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=Amazon Poacher's Guild=
=Amazon Poacher's Guild=
=====Old Granny Stomp=====
=====Old Granny Stomp=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= Amazon Rainforest Merchant
|Position= Amazon Rainforest Merchant
|Status= Alive
|Status= Alive
|Appearance= Wrinkled old runty summer goblin
|Appearance=  
|Description=
|Description= A wrinkled old runty summer goblin
|Rank= Founder
|Rank= Founder
|Background= Summer goblin
|Background= Summer goblin
|Strengths= Summer goblins as a whole understand the idea of supply and demand dictating prices, unlike many other sorts of fae.
|Strengths=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes=  
|Notes= Summer goblins as a whole understand the idea of supply and demand dictating prices, unlike many other sorts of fae.
}}
}}
=====Li Kui=====
=====Li Kui=====
See '''[[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Duke|Duke]]''' for more information.
See '''[[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Duke|Duke]]''' for more information.
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=A.O.R.B.=
=A.O.R.B.=
An international bureau operating in the Americas, A.O.R.B. is a Pan-American organization funded and staffed by New World countries. American war heroes are usually quietly inducted into it posthumously, and serve the interests of keeping the dragons and gods in the Americas in line, as well as monitoring threats around the world and performing policing actions as required. A.O.R.B. is known for having the best in magitech equipment and training, and has been known to use unorthodox recruiting techniques (such as monitoring training simulators sold as consumer-level video games).
=====Edward Riker=====
=====Edward Riker=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
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=Holland and Holland=
=Holland and Holland=
The famous specialty arms company also does work for clients who want supernatural and magical equipment. They can broker deals between private parties, build original empowered weapons (thanks to a couple of tomes on the subject they have in their corporate vault), and maintain their own house security and information service.
=====Arkvad Söderström=====
=====Arkvad Söderström=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= What he does.
|Position= Selling agent and broker for H&H
|Status= Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?
|Status= Alive
|Appearance= What he looks likes.
|Appearance= Dapper looking middle-aged Finnish gentleman. He wears a greying beard and prefers tweed suits.
|Description= How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
|Description= A friend of the Laine family by way of having served in the Finnish military alongside Armas's father, Arkvad is like an uncle to Armas, and as such is willing to afford him a little more slack for his sometimes eccentric behavior.  
|Rank= Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
|Rank= Finnish Army Kersantti (OR-5) Retired, Sale Agent and Broker for H&H
|Background= Where he came from.
|Background= Born in Finland, Arkvad served in the Finnish Army and later became an agent for H&H.
|Strengths= What he's known to be good at.
|Strengths= Good negotiator and salesman, watches out for Armas, has numerous low-level and mid-level contacts all around the world in the both the magical and mundane communities.
|Weaknesses= What he's known to be poor at.
|Weaknesses= Arkvad is a mortal man and has all the weaknesses that implies.
|Equipment= Notable special gear.
|Equipment=  
|Notes= Anything else that's relevant.
|Notes=  
}}
}}


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|Description= A body and soul Transcendent, Duke is known for his berserk behavior in combat, his strong penchant for white wine, and is known to be a hardcore gambler.  
|Description= A body and soul Transcendent, Duke is known for his berserk behavior in combat, his strong penchant for white wine, and is known to be a hardcore gambler.  
|Rank=  
|Rank=  
|Background= Duke's actual name is Li Kui, and he is also known as "Iron Ox" or "Black Whirlwind." One of the legendary 108 Heavenly Spirits from the Great Chinese Classic Novel, "Water Margin." Duke was assigned to protect a "Dreamer" in the Amazon by Song Jiang (his former leader in "Water Margin") to keep Duke from making trouble seeking revenge for Song's death. After Armas killed the Dreamer, he talked Duke into coming home with him, where Duke drank literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of magic wine, alcohol, and drugs from the stocks Florent Smets acquired. Armas later successfully talked Owner, the Ruling Dragon of Turkey, into sparing Duke's life.
|Background= Duke's actual name is Li Kui, and he is also known as "Iron Ox" or "Black Whirlwind." One of the legendary 108 Heavenly Spirits from the Great Chinese Classic Novel, "Water Margin." Duke was assigned to protect a "Dreamer" in the Amazon by Song Jiang (his former leader in "Water Margin") to keep Duke from making trouble seeking revenge for Song's death. After [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Armas_Laine|Armas Laine]] killed the Dreamer, he talked Duke into coming home with him, where Duke drank literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of magic wine, alcohol, and drugs from the stocks [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Florent_Smets|Florent Smets]] acquired. Armas later successfully talked [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Owner|Owner]], the Ruling Dragon of Turkey, into sparing Duke's life.
|Strengths= Conceptual Strength, Body and Soul Transcendent, Numerous Body and Soul Quirks, ability to produce vile corrosives.  
|Strengths= Conceptual Strength, Body and Soul Transcendent, Numerous Body and Soul Quirks, ability to produce vile corrosives.  
|Weaknesses= Functionally illiterate
|Weaknesses= Functionally illiterate
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|Weaknesses=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes= Non-signator of the god treaties, believed by AORB to be capable of creating clone bodies with considerable fleshcrafting ability.
|Notes= Lyubov's patron Tesla is non-signator of the God Wars treaties and thus was able to legally make a witch saint. She is believed by AORB to be capable of creating clone bodies with considerable fleshcrafting ability.
}}
}}


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=Mafia=
=Mafia=
The famed crime syndicate. One of the Company of Laine's closer business partners.
=====Angiluzzo Castelletti=====
=====Angiluzzo Castelletti=====
{{GfH Database Short
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= Former Istanbul Mafia Boss
|Position= Former Istanbul Mafia Boss
|Status= Deceased
|Status= Deceased
|Appearance=  
|Appearance= A fat man prone to hedonism.
|Description= An overly familiar and fat hedonist who was manipulated by [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Galileo_Savoy|Galileo Savoy]].
|Description= An overly familiar and fat hedonist who was manipulated by [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Galileo_Savoy|Galileo Savoy]] into believing that Armas Laine intended to kill him, thus presenting the bad-faith behavior Armas needed to believe that Castelletti intended a double-cross.
|Rank= Boss
|Rank= Boss
|Background=  
|Background=  
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|Weaknesses=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes= Killed by Armas in a disagreement.
|Notes= Castelletti held Mammon's Device (a contract artifact gun) as well as the service of the elf Allenaethos. Both Castelletti and his elf were killed by Armas in a disagreement.
}}
}}


