The Quiet Scales
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| Guild Summary | |
|---|---|
| Established | 2025-06-29 |
| Focus | Stealth-based PvP, targeted assassinations, intelligence gathering, and reconnaissance |
| Membership | |
| Recruitment | Open |
| Platform | PC |
| Language | English |
| Timezones | ALL |
| Play Style | |
| PVE | Yes |
| PVP | Yes |
| RP | No |
| Major House | Atreides |
| Links | |
| Discord | https://discord.gg/qbYRSBec |
Purpose / Ethos
The Quiet Scales is a guild built around stealth, strategy, and precision—specializing in PvP, reconnaissance, and targeted ops. But beyond the gameplay, we're here to have fun, build friendships, and create a tight-knit community where every player has a place and a purpose.
Ethos: Though deadly, the Quiet Scales are not monsters. They live by the Taligari principle:
Balance, before all.
To them, balance is not peace—it is precision. The fun lies not just in the strike, but in the art of planning, adapting, and executing as a team. Within the guild, camaraderie is sacred, and every shadow has a name.
They welcome new initiates not just as weapons, but as brothers and sisters in silence. For in the darkness between stars, no blade stands alone.
If you felt nothing… then the Scales did their work well.
Duke Leto Atreides, post-operation briefing (redacted)
Recruitment Process
Joining The Quiet Scales is simple. Just reach out with a short message about your playstyle and interests. We welcome all skill levels—whether you're a seasoned shadow or new to the game. A quick chat and a trial op is all it takes to get started.
Ranks/Hierarchy
🜃 Codex Entry – Intelligence Hierarchy of House Taligari
🎩 High Seat of Weighing (Head of Taligari Intelligence) Title: The Equilibrant
Role: Supreme authority over all covert operations. They do not give orders lightly; every mission must be justified.
🕯️ Silent Assembly (Advisory Inner Circle) A small council of three to five master operatives who serve as both spymasters and assassins. Each holds a “Feathered Seal” marking them as judgment-bearers. Ranks include: The Veilwright – Master of infiltration and disguises
The Ledgerkeeper – Oversees intelligence, records, and blackmail archives
The Final Tongue – Executes or denies lethal verdicts
The Pale Voice – Handles misinformation and diplomatic manipulation
🗡 Field Operatives – The Quiet Scales Commonly referred to as "Scales" or "Judicators."
Roles include:
Shadowscribes (information extraction, surveillance)
Weighing Hands (silent assassins)
Pathfinders (recon and terrain manipulation—ideal for Arrakis operations)
Echo-Knives (duelists trained to send messages through symbolic kills)
Leadership
TBD
Guild Lore
🜏 The Quiet Scales Reconnaissance Division | House Taligari
You will not see the judgment. You will not hear the sentence. You will only feel the weight.
Extract from the Apocrypha Taligarii, sealed scrolls of the Veiled Codex
Among the shadowed courts of the Landsraad, where power is bartered in glances and silence is more lethal than swords, there exists a name whispered only in fear: The Quiet Scales. They are the invisible measure of justice, the hidden blade that guards House Taligari’s sacred equilibrium—and by extension, the noble banner of House Atreides. ⚖️ Function & Doctrine Operating beyond official titles or courtly ranks, the Quiet Scales are the elite arm of espionage, infiltration, and silent elimination within the Taligari structure. They are trained from childhood not only in stealth, poisons, and truth-reading, but in the balance of consequence. Every mission is weighed, not for glory or vengeance, but for order—a central tenet of Taligari philosophy.
Justice must be unseen until it is done. Mercy must never slow the hand.
Commandant Vaelor Taligari, founder of the Scales
Their field operatives are chosen from across known space, often orphans of political conflict, shaped in secrecy within The Hollow Ledger, a deep-vaulted facility said to lie beneath the ice-shelves of Taligari’s ancestral moon. There, they learn how to think like nobles, kill like Sardaukar, and disappear like Bene Gesserit ghosts.
🗡 Signature The Scales do not assassinate indiscriminately. They pass sentence only when the weight of evidence and strategic value align. Their kills are surgical, symbolic, and often designed to shift entire power structures with a single death. Those marked for elimination receive no warning—only a sealed coin bearing the sigil of House Taligari: one side polished smooth, the other etched with scales. By the time the message is found, the target is already gone.
🜃 Role Within House Atreides Though they serve Taligari, their true loyalty aligns with House Atreides, acting as silent guardians during moments of war, betrayal, or courtly intrigue. In the corridors of Arrakeen or the spice halls of CHOAM, they are the unseen allies who ensure the balance does not tip into tyranny. Some whisper that Duke Leto Atreides himself was once aided by a Quiet Scale operative during the early days of his rise—though no official record confirms it.
They are not assassins. They are the hand of consequence. To be weighed by the Scales is to be judged by history itself.
Leto Atreides, private communique to Lady Jessica
Known Allegiances or Rivalries
🛡 Allegiances House Taligari (Primary Patron) The Quiet Scales exist as an elite extension of House Taligari's will. While nominally answerable to the Taligari court, they act with a degree of autonomy granted only to those who’ve proven incorruptible. Their unwavering loyalty is not to individuals—but to the principle of order Taligari upholds.
House Atreides Due to House Taligari’s historic allegiance, the Scales often conduct joint operations or independent missions that safeguard Atreides interests. Their respect for the Atreides’ honor-driven governance runs deep, and many consider themselves informal custodians of the Atreides legacy in times of instability.
Selective Bene Gesserit Circles Though officially unaffiliated, some operatives have been trained in observation techniques, deception resistance, and truthsense under cooperative Bene Gesserit tutors. These relations are delicate and informal—operated through favors, not binding oaths.
🧨 Rivalries and Targets House Harkonnen The Scales consider House Harkonnen a chaotic counterweight—brutal, indulgent, and disruptive. Their inversion of honor makes them a frequent target of Quiet Scales operations. While rarely engaging in direct warfare, the Scales have destabilized multiple Harkonnen efforts through surgical strikes, leaked documents, and agent disappearances.
The Sardaukar While not openly at war, the Scales regard the Sardaukar as blunt instruments of imperial fear, lacking subtlety or moral restraint. In whispered briefings, they are referred to as “hounds that break the scales.” Encounters are rare, but when they occur, discretion trumps valor—unless judgment has been passed.
CHOAM Guild Enforcers The Quiet Scales frequently infiltrate or undermine corrupt CHOAM handlers, particularly those profiteering in destabilized regions. While they do not wage war against the Guild itself, rogue enforcers and exploiters of economic imbalance are considered fair game.
House Moritani Though politically entangled with Taligari during older Landsraad dealings, House Moritani’s history of treachery and hired killings positions them as both competition and threat. The Quiet Scales view them with calculated disdain—the difference between a scalpel and a club wrapped in velvet.
The sword seeks glory. The Scale seeks silence. And only one will tip the future. Landsraad Whisper, origin unknown
Other Activities
While The Quiet Scales is built on deep lore, political intrigue, and the shadowy legacy of House Taligari, at the end of the day—we know this is a game. Whether you're here to immerse yourself in roleplay, dominate in PvP, or just enjoy the world and good company, you're welcome here.
We’re all about building a community where people can laugh, learn, and explore together. The story matters, but the people matter more. So come for the intrigue—stay for the fun, the friendships, and the quiet chaos we create together.