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New Granbreton orders

presents:
help for
Hawkmoon

granbretons
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a game aid for Hawkmoon

Author : Alan Oliver (Signs & Portents 55)
Translation : Zaoutir
Proofreading : David Hodent, Arasmo
Layout : Arasmo

The illustrations are taken from the books Hawkmoon — The Screen, Empire Ténébreux
and Son of Granbretanne, published by Oriflam

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Introduction
Not all of the masked orders of Granbretanne
are as important and powerful as those detailed
in the collection La Granbretanne. Here we will
describe smaller, specific orders that fulfill
particular roles in the armies of Granbre-tanne.
None of these orders are widely known outside
of Granbretanne and even among the masked
orders themselves, detailed knowledge of these
new orders is not widespread.
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Spider
Our webs connect the whole Empire
2 While the highest dignitaries of other orders and
Grand Constable: Countess Lanas Quinith de
Crew
At the head of the order is an immortal who
has been High Constable for at least 400 years
and is said to have fought alongside the King-
Emperor during the Battle of Londra. There is
nothing physically impressive about her: small
and pleasant to look at, she is not breathtakingly brother to spy on the enemy than to send a
beautiful and does not give off an impression of
power. On the other hand, her mind is prodigious
and she is one of the great minds of the Empire.
The only reason she is not more widely known
to Granbretanne's enemies is that her actions
are subtle and she does not seek attention. His
greatest talents are
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in court intrigue, science-witchcraft and military
intelligence, although she is also known to be a
keen botanist.
The Order: The Order of the Spider is one of
the smallest orders in the Empire, as highly
trained and specialized as the Wasps. The order
is not only made up of women but it is they who
find themselves at the top of the order: all the
Masters and 2/3 of the Constables are women.
They are scientific fighters capable of handling
any problem in combat but especially used for
their mastery of communications and military
intelligence.
Their greatest strength (their greatest secret)
comes from their ability to communicate with
each other instantly over great distances.
It is a service that they provide free of charge to
other orders: their contribution to the work of
Granbretanne. Of course, this means allows
them to be informed of all the information they
transmit; the actions of the other masked orders
therefore have no secrets for them. Some nobles
and lords strive to have a Spider in their retinue,
to send and receive messages from everywhere
thanks to the web woven by the Spiders.
most nobles are aware of the Spiders'
communication abilities, the precise way in
which they operate is known only to the Masters
and Grand Constable of the Order of the Spider.
Military intelligence is another role they fulfill in
the service of the Empire. A single Spider can
often find itself close to an enemy and instantly
communicate its location and description to a
brother or sister in Granbretanne's army. This is
a high-risk assignment because if they are
caught, they will certainly be killed as spies,
however they share the madness of the
Granbretons and do not care about the risks
they take. Besides, it's better to risk a sister or
dozen to the front...
Spiders are well trained in the art of combat,
as they often travel alone or often find themselves
separated from their own order.
Unlike most other orders, They
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rely mainly on martial arts and an unarmed Spiders and Ravens began working together
Spider is often more dangerous than if it were regularly, the combination of Raven pilots with
armed. They do not trust other orders to keep a Spider observer being a powerful tool for
them safe; an attack on one of them, if it does obtaining military intelligence. The Spiders are
not kill her instantly, will quickly become a public satisfied with this collaboration, although the
affair while the deceased will be mourned by her Ravens take the credit for it, and boost their
fellow sisters. The order may feature a few rise among the orders. However, the Ravens
companies of deserving troops, typically the are aware that this success depends in part on
largest and strongest men of the order, who are cooperation with the Spiders.
normally busy defending their palace in Crew.
When the orders set out in large numbers, the
Spiders help. However, even the stupidest On the other hand, Baron Meliadus, High New