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=====Bonzi O'Leary=====
=====Bonzi O'Leary=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position=  
|Position= Owner of "The Minotaur and Leprechaun" bar.
|Status= Alive
|Status= Alive
|Appearance=  
|Appearance= A 65 centimeter tall leprechaun, complete with pot of gold and green garb.
|Description=  
|Description= A leprechaun businessman who takes his bar very seriously.
|Rank=  
|Rank=  
|Background=  
|Background=  
|Strengths=  
|Strengths= Allies with Kronknar, well versed in leprechaun magic
|Weaknesses=  
|Weaknesses= Bonzi is known to suffer a total personality shift when in glurichaun form, a condition which means if he has been drinking prior to sunrise Dublin time he will be difficult to negotiate with.
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes=  
|Notes= Bonzi runs a service allowing people to enter and exit a section of the undersewers through his magic pot for a blood tithe.  Like all leprechauns, he takes extreme pride in his work, and is one of the best barmen in the entire country.
}}
}}


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|Rank=  
|Rank=  
|Background=  
|Background=  
|Strengths=  
|Strengths= A remarkably stoic sentinel, a savvy information broker, and a strong combatant with a gift for detecting fellow cannibals.  Kronknar is allies with Bonzi O'Leary.
|Weaknesses= Cursed to eat any minotaur he meets.
|Weaknesses= Cursed to eat any minotaur he meets.
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
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=Neo-Nazis=
=Neo-Nazis=
=====Klaus Barbie=====
 
Third Reich remnants who have coalesced into a Neo-Nazi movement, complete with Nazi super-soldiers (non-magical but very formidable), well-trained gang members, supernatural experiments and and supernatural contacts.  The organization seems to be led by Otto Skorzeny with its Istanbul branch led by Endman (a hivemind spread out over multiple human bodies).  Circumstantial evidence suggests that they are, in part, supported by larger organizations who reap the benefits of the Neo-Nazis weapon research programs.
 
=====Klaus 'Alder' Barbie=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= What he does.
|Position= Neo-Nazi Officer
|Status= Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?
|Status= Dead
|Appearance= What he looks likes.
|Appearance= An old man
|Description= How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
|Description= An expert in counter-guerrilla warfare and interrogation techniques, Barbie was most famous for his role in the pacification and terrorism of Occupied France during WW2.
|Rank= Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
|Rank= SS-Hauptsturmführer (OF-2), Unknown rank in the Neo-Nazis
|Background= Where he came from.
|Background= An intellectual turned Nazi in 1933, Barbie joined the special security branch service of the SS in 1935 and rose through the ranks to become the infamous Butcher of Lyon.  Over the course of his wartime career he was personally responsible for the torture and murder of an estimated 14,000 prisoners.  After the war he worked for the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps, and fled to Bolvia. In 1965 he was recruited by the West German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) where he was given his codename 'Alder'.  While working in Boliva he helped the CIA capture Che Guevara in 1967.  In 1980 he helped the dictator García Meza rise to power in Bolvia, and when the dictatorship fell in 1983 was subsequently extradited to France to answer for his WW2 crimes.  Found guilty by the French justice system and sentenced to life in prison, the Neo-Nazis made contact with him and helped orchestrate his escape from prison in 1991.  With his enlistment as one of the key members of the Neo-Nazi faction, Barbie lent legitimacy to a relatively young organization.  The Alder met his end at Armas Laine's hands above a German bakery in Istanbul in 2010.
|Strengths= What he's known to be good at.
|Strengths= Counter-guerrilla warfare, interrogation, mass murder.
|Weaknesses= What he's known to be poor at.
|Weaknesses= Keeping out of trouble, backing winning power players.
|Equipment= Notable special gear.
|Equipment=  
|Notes= Anything else that's relevant.
|Notes= He was officially declared dead in 1991 in Lyons, France.
}}
}}


=====Kaspar Brandt=====
=====Kaspar Brandt=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Neo-Nazi officer
|Position= Neo-Nazi Officer
|Status= Dead
|Status= Dead
|Appearance= What he looks likes.
|Appearance= What he looks likes.
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}}
}}


=Triads=
=====Joseph O'Connor=====
=====Lo Fang=====
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= Barbie's assistant and bodyguard
|Status= Dead
|Description=
|Background= A former IRA member with a bum leg, he was a specialist in explosives and shotguns.
|Notes= He was present at the time Armas ambushed Barbie, and ultimately perished from wounds sustained during the assassination.
}}
 
=====Lachlan=====
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= Barbie's bodyguard
|Status= Dead
|Description= Tyson's twin brother.
|Background= An Australian for hire as muscle alongside his brother.
|Notes= He was present at the time Armas ambushed Barbie, and ultimately perished during the assassination.  Armas claimed a pair of heavily modified Mateba Model 6 Unica Autorevolvers from him and his brother as battle spoils.
}}
 
=====Tyson=====
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= Barbie's bodyguard
|Status= Dead
|Description= Lachlan's twin brother.
|Background= An Australian for hire as muscle alongside his brother.
|Notes= He was present at the time Armas ambushed Barbie, and ultimately perished during the assassination.  Armas claimed a pair of heavily modified Mateba Model 6 Unica Autorevolvers from him and his brother as battle spoils.
}}
 
=Triads=
The Triads are a well known criminal organization based in China. Those referred to here are typically members or former members of the Istanbul branch.
 
=====Jet Fang=====
{{GfH Database
|Position= Triad Member
|Status= Held in Stasis
|Appearance= Stereotypical Chinese features, dresses like a frat boy.
|Description=
|Rank=
|Background=
|Strengths=
|Weaknesses=
|Equipment=
|Notes= No known familial relationship to Lo Fang.
}}
 
=====Lo Fang=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Former Leader of the Istanbul branch of the Triad organization
|Position= Former Leader of the Istanbul branch of the Triad organization
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|Description= Calculating, conniving, and cool, Lo Fang was a plotter and manipulator.
|Description= Calculating, conniving, and cool, Lo Fang was a plotter and manipulator.
|Rank= Ex-Triad leader, Property
|Rank= Ex-Triad leader, Property
|Background= Orphaned as a child he was raised in Shaolin monasteries and eventually graduated to the level he could study under the great magical monasteries. Lacking great breeding he was denied access to much of his new home's treasures. He would go on to rebel against his home monastery, kill its master, and lead a splinter group of personal disciples away from there. Convicted of crimes against the Accords in Dragon Court and executed as a punishment, Lo Fang lost a bet he made with Camella Larosa as part of Dorjpalam's terms of a contract. His soul now belongs to her.
|Background= Orphaned as a child he was raised in Shaolin monasteries and eventually graduated to the level he could study under the great magical monasteries. Lacking great breeding he was denied access to much of his new home's treasures. He would go on to rebel against his home monastery, kill its master, and lead a splinter group of personal disciples away from there. Years later he was convicted of crimes against the Accords in Dragon Court and executed as a punishment.  By dying, Lo Fang lost a bet he made with [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Camella_Larosa|Camella Larosa]] as part of the Wizard [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Dorjpalam_Khubiliai|Dorjpalam Khubiliai's]] terms of a contract.
|Strengths= He is a master of chakra techniques and knows many illegal and banned chakra techniques. He is well versed in rituals and curses.
|Strengths= He is a master of chakra techniques and knows many illegal and banned chakra techniques. He is well versed in rituals and curses.
|Weaknesses= His personal amount of magical energy is low.
|Weaknesses= His personal amount of magical energy is low.
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes= Legally dead, his soul is Camella Larosa's property.
|Notes= Legally dead, his soul was formerly Camella Larosa's property.  She gave it to [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Armas_Laine|Armas Laine]], since she didn't want it.
}}
}}


