Before the intervention of House Thrune, Citadel Vaull in the city of Kintargo was the only home of the otherwise nomadic manhunters of the Hellknight Order of the Torrent. The order has a reputation for rescuing abducted people, but its leader Lictor Octavio Sabinus went missing shortly before Barzillai Thrune, Lord Mayor at the time, brought the Order of the Rack to the city, seized and looted Citadel Vaull, stripped the order of its charter, and declared the order's members outlaws in 4715 AR.
With Ravounel's independence from Cheliax, the Order of the Rack was driven from the nation, and Kintargo's government now shares Castle Kintargo with the Order of the Torrent as allies. Octavio has reclaimed his post as Lictor, and works tirelessly through the endless bureaucracy of the Hellknights to have the order's charter reinstated. The Order sometimes works with a detachment from the Knights of Lastwall to protect Ravounel's independence.