The secretive organisation based at Clerres that has gathered and interpreted prophecy for generations, using foreknowledge to accumulate power and eliminate threats to their continued dominance. The Servants are the primary antagonists of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy, and their particular evil lies in the corruption of something that could have been genuinely good - the ability to shape a better future - into a tool for self-perpetuation and control. Their treatment of those with prophetic gifts, including the Fool across decades of captivity, is among the most disturbing material in the sequence.