This thread is dedicated as a non-Meta info-dump for the Clockwork Abattoir campaign
[ic=Dramatis Personae]
Alisandre Mei-Vourne: esthetic female human witch (necromancy) 1 (played by False Epiphany)
Decarabia Saturnine: frenetic shade warrior (gunslinging) 1 (played by Superbright)
Catena: stoic female human warrior (bloodletting) 1 (played by Steerpike)
Hadric Beyam Phel-Nirian: frenetic male shreeva warrior (phytology) 1 (played by theMeanestGuest)
Mr. Nix: furtive male ghul witch (diabolism) 1 (played by Seraflumph)
Xavier: shrewd male human rogue (assassination) 1 (played by Ghostman)
Phrixia Gronne: graceful female human rogue (way of the blade & pistol) 1 (played by Superbright)
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[ic=Campaign Timeline]The most widely used calendar is the so-called Common Reckoning (C.R.), which marks the beginning of each new Aeon as year 0.
Aeon of ShadowsAeon of Immolation? -Membrane Wars begin
Aeon of Dust (The Desiccation)*0 -The Membrane Wars end
6030 -The dementia epidemics of Moroi reach their peak
7650 -The Pallid Decimation; the cestoid Imperium begins
9003 -The cestoid Imperium falls
10450 -The Red Ravishing begins
? –Decarabia Saturnine 'born'
Aeon of Putrefaction (The Festering): CR (Common Reckoning)0 -The Red Ravishing ends
8-35 –Decarabia serves in the Diatryma Militia under Morgiris-Shun
42 -Pandemics of the Sanguine Dissolution wrack the world
196-278 –Decarabia apprentices under Sal Wightbrock
383 –Cybille Phel-Nirian born
395 –Caraumonde Mei-Vourne born
396 –Claudius Phel-Nirian born
398 –Cybille begins study at Lais-Arcume
400 –Shenn Adrien born
403 –Cybille graduates from Lais-Arcume; Hadric Phel-Nirian born
410 –Caraumonde begins study at Vlerinn-Phoi
411 –Claudius begins study at Lais-Arcume
414 –Caraumonde marries Lorraine Carreau; Shenn Adrien born
415 –Caraumonde graduates from Vlerinn-Phoi; Xedric Mei-Vourne born; Shenn begins study at Tho-Lladrim
417 –Claudius graduates from Lais-Arcume
418 –Hadric binds, then emancipates Nibs
421 –Hadric begins study at Tho-Lladrum
423 –Hadric duels Shenn; Cybille dies
424 - Hadric drops out of Tho-Lladrum
429 –Hadric departs Skein
430 –Lorraine dies in childbirth; Caraumonde begins sojourn; Xedric manages house affairs; Xedric begins study at Vlerinn-Phoi
432 –Claudius assumes control of House Phel-Nirian
433 –Caraumonde returns from sojourn; Claudius marries Temoinne Adrien
434 –Xedric ends study at Vlerinn-Phoi; Cadmus Phel-Nirian born
435 –Caraumonde marries Saebaline; Umptor Phel-Nirian born
436 –Alphosine Mei-Vourne born; Seviert Phel-Nirian born; Saebaline dies; Caraumonde marries Telesphore Guillemeau
437 –Symos Mei-Vourne born
440 –Patrois Mei-Vourne born
441 –Alphosine betrothed to Seivert Phel-Nirian
443 -Narimonde Mei-Vourne born
445 –Caraumonde kills Telesphore due to Slow Plague
446 –Caraumonde marries Belphia Phel-Nirian; Claudine Mei-Vourne born
447 –Alisandre Mei-Vourne born
449 -Xaphan Mei-Vourne born
451 –Alphosine marries Seivert Phel-Nirian; Alphosine begins study at Lais-Arcume
453 –The Branded Crusade
454 –Elisante Mei-Vourne born; Alphosine leaves Lais-Arcume
455 –Leonard Phel-Nirian born
457 –The Northern Uprising begins; Xaphan's failed assassination of Narimonde
458 –The Northern Uprising ends; Narimonde begins study at Tho-Lladrum
459 –Symos begins sojourn
461 -Claudine married off to Crepuscle merchant-prince
462 –Symos returns from his sojourn; Alisandre fails first binding attempt; Belphia commits suicide
463 –Alisandre binds Zorjub; Alisandre begins study at Vlerinn-Phoi
464 -Xaphan begins study at Vlerinn-Phoi
465 –Alphonsus Phel-Nirian born
466 –Adumbral War begins
467 -Narimonde graduates from Tho-Lladrum; Narimonde marries Balberith Luan-Viardot
468 –Xaphan drops out of Vlerinn-Poi; Adumbral War ends; Alisandre graduates from Vlerinn-Phoi
469 -Amducias Mei-Vourne born; Elisante begins study at Vlerinn-Phoi
