Covenant of Thorns

Alliances

• Umbral Vex, as strategic partners rather than subjects

• Rogue necromancers seeking protection and patronage

• Smuggling syndicates operating in borderlands and ruins

• Certain Twilight sects that revere undeath as transcendence

Rivals

• The Order of Cindrelia, whose doctrine demands their eradication

• Independent vampire covens resisting consolidation

• Mortal theocracies that reject undead sovereignty

• The Church of Renewal, whose ideology threatens blood economies

• Any Umbral-aligned cult that seeks domination over negotiation