=====Go Ping=====
=====May Lee=====
{{GfH Database
|Position= Triad member
|Status= Held in Stasis
|Appearance= A stocky woman with a barrel chest and scars across her eyebrows and knuckles.
|Description= Has a fantastic sense of humor, enough she was able to make Lo Fang laugh. Appears to love animals.
|Rank= Triad enforcer
|Background= Where she came from.
|Strengths= Heavy weapons, Chakra.
|Weaknesses= What he's known to be poor at.
|Equipment= SAW, Buddhist axes.
|Notes= The secret she confided to prove her authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was 'she owns a cat that practically runs her home life'.
}}
 
=====Go Ping=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Disicple of Lo Fang
|Position= Disicple of Lo Fang
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{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Triad member
|Position= Triad member
|Status= Alive
|Status= Held in Stasis
|Appearance= A tall woman, athletic in build. Her hair was noted as being overly long.
|Appearance= A tall woman, athletic in build. Her hair was noted as being overly long.
|Description= She is a shy person and very aware of social cues, cautious to cause a disturbance or otherwise offend. Her voice is fairly high pitch.  
|Description= She is a shy person and very aware of social cues, cautious to cause a disturbance or otherwise offend. Her voice is fairly high pitch.  
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|Notes= The secret she confided to prove her authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was that 'while she may be shy she is quite the opposite in the bedroom'
|Notes= The secret she confided to prove her authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was that 'while she may be shy she is quite the opposite in the bedroom'
}}
}}
=====Meng Yun=====


=====Long Wang=====
=====Long Wang=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Triad member
|Position= Triad member
|Status= Alive
|Status= Held in Stasis
|Appearance= Androgynous and lacks a clear gender. He is short, standing at five feet tall.  
|Appearance= Androgynous and lacks a clear gender. He is short, standing at five feet tall.  
|Description= Highly professional and dispassionate in almost all areas of life he takes well to the Triad institution.   
|Description= Highly professional and dispassionate in almost all areas of life he takes well to the Triad institution.   
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}}
}}


=====May Lee=====
=====Li Zhou=====
 
=Russian Anti-Magic Forces (The Black Army)=
=====Vladimir Chugainov=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Triad member
|Position= Commander of a Black Army brigade
|Status= Unknown Status
|Status= Alive
|Appearance= A stocky woman with a barrel chest and scars across her eyebrows and knuckles.
|Appearance=  
|Description= Has a fantastic sense of humor, enough she was able to make Lo Fang laugh. Appears to love animals.
|Description= A relatively straightforward and predictable opponent, he is nevertheless effective.
|Rank= Triad enforcer
|Rank= General-Major (OF-7)
|Background= Where she came from.
|Background= His political ambitions as a younger man were cut short by his fondness for molesting children, and he has been in the Black Army as a way for his enemies to keep a leash on him and still get some useful work out of him.
|Strengths= Heavy weapons, Chakra.
|Strengths= Good information control and security practices, a competent commander
|Weaknesses= What he's known to be poor at.
|Weaknesses= Pedophile
|Equipment= SAW, Buddhist axes.
|Equipment=  
|Notes= The secret she confided to prove her authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was 'she owns a cat that practically runs her home life'.
|Notes=  
}}
}}


=Russian Anti-Magic Forces (The Black Army)=
=====Moda=====
=====Moda=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
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|Notes= After Amen's attempt to manipulate her was discovered, she was labeled compromised, isolated, and when Amen's identity was confirmed she was executed as a security risk which could not be secured.  Rank equivalent to a lieutenant colonel in western armies.
|Notes= After Amen's attempt to manipulate her was discovered, she was labeled compromised, isolated, and when Amen's identity was confirmed she was executed as a security risk which could not be secured.  Rank equivalent to a lieutenant colonel in western armies.
}}
}}


=Savoy House=
=Savoy House=
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|Weaknesses=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes=  
|Notes= In line to assume the position of Branch Clan Head. By the traditions that bloodline clans follow, he could legally challenge for the position of Main Family Head.
}}
}}


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|Status= Deceased
|Status= Deceased
|Appearance=
|Appearance=
|Description=  
|Description= Gabriel had an obsession with fidelity, and when he suspected his wife Isabella had been less than faithful, he had her executed.  He never remarried, and his actions and words with regard to oath keeping and fidelity shaped his children's opinions on the matter.
|Rank=  
|Rank=  
|Background= Husband of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Isabella_Savoy|Isabella Savoy]], father of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Angelo_Savoy|Angelo]] and [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Camella_Savoy|Camella]].
|Background= Husband of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Isabella_Savoy|Isabella Savoy]], father of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Angelo_Savoy|Angelo]] and [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Camella_Savoy|Camella]].
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|Status= Deceased
|Status= Deceased
|Appearance=
|Appearance=
|Description=  
|Description= Accused of adultery and found guilty, she was executed by orders of the House head for the crime.
|Rank=  
|Rank=  
|Background= Wife of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Gabriel_Savoy|Gabriel Savoy]], mother of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Angelo_Savoy|Angelo]] and [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Camella_Savoy|Camella]].
|Background= Wife of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Gabriel_Savoy|Gabriel Savoy]], mother of [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Angelo_Savoy|Angelo]] and [[Guns_for_Hire_Database#Camella_Savoy|Camella]].
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=Valkonen Clan=
=Valkonen Clan=
Winter-aspected martial family; formerly quite influential with three Branch families and many allies, now diminished to just a small family. Based in Finland.
=====Einrik Valkonen=====
=====Einrik Valkonen=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
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|Strengths= What he's known to be good at.
|Strengths= What he's known to be good at.
|Weaknesses= What he's known to be poor at.
|Weaknesses= What he's known to be poor at.
|Equipment= Notable special gear.
|Equipment= Notable special gear.
|Notes= Anything else that's relevant.
|Notes= Anything else that's relevant.
}}
}}
 
 
=====Markku Valkonen=====
=====Markku Valkonen=====
{{GfH Database
{{GfH Database
|Position= Clan Head
|Position= Clan Head
|Status= Alive
|Appearance=
|Description=
|Rank=
|Background= Branch family member who challenged for, and won control of, the main family at the cost of nearly destroying the entire clan.
|Strengths= Outrageously strong in the Valkonen bloodline magic thanks to being a compounded Rule of Three birth.
|Weaknesses=
|Equipment=
|Notes=
}}
 
