The Decadents
The Decadents are a very unorthodox sect of the Testers. Like many Tester sects, the name Decadents was not their idea, it was given to them by their enemies.
Generally speaking, Maylar detests cities. Generally speaking Maylar detests the practice of hereditary birthrights in mortals (you should take your wealth, not be bequeathed it). Maylar is often a hypocrite and the Decadents manifest plenty of hypocrisy themselves.
Other Testers find the Decadents distasteful because of how they show deference to highborn individuals. Some of them view this deference as a mark of weakness. Thus lowborn Testers may force them to defend themselves to prove their strength, but more often than not Decadents are able to establish working relationships with more mainstream Testers. More than once, a Decadent has unlocked the gates to let more militant Testers swoop in for looting and pilaging.
If the Testers really want to bring a target down, they can have Decadents sabotage the areas defenses by rotting the leadership and then have less subtle Testers attack from outside the figurative or literal walls.
by Eron12 on Hero Forge
The Decadents are primarily drawn from the sons and daughters of the nobles and wealthy burghers. They typically have debauchery filled parties and inflict atrocities on lower class purely for enjoyment. Then they use their wealth and privilege to hide their crimes or deflect punishments. The Decadents tend to be pretty good at setting hapless patsies to take the fall for the Decadents real crimes.
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