Editing Selesnya Conclave (section)

==History==
The Conclave was founded by Mat'Selesnya, a female humanoid elemental formed via [[Phoenix Lord|the fusion of several dryads]].  The Selesnya Conclave is a decentralized collective variably described as a "selfless, nurturing, spiritual group" or a "brainwashing nature cult", and involves itself in the establishment and maintenance of peace, life, and unity in Ravnica.

Despite their superficial appearance of being a "good" and "peace-loving", in truth the guild has a nasty history, as hypocritical and as sinister as the other Ravnican guilds.  The Conclave employed "Quietmen" and other members to silence the civilians of Ravnica, and once attempted a plane-wide brainwashing scheme. The defenders of the Selesnya are the Ledev guardians. In addition to these guards, the Quietmen used to guard Vitu-Ghazi, but Szadek, Lord of Secrets gained control of them and used them to wreak havoc. Since the end of the original Ravnica block they have been much in the distant background of many of the plane's subsequent events.

The Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica book for 5th Edition D&D makes it clear that the average faction agent or Guild grunt doesn't know shit about the Guild's darker history, and mostly avoids any of the more ethically untenable mind control stuff.  Of course, the entire senior faction hierarchy are now Lawful Good, too, so maybe they just wanted one unambiguously not-evil faction outside the Boros for the book.  It also provided stats for the collective of dryads that run the show, and they're piddling compared to, say, Rakdos or Aurelia.