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The executores dola liberta have served for six decades as Ber’s most re- spected law enforcement group, composed of warriors and priests but especially heralds, and almost exclusively female. Berans hold their escape from enslavement under the dragon tyrants as core to their shared identity as a people, and the executores enforce this freedom by both laying and delivering the sentence upon those who abuse their power.
Executore punishments usually take the form of beatings. Some- one who oversteps their authority but expresses remorse might be sentenced to a perfunctory beating: a slap or a single crack of a staff across the back. A person who actively forces others to toil for his benefit might receive a serious beating: blows to the belly and face, perhaps a cracked nose or a black eye, enough that they’d need a day to recover. Those who enslave others, abuse positions of public trust, or pervert the course of justice are delivered savage beatings: blud- geoned until bones break and the victim is rendered unconscious. The order polices its own to ensure these decisions are received with respect and a confidence of impartiality.
The beating teaches those who were taken advantage of to see their victimizer as weak and nothing to fear in the future. When someone continues to abuse their power, the severity of beatings escalate, but executores are directed to only use lethal force against someone who clearly intends to kill if they’re not stopped. Some- times an executore will seize someone’s assets and distribute them to the victims. All these tactics, of course, are only socially accept- able in Ber. Traveling executores struggle to attenuate their brutal punishments with foreign sensibilities. Executore heralds train in techniques to help them pursue wrongdoers, free victims from op- pression, and battle dragons and other flying foes.

Members of the executores can come from any class, but they all share the same stern ideology.
A Dragon’s Terror Is Its Power. Your enemies are those who use fear to make others serve them. You must act without fear.
A Dragon’s Hoard Is Its Weakness. Wealth can buy obedience, but reputation earns loyalty. Seek a sterling reputation, not riches.
A Dragon Coils Within Our Souls. Every person is tempted by the control that power offers. Do not become a tyrant yourself.
Each Must Slay Their Own Dragon. Act to protect the innocent, but do not slay a foe unless you have no other way to keep them from harming others. To do so is to deny them the freedom to become better.

You gain oath spells at the herald levels listed. Executores use these spells to investigate accusations and to travel where they’re needed.