Vengeance & Respite
Respite is a remote stockade on the tundra that offers survival (shelter, warmth, basic healing) in exchange for a binding vow; accepting the refuge creates a long-term obligation to the house. The facility is administered by a tiefling called Vengeance. Operationally, the group functions as a small, infernal-leaning network: it collects debts, exacts favours, conducts low-key rites, and intermediates between clients and infernal patrons. Recruitment is situational and pragmatic (those rescued or indebted); pressure is applied through social obligation and owed services, rather than mass coercion.
- Rival Influence: Vengeance's refuge is siphoning would-be worshippers and souls from the web of influence Lolth relies on; removing this rival preserves Lolth's dominance on the surface.