Ministry of War & Conflict | Location Unlisted
“Victory takes many shapes. We study all of them.”
The Division of Unconventional Warfare is the Kingdom’s most secretive and experimental military body—tasked with exploring, testing, and, when necessary, deploying nontraditional, esoteric, and irregular methods of warfare. It is said that the Division reports directly to the Crown and operates with a mix of tacticians, alchemists, whisper-agents, and dream-theorists.
Their motto is simple: “Victory takes many shapes.”
Officially denied. Quietly revered. Often feared.
⚔️ Core Areas of Research & Deployment
🫥 Psychological and Dream Warfare
- Use of night-based dissonance to disorient enemy formations
- Deployment of Lucid Operatives, trained to invade or influence enemy dreams
- Maintenance of the Somnus Lantern, a device said to “soften the line between sleep and loyalty”
🧪 Alchemical & Elemental Enhancements
- Development of smoke bombs that echo false commands
- Battle pigments that alter perception or color identification
- Trials of “burnless flame” grenades used to corrode morale more than flesh
🎭 Illusion & Shadow Operations
- Field tests of projected soldiers, illusions meant to confuse scouts and enemy spies
- Uniform cloaks stitched with shadow-thread, said to darken under moonlight
- False troop movements choreographed to visible terrain manipulation
🧲 Arcane Field Disruption
- Experimental use of sigil-rakes to erase enemy wardings mid-battle
- Research into zone-bending glyphs that delay marching columns
- Known possession of the Mirror of Unmaking, use of which is classified and possibly forbidden
🦤 Weaponized Misinformation
- Deployment of planted legends, forged dispatches, and blessed rumors
- Division agents trained in accent mimicry, false mourning, and pseudonoble etiquette
- First used during the War of Fractured Courts, which ended before it began due to widespread hallucinated diplomacy
🧩 The Codex of Irregular Tactics
A living, evolving archive compiled by the Division. Known chapters include:
- “Rain as Messenger: Cloud Whispers and Thunder Timing”
- “The Power of Retreat”
- “How to Collapse a City With Only a Map”
- “Doubt as Weapon: The Doctrine of Tactical Uncertainty”
- “The Invisible Trumpet: Command by Intuition Alone”
⚖️ Oversight and Restrictions
The Division is not permitted to initiate conflict, but may be unleashed by royal writ or martial emergency. Its agents carry no insignia, and most are unknown even to their comrades.
Recruitment occurs only by invitation, and survival through training is rare.
📜 Motto of the Division
“Victory takes many shapes.”