The sextet traces its origins to a single disastrous performance 43 years ago at the fall banquet of House Vael. The original founder, the harpist Siren Vale, was hired to soothe a succession dispute between two feuding heirs. Instead, Siren and five other young performers discovered that the noble household's true weakness was not steel but vanity. By the end of the night they had turned a family reconciliation into a public humiliation so complete that one claimant fled, one uncle was arrested, and the family's rivals inherited three country estates. The performers were paid twice what they expected, then quietly approached by fixers who specialized in private commissions from the rich. What began as a single scandal became a business. Over the following decades the group learned that music could do more than entertain. It could distract guards, hide coded messages, manufacture alibis, and make witnesses believe the version of events that sounded most elegant. Their greatest watershed moment came 11 years ago during the Roseglass Tour, when the troupe's original seven-member line broke apart after a murder in a gilded conservatory. One member vanished with their ledgers, another died under suspicious circumstances, and the survivors reinvented themselves as the current sextet. That rupture made them colder, more disciplined, and far more dangerous. They stopped pretending to be merely artists and became something closer to a court inside a caravan.