Firm
Wherever you find a person willing to do a days work for a days living you can usually find someone else, plotting ways to take it from them. Some people call this survival of the fittest, but most of us have a different word for it: crime. The Firm are the gangsters and organised criminals of Ulaya. Protection racketeering, theft, robbery, banditry, the sale and supply of illicit substances and services: all of these things are their stock and trade. Violent brutality and ruthlessness permeate all that they do. The true extent of their power is not known, and few are brave or foolhardy enough to find out…
Bez and her sister Romi were not born to suit the mundane village life they were born into. At a young age, they stowed away on a river-trader and fell in with a group of adventurers. However, they took very different paths... while Romi a loyal member of the Artefacters Bez joined their arch-nemesis... The Firm. Her darker impulses were a bone of contention between the sisters, and they have never yet met in battle. Nobody knows what will happen when they do... Not even them.
Kassel: the Underboss of the 'Five Lakes Syndicate', the organisation which runs all the organised crime operations in the five Lakes District, and much of the Great Lagoon Network. Operating out of the Gilded Viper, a drinking establishment in the Undertown of Skyton, all those under his command quake at the thought of his attentions. He is feared, and with good reason. Ruthlessness goes with the territory, but Kassel tolerates no failure, with one exception: Kaneda, the son of Kassel's own boss. This is a situation Kassel deeply resents, feeling that his position is undermined by having to tolerate the ineptitude and insubordination of Kaneda Griss. Perhaps this frustration explains his occasionally nuclear violent outbursts and exactitude with the rest of his employees. Kassel is cold, ambitious, and terrifyingly proficient in close quarters, training in his private Dojo each day, despite rarely going out in to the field. Kassel can injure his own crew in order to guarantee command orders! Meanwhile he is devastating on the charge, and can dart in and out of combat at a whim.
Bez - Firm (TDE-F2012)
Bez and her sister Romi were not born to suit the mundane village life they were born into. At a young age, they stowed away on a river-trader and fell in with a group of adventurers. However, they took very different paths... while Romi a loyal member of the Artefacters Bez joined their arch-nemesis... The Firm. Her darker impulses were a bone of contention between the sisters, and they have never yet met in battle. Nobody knows what will happen when they do... Not even them.
Kassel - Firm Leader (TDE-F2009)
Kassel: the Underboss of the 'Five Lakes Syndicate', the organisation which runs all the organised crime operations in the five Lakes District, and much of the Great Lagoon Network. Operating out of the Gilded Viper, a drinking establishment in the Undertown of Skyton, all those under his command quake at the thought of his attentions. He is feared, and with good reason. Ruthlessness goes with the territory, but Kassel tolerates no failure, with one exception: Kaneda, the son of Kassel's own boss. This is a situation Kassel deeply resents, feeling that his position is undermined by having to tolerate the ineptitude and insubordination of Kaneda Griss. Perhaps this frustration explains his occasionally nuclear violent outbursts and exactitude with the rest of his employees. Kassel is cold, ambitious, and terrifyingly proficient in close quarters, training in his private Dojo each day, despite rarely going out in to the field. Kassel can injure his own crew in order to guarantee command orders! Meanwhile he is devastating on the charge, and can dart in and out of combat at a whim.
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