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Criminals
Nathanial Barr
Barr is a name which brings shivers and hasty glances over ones shoulder within the Boil. While the Father of Crows is the supposed Shadow King of the crimeworld, Nathanial Barr is his all too public figurehead. A second in command to the elusive Father, Barr holds his place with a jealous ferocity and a wicked streak that would do the Yozi proud. The Smuggler Lord of the Boil, nothing which passes in or out of the city – illegal or otherwise - does not pay tithe to him. Those who fail or refuse to pay find his thugs waiting for them, out of sight and away from the protection of the city. He holds monopoly on the smuggling and banditry in and around the Boil, a position gained by the bloody and brutal elimination of his rivals. Even rumored to be making a slow take over of such illegal activities in other Whiteshield cities, his name is one of the few likely to be known outside of the Industrial City.
His most effective tools, Barr culls most of his hired muscle from the most brutal and violent street gangs within the Ash District. Having risen from such a lowly place himself, the Smuggler Lord knows well about the barbarism that takes places in the alleyways. He exploits the gangs then whenever possible, buying or bullying them into fulfilling his commands until they’re sufficiently well-trained enough to be brought on the inside. Cruel as he is, Barr is also frighteningly cunning and manipulative when he needs to be. Several attempts by city and citizens alike to tame the Ash District have been brought to dismal failure thanks to his machinations, as keeping the district wild ensures he’ll always have a steady pool of thugs to draw upon.
Kadel Kurodona
Pornographer, pimp, and informant, the Glass Spider sits in the center of a carefully woven web, not plucking or arranging the strings as other men might, but simply listening to the shivers that run across it. Kadel is the spirit-blooded child of the Smiling Lover, born during her brief marriage to the industrial mogul Illusen Kurodona, and stands as official overseer of her places of worship within the city. Publicly, he is known to be a shameless philanderer and socialite. As artist by soul he claims, Kadel is famous for producing artwork which steps teasingly outside of the realm of taste; statues and paints of men and women held in bondage and caught in the throes of pleasure. Many would take this as a sign of a very vivid imagination and active libido, but most of Kadel’s artwork is inspired from memory. The parties he hosts within his villa up on Highlane are grandly devious affairs filled with sex and drugs and other events considered less mentionable in public places.
Behind his facade of a careless playboy, Kadel holds a far darker side than most would imagine. The Glass Spider is one of the largest and most successful criminal spies and informants within the city. Beginning within the very walls of his mother’s shrines, money and favors passed around to put names to faces, his operations has since grown to the point that he has a paid informant within nearly every branch of government, every faith, and every major company within the Boil. He holds in his vaults and memory enough blackmail material to bring the better portion of the city to it’s knees. He lacks desire to draw any direct attention to himself however, preferring a more passive role, and the knowledge that some so-called victims would simply kill him outright keep him firmly rooted in place as broker of information and a trader of secrets.
Allyster Lazarus
The name Allyster Lazarus does not bring any recognition on the dusty streets of the Boil. Even most of those involved in criminal organizations, black market trade, information broking and the like are not familiar with the name. To any who would ask, there is no one of that name in the Boil's underworld, and if there is, he is too inconsequential to worry about. And that lack of recognition is exactly what Lazarus would want. The only reference to him and his trade is a single name whispered on the streets, the name spoken for those what would like to see their enemies have an "accident", or who would wish to pay a big price to have their rivals mysteriously disappearing. And that is the greatest achievement of Allyster Lazarus : nobody suspects he is actually the one people fearfully refer to as "Sweet Hemlock".
Operating from the Red Lantern and Ash districts, Sweet Hemlock is the head of the Murmur, what could be referred to as the "assassin's guild", and his agents are rumored to be able to execute any contract within the city, given the right price. The epitome of the "self-made man", he rose from great poverty and difficult conditions to be one of the most feared name of the Boil - not because he is a Chosen of great power, but because he recognizes his limitations and uses hat means are available to him to succeed. A child of the Red Lantern district, Hemlock was a hired blade himself in his youth, prowling the streets of the Boil at night while on his given assignments. His quiet cunning and careful planning have pushed him upwards in the Boil's underground circles, his patience and calculations slowly making his name even more surely than any intimidation or scare tactics could. Now a middle aged man, Allyster Lazarus has retired from taking any contract himself, instead organizing and dispatching the assassins under him to great efficiency. However, even if the trade he runs is ultimately a sinister, cold business, Sweet Hemlock is not a cruel or profit-obsessed man. He ultimately holds a great deal of loyalty for the Boil, and the people that have fallen down on their luck and turned to the darker side of town to survive.
