The faction began with Seraine Mott, a widowed steward who served three different minor lords in a time when roads were too dangerous and letters too valuable to trust to ordinary servants. In the winter of Ashfall, when the ford near Old Harwick froze over and bandits intercepted every visible messenger, she began collecting coachmen, grooms, scribes, and one disgraced priest who knew how to read people as well as seals. Her idea was simple: if the world would not keep appointments safely, her house would keep them for it. The first decade was humble. They arranged interviews for servants, found temporary protection for traveling scholars, and ensured that employers and jobseekers met without scandal. Their reputation grew when they reunited a missing heir with her father by rerouting her through Briarmeet Hall under a false name. The watershed moment came 41 years ago during the Lantern Interruption, when rival kin of a local lord tried to seize power by delaying a visiting magistrate until the legal window for succession expired. Seraine's successors hid the magistrate in a roadside chapel, smuggled him through the manor lands, and delivered him in time. The succession was saved, but the faction learned two things that define them to this day: travel control is political power, and every family that asks for discretion is also asking for leverage. Since then they have evolved from a service house into a quiet force that shapes appointments, journeys, and who gets to arrive at the right moment.