The Twilight Phantoms are a secretive guild of Eladrin killers for hire. Its members are trained as practitioners of various professions, but they all specialize in secretly wielding shadow magic.
The Twilight Phantoms are forbidden by their guild's edicts from operating in the Feywild. Instead, they act as the hidden blade of the Eladrin nobility, striking against threats from the mortal realm. Rumors abound of Eladrin nobles, alarmed at the rise of a Human or Dwarf kingdom perilously close to a Feywild gate, who have dispatched the Twilight Phantoms to deal with the potential threat. Evidence of such actions remains scant, but accusations alone are enough to feed the suspicion of the Eladrin that is common among some cultures.
The Twilight Phantoms maintain no permanent headquarters. Instead, they dwell among the mortal races while posing as merchants and other travelers from the Fcywild. As part of a loose network, phantoms might spend years on their own before a parchment arrives with orders for a mission. Wrapped in red velvet, such orders arc sealed with a sigil visible only to the guild's members, and which appears to nonmembers as nothing more than a blob of melted wax.
The order places the utmost emphasis on secrecy, and a single member typically knows only two or three other members. Each Twilight Phantom is chosen for his or her abject loyalty to the order, ensuring that whatever the guild's aims might be, its members will dutifully carry them out. In theory, only the guild's high master knows the identity of all members, and missions for the Eladrin nobility are controlled by this office.
Rumors persist that the Twilight Phantoms have long since broken into smaller networks. A few of these still carry out orders solely on behalf of the Eladrin, but the rest are said to have been infiltrated and seized by other masters. Some believe that the Pale Court, The now controls a significant portion of the guild, which it is slowly bending to its will.