The Dusk Knights

Archive Classification

Dusk-Born Military Order, Serpentine Relic-State, Sealed Greyspire Conquest Archive

Known Location

Primarily based between Greyspire and the Shaded Castle in northeastern Harrowfell, near the Ashen Rotfields border, with Greyspire serving as the Fang’s occupied mining and military hub while the Shaded Castle remains its true seat of power, relic vault, political command center, and poisoned stronghold.

Known Condition

Active, expanding, and dangerously unified, the Serpent’s Fang has evolved beyond the old disorder of the Dusk Knights into a hardened military power under Valen’s influence. Though still fractured by old loyalties, relic greed, and court intrigue beneath Lord Veylan’s rule, the order now operates with sharper discipline, stronger command structure, occupied resources, intelligence networks, and growing political ambition across northeastern Harrowfell.

Associated Factions

The former Dusk Knights, the shadow-born private order from which the Serpent’s Fang emerged; House Serapion, the ruling bloodline of Serapion the Tyrant and Lord Veylan; Valen’s Black Legion, the newly disciplined military force shaped under Valen’s command; the Greyspire Occupation Forces, who control the city’s mines, walls, prisoners, and supply routes; the Shaded Castle Court, Veylan’s inner political circle of relic-brokers, captains, spies, and loyalists; the Fang Relic-Hunters, agents sent across the Shattered Dominion to seize artifacts of life, death, and ancient power; the Ashen Rotfields Border Watch, soldiers and wardens who defend the poisoned approaches around the Shaded Castle; and the conquered remnants of Greyspire, whose surviving exiles, miners, and broken noble lines remain unwillingly bound to the Fang’s growing war machine.

Associated Faith

The Doctrine of the Coiled Dominion — less a true faith than a militant creed of possession, fear, and relic-supremacy, born from the old Dusk Knights’ belief that power belonged to those ruthless enough to seize it. Under the Serpent’s Fang, this doctrine has hardened into something almost religious: the conviction that ancient relics are not sacred inheritances, but weapons meant to crown the strongest; that mercy is weakness disguised as virtue; and that history itself should be strangled, harvested, and reforged beneath the serpent banner. Among Valen’s rising military ranks, the creed has become colder and more disciplined — no longer drunken greed in black armor, but a political theology of conquest, obedience, and controlled terror.

Related Figures

Serapion the Tyrant, founder of the old Dusk Knights and architect of their relic-hunting corruption; Lord Veylan Serapion, current ruler of the Serpent’s Fang, heir to the Shaded Castle and obsessive collector of ancient power; Valen, the Butcher of Greyspire, the military force that transformed the order’s inflated terror-myth into a disciplined black legion; the dead King of Greyspire, whose throne was carved into the serpent crest after the city’s fall; the old Dusk Captains, veteran commanders still loyal to Serapion’s original order and uneasy with Valen’s growing influence; the Shaded Castle Court, Veylan’s circle of relic-brokers, spies, poison-minded advisers, and ambitious officers; the Greyspire Exiles, survivors and broken bloodlines whose hatred of the Fang remains a buried future threat; the Fang Relic-Hunters, agents who scour Astryon for artifacts of life, death, and dominion; and the noble houses of northeastern Harrowfell, whose greed first helped create the monster they can no longer fully control.

First Recorded Appearance

The Gift of Eternal Night

Threat Level

Critical, Coiled Dominion War Threat, With Extreme Risk of Valen-Led Military Expansion, Relic-State Consolidation, and Provincial Collapse