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Jack Marrow is a mountain of a man wrapped in an absurdly oversized, reinforced leather trench coat. Beneath his coat hangs an endless array of heavy hand cannons, clockwork claymores, and volatile experimental ordnance. He floats inches off the ground using a crude, humming localized gravity harness, a terrifying, childlike grin plastered across his scarred face. He has been paid a fortune by Vicious Blade to do one job: isolate and erase Katrina.

She is the younger sister of Calliope and was involved in an adventure that left the two of them 'changed.’

A jagged silhouette of nervous energy and brilliant, unstable potential. Once the trailing shadow of her sister Calliope, the ‘change’ has left Attia with a gaze that seems to see things a second before they happen... or perhaps things that aren't there at all. She moves with a predatory grace that is constantly interrupted by small, childlike tremors, carrying a collection of "toys" that are far more lethal than their scrap metal appearance suggests. She is not a girl seeking a path; she is a live wire looking for a place to ground.

"She stood in the violet haze of the undercity, a porcelain doll shattered and glued back together with spite and static. Attia didn't just inhabit the room; she haunted it, her laughter ringing out with the hollow clarity of breaking glass. In her hands, a makeshift engine hummed a low, threatening chord: a mechanical heartbeat for a girl who had traded her own pulse for the thrill of the destruction."

Kitana is Vicious Blade's replacement for Katrina. She is full of feline arrogance, moving with the careless grace of a hunter who had never known defeat. Her dark coat is sleek and immaculate, her golden Katari eyes burn with untamed ambition, and her youthful face is completely devoid of the jagged scars. Vicious certainly has a type.

The Thane of Grellan's Grove, or simple "the Thane" as she is known, is very much a woman whose never fully adopted the ways of the Empire in Kashal, but is loyal to a fault. To protect her lands, she’s sworn an oath to the Empire and this oath is reciprocated so that the empire protects her lands and traditions.  She is bound by this oath for a now and until the Praetor Glaber dies.

Perhaps because of this strange, dual citizenship, it is said, that the Thane is able to cross between realms, but exactly what this means is up for debate. Some people think it means between the  Old Gods and the new empire, while other talk hints at walking among the spheres of reality or the feywilds.

She rules a forested place known as Grellan's Grove where druids live in close harmony with the land and is rumored to still hold some of those magics in her hands.

Calliope knew the former Thane, a woman named Maeve and left her flying boat, The Old Girl with her.

This is the adventuring party each with a partial ownership in the Little Shoppe of Curiosities.  Jaimus owed each of them a debt and respected each of them for the things they brought to him in life:

• Calliope (Jill) - Character Sheet - An archeologist-musicologist-appraiser who worked with Jaimus on the provenance of curiosities.

• Katrina (Barbara) - Character Sheet - A Katari gambler with an uncanny knack of winning money from Jaimus.

• Kustos-749 (Calvin) - Character Sheet - A Clank recently liberated from a cursed imprisonment.

• Lady of Flowers (Brooks) - Character Sheet - an elven ranger with a new warlock patron.

• Willow (Dana) - Character Sheet - A druid... perhaps the hippy granddaughter of Jaimus McNulty.

Former Members

• Kaiser (Leland) - Character Sheet - A Katari kid next door who helped Jaimus by chopping firewood.

• Cosma (Griffin) - Character Sheet - A mystic Faun specializing in magics both deep and dark. She was called away to help with an urgent issue in Grellan's Grove.

Vicious isn't just a syndicate rival; he is Katrina's former partner, a man whose ambition consumed him and drove him to an act of ultimate betrayal. Vicious is a brilliant tactician and a master of the blade. His signature weapon is a sleek, black twin-bladed katana, a stark contrast to Katrina's nimble, rogueish fighting style.

Vicious is sharp and angular in his features, with a pale complexion and eyes that seem to hold no light at all. He often wears high-collared, form-fitting black leather and steel armor that gives him a predatory silhouette. There's a certain emptiness in his gaze, a cold calculation that shows he's crossed a line from which there's no return.

Once, Vicious and Katrina were equal; two halves of a whole, a legendary duo in the Syndicate.

However, Vicious was not content with their partnership. He craved the power to rule the syndicate himself, a desire that grew into a vicious, burning obsession. His ambition drove him to betray the Kat, leaving her for dead. His actions are not fueled by passion or anger, but by a chilling, logical need for control. He sees emotions as a weakness and has purged them from his life, replacing them with a cold, ruthless efficiency.

After his betrayal of Katrina, he systematically eliminated his rivals, using a combination of cunning strategy and overwhelming force. He now sits at the head of a powerful crime syndicate, and his reputation for ruthless violence and cold precision is widespread. His ghost haunts Katrina's journey, as he represents the life she could have had and the man she once loved, now twisted into her ultimate nemesis.