commander will realize that using them at the
front is wasting their skills.
Unlike other orders, Spiders never remove
their masks. This is not just a fad: their masks
are surgically grafted to their bodies during
initiation rites and once grafted, they cannot be
removed without killing the Spider and
destroying witchcraft. contained in the mask.
Whatever witchcraft secret allows Spiders to
speak to each other is part of their mask. These In addition, they are scientific sorcerers outside
masks provide other benefits: the eye-like gems the control of the Serpents, which the latter
that adorn the forehead, top, and sides of the
mask are all functional, giving the Spider a field
of vision that extends his peripheral and normal just specialists with a few useful talents; but that
vision. These eyes can also see in complete
darkness. Finally, the masks also have air filters.
Relationship with other orders: The Spiders
have an ancient affinity with the order of the
Mantis, the two orders have always supported
each other since the early days of the masked
orders. The Spiders have always been loyal
partners, effectively serving the needs of the
Mantis; with the advent of the King-Emperor,
they became their most loyal servants.
Constable of the Wolf, has a deep aversion to
the order. For some reason, he distrusts the
Spiders and does not want to take them into his service.
This made them a minor player in the conquest
of Europe, as they were excluded from most
major battles. Some say that Melia-dus distrusts
the order because of his loyalty to the King-
Emperor and this is entirely true.
They are also hated by the Serpent Order,
especially because they are rivals for the
resources the Serpents desperately need.
perceive as a threat. The Spiders never
presented themselves as rivals to the Serpents,
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doesn't appease the Serpents...
Temple: The Spider Temple is located in Crew;
it is a very large enclosed botanical garden, a
glass greenhouse extending over tens of meters
and inside which exotic climate and conditions
are maintained. Strange plants lean against the
glass, pulling anyone who comes too close
towards them, like hungry predators. There are
several species of predators and carnivorous
plants in the garden, as well as spiders in
immeasurable numbers. Rumors suggest that
Spider scientists have created monster spiders

Order Bonus to Basic Skills Advanced Skills Standard equipment

Spider Acrobatics +5%, Athletics +5% Martial Arts +10%, Knowledge Light Granbreton Armor, 1M
(Cryptography), Lan- Sword or Exquisite Rapier
Choose one at +10%: Rapier, Sword 1 pledge (Spider) (Sharp and Light is common
M, Firethrower, Dagger, Shield for females), Fire Fist,
Choose one: Crafting, Spider Mask
Engineering, Mechanisms

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spiders big enough to chase a man, but the Spiders father. After a year, Lys gained the support of the
laugh softly behind their masks when we talk other Masters by dismissing her father and taking
about these things. his position as Grand Constable for herself. The
other Masters, all men, thought it would be easy
Benefits: Spiders gain the Night Vision ability to remove this young woman and take her place,
with their mask, which also gives a +10% bonus to however the loyal women of the Glutton proved
Perception. They have access to the web, which them wrong and within a week of her appointment,
allows them to contact another Spider at will and all the Masters of the order were murdered and
conduct a conversation with them as if they were replaced by women loyal to Lys.
face to face.

The order has not become an order of women

Glutton
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and even they do not dominate in numbers, only

The madmen
Grand Constable: Countess Lys de Is-witch
When Lys took her father's place as Grand
Constable of the Order of the Glutton; No one
thought she would stay more than a week in this
position. Ten years later she is still there and
what's more, she has taken the reputation of the
order out of the gutter where her father's follies
had placed it. Once a pretty woman, she was
marked for life by the battles she fought at the
head of her madmen; only a warrior of a masked
order would find her desirable today.
4 The order: ten before the start of the conquest
of Europe, the Order of the Glutton was insignificant, greatest impact. Even with greater numbers they
led by a debauched Grand Constable driven mad
by drugs, incapable of leading his order anywhere
other than disaster. Half of the order's fighting
force was killed in a single action when he ordered many tools that can be thrown into battle when
his men to charge the enemy positions, just
before the place was bombarded by the onslaught
of Salamanders and Ravens. . This mistake cost
10,000 of the order's best warriors.
women occupy most of the key positions under
the leadership of an inflexible Lys. This is partly
because she has now turned the order's fortunes
around after its disastrous fall from grace into an
order with real political power and one that holds
its place among the other major masked orders.
It is only limited by its size with a total of 15,000
warriors, 1/3 of whom are women.
The order's demands for glory are merely a rage-
inducing drug that soldiers use in combat, fighting
without the use of weapons other than the claws
on their armor. They are not a subtle tactical force
but shock troops used at a critical moment in battle
where the ferocity of the Wolverines will have the
cannot fight alone in battles, their mode of combat
is too specialized for that. Instead they are used
by the great generals of Granbretanne as one of
needed.
Relationship with other orders: the countess

