Manticore // External Negotiator

Manticore — External Negotiator Persian / Greek origin. First recorded 800 BCE. Created by the Security Division to represent the Archive’s frontier philosophy: speak softly, guard fiercely. The Manticore, a creature of contradictions — human mind, lion body, venomous defense — embodied the principle of power through communication. Her sigil was worn by border liaisons and field agents tasked with maintaining uneasy truces between human settlements and wilderness entities. Still deployed by external negotiators and hazard mediators operating beyond stabilized zones.