Black Wolf Legion

the Black Wolf Legion are mercenaries.. and while they're good guys now, they aren't always that way.. they'll accept any job, even by a bad client, as long as it pays

"trial" for people to undergo if they want to become Black Wolf Legionnaires.. tl;dr version:

1. Go into the wild

2. Hunt down a banshee and steal her heart

3. There's a moor that goes from Riventhore all the way to Heartsville.. it's filled with trolls. The applicant has to cross it and survive while also securing a vial of troll blood. This can take 2-9 months.

4. Must bond with a wolf and then kill it after the wolf has proven its loyalty to its master.

5. Must come back and present the heart and vial of blood. A senior Legionnaire will conduct a ritual for lycanthropy and use those ingredients with the wolf parts to create a one-time potion for permanent and controllable lycanthropy.

6. DM rolls if the applicant survives after drinking. You can make it dramatic.. roll for the NPC applicants and say they go insane and died but for the players, roll behind a screen, give them insanity but say they lived.

7. Have the applicant sign their name to the Book of Wolves, permanently sealing their life force to the Legion. This means the only way out is feet first (death). They are now Black Wolf Legionnaires and their loyalty is to the Legion and to their Client, whoever the client is.

Contracts are only fulfilled in two ways: job is accomplished or the client dies. Legionnaires cannot kill the client or it will count as a forfeit and all legionnaires will die. However, the loophole is to uh.. let the client die and "try" to save them hehe..

it never happens by accident.. remember how the Ravens have to sign a contract and it burns a rune on their hand? it works the same way with the Black Wolf Legion.. there's a book in the main HQ that helps the Legion Minister monitor all the jobs being taken in real time; he can see all the runes at once by checking the book

hehe they all suffer from insanity a bit.. but more realistic than what's in the DMG.. a lil PTSD from the trauma of the potion, the different wars.

oh and the Black Wolf Legion is split the same way armies are.. into small squads.. sometimes the whole Legion gets a job and everyone is involved but most of the time every squad has a leader and they can go get their own contract.. this means different squads could go on their own jobs.. the only rule is their job must not interfere or contradict another squad's job

the main HQ, btw, is in the sky.. it's a floating fortress made by several skyships joined together (one ship representing 1 of the 25 squads)

there are roughly 25 squads, with 12 max members each