=====Tartalo=====
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= Valkonen retainer
|Status= Alive
|Status= Alive
|Appearance=
|Description= A Deathless cyclops with significant training in Shadow magic, Tartalo uses his keen senses to help shepherd and protect young Valkonens who have not developed their own magic senses suficiently.
|Description=  
|Background= Tartalo is the cyclops of legend, and was tricked into thinking he was blinded by a shadow practicioner. When he finally escaped the sea on the shores of Finland, he became a retainer for the Valkonens and has been with them since. His soul is hidden somewhere in the Dark as a result of a bet he lost, rendering him Soulless (one of the three formats for Deathlessness).  
|Rank=
|Notes= Dislikes Armas but respects that he is a Friend of the Valkonen household.
|Background= Branch family member who challenged for, and won control of, the main family at the cost of nearly destroying the entire clan.
|Strengths= Outrageously strong in the Valkonen bloodline magic thanks to being a compounded Rule of Three birth.
|Weaknesses=
|Equipment=
|Notes=
}}
 
=====Tartalo=====
{{GfH Database Short
|Position= What he does.
|Status= Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?
|Description= How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
|Background= Where he came from.
|Notes= This template is for less important individuals.
}}
}}


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|Status= Destroyed Vampire
|Status= Destroyed Vampire
|Appearance=  
|Appearance=  
|Description=  
|Description= Known for being cautious, and a gourmand of rare blood.
|Rank=  
|Rank=  
|Background=  
|Background= The former intelligence officer for the Zoismus clan, he liked to bully mundanes and cheat them in deals.  He tried to swindle Armas, and was instead slain by him.  He was the former master of Amen.
|Strengths=  
|Strengths=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Weaknesses=  
|Equipment=  
|Equipment=  
|Notes= His corpse and blood was consumed by Silja, and the blood of Sisthuros was moved to Armas by Ogrimir.
|Notes= His corpse and blood were consumed by Silja, and the blood of Sisthuros was later moved to Armas by Ogrimir.
}}
}}


Latest revision as of 02:34, 10 April 2013

TEMPLATE

Individual's Name or Moniker
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
Notes: Anything else that's relevant.

Short Form Template
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Background: Where he came from.
Notes: This template is for less important individuals.

Amazon Poacher's Guild

Old Granny Stomp
Amazon Rainforest Merchant, Alive

Description: A wrinkled old runty summer goblin
Background: Summer goblin
Notes: Summer goblins as a whole understand the idea of supply and demand dictating prices, unlike many other sorts of fae.

Li Kui

See Duke for more information.

Reginald
Poacher, Alive

Description:
Background:
Notes:

Thrompton
Poacher, Deceased

Description: Thrompton was eaten by a dragon after he unknowingly got magically drunk and called a dragon in disguise on his claim that he could eat him up.
Background:
Notes: Thrompton had a grandson in India who he was close to.

A.O.R.B.

An international bureau operating in the Americas, A.O.R.B. is a Pan-American organization funded and staffed by New World countries. American war heroes are usually quietly inducted into it posthumously, and serve the interests of keeping the dragons and gods in the Americas in line, as well as monitoring threats around the world and performing policing actions as required. A.O.R.B. is known for having the best in magitech equipment and training, and has been known to use unorthodox recruiting techniques (such as monitoring training simulators sold as consumer-level video games).

Edward Riker
Drill Sergeant and A.O.R.B. recruiter, Alive

Appearance:
Description: An A.O.R.B. recruiter placed as a drill sergeant with the U.S. Army, Riker is a no-nonsense kind of guy. He serves as the primary liaison between A.O.R.B. and Laine Corporation, owing to his personal connection to Armas.
Rank: First Sergeant U.S. Army (OR-8), Unknown rank in A.O.R.B.
Background: Armas's drill sergeant when he was in the Army.
Strengths: Still viewed as an authority figure by Armas. Has connections for acquiring next generation armor and other supplies (likely through A.O.R.B.).
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Notes: In a relationship of some sort. Has embarrassing blackmail material on Armas (photos of some incident).

Arms Dealers

Bagatur Yilmaz
Low-end black market explosives dealer, Alive

Description: An arms dealer who sells explosives and explosive accessories.
Background: Independent
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Galileo
Magic arms dealer, Alive

Description: Vendor that has a stock of magical weapons, favoring magical knives and other small bladed weapons. He is connected to the Mafia, unrelated to Savoy.
Background: Connected to the Italian mafia
Notes: No relation to the Savoy family.

Garbage Pete
Low-end black market gun dealer, Alive

Description: He sells low end stolen and used guns from a dumpster.
Background: Apparently an independent who operates at such a low level that the other dealers leave him alone
Notes: On occasion has magic weapons for sale, but does not seem to be capable of recognizing them as such himself. Apparently unaware of magic.

Juliano
Black market explosives dealer, Alive

Description: Specializes in the sale of explosives and incendiary weapons, owns two M-29 Davy Crockett nuclear weapons (currently stored in stasis).
Background: Connected to the Italian mafia
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Jung
Black market arms dealer, Alive

Appearance: Korean features
Description: Practical and confident.
Rank: Criminal Entrepreneur
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Old Ironhead
Black market arms dealer, Alive

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Holland and Holland

The famous specialty arms company also does work for clients who want supernatural and magical equipment. They can broker deals between private parties, build original empowered weapons (thanks to a couple of tomes on the subject they have in their corporate vault), and maintain their own house security and information service.

Arkvad Söderström
Selling agent and broker for H&H, Alive

Appearance: Dapper looking middle-aged Finnish gentleman. He wears a greying beard and prefers tweed suits.
Description: A friend of the Laine family by way of having served in the Finnish military alongside Armas's father, Arkvad is like an uncle to Armas, and as such is willing to afford him a little more slack for his sometimes eccentric behavior.
Rank: Finnish Army Kersantti (OR-5) Retired, Sale Agent and Broker for H&H
Background: Born in Finland, Arkvad served in the Finnish Army and later became an agent for H&H.
Strengths: Good negotiator and salesman, watches out for Armas, has numerous low-level and mid-level contacts all around the world in the both the magical and mundane communities.
Weaknesses: Arkvad is a mortal man and has all the weaknesses that implies.
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Hamlet Hanson
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

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Equipment: Notable special gear.
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Laine Corporation

Adib
Flesh Golem, Alive

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Andrei
Hacker, Alive

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Armas Laine
Mercenary Company Leader, Alive

