A special military force said to have been instituted by the occupant of the Empty Chair for the purpose of recruiting slave labor groups among the tribal peoples of the Weald. Led by Captain Benjamin Briggs, they hunt in packs of 50 under separate commanders broken into two braces of 25 each. They use a trance inducing drug called stasha to keep control over their captives.

Organisms that feed on decomposing material and plant material at the bottom of the water body