founded = Two years after the founding of Zilargo leader = The Proctor aliases = La Tutelle of Zilargo

“Trust that we will always look after the needs of our great family, and that we need your aid as much as you need ours.”

La Tutelle is a national, non-military organization charged with the safety and security of Zilargo. La Tutelle acts as a secret police force in Zilargo and among Gnomes abroad in Khorvaire.

The gnomish security agency began in Korranberg as an outgrowth of the Bibliothèque de Korranberg. The founder of the organization is only remembered by her title of the Proctor, and all leaders since go by this title.

La Tutelle was first made public two years after the founding of Zilargo, though exact tellings of how the organization secured the blessing of the Triumvirat de Zilargo differ.

Although the gnomesallied with each other, this did not stop the feuds between and within the different city-states. The feuds started to create problems for the new nation of Zilargo. So La Tutelle was created in order to keep the nation together. Each of the three Triumvirs was given the power to select agents from their own city to create a corps of secret police. These secret police place the interests of the nation above all else. La Tutelle soon secured total control over law enforcement and national security within Zilargo.

La Tutelle has jurisdiction over punishing those it determines guilty of transgression, and its justice is swift and merciless. There is no court of law. Any Zil citizen could be an agent of La Tutelle and, thanks to that, Zilargo has the lowest crime rate on Khorvaire. La Tutelle acts only if something threatens society and they use blackmail and intrigue to eliminate the threats. They are fond of using poisons, and maintain numerous observers skilled in encoding secret messages across the continent pulled from the population of Gnomes.