No leer jugadores de Requiem for Rome:
THE BIRDS OF MINERVA
The Sibyl of Cumae, writer of the Sibylline books, predicted in the time of the kings that Rome would need an army to defend her people against the creatures of the night, and that Minerva would command them. Who can gainsay the word of a god? Who can ignore the summons of a goddess?
The Order of the Owl is her secret army, and its purpose is the protection of the people of Rome from the secret government of the vampires. It is the business of the Order of the Owl to protect Rome however its members see fit. Each man has only to pledge that he will defend the sanctity of Rome from the creatures of the night; that he will come to the aid of a brother in arms; and that he will share the knowledge he receives with the virgin priestesses of the Owl. The priestesses, for their part, do sometimes go out in the field — some even fight alongside the men — but all see as their main role the preservation of the library of the Owl.
The library lies beneath the Temple of Minerva. No other group of hunters — not even the fabled Aegis Kai Doru, who pursue the monsters of Greece and Asia Minor — have a collection so comprehensive and accurate. The vampires for their part know that a group of men sometimes appear bearing the device of the Owl — which, mutter the Julii, cannot be a coincidence. On the other hand, the Order of the Owl know that sometimes a creature of evil appears in the form of the Goddess’ sacred bird, a blasphemy that must be destroyed.