The Extortionists

The Extortionists were a mystical warrior clan, originated in Lyon, France, in 1579. Initially harmless, they were only created to defend, more emphatically, the mystical warriors rights in Europe, showing, however, a great amount of respect through the non-fighters. Composed by the patriarchs of the seven families more versed in mystical abilities in Lyon, they only became more aggressive in 1694, when the mystical warrior Paul Parlow was able to synthesize magic, letting the non-fighter community terrified.

Mystical authorities all around the world agreed, in 1708, that going into secrecy was their best option, once they couldn't just give up from enjoying that new skill. In parallel, the Extortionists began to repudiate the non-fighters, and influenced the European Confederation in Defence of Magical Abilities, created in 1756, to adopt a series of measures that would undermine the crossbreds and the non-fighters. This new policy reached its peak with the 1823 Decree, in which crossbreds became, officially, pariahs.

Incredibly amused with the new law, the Extortionists started to hunt down crossbreds and tainted in 1826, herding followers throughout Europe, becoming a kind of parallel government, whose domination lasted until the late twentieth century. In 2003, a bloody battle was fought between the extortionists and their followers, and the Blue Knights, in England, in which the mystical warrior Conrad Hagopian managed to break the famous transmission of power that existed in the clan. Without his power, three of the extortionists were killed while the four others were arrested by the British Mystical Authority.

Formation
In the early sixteenth century, the French territory was taken by civil wars, which terrorized much of its citizens. Therefore, the seven most powerful families of mystical warriors from the city of Lyon decided to join forces, for the defence of their peers. Anatole Comtois, Corentin Linville, Fulbert Bellerose, Jourdain Lefurgey, Gaétan Géroux, Honoré Sauveterre and Placide Archambault, the patriarchs of those families, were the first Extortionists, and the responsible to create its rules and laws. Practically most French hailed with enthusiasm the arrival of that new group of guards that was forming in Lyon.

According to its deepest bylaws, as soon as one of the seven patriarchs died, his place should be filled by his eldest son, so that the seven families who originated the clan in 1579, could always keep a representative among the clansmen.