Have you read Steven Brust's "500 Years After"? It could be a coincidence
but has folks called Discreets who function more or less exactly the same
way.
Don't think he trademarked the term, though. Heh.
core
Lizard wrote:
Discrete Companions (Prestige Class)
The Order Of Discrete Companions exists, in an informal and wholly
unspoken way, throughout the four Living Worlds, though it is strongest
in places such as the Dwindling Empire, the wealthier of the City-States
of New Retalia, and the sprawling trading centers of the Red Dust
Expanses. It exists, as its name implies, discretely, with few who are
not in the Order even being aware that it is there at all.