After this disaster, his daughter Lys, then Master
of the order, persuaded her father to incorporate
women in order to increase the number of the
order; she took control of these women while the
men continued to degrade under the rules of her
Lily of the Glutons and Countess Marya of the
Péli-cans seem very close. Rumors suggest all
kinds of things, but whatever the truth, the two
orders work together more often than normal. We
also often see the

Order Bonus to Basic Skills Advanced Skills Standard Equipment

Glutton Acrobatics +10%, Athletics +10%, Martial Arts, Language Heavy Granbreton armor for
Discretion +5% (Glutton) men, standard for women; they
have spikes, claws and blades on
the gauntlets that cause
1D6 points of damage each
attack.

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Glutton women protect the Pelicans; perhaps it
is a simple spirit of camaraderie between female
orders?
Tigers and Gluttons respect each other's martial
skills. The Tigers' arrogance is such that they
treat most other orders with disdain, but the
Gluttons are one of the few where their arrogance
is directed against them.
Glutton Drug: a white powder that is absorbed
through the nose. Most Gluttons have a dispenser
installed in their battle mask that supplies them
with drugs when their nose is caught in the helm.
Snow Leopard
Revenge is a dish best served cold.

As the shock troops of the Glutons compete

with those of the orders of the Bull and the San- New

glier, the latter consider the newcomers as

upstarts and are particularly hostile to them,
especially since the Glutons began to recruit
women .

Temple: The Temple of the Gluttons is located

in the port of Is-witch and it fell into an advanced
state of disrepair during the reign of Father de
Lys. Refurbishments and repairs have begun to
restore it to its former splendor; However, the
damage is significant and it will require a lot of
wealth to repair, more than the order can hope
to gather in a few years.
The building itself is a massive ziggurat, raised
on colossal pillars above pits where the youth of
the order are forced to fight for food. The eastern
part of the temple has collapsed due to lack of
maintenance and there are rumors of unnatural
things living there. The young men and women
of the order compete to hunt these things, hoping
to show their bravery and cover themselves in
glory. Moreover, it seems that these things would
be good to eat, which is not without arousing the
insatiable appetite of the Gluttons...
Benefits: Gluttons use a secret drug that
causes a war frenzy. In this state, they fight with
their hands, the spikes and claws that decorate
the gauntlets of their armor. In a single action,
they can make an attack with each hand, without
penalty. However, while in this state, they cannot
ward off attacks. Additionally, they will attack
anyone not wearing beast masks around them,
until all opponents are
dead.
High Constable: Baron Ravencroft of Ab-deen
The Marquis is a cold man, both physically and
emotionally. Rumors at court say he used Serpent
sorcery to turn his blood into ice. In any case, 5
man is immune to the harsh conditions of cold.
The coldness that runs through him also extends
to politics and the intrigues of the imperial court,
where he is feared for his icy and cruel character.
His wife, Baroness de Ab-deen, is his opposite.
She is a noble warrior who has the madness of
the Gran-Bretons anchored in her body and she
indulges in amphetamines, always looking for
the next fight or conflict that will present itself to
her. Her aggression is often beyond tolerable,
even in the court of the King-Emperor, but for
unknown reasons, she has not yet been molested
by the Mantis guards.
The order: the masked order of the Snow
Leopard was built around a simple specialty:
arctic combat. They are trained from a young
age in survival techniques intended to keep a
man and his equipment functional in the cold and
are exposed to grueling arctic conditions.

