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The Conclave was the self-entitled Albion’s best known secret Society by the time of Fable Legends, was also Albion’s oldest, yet still thriving, order of Assassins.
| “ | The Conclave is said to have ears in every room, an eye on every person and a reach that is almost as long as its memory. This mysterious, sinister, ancient and adjective-obsessed group of assassins offers its services to anyone in Albion who requires the removal of human obstacles. — The Conclave's description |
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Background
Only a select few were selected for initiation into the Conclave. Of those who proved themselves worthy to be trained by the order, fewer than half survived the training process.
Although, as an order of assassins, the Conclave mainly dealt with eliminating unwanted people or beasts from the path of whoever contracted them, the greatest source of the order’s money was nothing but political conflicts, them being the need of eliminating any opposition or manipulating the rise of a certain one.
Known Practices and Methods
Crows
While most of Albion’s elite would use hawks or other exotic pompous birds as messengers, the Conclave preferred crows, much clever creatures capable of of recognizing and remembering countless songs and commands, and common enough to travel anywhere in Albion without drawing attention.
However, the Conclave realized the creature’s potential and taught it to act not only as a messenger but also as a weapon, by strapping poisoned needles to a bird’s talons, the order created an animal that could swoop down in silence and kill with a single scratch.
One of the greatest Conclave members, Shroud, tried once to attach explosives to the birds in order to create more dramatic assassinations, but the Conclave stood against the lost of so many birds
Contracts
Although the assassin members could be directly required for any job, any other contract settled with the Conclave would be directed to the best positioned assassin available.
The contract would be sent in a small scroll via crow, and if the assassin accepted the task, they would bite the last word off the scroll, otherwise, if the assassin would not accept the task, they should bite the first word off the scroll, then send the message back to the Conclave.
Regardless of the task’s difficulty, any assassin who would turn any task down would be properly outcasted from the Conclave and hunted down.
Blood Order
The blood orders were special high-rank contracts that were made by the highest ranked members of the Conclave and were confided only to the most trusted assassins within the order. Usually, the blood orders were reserved for inside issues, commonly renegade assassins who betrayed the Conclave.
The red ink used meant the blood orders went beyond a simple assassination. The target was to be eliminated at any cost. All other assignments were put on hold. And if possible, the target should know who it was that killed them.
In the novel Fable: Blood of Heroes, the assassin and hero Shroud received a blood order demanding him to kill the ogre Headstrong.
Known Members
Shroud
The most renowned assassin of the Conclave, Shroud parted to become a hero under the call of King Wendleglass, who was seeking to gather heroes to assert his rule. However, anyone who thinks Shroud abandoned his position as a great assassin is greatly wrong.
Although the Conclave tended to remain their members and actions occult from the mere people of Albion, some of their identities were revealed by Shroud by the time of the events of Fable: Blood of Heroes, most of them being his own mentors who taught him.
Poisoned Violet
One of the senior assassins of the Conclave, who trained the acolytes to hear the softest of sounds by blindfolding them and beating the tar out of them until they could hear the softest footfall and feel the disturbance in the air.
Peril
One of the Concave’s assassins, at some point Peril had killed an Ogre and taken her Noggin – called Night Axe – as a trophy. However, Peril tended for the Noggin, keeping her alive by feeding her and let her watch plenty of violence.
As the time passed, Peril and Night Axe became friends, and soon the Noggin knew much of the Conclave’s methods by watching them and talking with Peril.
This knowledge attracted the attention of the witch Yog and her ogre servant Headstrong, who together killed Peril and took Nigh Axe for themselves.
Soon enough, during the events of Fable: Blood of Heroes, the Conclave sent a blood order demanding Shroud to eliminate both Headstrong and Night Axe, to prevent any information regarding the assassin society to be spread.