472 –Hadric returns to Skein; Alisandre is disowned; Caraumonde marries Delepitore; Lorraine Mei-Vourne II born
473 –Current YearBatrachis (Toadmire) –Delepitore dies
Havierut (Stagseed)
- 1st Chaining –Caraumonde marries Proserpine Lucor-Rrem
- 3rd Writhing –Campaign begins, Rot Briquette Riots
*Many records of this time have been destroyed; the dates provided are approximations (at best) –or, in some cases, educated guesses- on the part of scholars.[/ic]
[ic=Visited Locales]
Eastern Cemetery•
Canopic Gardens: Hedge-maze bordering the Ebon Ward, notable for its organ-shaped topiaries, and clandestine site of Xedric Mei-Vourne's illicit fighting ring.
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Grande Sepultura: Crypts of House Mei-Vourne
- Belphia's Crypt: Resting place of Belphia Mei-Vourne and residence of her daughter, Alisandre.
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Mosswine Barrows: Ancient tumuli-filled region of the tomb-lands.
Ebon Ward•
Black Souse (also known as the Tarnish, formerly the Burnish): Once part of the Copper Ward, now a ruin of rusty, abandoned factories and toxic discharges from Copper Ward factories.
- The Flensery: Situated at heart of the Black-Souse Tarnish, a nigh-automated slaughterhouse funded by House Phan-Laru and developed and run by artificer Rel-Shan, later destroyed by mob of Ebon-Ward knackers.
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Chigger Lane: Road from Sepia Ward that snakes through the Mooncalf Tangle, where it borders a Watchmen blockhouse with Red Mei's office.
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Flukewash Hostel: Poor alley-hostel for fluke-infested patrons undergoing transformation into ghilan.
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Harrow-House: A half-finished, now-ruined, disease-infested palace built in Harlequin-Gothic style, home to drug-addicts, revolutionaries, and pox-afflicted. Site of the Voracious Quill's printing press and redoubt of the Soldiers of Skin.
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Ktenologists' Quarter: Primary home of Skein's executioners, gibbet-men, and poisoners.
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Maggotorium: Makeshift bazaar at the confluence of the Ebon, Indigo, and Cemetery wards, where dirge-witches, vermeologists, coffin-makers, tombstone-librettists, and back-alley morticians do business.
- Hearsecloth & Lacebones: Office of Mei-Vourne-affiliated coffin-makers, morticians, and funeral parlourists.
- St. Qaspiel's Gate: Acid-pitted barbican and helminthoid palisade that controls passage into the Eastern Cemetery.
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Mandible Clubs: Part gang-dens, part fighting-rings where Repoussé Boys and lesser guttersnipes scrap and swagger to earn the favor and attention of the Brass Skull higher-ups.
- Sutured Cabaret (the Scabaret): A Mandible Club run by Yves, a Brass Skull underboss.
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Meat-Moulde Slums: Crumbling residential area bordering the Eastern Cemetery.
- Lissome Blowfly: A rundown pub and apocryphal brothel frequented by Cemetarians and Watchmen who patrol the tomb-lands.
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Mongrelle Run: Ecletic ghetto of Skein's alien residents, spilling into the Indigo docklands -disreputable even by Ebon Ward standards.
- Consulate of Kisses: One of the ward's tallest tenements, 'attended' to by its leechkin super, Two-Smiles, and home to Red Mei.
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Mooncalf Tangle: Nigh-forsaken region underneath the Northern Rail and its elyctromechanical platforms, affected by bizarre structural injuries.
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Painted House: Unofficial title of the large prison in the Ebon Ward, having earned its sobriquet from its verdigris-streaked exterior.
