Mortician's Army
The Mortician's Army is an independent hunter organization originally founded in 2010 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was formerly led by Rafael Obrero, the eponymous "Mortician".
Overview
The Mortician's Army was comprised of several formerly independent hunter cells spread throughout the American Midwest, who covertly shared intelligence and resources in order to combat the greater vampiric threat. Their "signature weapon" was the hook-handled autopsy hammer, a medical instrument used for cracking open a cadaver's cranial vault, in seeming emulation of the Mortician himself. A crimson-colored hammer even served as the Army's unifying mark of membership - with several members even creating ad-hoc "uniforms" marked with this same device. Such was the reputation of this symbol that even "lone-wolf" hunters throughout the Midwest had heard legends of the Mortician and his "Final War" against the vampires.
Despite it's grassroots origins, the Mortician's Army was reportedly both well-armed and coordinated, drawing much of its membership from local law enforcement and Midwest "prepper" communities. They even maintained formidable occult support through their alliance with the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, a group of former ghouls turned sorcerers and hedge magicians.
It's currently unknown what connections, if any, the Mortician's Army had to the greater Second Inquisition.
Winter's Teeth
Despite it's leader and founder, Rafael Obrero, being slain by his daughter Alejandra - in 2021 the Mortician's Army was able to organize and launch a devastating assault on the Camarilla of the Twin Cities. Striking at the break of dawn at their stronghold within Galtier Towers, the hunters proved ruthlessly effective, wounding and destroying several powerful Kindred. If not for a thaumaturgical onslaught unleashed by Justicar Ian Carfax, the Mortician's Army may have even succeeded in eradicating the Court of the Twin Cities entirely.
Post the Galtier Towers assault, the current status of the Mortician's Army is unknown, though it is likely other cells persist throughout the Midwest.
