Trapsetters Guild

Introduction
There are those who do not resent the Dungeon - some would even go as far as to say that they worship it. These are the esoteric, inscrutable members of the Trapsetters Guild.

Typically aloof and apathetic to the concerns of all other Denizens, the Trapsetters hold that the conviction that the Dungeon was created for a specific, sublimely important purpose. Having descended - so they claim - from the original adventuring party of humanoids who arrived in the Dungeon, they are privy to the secret machinations behind-the-scenes which keep the Dungeon running and working as an infinitely expansive torture chamber. The key instrument to this end are the rumoured “control rooms”, kept hidden by layer upon layer of magical, mechanical, and practical means, wherein the Trapsetters can supposedly manipulate the very shape and form of the Dungeon itself.

Practices
The primary responsibility for an initiate of the Trapsetters Guild is the maintenance and upkeep of, appropriately, all of the Dungeon’s traps. The Trapsetters are the ones to haul boulders back to the top of the rock-fall trap, reload arrows into empty turrets, lock the lives snakes back into their designated treasure chest, and so on. It is not an easy task, and the rate of mortality of new initiates into the guild elevates the upper ranks to an even more untouchable level.

Although the Trapsetters state officially that none of their members have sadistic inclinations, they nevertheless strive to inflict as much pain and suffering on all Dungeon Denizens. As the Dungeon surely must have been created for a reason (even if the reason is unknowable by its Denizens), each gruesome injury inflicted and painful death orchestrated is not only necessary, but paramount.

Symbols
The mark of the Trapsetters Guild are the six unblinking eyes of the Witnesses: the other watchful caretakers of the Dungeon. Initiates typically wear dark purple robes with a pointed cowl that drops below their brow, the cowl itself embroidered with the six eyes in silver thread. This garb is only ever distributed by the Guild’s elders, and they keep the secret to its creation to themselves.