While Elsaral’s Dusk Riders are known throughout the continent, feared but also greatly respected and renowned, the so-called Dagger of Valaes Tairn is rarely mentioned. Its members are certainly known to many of the Valenar elves—there can be little glory without recognition—but they are a complete mystery to members of the other nations. The Dagger doesn’t hire itself out as a mercenary group. Rather, it strikes against known enemies of one faction or another, then demands payment for the service.
Most nations and companies have found that it’s far safer to pay, even if the help wasn’t requested, than to refuse. The Dagger of Valaes Tairn consists of experts in the most secretive, guerrilla tactics known to the Valenar elves. As the band’s leader, Ilidris Kayael, has told her subordinates more than once, “Enemy arrows, enemy eyes. Let either strike you, and you die.”