Autumn's Leaves

Autumn's Leaves is a shadowy organization dedicated to the assassination of people of potentially historic import, engineered by the nefarious conspiracy of the ruling classes of the Bellodonto Valley. While some scholars dispute its provenance, every single one of those scholars has been tied to rich, powerful, or moneyed interests that would have a strong incentive to continue spreading lies.

Origins
According to Galabalos the Persuasive, Logarch of Callixtos the City of Books, Autumn's Leaves began as a simple coup against the 16th Pseudocrat, Aisha Nondettwyler. The young pseudocrat was beginning to rule with a temperamental and iron fist, and her hungers became more adult by the fortnight. Galabalos argues that her courtly keepers, Duke Althing of Meadstow and Baron Sylvans Madragonne (who some call the Vampire) met in secret. They swore on a bottle of Paunasian wine that "the young doe would be brought to heel."

The next morning, a bloody pseudocrat cried in her nurse's arms as the remains of two charred assassins were scraped off of her bathing chamber. Nevertheless, her reign changed from that moment, and she became known as Aisha the Radiant, Protectrix of the Nine Splendors.

History and Present Activities
Aside from Galabalos's able rendition, no confirmable records of the cult's existence persist, even in the Archive of the Crossroads (although such a text would be highly sought after).

Autumn's Leaves is thought to have been involved with several of the following incidents, but none have been confirmed: The whereabouts and membership of Autumn's Leaves is uncertain. The only known member is Rust, although he is himself an enigma. Suspected members include:
 * Drowned_guy.jpg bloody murder of Allis Tywyn, the identical twin to Ultis Tywyn, the sole drowning victim of the festival of Caelos;
 * extortion of the treasury of the 23d Pseudocrat, allegedly leading to her bankruptcy and downfall; and
 * the construction of a renegade Cathedral Chthorhodia, a supposed temple to Rust, the rogue scholar, on the third point of an equilateral triangle formed by the Library at the Crossroads and the High Temple in Paltos, the capitol.
 * Proconsul Tillidorus himself;
 * Viscount Ethyl Pattle-Botham;
 * Logarch Xemenides; and
 * Ofeline Qabil, the river sorceress often seen near the Amphorae of Bitter Bend.