The Organization

The Organization

The unnamed group that creates and commands the Claymores.

Yoma-infested towns contact the "Organization," which dispatches one or more Claymores to exterminate the Yoma. Upon completion of a job, a man-in-black collects the fee. Towns that fail to pay receive no further help, and will be left at the mercy of the Yoma.

Teresa, after completing a job, hints that the Organization itself might be sending Yoma to the towns that fail to pay, and that such towns are doomed.

Claymores who break the rules (killing a human, desertion) are hunted down and usually executed. In less crucial situations, troublemakers (Helen, Clare) and/or the half-Awakened (Miria, Deneve) may be sent on suicide missions. The more discerning Claymores, such as Miria, suspect the Organization of a sinister agenda, though most Claymores are either unwilling or unable to act on the matter.

Claymores
Main Article: Claymore


 * * - part of a group 3 of Claymores sent to search for Renee
 * ** - part of Dietrich's Awakened Being hunting party.

Ophaned girls, bought by the Organization, undergo a painful medical operation (Yoma flesh-and-blood implantation), leaving a stigmata on their abdomen. The girls later endure brutal training and tests to prove their mettle (Clare is unique as being the only voluntary Claymore).

Those who successfully join the ranks of the 47 Claymores are expected to be unwaveringly loyal to the organization, and adhere to its rules without exception.

In the manga, following a 7-year time-skip, the Organization has modified its modus operandi in response to the Northern campaign, where it lost 24 Claymores to a gathering of the normally solitary Awakened Beings. Where once it only hunted the Awakened for a fee, a group of Claymores is now permanently stationed in the North to hunt and eliminate them.

Composition
The Organization's management is relatively unknown beyond the agents that act as handlers for the Claymores, passing on assignments, equipment and money to the Claymores. Agents double as collectors of service fees.

Though there no standard uniform, all handlers are usually identifiable by their all-black dress. Known handlers are Rubel, Ermita, Orsay and Rado.

Dae, while not a known handler, appears to be in a division of the Organization called the Retrieval Squad, which collects specimens such as Awakened Being flesh for research.

While never seen as a handler, the highest ranked Organization member seen so far is Rimuto who has been seen giving orders to even the handlers.

Miria's Hypothesis
Miria hypothesizes that the Organization created Yoma.

Further, she speculates that island world of Claymore is actually a testing ground for the creation of Awakened Beings. She reveals a larger land across the ocean where two nations have been at war for over a hundred years.

One nation, employed nonhuman creatures with tough skin, referred to as the "Dragon-kins." The other nation, in an effort to defeat the Dragon-kins, created the Organization to develop a weapon---Awakened Beings. And Claymores are just one step in the process.