Red Gloves

Overview

The Red Gloves (赤手套) are an elite Beyonder team within the Church of the Evernight Goddess in Lord of Mysteries. They function as a cross-jurisdictional response unit: where the Nighthawks are limited to specific city or regional jurisdictions, the Red Gloves operate without geographic restriction so they can pursue Beyonders who flee across borders.

The Red Gloves are based in Backlund, which is not part of the launch world, so the unit has not surfaced in the live build. Backlund sits later in the studio's announced multi-year content plan.

Mission

The Church of the Evernight Goddess set up the Red Gloves to deal with a specific operational gap: many Beyonder criminals would change location after every crime to escape the Nighthawks' jurisdictional limits. The Red Gloves' charter authorises them to track and arrest evildoers regardless of borough, city, or regional boundary. Their other primary mission is to reinforce Nighthawk teams that call for help when a case escalates beyond the local chapter's capacity.

Membership

Red Gloves are carefully selected elites drawn from the broader Nighthawks pool. Some members possess incomplete holy items, indicating a higher trust tier than typical Nighthawk officers. The unit is small relative to the Nighthawks at large and recruits from the most experienced Nighthawk veterans across the Loen Kingdom.

The Red Gloves are most strongly associated with the Darkness Pathway, the Church of the Evernight Goddess's primary Pathway, but include members from adjacent Pathways. The unit's combat capability is described as substantially above an equivalent Sequence-rank Nighthawk.

Notable Members

Leonard Mitchell is a captain of the Red Gloves in the Backlund diocese. He was originally a member of the Tingen City division of the Nighthawks, the same chapter as Klein Moretti and under Dunn Smith's captaincy. In the source material he joins the Red Gloves after the Tingen arc and continues operating from Backlund.

Leonard does appear in the launch build, but on the earlier side of that timeline. He is the NPC who arranges the player character's hire into the Blackthorn Security Company at the very start of the campaign and personally administers the potion that begins the player's Beyonder career. His Red Gloves captaincy belongs to later events the launch build does not cover.

Player Relationship

The Red Gloves themselves have not been confirmed in the launch build. What follows describes the unit's role in the source material; specific player interactions, reputation gains, and mentorship rewards have not been published.

Relationship to the Nighthawks

Both units operate under the Church of the Evernight Goddess, and most operations involve the two together: the Nighthawks open a case in their home city, the case escalates beyond their reach, and the Red Gloves are dispatched to chase the trail across regional boundaries.