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health to harden them against the harsh conditions
of winter. Once they have completed their training,
they are equipped with armor and weapons that
are modified to operate in arctic conditions without
breaking: this ranges from heated armor to the
overloaded fire lances of ornithopters which are
capable to fly in temperatures that would freeze
the wings of a normal aircraft.
The order was heavily involved in the repression
in Scandia, fighting alongside the Order of the
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Bear. Nearly 80% of the order is now stationed in
the far north of Scandia, where it has been tasked
with finding a northern route through which the
Granbreton armies can attack Moskovia.
When sent outside areas of Arctic conditions,
the order commits the minimum number of troops;
he considers them too precious to be recklessly
wasted. Which led him to gain a reputation as a
coward compared to other orders. Small units sent
for general assembly will fight in close units, with
human shields in front and spearmen behind their
ranks.
6 In winter wars, Leopards often fight on skis,
using them to gain advantageous firing positions
with their cold-weather firethrowers and to charge
at enemies and crush them with their sabers or to
simply circle them. Before reaching the battlefield,
they hide their troops in the snow to ambush
enemies. They will use the ornithopters' firethrowers
to trigger avalanches on their enemies. They even
use icebergs as vessels to cross the Arctic waters
and outflank their adversary.
Their armor has an additional effect, which is to
reduce the penalty to skills inflicted by cold
conditions. Anyone who wears a
Order Bonus to Basic Skills Advanced Skills Standard Equipment
Snow Fire Thrower +5%, Survival +10%
Leopard
Choose one at +5%: Ax 1 M, Ax
2 M, Flail 1 M, Flail 2 M, Hammer 1 arctic survival, fire thrower
M, Hammer 2 M, Sword 1 M, Sword 2 M,
Shield, Spear
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full Snow Leopard armor can ignore the first -20%
penalty due to cold. The armor also includes other
minor additions for survival in the Arctic
environment, such as sharp blades on the feet
which allow the beasts to skate on the ice, hooked
points on the forearms to hold on in the snow or
the ice in case of slipping and so on. In total, the
armor grants a +10% bonus to Survival in arctic
conditions.
The Leopards' overloaded firethrowers only
operate in freezing conditions, given the heat they
give off. They do 3D8/1D6 points of damage and
otherwise follow the normal rules for firethrowers,
but only when used at temperatures below 0.
If used in temperatures above 0 degrees, there is
a 60% chance of explosion with each shot, doing
triple the damage of a normal explosion.
Relationship with other orders: The Snow
Leopards have developed close ties with the Order
of the Bear through their cooperation in Scandia.
There is a political alliance between them and
the Order of the Cat, partly due to common ties
with Shkarlan. These links are not close but more
based on political considerations.
Temple: the official temple of the order is located
in Londra; it is a small ornate building, easily
overshadowed by the towers that surround it. The
temple is used as a mailbox by the order. Security
systems and clever and varied devices have been
put in place to preserve the secrets of the order:
an inopportune intruder will be swallowed up by
the building and his bones will be found on the
pebbles years later.
The true Snow Leopard Temple is located in the
frozen north of Shkarlan. Officially, it is
Knowledge (Conditions Granbreton stan-arctic armor)
+15%, Dart language with modifications for
(Snow Leopard) cold, skis, equipment
Snow Leopards
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just the training ground for arctic warfare; however
the deep, ancient cellars discovered beneath the
training ground have become the spiritual lair of the
order for centuries. Snow Leopards believe in the
existence of ancient magic in these caves, which
gives them strength, speed and resistance to the
cold. The truth is actually unknown, but it is not
impossible that an ancient science/witchcraft exists
in these caves and works on the Snow Leopards.
Benefits: Snow Leopards can ignore the first 2
points of damage from an attack based on cold or
frost. They also receive a +10% bonus to their