Appearance: Armas is six feet, four inches tall and approximately 114 kg in mass. He has a prominent conan chin, olive skin (Fitzpatrick type IV), blue eyes, dark rust-colored hair. He's very muscular and fit looking.
Description: It is an imperfectly kept secret that Armas is a godling, a divine being on the road to potentially becoming a full fledged god. Armas favors flashy clothing. Early in his mercenary career he often used layered ballistic armor, using both low-profile armored clothing and military-grade supplemental armor. While he still uses armor on occasion, he is far more likely to pick his clothes for mobility and appearance than protection.
Rank: Commander (OF-3)
Background: Armas was born in San Diego, California to a Maori-American mother and Finnish father. He was a poor student. Upon graduation from high school, Armas enlisted in the Marines and graduated from boot camp at Camp Pendelton shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in 2001. He spent the next decade in both the Marines and Army Rangers, before mustering out and traveling to Istanbul. He never advanced beyond the rank of Private in the course of nine years in the military.
Strengths: Trained in Stealth by the Wyld Goblins, notably excellent at manipulating people, Divine Imperial Winter bloodline based around soul manipulation and auto-resurrection, Divine Summer bloodline based around internal cannibal fleshcrafting and thunder, current owner of Amen, favored by the Ruling Dragon of Turkey
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Equipment: The 14th Elder Artifact (the reforged Mere pounamu), Mahtigwess's Contract Artifact (a Buntline revolver), Leprechaun-made charms, two magic Mateba Model 6 Unica Auto revolvers
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Bagga Aksoy
Vampire, Alive

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Big Crazy
Spirit Shaman, Alive

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Boris
Magic Cuisine Chef, Alive

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Camella Larosa
Mercenary Company Officer, Alive

Appearance: Camella has straw blond hair, blue eyes, and frame that can safely be described as athletic. The majority of her left leg is a magic construct with a much darker skin color than her own.
Description: A Slider from a lower magic world, Camella has spent the past four months adjusting to life in Istanbul.
Rank: Second in Command (OF-2)
Background: Former member of the 9th Parachute Assault Regiment, Camella arrived in the bones of the earth below Istanbul on November 8th, 2010. She spent a week fighting her way out and arrived in the alley behind Armas's apartment exhausted and badly wounded. In an attack against Blackbeard she lost her leg, although she has received a new one from Wizard Khubiliai.
Strengths: Camella has no bloodline power, but is instead a once-in-a-generation example of a peak ability human, with near-perfect equilibrioception and proprioception. She has a soul quirk which grants her 108 eye-like sensors. Her excellent military training and natural ability allow her to excel in both the use of firearms and melee combat.
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Equipment: A ritual blood charm which heals up to 12 non-fatal injuries on the wearer, a magic Walther WA 2000 once owned by Neonazis, and a pair of magic axes acquired through the Triad.
Notes: The ruling dragon of Turkey, Owner, has taken a personal interest in her. She works part-time as an instructor at Ito's Dojo.

Dávgon
Bloodliner, Alive

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Duke
Heavenly Spirit, Alive

Appearance: Duke is a muscular man with a dark complexion, a reddish-yellow unibrow, and fiery eyes. He has a glamour which makes him appear to be a middle-aged Caucasian man in a white suit.
Description: A body and soul Transcendent, Duke is known for his berserk behavior in combat, his strong penchant for white wine, and is known to be a hardcore gambler.
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Background: Duke's actual name is Li Kui, and he is also known as "Iron Ox" or "Black Whirlwind." One of the legendary 108 Heavenly Spirits from the Great Chinese Classic Novel, "Water Margin." Duke was assigned to protect a "Dreamer" in the Amazon by Song Jiang (his former leader in "Water Margin") to keep Duke from making trouble seeking revenge for Song's death. After Armas Laine killed the Dreamer, he talked Duke into coming home with him, where Duke drank literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of magic wine, alcohol, and drugs from the stocks Florent Smets acquired. Armas later successfully talked Owner, the Ruling Dragon of Turkey, into sparing Duke's life.
Strengths: Conceptual Strength, Body and Soul Transcendent, Numerous Body and Soul Quirks, ability to produce vile corrosives.
Weaknesses: Functionally illiterate
Equipment: Soul-bound twin axes made of his own blood iron 'Rage of the Honorless', a kameosa loaded with spirit wine, wizard-made glamour.
Notes: Duke is an actual Duke (he was awarded the title by the Vatican).

Dmitrii
Vehicle Operations Specialist, Alive

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Feodor Morozov
Medic, Alive

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Grisha
Soldier, Alive

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Hillevi Valkonen
Armas's Ward, Alive

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Igor
Soldier, Alive

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Iosef Markovic
Soldier, Alive

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Ivan
Soldier, Alive

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Ivan Ivanovich
Flesh Golem, Alive

Appearance: By default he appears to be a genderless surgery doll.
Description: A Meat Circus construct designed to be a combination surgery doll and fleshcrafter's emulation platform.
Rank: Property
Background: Commissioned by Feodor Morozov for personal use as a training tool.
Strengths: Designed by Meat Circus to be a high-fidelity low level emulator of human and humanoid bodies, including magic inherent in the flesh up to the level of most bloodliners.
Weaknesses: Slow regeneration, slow fleshcrafting, slow reconfiguration to different emulations, no known combat ability.
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Lev Soloyov
Soldier, Alive

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Lyubov Khorobrova
Witch Saint, Alive

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Matvey Baich
Mercenary Company Officer, Alive

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Nikifor Kaveldun
Soldier, Alive

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Paul Jaques Labombard
Loup Garou, Alive

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Notes: Significant data missing in AORB database, thought to be from Witch Oggmum's actions.

Placid Savant
W-class Flesh/Soulcrafter, Alive

Appearance: Currently, fat child resembling Armas Laine
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Rank: Armas Laine's ward.
Background: Nazi experiment.
Strengths: Extremely potent flesh and soul manipulation.
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Rostislav
Soldier, Alive

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Sake
Divine Trickster Weasel, Alive

Appearance: Four foot long green weasel with pig-like nose and tusks, physically ramidreju.
Description: A Kamaitachi possessing a ramidreju, fond of pranks, jokes, and wealth.
Rank: Brother of Armas
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Strengths: Wind manipulation, ramidreju healing
Weaknesses: Puns
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Satai
Quartermaster, Alive

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Svetlana Khorobrova
Secretary, Alive

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Titus Yakimov
Soldier, Alive

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Vladimir Volkov
Soldier, Alive

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Zhenya Koslov
Soldier, Alive

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Mafia

The famed crime syndicate. One of the Company of Laine's closer business partners.

Angiluzzo Castelletti
Former Istanbul Mafia Boss, Deceased

Description: An overly familiar and fat hedonist who was manipulated by Galileo Savoy into believing that Armas Laine intended to kill him, thus presenting the bad-faith behavior Armas needed to believe that Castelletti intended a double-cross.
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Notes: Castelletti held Mammon's Device (a contract artifact gun) as well as the service of the elf Allenaethos. Both Castelletti and his elf were killed by Armas in a disagreement.

Gianni
Sapient Genitalia, Alive, Fabulous

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Description: Extremely hedonistic fleshcrafter
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Strengths: External Fleshcrafting, Internal Fleshcrafting via implanted Internal Fleshcrafter heart.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
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Notes: Considered by AORB to now be under Armas Laine's employ.