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Rot-Briquet Slums: Formerly a middle-class residential and commercial district, now a fire-burnt ruin haunted by ashgeists.
- Baggerskin Street: Cobblestone street, home of rag-traders, trash-pickers, and second-hand clothiers.
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Sad-Reaper's Lane: Street bordering the Eastern Cemetery, notable for its black-spiked gates and gaudy scythe-lamps.
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The 'Salvers (more properly, the Quacksalvers' Sink): Series of sewer-sunk alleys near Black Souse where dubiously skilled and morally bankrupt chirurgeons and chymists operate.
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Swinehowl Alley: Street near Black Souse known for its knackeries. Former base of the Oddsauger.
Copper Ward•
Ravel Row: Middle-class tenements of variegated brick, barred windows, and patinated balusters. Xavier's home and private workshop.
Crimson Ward•
Coistrels' March: Street that connects the Brimestone Market and Myrmidon Souk, known for establishments catering to mercenaries.
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Great Souage: A wide boulevard that cuts across the western city, flanked by shackled and bladed statues of St. Camnus, justicar-saint of bondage and bloodshed.
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Myrmidon Souk: Market that specializes in the sale of servants, both martial and mundane, located at the intersection of the Souage and Coistrels' March.
- Choler Exchange: Section that contains offices of the Gold-Vambrace and Widow-Wright merchant companies, training yards, Centaur stable, and a Pale Legion's contract-shop.
- Fetterglove's: Elite store that sells custom-tailored livery and skin-brands that compel obedience akin to Marainein's Sigils of Servitude.
- Gilded Poleyn: Tavern that features elaborate fencers, sword-swallowers, & knife-jugglers as entertainment.
- Petite Joug: Sells neck-shackled Ebon Ward waifs as servants, run by Qiao-Fae.
- Ratibor's Emporium of Manciples & Vadelects: Finds, trains, and connects skilled house-servants to wealthy patrons.
- Sanguinary Fillet: Red-ribboned serving-staff known for its cheap meat-cuts, glazed ribs, and pepperwine.
- Sexasgesimal Arms: Shop offering mercenary demon-binders, conjured otherworldly servants, goetic tomes, and argent collars.
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Ossein Court: Prominent courtyard near the Brimestone Market where merchant companies involved in ur-bone extraction and trade -such as the Night Marrow merchant company- have their headquarters.
Indigo Ward•
Glass Carousel: A local 'jail' where prisoners work off petty crimes and debts by walking a massive rattle-wheel that powers various machinery like canals, dry docks, and dredging.
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Gravid Boudoir: Dockside drug- and pleasure-den run by Madame Zamorra (aka Beldam Mouldegill)
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Hullsgrave: Southerly region full of broken ship-slums.
- Varegous Idol: Derelict slave-galley from Marainein, reputed home of the Communion of Cagastric Rapture
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Impregnated Stallion: Brothel-bar below flophouse run by Sacheverell
Saffron Ward•
Paedarchs' Boulevarde: Connected to a larger avenue lined with fragrant persimmon trees, Paedarchs' Boulevarde is the product of technolatry, a playground of boutiques specifically catering to child clientele –or more precisely the permissive, affluent parents who spoil them.
- Amorce: Whose wheellock cap-pistols and elaborate toy flare-guns fill the air with perfumed smoke and percussive symphonies, each lovingly crafted by Qishen, the alleged bastard and apprentice of the famed Val Corvan.
- The Auturgic Circus: A clockwork toyshop selling trinkets, baubles, and gewgaws made by an unseen sweatshop of mantid tinkerers who answer to Ringmaster Serell, known for his toy train that winds around his top-hat's brim, his handlebar mustache greased with ever-buzzing aerugo-flies, and his organ-grinding monkey of argent manufacture.
- The Moth-Prince Menagerie: Run by Sogni, a pygmy thremmatologist from the Collegia Vlerinn-Phoi, who sells miniature animals, bred like bonsai trees for the fancy of petulant, if prosperous, jackanapes.
- Phalerate Dollhouse: Run by Tsin-Leirre, who sells celadon-faced dolls adorned in delicate dresses of ruffled lace, dyed silk, and embroidered velour.
