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Born to the "Broken Tusk" clan, Ghorza was raised in the mountains and is as sure footed as a mountain goat. When legionnaires attacked her tribe to 'pacify' the orcs, she fought until seven blades pinned her to the snow.

The Centurian knew he had a gold mine... and sold her into the Ludus Bartiarta, a palatial high-walled fortress training with net until her debut in the Colosseum of Might where she was a revelation.

The crowds loved her wide sweeping throws of the net.

They pay for grace," said Bartiartus, "They pay to see the towering huntress, her skin glowing with sweet almond oil effortless defeating her enemies."

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.

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.