Rocco Armani
Istanbul Mafia Boss, Alive

Appearance: Large guy
Description: Dour and professional, Rocco's all business.
Rank: Boss
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Merchants, Businessmen, and Trainers

Antonije
Independent helicopter pilot, Alive

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Description: An old man and skilled helicopter pilot. One of Einrik's friends.
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Background: Ex-member of the Black Army.
Strengths: Nerves of steel, ridiculously set in his ways.
Weaknesses: He bears a completed blood-rune built by Zinaida Jidkova that allowed Chugainov's agents to spy through Antonije's eyes. The details of what else the rune does are unknown, and given Jidkova's death it is unknown if Chugainov can fully use all the rune's functions. Beyond that, Antonije is an old and mortal man.
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Aurnia
Traveling glurichaun merchant, Alive

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Bonzi O'Leary
Owner of "The Minotaur and Leprechaun" bar., Alive

Appearance: A 65 centimeter tall leprechaun, complete with pot of gold and green garb.
Description: A leprechaun businessman who takes his bar very seriously.
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Strengths: Allies with Kronknar, well versed in leprechaun magic
Weaknesses: Bonzi is known to suffer a total personality shift when in glurichaun form, a condition which means if he has been drinking prior to sunrise Dublin time he will be difficult to negotiate with.
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Notes: Bonzi runs a service allowing people to enter and exit a section of the undersewers through his magic pot for a blood tithe. Like all leprechauns, he takes extreme pride in his work, and is one of the best barmen in the entire country.

Ito
, Alive

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Johan Straus
, Alive

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Kronknar the Implacable
Minotaur cloth merchant, Alive

Appearance: A large and tough minotaur with a cannibal-stained soul.
Description: Kronknar is a vigilant and perceptive guard, thanks in part to the land god he became the avatar of (right before consuming the divine being).
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Strengths: A remarkably stoic sentinel, a savvy information broker, and a strong combatant with a gift for detecting fellow cannibals. Kronknar is allies with Bonzi O'Leary.
Weaknesses: Cursed to eat any minotaur he meets.
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Nikoyaka Youkai
, Alive

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Professor Jagda
, Alive

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Quilton Vajajra
Charm Merchant, Alive

Description: A merchant who sells a variety of bloodliner-tier charms. He maintains a regular shop in Istanbul.
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Neo-Nazis

Third Reich remnants who have coalesced into a Neo-Nazi movement, complete with Nazi super-soldiers (non-magical but very formidable), well-trained gang members, supernatural experiments and and supernatural contacts. The organization seems to be led by Otto Skorzeny with its Istanbul branch led by Endman (a hivemind spread out over multiple human bodies). Circumstantial evidence suggests that they are, in part, supported by larger organizations who reap the benefits of the Neo-Nazis weapon research programs.

Klaus 'Alder' Barbie
Neo-Nazi Officer, Dead

Appearance: An old man
Description: An expert in counter-guerrilla warfare and interrogation techniques, Barbie was most famous for his role in the pacification and terrorism of Occupied France during WW2.
Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer (OF-2), Unknown rank in the Neo-Nazis
Background: An intellectual turned Nazi in 1933, Barbie joined the special security branch service of the SS in 1935 and rose through the ranks to become the infamous Butcher of Lyon. Over the course of his wartime career he was personally responsible for the torture and murder of an estimated 14,000 prisoners. After the war he worked for the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps, and fled to Bolvia. In 1965 he was recruited by the West German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) where he was given his codename 'Alder'. While working in Boliva he helped the CIA capture Che Guevara in 1967. In 1980 he helped the dictator García Meza rise to power in Bolvia, and when the dictatorship fell in 1983 was subsequently extradited to France to answer for his WW2 crimes. Found guilty by the French justice system and sentenced to life in prison, the Neo-Nazis made contact with him and helped orchestrate his escape from prison in 1991. With his enlistment as one of the key members of the Neo-Nazi faction, Barbie lent legitimacy to a relatively young organization. The Alder met his end at Armas Laine's hands above a German bakery in Istanbul in 2010.
Strengths: Counter-guerrilla warfare, interrogation, mass murder.
Weaknesses: Keeping out of trouble, backing winning power players.
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Kaspar Brandt
Neo-Nazi Officer, Dead

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
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Olga Brandt
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
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Walt Endman
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
Notes: Anything else that's relevant.

Joseph O'Connor
Barbie's assistant and bodyguard, Dead

Description:
Background: A former IRA member with a bum leg, he was a specialist in explosives and shotguns.
Notes: He was present at the time Armas ambushed Barbie, and ultimately perished from wounds sustained during the assassination.

Lachlan
Barbie's bodyguard, Dead

Description: Tyson's twin brother.
Background: An Australian for hire as muscle alongside his brother.
Notes: He was present at the time Armas ambushed Barbie, and ultimately perished during the assassination. Armas claimed a pair of heavily modified Mateba Model 6 Unica Autorevolvers from him and his brother as battle spoils.

Tyson
Barbie's bodyguard, Dead

Description: Lachlan's twin brother.
Background: An Australian for hire as muscle alongside his brother.
Notes: He was present at the time Armas ambushed Barbie, and ultimately perished during the assassination. Armas claimed a pair of heavily modified Mateba Model 6 Unica Autorevolvers from him and his brother as battle spoils.

Triads

The Triads are a well known criminal organization based in China. Those referred to here are typically members or former members of the Istanbul branch.

Jet Fang
Triad Member, Held in Stasis

Appearance: Stereotypical Chinese features, dresses like a frat boy.
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Lo Fang
Former Leader of the Istanbul branch of the Triad organization, Spirit

Appearance: Stereotypical Chinese features, roughly middle-aged.
Description: Calculating, conniving, and cool, Lo Fang was a plotter and manipulator.
Rank: Ex-Triad leader, Property
Background: Orphaned as a child he was raised in Shaolin monasteries and eventually graduated to the level he could study under the great magical monasteries. Lacking great breeding he was denied access to much of his new home's treasures. He would go on to rebel against his home monastery, kill its master, and lead a splinter group of personal disciples away from there. Years later he was convicted of crimes against the Accords in Dragon Court and executed as a punishment. By dying, Lo Fang lost a bet he made with Camella Larosa as part of the Wizard Dorjpalam Khubiliai's terms of a contract.
Strengths: He is a master of chakra techniques and knows many illegal and banned chakra techniques. He is well versed in rituals and curses.
Weaknesses: His personal amount of magical energy is low.
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Notes: Legally dead, his soul was formerly Camella Larosa's property. She gave it to Armas Laine, since she didn't want it.

May Lee
Triad member, Held in Stasis

Appearance: A stocky woman with a barrel chest and scars across her eyebrows and knuckles.
Description: Has a fantastic sense of humor, enough she was able to make Lo Fang laugh. Appears to love animals.
Rank: Triad enforcer
Background: Where she came from.
Strengths: Heavy weapons, Chakra.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: SAW, Buddhist axes.
Notes: The secret she confided to prove her authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was 'she owns a cat that practically runs her home life'.

