getting a hold of more... Well kept information.