“Through the Storm” — the order that protects Cardacci. It fought a demon alongside Owl Knights in Summer 1735, and was untouched when the Owl was destroyed for consorting with the Deceiver eight months later.
Charge & Motto
Protects the kingdom of Cardacci. Motto: “Through the Storm.” One of the six Orders Militant; its head holds a seat on the Divine Council (Western Church).
Character (GM)
- Strongly maritime: the Gull operates ships, coastal stations, sailors, and marines alongside its knights, with naval facilities at La Serenissima. Piracy suppression is one of its standing duties.
- Identified with Cardacci as a people and maritime society, rather than with the Doge’s authority specifically.
- Among the western Orders it has a comparatively good reputation in Hazad: the Eagle and Gull have fought, but the Gull is remembered for treating Hazadi opponents as honorable enemies rather than objects of religious hatred. Not allies — just a relationship less poisoned than the Phoenix’s.
- A post-schism (and pointedly critical) history of the orders dismisses the Gull as “a glorified navy.” (S7) The unreliable narrator’s sneer and the primer’s “strongly maritime” are the same fact wearing two tones.
In the Campaign (all GM)
- Summer 1735, Stoccarda: a snake demon possessing a noblewoman revealed itself at a party and killed a number of nobles. Members of the Order of the Gull, with visiting Owl Knights, killed it.
- Spring 1736: the Order of the Phoenix dissolves the Order of the Owl for having fallen to the Deceiver. The Gull — which had just fought a demon shoulder to shoulder with them — is not implicated.
Why It Matters
The Gull is a living witness to the Owl’s last year. Whatever the Phoenix charged the Owl with, there are Gull knights who worked with Owl knights eight months before the dissolution and can say what they were actually like. They are also the order of the diocese Baldessare Malipiero came from.
Open Questions
- Who among the Gull was at Stoccarda, and what did they make of the charges against the Owl?
- The Gull’s seat on the Divine Council voted in the Spring 1734 convocation that made the Archprelate of their own capital the Most Holy.