Go Ping
Disicple of Lo Fang, Alive

Appearance: A triad poster child. He keeps his head shaved and his appearance immaculate and well ordered.
Description: Zen like, extremely loyal to Lo Fang.
Rank: Most junior disciple of the Istanbul Triad branch manager Lo Fang
Background: A child of Lo Fang's first generation of disciples, offered up to Lo Fang as a youth.
Strengths: Chakra.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: MP7s.
Notes: The secret he confided to prove his authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was 'he fears seeing Lo Fang never get revenge for a past transgression by those he had trusted.'.

Diao Yuan
Triad member, Held in Stasis

Appearance: A tall woman, athletic in build. Her hair was noted as being overly long.
Description: She is a shy person and very aware of social cues, cautious to cause a disturbance or otherwise offend. Her voice is fairly high pitch.
Rank: Triad enforcer
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: Close quarters combat, chakra.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Franchi SPAS 12 with all manner of 12 gauge ammunition. Scalpalized combat knife.
Notes: The secret she confided to prove her authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was that 'while she may be shy she is quite the opposite in the bedroom'

Meng Yun
Long Wang
Triad member, Held in Stasis

Appearance: Androgynous and lacks a clear gender. He is short, standing at five feet tall.
Description: Highly professional and dispassionate in almost all areas of life he takes well to the Triad institution.
Rank: Triad enforcer
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Strengths: Completely professional, trained in chakra
Weaknesses: Mortal
Equipment: HK69.
Notes: The secret he confided to prove his authenticity on the Boat Mission with Armas was 'he is fascinated by reaction images and frequents many online forums'.

Li Zhou

Russian Anti-Magic Forces (The Black Army)

Vladimir Chugainov
Commander of a Black Army brigade, Alive

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Description: A relatively straightforward and predictable opponent, he is nevertheless effective.
Rank: General-Major (OF-7)
Background: His political ambitions as a younger man were cut short by his fondness for molesting children, and he has been in the Black Army as a way for his enemies to keep a leash on him and still get some useful work out of him.
Strengths: Good information control and security practices, a competent commander
Weaknesses: Pedophile
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Moda
Shadow Practicioner, Dead

Appearance: Silja described his magic as feeling "spicy."
Description: A highly private man, he was reputed to have killed the first soldier who drunkenly asked about his background.
Rank: Praporshchik (W-O1)
Background: Ex-KGB
Strengths: A shadow practicioner who came to be under Chugainov's control somehow.
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Notes: Consumed by ShadowBro for information on shadow manipulation. Rank equivalent to a warrant officer in western armies.

Zinaida Jidkova
Chigainov's blood magic specialist, Dead

Appearance: A matronly and serious looking woman.
Description: A mortal blood manipulator, she sealed oaths, placed monitoring and control runes, and performed other tasks for Chugainov. She had a long history of working with him, dating back to when Chugainov was a Captain (over two decades ago).
Rank: Podpolkovnik (OF-4)
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Strengths: Competent at mortal blood runes by Amen's exaggerated standards.
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Savoy House

Adjo Menes
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Husband of Melita Savoy, father of Jenna, Cianna, Grazia, Amadeo, Paola, Ziara, and Stella.
Strengths: The Menes royal bloodline is ancient (dating back to Pharaoh Menes, who directly inherited the throne from the god Horus circa 3100 BC).
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Alexandre Bourbon
Branch Clan Vice-Head, Alive

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Background: Husband of Donni-Sebastina Savoy, father of Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Bourbon royal bloodline.
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Amadeo Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Eldest son of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Notes: In line to assume the position of Branch Clan Head. By the traditions that bloodline clans follow, he could legally challenge for the position of Main Family Head.

Angelo Savoy
Former Main Family Member and Prince, Deceased

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Background: Eldest son of Gabriel and Isabella Savoy
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Annabella Savoy
Clan Elder, Alive

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Background: Wife of Nicodemuis Savoy, mother of Donno, Donni, and Gianni.
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Camella Savoy
Head and Queen of the Savoy Bloodline Clan, Alive

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Rank: Clan Head, Queen
Background: Eldest daughter of Gabriel and Isabella Savoy, mother of Galileo
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Notes: Her friends call her "Cammy."

Cianna Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Second daughter of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Donni Savoy
Clan Accountant, Alive

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Background: Eldest daughter of Nicodemuis and Annabella Savoy, and their only surviving child.
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Donni-Sebastiana Savoy
Branch Clan Head, Alive

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Background: Wife of Alexandre Bourbon, mother of Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Donno Savoy
, Deceased

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Background: Eldest son of Nicodemuis and Annabella Savoy.
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Gabriel Savoy
Former Main Family Head and King, Deceased

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Description: Gabriel had an obsession with fidelity, and when he suspected his wife Isabella had been less than faithful, he had her executed. He never remarried, and his actions and words with regard to oath keeping and fidelity shaped his children's opinions on the matter.
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Background: Husband of Isabella Savoy, father of Angelo and Camella.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Galileo Savoy
Former Main Family Member and Prince, Darkened, Banished (Assumed Deceased)

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Background: Gender-swapped Clone of his mother Camella Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
Weaknesses: Batshit insane.
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Notes: No one properly remembers him thanks to the Darkening ability of Rabbit's Artifact being used on him.

Gianni Savoy
, Deceased

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Background: Youngest son of Nicodemuis and Annabella Savoy.
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Grazia Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Third daughter of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Isabella Savoy
Former Main Family Vice-head and Queen, Deceased

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Description: Accused of adultery and found guilty, she was executed by orders of the House head for the crime.
Rank:
Background: Wife of Gabriel Savoy, mother of Angelo and Camella.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Notes: Branch member who married into the main family

Jenna Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Eldest daughter of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Melita Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Daughter of Alexandre Bourbon and Donni-Sebastina Savoy, wife of Adjo Menes, mother of Jenna, Cianna, Grazia, Amadeo, Paola, Ziara, and Stella.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Nicodemuis Savoy
Clan Elder, Alive

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Background: Husband of Annabella Savoy, father of Donno, Donni, and Gianni.
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Paola Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Fourth daughter of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Stella Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Sixth daughter of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy.
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Ziara Savoy
Branch Clan Member, Alive

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Background: Fifth daughter of Adjo Menes and Melita Savoy..
Strengths: Savoy royal teleportation bloodline.
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Odin's Disciples

Aska
Spirit Einher, Alive

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Rank: Heroic Champion einherjar
Background: Giant Slayer. Dragon Slayer. Wizard Slayer. God Slayer. There are many great legends and tales about Aska of the Einher, a spirit able to fleshcraft any body it possesses into it's own form. He is timeless, and has faced challenges of all forms. Death does not stop him, and war is his home, battle his birthplace.
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Notes: Can reformat any body he possesses to his own template.

