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The Inkguard

🏛️ Basic Info

  • Type: Arcane-Militant Enforcement Arm

  • Purpose/Mission: To enforce the will of the Archivist Ascendancy and protect Eladris from destabilizing truths, Echo incursions, and forbidden knowledge breaches. They are not soldiers — they are truth-executioners.

  • Headquarters: Operate throughout Druvenhal and other key containment sites across Begoestia

  • Notable Members: Warden Hespel Kree (Commandant), Inkscribe Marvaen, Silent Edict Ieshra

  • Allies/Rivals:

⚔️ Identity & Role

The Inkguard serve as the enforcing hand of epistemic control. When knowledge breaches containment, when cities echo themselves, when memory-tampering artifacts go rogue — the Inkguard are deployed.

Each Inkguard is not merely trained in battle but also in resonant logic, arcane erasure, and memory-stabilization warfare. Their actions are sanctioned only when the threat of destabilized reality outweighs the cost of suppression.

Their motto is: "We do not protect lives. We protect continuity."

🧵 Uniform & Marks

  • Inkskin Sigils: Each Inkguard has phrases or runes scribed into their skin via ink-rune grafting. These marks serve as mnemonic wards, emergency counter-rituals, or memory-seals in the event of Echo exposure.

  • Armor: Blacksteel and vellum-laced laminar, layered with mirror-inscribed plates. Reflections help detect identity bleed or phasic distortion.

  • Weapons: Specialized items include Sigilbrand Seals, silence-bolts, mnemonic daggers, and resonance-cancelling blades known as "Echo Shears."

🧠 Structure

  • Warden: Commands a regional Inkguard order. Currently, Warden Hespel Kree oversees Druvenhal’s outer seal zone.

  • Silent Edicts: Elite operatives sent to silence rogue knowledge or close Echo loops with precision. Often work alone.

  • Truthbinders: Field commanders responsible for interpreting Ascendancy orders in chaotic conditions.

  • Pale Scribes: Initiates undergoing mnemonic training. Rarely deployed without a handler.

🛠️ Duties

  • Contain or eliminate Echo-creatures and identity fractures

  • Enforce suppression orders issued by the Ascendancy

  • Assist in Veil-sealing during major destabilization events

  • Secure, transport, and guard forbidden texts and memory-objects

🕰️ Notable Incidents

  • The Kythal Memory Breach: A Pale Scribe repeated the same moment for nine days before the Inkguard sealed the zone in a mirrored stasis vault.

  • The Red Choir Incident: A cult-inspired dissonance wave caused 42 archivists to begin singing their own obituaries. Only one survived.

  • Vos's Silent Accord: A protocol authored by Arch-Lexicon Thariel Vos granting full lethal autonomy to the Inkguard under Council Fragment threat.

🌐 Reputation

The Inkguard are feared, even among allies. They appear when truth becomes dangerous, and leave behind silence. Some call them necessary monsters — others, the only thing standing between Eladris and a complete echo-collapse.

Despite their terrifying mandate, many Inkguard are deeply principled. They view their duty as sacrificial: protecting minds by becoming something less than whole themselves.

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