- Phengge's Emporium of Confectionaries, Candies, & Childish Delights: Known for its prolix candy presses and the eponymous Phengge, with her sweetmeat-speckled hoopskirt and sugar-powdered periwig.
- The Prescite Palm: A palmistry shop run by the eyeblight-infected Madame Volar, whose chirosophic arts and veiled legerdemain captivate young and old alike.
- The Scutestage Drollic: A massive chelonian shell imported from Marainein whose hollowed interior houses a troupe of black-furred zerda who perform elaborate shadow-puppetry under the direction of Yağmur Sahif, better known as Messeuir Marionette, a dark-skinned Erebh expatriate who pretends he's a shade, complete with pitch-black fez, cassock, parasol, and shadeglass spectacles.
- Tragematopolis: A confectionary run by the witch-spinster Hortense whose hexed candies, ensorcelled alphenics, and bitter rivalry with Phengge are a legend of the Boulevarde.
Tangerine Ward•
Brinesaddle: Otto Shamgarr's mid-sized trawler filled with caged beasts and crew of blooded hunters.
Violet Ward•
Gadfly's Trammel: A street bordering the Viridian Ward, filled with clubs and cafes patroned by aristocratic scions and wealthy Collegia students.
- Blannery Wallows: A sculpture-terraced bathhouse purportedly with ties to the Nine-Eyes syndicate.
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Hadric's Home: A former bordello and warehouse for now-milden play props.
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Sateen Comte: A semi-exclusive pleasure-club frequented by parliamentarian bureaucrats and would-be-mistresses of magisters.
Viridian Ward•
Mei-Vourne Estate: Home of House Mei-Vourne, former museum.
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Mothfish Athenaeum: Library-salon of Nybras Guillemeau, ninth and tenth story of the twelfth tower.[/ic]
[ic=Featured Aristocracy]
Adrien•
Shenn: Current chief-magistrate
CarreauGuillemeau•
Rabelais: Current patriarch, Dean of Corporal Eschatology, Symos' and Patrois' maternal grandfather
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Nybras: Rabelais' son, elder brother of Telesphore
Luan-Viardot•
Pheliphas: Current patriarch, Chancellor of Tho-Lladrim
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Caacrabolas: Pheliphas' familiar
Lucor-Rrem•
Cyrille: Alisandre's former betrothed, twin brother of Proserpine
Mavroudis Mei-Vourne (black & midnight blue)
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Amducias: Narimonde's first-born son (4)
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Belphia: Alisandre's deceased mother, daughter of Cadmus Phel-Nirian
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Balberith: Narimonde's wife, daughter of Phelipas Luan-Viardot
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Caraumonde: Current patriarch (78)
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Delepitore: Caraumonde's fifth wife, deceased
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Faustine: Xedric's wife, formerly of House Lurot of Mulcatra
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Lenora: Symos' wife, formerly of House Gervas of New Gromlech
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Lorraine I: Caraumonde's first wife, deceased, formerly of House Carreau
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Lorraine II (aka, Lorinne): Narimonde's daughter (1)
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Narimonde: Xedric's first-born son (30)
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Patrois: Alisandre's youngest half-brother, famed trap maker (33)
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Proserpine: Minor daughter of Lucor-Rrem, Caraumonde's newest bride (25)
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Saebaline: Caraumonde's second wife, deceased mother of Alphosine, cousin of Pyrach-Quin
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Symos: Alisandre's half-brother, former worshipper of Weeping Lady (35)
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Telesphore: Caraumonde's third wife, deceased mother of Symos and Patrois, daughter of Rabelais Guillemeau
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Xaphan: Xedric's second-born son, maimed after failed assassination of Narimonde
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Xedric: Current scion, Alisandre's eldest half-brother, Pallid Mummer (58)
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Fayre-Delun: Former bodyguard-valet of Symos, infected with blanchphage
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Geierfingers: Necrotic servitor formed from Xaphan's left hand, also known as Penance, Memento, and Nails
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Lucretius: Xedric's lupine-equinine hybrid mount-pet
