Wisemen's Guild

We will be the love you’ve always wanted, we will be the fire in your blood...

We will be the vice of your desire, we will be salvation in the flood...

--Royksopp - "Skulls"

Supposedly founded before the start of Shantanian Reckoning, the Wisemen's Guild could be considered the only truly global religion of Shantania, though the masses are not very aware of their doings. The Wisemen are the favored consorts of Shantania's nobles and politicians. There are six actual Wisemen, one for each country and two that roam the continent freely. The Wisemen never state their names (their names are known only to other Wisemen), and act not in the interests of their nation, but in the interests of the rest of the continent. Therefore, they will never advise their subjects to wage war.

Wisemen are said to have the gift of foresight, stronger than children of the Eagle starsign. This is a talent that is unique to them and taught to nobody. The process by which a person becomes a Wiseman is shrouded in mystery and passed down only by mouth. Rumors that some old politicians and generals have become Wisemen have never been confirmed, but are not unfounded.

One notable Wiseman of Lynia's time is Fortune-Giver, the only Wiseman to have abandoned the Guild through a turn of conscience.