Echo Assassin Council

The Echo Assassin Council is an organization that spans the four corners of Remnant and has lasted countless centuries when lesser empires have fallen. It does not die for it does not exist. Very few even know its name. Even fewer know what they can do.

Scale
Everywhere that humans exist, as does the Echo Council. They have Agents in every nation worldwide.

Not a man alive knows for certain the true age and origins of the Council. All that is known is that the earliest account of the actions of Echo Agents takes place over a millennium in the past, during the old war against the Grimm.

Influence
The Echo Council has Agents implanted highly in most governmental organizations. They control the media and sensor the news. World leaders that oppose them can vanish overnight and the public will hear nothing of it. Nations have fallen at their will.

Visibility
No more than 1% of the population has ever heard the Council referred to. Less than a quarter among those knew anything about it. Of those that know it exists, very few are willing to speak of it for fear of being eliminated as a threat to the Council. Echo Agents that die will have their corpses recovered or hidden. Agents that are captured will self-combust with the activation of Burn Dust inside the fabric of their clothes.

Goals
The Echo Assassin Council has mysterious motives. They have risen great empires only to cause them to fall overnight. When Agents have been questioned about their actions, all they ever give in response is this:

"For the Echoes of our children's children, 

long since fallen by our hand, 

we do the work that no man should,

in hopes that we may be redeemed,

before the falling of the stars."

Identifying Agents
Agents can be identified only by one that has experience with those who have recieved training as assassins. The way an assassin moves and talks and sees the world around them is very distinctive to those with a trained eye and a knowledge of their ways. The only known living person to be proven capable of identifying Echo Agents on sight is Draco Romis.

Inspiration
The primary inspirations for the Echo Council are S.H.I.E.L.D. from Marvel and the League of Assassins from DC.