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Madame Fontanelle: bricoleur governess
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Zorjub: Alisandre's decapitated, mummified familiar
Petrifax•
Orlando: Deceased patriarch, the Mad Magister, creator of Macellaria's Watchdogs
Phan-Laru (red & black)
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Jeanne: Current matriarch
Phel-Nirian (white & maroon)
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Alphonsus: Second-son of Alphosine & Seivert (8)
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Alphosine: Alisandre's half-sister, married to Seivert (36)
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Cadmus: First-son of Claudius (38)
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Claudius: Current patriarch, Hadric's maternal uncle (77)
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Cybille: Hadric's deceased mother, Claudius' elder sister
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Leonard: First-son of Alphosine & Seivert(18)
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Seivert: Third-son of Claudius (36)
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Temoinne: Claudius' wife, daughter of Shenn Adrien
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Umptor: Second-son of Claudius (37)
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Nibs: Hadric's unbound familiar
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Prince Fugard: Alphosine's ailing cinder-ape butler
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Tatiana Chemoley: Hadric's servant-girl, orphaned daughter of Virdal and Kravec Chemoley
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Ulle-Shi: Hadric's barrister
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Zeernebub: Alphosine's familiar
Quin (burgundy & lime)
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Aubrey-Quin: Pyrach's heir, parliamentarian, associate of Xedric
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Pyrach-Quin: Current patriarch
Rasch-Lurot (black & orange)
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Elphias: Nascent patriarch
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Ylphine: Elphias' deceased mother
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Xalmas: Elphias' maternal uncle, missing
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Guin: Elphias' bodyguard and Night-Marrow agent
Sedaracs (bruise purple-red)
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Luqin •
Lucilius •
Lemerre Taim (purple & grey)
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Sarah: Current matriarch
Verra-Qior[/ic]
[ic= Criminal Syndicates]
Brass Skulls•
Annealed Brethren•
Guyall-Sinn, the Sutured Kingpin•
Bosses - Lanjou
- Preyll-Shui
- Sidot
- Xann-Carlu
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Underbosses- Yves (aka Aerugo Attercop)
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Repoussé BoysNine Eyes•
Harpy-Hand•
Mustachioed Queen•
Sog-Boys- Blacksocks
- Bolefinger
- Bruisegut
Orchid-Eaters•
Ngo-Shenn•
Sacheverell (aka Dr. Sach): Drugdealer-pimp, ran
Impregnated Stallion, killed by Catena
Yellow Dragons•
Byleth•
Diet of the Jaundiced Assembly (aka Byleth's Diet)Criminals, Affiliations Unknown•
Jun-Moise: Tattooed-faced courier, assistant to Nicodemius
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Nicodemius (aka Midnight Papillion): Black-market art dealer
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Pieng-Luc: Fence, last seen with Xalmas
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Tandy Suckle: Ghul streetwalker, worked for Dr. Sach, last to see Xalmas, taken by Watch
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Titus Chumluck: Button-eyed human sailor-gifted, past 'misunderstandings' with Catena[/ic]
[ic=Government Officials]
Bureaucrats•
Antoine-Ru: Former secretary to Chief-Magistrate Lian and erstwhile employer of Mr. Chen
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Tumais-Shinn: Associate of Aubrey-Quin
Cemetarians•
The Undertaker: High-pitched grave-digger that frequents Belphia's crypt
Physicians•
Chief-Chirurgeon Leung: Works under Watch-Captain Raoule-Hua
Stewards•
Chief-Magistrate Gerauld: Chief-magistrate before Lian
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Chief-Magistrate Lian: Previous chief-magistrate
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Chief-Magistrate Shenn: Current chief-magistrate, head of 12 Stewards
Watchmen•
Delune: Sergeant under Red Mei
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Jeun: Patrols Saffron Ward
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Raoule-Hua: Captain of Ebon Ward morgue-infimiary