Survival skill when in arctic conditions.
Scorpio
We will soak the sands with blood and brains.
Grand Constable: Duke Vezar of Istanbul
A brutal, heavily built man, shaved head, with a
face disfigured by scars and an evil glint in his
eyes. He is a brutal and sadistic killer who rose to
lead the new order of Scorpio by becoming more
vicious and violent than his rivals. He does not have
the time or talent for court intrigues and his order
suffers from this weakness. Neglecting the
intricacies of court, he is never seen without his
heavy armor and Scorpion battle mask. At social
events, he presents himself with a bare face,
because he claims that the mass of scars which
serves as his face fulfills the same role as a mask.
The order: the Order of the Scorpion is a new
order, created after the conquest of Turkia to
operate in Eastern countries such as Persia or
Ukraine. The Scorpions were supposed to handle
desert warfare and be reconnaissance specialists,
however they had time to establish some semblance
of a reputation before the start of the Granbreton
Civil War.
The order had begun to develop the equipment it
needed for this role: ornithopters protected against
the sand and dust of the desert, armor made
waterproof against the heat...
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They had even worked on armor modifications to
limit water loss from the body by means of a
recycling system, which would have increased the
range of action of their scouts; However, this
technology did not have time to be really used.
As an Order born after most of the great conquests,
the Scorpions incorporated recruits from a wide
variety of ethnicities, with the largest contingent
coming from the vanquished peoples of Europe and
Turkia. This makes them a less noble order than New
the older, more "pure" orders of Granbre-tanne. A
more diplomatic Grand Constable could have
enhanced this reputation, but Vezar takes pleasure
in seeing his order considered a mongrel dog within
the pack.
When the civil war broke out in the Empire, the
majority of the members of the Order were exploring
the distant East; Scorpions were found on both
sides of the conflict.
Relationship with other orders: during its brief
existence and thanks to its Grand Constable, the
Order had managed to offend and irritate a certain
number of other orders.
The Order of the Wasp was the first order to have
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antipathy for the Scorpions when Duke Vezar made
insulting and lewd propositions to Baroness Helena
de Bashea. This could have been ignored if the
scene had not happened in the presence of the King-
Emperor himself. She challenged him to a duel on
the steps of the King-Emperor's palace at dawn
and carved new scars on his damaged face, as well
as cruel wounds that made his lustful propositions
impossible.
During his short career, Duke Vezar's scandalous
conduct managed to offend many nobles and Grand
Constables; the simple fact that he was able to
survive the many duels he was forced to honor
proves his talents as a warrior. He lost his only duel
against Baroness Helena and this experience
apparently taught him a lot of lessons.
However the entire order suffered from his conduct
and the Scorpions often found themselves without
the support of their fellow beasts on the battlefield
due to the faults of their Grand Constable.
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Temple: the temple of the Order of the

Scorpion was still under construction in Istanbul
at the time of the fall of Granbretanne. The
building was to take the form of a gigantic stone
scorpion atop the minarets of an ancient temple.
The construction of the work had accumulated
delays due to numerous difficulties, perhaps
due in part to a lack of cooperation from the
orders of engineers, quite angry with the conduct of Duke Vezar.

Benefits: Scorpios are trained to endure the

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most terrible conditions. In a desert environment,
they gain a +25% bonus to their Endurance test.

Basic Skill Bonus Order Advanced Skills Standard Equipment

Scorpion Riding +5%, Perception +5%, Endurance Knowledge (Deserts), Granbreton armor
+5%, Survival +10% Language (Scorpio) heavy, Weapon of your choice,
Camel
8 Choose one at +5%:
Sword 1 M, Sword 2 M, Ax 1 M, Ax 2 M,
Flail 1M, Flail 2M, Hammer 1M, Hammer 2
M, Shield, Spear, Polearm

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