Whitestone Rifle Corps

The Whitestone Rifle Corps are an elite Whitestone military unit founded by Lord Percival de Rolo. Unlike the Paleguard, the guardsmen of Whitestone who answer to the Chamber of Whitestone, the Whitestone Rifle Corps are royal guardsmen that are assigned specifically to protect Whitestone Castle and the de Rolo family. Memebers are trained in the use of a musket or a pistol as their primary weapon with restriction to only wield them while patrolling the city walls or castle battlements, excluding emergency scenario or precedents permited by the Chamber of Whitestone.

Though Percy was initially opposed to the notion of mass producing his firearms inventions, after his battle with (and death by) Dr. Anna Ripley, he realized that it was inevitable that others would develop his guns and use them to their advantage. Realizing Whitestone needed to take advantage of such technology before it becomes widespread, Percy distributed Ripley's rifles to (as well as constructing new firearms for) these new Riflemen.

The Whitestone Rifle Corps is a company of roughly a dozen musketeers, and consist of both men and women.

Rifle Corps has a special undercover unit reporting directly to de Rolo family, called Whitestone Hunters. These soldiers loyally serve as spies, bodyguards, and even assassins if necessary.

Known members

 * Kynan Leore - captain

Trivia

 * The Whitestone Riflemen were originally going to be called the "Whitestone Musketeers" by Percy, until Cass said that was a "silly" name.
 * The fact that gunpowder-based small arms in Exandria seem to use iron as their main projectile type would make these projectiles too hard to benefit from "rifling" (spiral grooves in an iron barrel that force a softer projectile to spin), making their name even more of a misnomer.