Silver guardians are individuals, primarily found in Rothurland, who care for or hunt lycanthropes as the need arises. Their primary role is to ensure the safety of their communities - if they can do that by protecting werecreatures and helping them suppress their urges, they do so. If they must do that by defeating the same lycanthropes, they do that too. All silver guardians are equally skilled healers as they are warriors.
To better protect themselves, silver guardians undergo a ritual in which their blood is wholly replaced by liquid silver, so as to discourage lycanthropes from attacking. This gives them a distinctive death-like pallor, which they often accentuate with white and gray body paint. According to some oral histories this ritual was originally taught to the first silver guardians by Airuz's Murmurers, but today the silver guardians are have almost no presence in Talgazan except for its very westernmost reaches.