The Creed of Shadow
The Wanderers (Andarilhos) live in the shadows and are the most skilled and the fastest people in this world. They guard every crossing and guide their own through the dark. They are one of the Three Forces that contest the valleys of Vashrath, and their leader is Serena — the one many call the strongest of the Three Greats.
The Only Sighting
Of all the Three Greats, only Serena has ever been claimed seen. A soldier swears he glimpsed her in the forest, close to the wolves — one man's word, never confirmed, yet the single sighting the chronicles grant any of the unseen leaders. It is also said she once defeated the other two Greats in battle. If true, it would make the Wanderers the most feared of the three forces; but that, too, remains legend. Shadow, forest, and crossing are the motifs the creed keeps, and Serena among the wolves is its only picture.
The Most Nomadic of Creeds
The Wanderers are the most nomadic of the three creeds, and like the others they belong to no single realm: their faith crosses cities, kings, and trades without settling anywhere. Their presence is felt at the crossings — the passages between places, which they guard and through which they guide their own. To swear the Wanderers is to embrace the conviction that agility, silence, and knowledge of the paths overcome both the sword and the wall.
Without a declared creed, life in Cripta becomes much harder. The Wanderers are the choice of those who prefer the shadow to open confrontation.
Guardians of the Trails
The Wanderers breed silent guardians of the roads. The chronicles tell of scouts and hunters loyal to Serena who protect forgotten paths and crossings that appear on no map — called noble not for blood or wealth, but for the quiet loyalty with which they keep their domains. And if every soul in Vashrath may wear one allegiance in public and hold another in secret, among the Wanderers that line is thinner still. In the shadows, who can say where the sworn face ends and the true one begins?
The Oath
The Wanderers are one of the three creeds the awakened may swear in the Faction Oath, after registering with Cassius. It is the faith that opens — or closes — doors across the valleys and decides at whose side you will walk. Those who swear the Wanderers align themselves with the creed of shadow and the crossing.
Rivals
The Wanderers stand against the Northern Warriors, who trust raw strength, and against the People of the South, who trust intelligence and the wall. The whisper that Serena defeated both of the other Greats in battle would make hers the most feared force in the valleys — but a whisper it remains, and nothing has ever been confirmed.
No formal heraldry of the Wanderers has ever been established. Their sign is not sewn on a banner: it is the path that appears on no map, and the certainty that someone unseen is already watching it.