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Red Mei: Expatriated freewoman, crooked lieutenant
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Yushen: Bigoted captain, favored by Verra-Qior and the Ambergris Debutante, accidentally killed by Catena[/ic]
[ic=Mercentile Personae & Enterprises]
Mercenaries:•
Jarrow Slake: Subdued by Catena
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Kravec Chemoley: Tatiana's father, died fighting with the Sons of the Wolf during the Adumbal War
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Sharp Jasper:•
Tarpaulin Tlex•
The Ossifragant: Ghul killed by Jarrow Slake
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Usha:•
Xar-Qay:Merchant Companies•
Gold Vambrace: Trains & loans armigers, shield-bearers, and other custrels
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Hell's Teeth: Arms manufacture and trade, including ur-bones
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Night-Marrow: Ur-bone extraction, refinement, and trade as well as mundane arms dealing
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Widow-Wright: Hiring of mercenaries and alleged assassins
Merchants & Proprietors •
Farelige: Technically two hairdressers with the same name, differentiated by their monikers of Carmine and Perse. Victims of Otto's capricorn diabolus
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Madame Zamorra (aka Beldame Mouldegill): Runs pleasure-pier in Indigo Ward, Gravid Boudoir, controls monopoly of Cerulean Bliss
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Monsieur Lerrard: Hairdresser of high-class courtesans
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Otto Shamgarr: Crepuscle hunter and trader of bizarre beasts
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Qiao-Fae (aka Mother Manacle): Owns Petite Joug, collects Ebon Ward urchins to sell as pliable house-servants
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Ratibor: Runs Emporium of Manciples & Vadelects
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Tsin-Leirre: Dollmaker, runs Phalerate Dollhouse
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Two-Smiles: Leechkin landlord/super of the Consulate of Kisses in the Mongrelle Run[/ic]
[ic=Newsrags]
Brazen ChaunticleerVoracious Quill•
Remmy: Head editor
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Maryse-Liang: Female human gearborg, former Brass-Skull[/ic]
[ic=Political Factions & Revolutionaries]
Black Ague SocialitesFaminites•
Soldiers of SkinIsocratsMiscegenationistsSansculottes[/ic]
[ic=Religious Societies & Theosophic Cults]
Communion of Cagastric Rapture: Heretic cult of Yzch
Pallid Mummers: Run Chrysanth Ring
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Florist of Gasps•
Grey Lanterneer[/ic]
[ic=Other]
Balfor Vitarrese: Art-critic and ally of Alphosine
Boriss Helmuth: Conductor of Somnambulon Philharmonic
Feodor Chemoley: Eldest born of Ludovic, died during Northern Uprising fighting against Revenants
Galkin Chemoley: Tatiana's surviving uncle, landless noble in Northern Baronies
Harne-Fei: Old paramour of Cybille Phel-Nirian
Ludovic Chemoley: Noble seditionist painter and former patriarch of Chemoley of Old Gromlech
Meng-Yao: Balfor's hansom-driver
Nian: Missing man from Brass Skull's turf
Rel-Shan: Artificer who designed and ran Black Souse's Flensery, sponsored by House Phan-Laru, killed by local mob
Sampati: Jatayu fabler living near Gadfly's Trammel
Virdal: Tatiana's mother, machinist, went missing in Brass Skull turf[/ic]
Collegia Arcana et Mechanica
[ic=Lais-Arcume]
reserved[/ic]
[ic=Quan-Serell]
reserved[/ic]
[ic=Shann-Irim]
reserved[/ic]
[ic=Tho-Lladrum]
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Felix Rhadcuth: Professor of pan-demonological theory
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Niddeus Nival: Professor of xenobiology and transracial phenotypology
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Phelipas Luan-Viardot: Chancellor
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[ic=Vlerinn-Phoi]
ChancellorDean of Auxologic Substantia Dean of Corporal Eschatology: Rabelais Guillemeau
Dean of Decarnate Mechanics Department of Alethiology & Theosophic Inquiries •
Autothaumaturgy •
Neurypnology •
Noology •
Pangeometry Department of Algedonics •
Agonistics •
Anacrisis•
Hedonics •
Hoplology Department of Inert Materialism•
Lithics •
Metallurgy •
Pneumatics •
Xylology •
Zymurgy Department of Physiognomy & Anthroposcopy •
Chirology •
Dactylography •
Graphometry •
PhrenologyDepartment of Raciology & Ethnogeny•
Demology •
Diabology •
DygenicsDepartment of Thremmatology & Geoponics•
Helminthology •
Phytology•
Piscatology •
Sericulture •
Teratology Department of Vivisection & Iamatology•
Aceology •
Aedoeology •
Haemataulics •
Hygiastics •
Sarcology •
Zootomy [/ic]