Order of the Silver Exiles

The order of the Silver Exiles is a group of lycanthrope hunters who are sworn to their cause for the rest of their life. Many of them are exiles or criminals who chose to fight against the spread of lycanthropy rather than face incarceration or death, but some volunteer. Regardless of commitment, they are exiles for life, branded with the order's mark, and are forced to drink a solution that adds silver to their blood so as to prevent them from ever turning, and make them dangerous to lycanthropes even in death. A vial of their blood is preserved before they imbibe this solution, acting as a phylactery.

Secretly, this solution also contains an herb that makes them pliable to command during the first few doses, and are conditioned during training to listen only to the seekers and the Hand. Should an exile attempt to abandon their duties after this initiation, their phylacteries can be used to locate them no matter where they are on the plane, and will be hunted and executed by the seekers. This keeps these incidents to a minimum.

Goals
To eradicate the spread of lycanthropy anywhere is it found in the world, and protect innocents against them. They also have sworn to peacefully cure anyone who has become infected should they seek the order.

Structure
The order as it exists in Terragard currently is led by the Master of Exiles.

He commands the silver seekers, a group of veteran hunters and trackers that pursue lycanthopes and attempt to root out their true nature if there is suspicion that one may be living among peaceful folk.

The seekers command the largest group of the Order, the silver exiles themselves, who are trained by the seekers and are used as reinforcements to catch and/or kill a lycanthrope. They are trained since they should be dead, their lives now belong to Malar, the God of the hunt, so if their death should help capture or kill the shape-shifter in any way, it is worth sacrificing themselves to redeem their Abandoned honor in the eyes of the Gods.

Seekers do most of the hunting and tracking to locate a lycanthrope, and bring in the exiles only when they are ready to strike. Since most major lycanthropes can overtake a group of silver exiles, and it can be difficult to tell it's full power until its revealed, the exiles often perish in any attempt to overtake one. Due to this, very few exiles ever become a seeker, as most of them are killed in the attempt.

Limits
The Silver Exiles are not to allow any innocents to be harmed, are not to kill anyone that is not a lycanthrope, and no execution can be performed without concrete proof of the infection, usually a first-hand account by a seeker of exile.