Court Of The Owl's

Origins
Within the first 100 years of Gotham's Founding, Gotham's elite the ones with the influence and power. They came together and decided that they should control the new city that they built and payed for and so the court of the owl's Was born.

throughout the year's the court's line up changed people joining when they accumulated power and other families (the children of the previously deceased parent's) being dropped when they lost power. However the one constant family in the court was the Wayne's always keeping their power and accumulating more every day. Until Bruce Wayne pulled the Wayne Family out of the Court.

Talons
To maintain political power the court special assassins where made they where known as talon's they where every where and trained from as young as ten in the case of William Cob. Talons are kept in suspended animation between missions except the head Talon who is given a dose of Lazarus water each year. (I personally trained under William Cob and another unnamed Talon went After Selena Kyle.