Body
Mortal Einher, Alive

Appearance: His body is largely a mass of scar tissue now.
Description: Oldest of the still-living Einher of this age, a man with incredible knowledge of runes and magically augmented unarmed combat Body has faced the brunt of the Owner's might, Turky's ruling dragon and one of the greatest dragons in the world, and did not fall. He has publicly earned that dragon's respect for his durability. He has tread the lands of Elder things, and fought with beasts long locked away and remained intact. He is as close to being a force of nature as any human.
Rank: Heroic Champion einherjar
Background:
Strengths: Magically augmented unarmed combat master, rune crafting, durability
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Equipment: Meat Circus built bioarmor. El Cid's Artifact (armor).
Notes: Immortal in body

Buu
Spirit Einher, Ensouled in a Golem Body

Appearance: Small for an einher.
Description:
Rank: Seasoned Newbie
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Fighting Finn
Mortal Einher, Alive

Appearance: Finn has receding red hair with big, styled mutton chops. He has a brick-shithouse build.
Description: Also known as Finnigan Mac'Orory, he is very much a stereotypical einher, with the exception that he likes to craft things from the bones of his foes.
Rank: Seasoned Veteran
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Equipment: An anvil on a stick
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Frithjofr
Spirit Einher, Spirit

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Notes: Frithjofr is friends with Gunner and Onundur, two other spirit Einherjar whom he served with in life.

Gleb Romanov
Mortal Einher, Alive

Appearance: A jolly looking fat man with shark-like teeth.
Description:
Rank: Heroic Champion einherjar
Background: 'Mortal' Einher, of the Imperial Romanov line. Can ignore death by virtue of the Romanov bloodline's resurrection power and his magic armor being made into a phylactery for his soul by Astrid. He has in reality transcended his mortality entirely and become an Angel of Odin, but due to his Einher aspect still 'pings' as being a mortal. This secret means Odin is willing to put up with an extraordinary amount of rowdy and bad behavior by Gleb.
Strengths: Immortal thanks to the Romanov bloodline. Brutally effective Einher. Secretly an Angel
Weaknesses: Close friendship with Armin the Craftsman and his sister Astrid.
Equipment: Loki's Artifact (armor)
Notes: Gleb is a member of a council of immortals. Lately he has been killing Valkyries (Odin's low-level angelic constructs) for fun.

Gunner Almquist
Spirit Einher, Spirit

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Background: A ranged fighter and mortal Einher who used a cursed longbow and magic arrows, he was used to fighting fire giants and other very dangerous foes. Armas laid him low in a formal mortal challenge, and Gunner became a Spiritual Einher, conducted into Valhalla by a Valkyrie.
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Notes: Gunner is friends with Frithjofr and Onundur, two other spirit Einherjar whom he served with in life.

Onundur
Spirit Einher, Spirit

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Notes: Onundur is friends with Gunner and Frithjofr, two other spirit Einherjar whom he served with in life.

Osto Laine
Mortal Einher, Alive

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Rank: Newbie einherjar
Background: 16 year old Finnish citizen
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Equipment: Top-notch mundane armor built by Amen at Armas's direction.
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Valkonen Clan

Winter-aspected martial family; formerly quite influential with three Branch families and many allies, now diminished to just a small family. Based in Finland.

Einrik Valkonen
Magical Researcher, Alive, cursed

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Rank: Clan heir
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Eirikki Riihivuori
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
Notes: Anything else that's relevant.

Helmi Valkonen
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
Notes: Anything else that's relevant.

Hilja Riihivuori
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Appearance: What he looks likes.
Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Rank: Position in clan, Military Rank, Place on the Corporate ladder, or other notable status held.
Background: Where he came from.
Strengths: What he's known to be good at.
Weaknesses: What he's known to be poor at.
Equipment: Notable special gear.
Notes: Anything else that's relevant.

Markku Valkonen
Clan Head, Alive

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Background: Branch family member who challenged for, and won control of, the main family at the cost of nearly destroying the entire clan.
Strengths: Outrageously strong in the Valkonen bloodline magic thanks to being a compounded Rule of Three birth.
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Tartalo
Valkonen retainer, Alive

Description: A Deathless cyclops with significant training in Shadow magic, Tartalo uses his keen senses to help shepherd and protect young Valkonens who have not developed their own magic senses suficiently.
Background: Tartalo is the cyclops of legend, and was tricked into thinking he was blinded by a shadow practicioner. When he finally escaped the sea on the shores of Finland, he became a retainer for the Valkonens and has been with them since. His soul is hidden somewhere in the Dark as a result of a bet he lost, rendering him Soulless (one of the three formats for Deathlessness).
Notes: Dislikes Armas but respects that he is a Friend of the Valkonen household.

Tuomo Valkonen
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Background: Where he came from.
Notes: This template is for less important individuals.

Veiko Valkonen
What he does., Alive, Dead, Banished, Spirit, or something else?

Description: How you would describe his personality to someone else, including warnings about things which piss him off.
Background: Where he came from.
Notes: This template is for less important individuals.

Vampires of Istanbul

Allala Bagatim
Clan Sire, Active Vampire

Appearance: Just over six feet tall, broad-shouldered, strong jawed matron with steel-gray hair held up in a rigid bun.
Description: Second eldest of the four ruling Istanbul clan Sires.
Rank: Bagatim Sire
Background:
Strengths: Possesses an Elder Contract of unknown origin.
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Notes: Rumored to enjoy dealing with the divine, voyeuristic enjoyment in knowing of violations of draconic law.

Cornelius Zosimus
Ancient Roman Vampire, Active Vampire

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Description: 2350+ years old, and a master of shadow magic to boot.
Rank: Zosimus Dynasty Head
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Florent Smets
Former Master of Amen, Destroyed Vampire

Description: Known for being cautious, and a gourmand of rare blood.
Background: The former intelligence officer for the Zoismus clan, he liked to bully mundanes and cheat them in deals. He tried to swindle Armas, and was instead slain by him. He was the former master of Amen.
Notes: His corpse and blood were consumed by Silja, and the blood of Sisthuros was later moved to Armas by Ogrimir.

Jogda Ibruhem
Clan Sire, Active Vampire

Appearance: Pleasantly portly looking man with a robustly curled beard reaching down past his belt, unlined face, eerily flat black eyes, wears only brown.
Description: Third eldest of the four ruling Istanbul clan Sires, violent tendancies, responds with violence to percieved slights.
Rank: Ibruhem Sire
Background: Known serial killer prior to conversion to vampire.
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Master G
What he does., Active Feaster

Description: Feaster known to frequent Istanbul, prone to unpredictable violent fits.
Background:
Notes: Has seer/prophet powers due to excessive consumption of relevant blood, mentally unstable.

Yorgin
Clan Sire, Active Vampire

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Description: Youngest of the four ruling Istanbul clan Sires, many consider him to be the true leader of the four. Extremely dangerous.
Rank: Yorgin Sire
Background:
Strengths: Magical puppetry, curses.
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Notes: Classified at Armas' level of AORB database clearance.


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