The city of Ammadhur is a huge commercial shipping hub, and is largely run by mercantile concerns. But the city extracts taxes and tariffs, and struggles to prevent smuggling and piracy. To that end, customs police and customs inspectors would b a huge power.
I know this is extremely tropey, but: The customs police types have a team made up of former smugglers and pirates, caught and given powerful motivation one way or the other to work for the Tyrant and the city government. They also, for all intents and purposes, and the Tyrant's secret police. at least as to policing the merchant houses. Could form the basis for a series of short stories. Having them run afoul of a Skinwalker who had integrated himself into a merchant house could be a good introduction to the Blessed.
Group that us technically part of the customs department that act effectively as secret police for the city.
ReplyDelete- former smugglers and pirates
- at least one member is Blooded, corruption score still low but growing steadily. Currently fighting it but likely to give in
- discover a plot involving smuggling a huge cache of .. What? Artifacts? Drugs? A cask of Blood?
: maybe a new drug derived from the blood. Possibly created by a Weeping.
: one of the people in charge is a skinwalker. Kills and mimics a member of the group somewhere along the way.
-maybe the skinwalker meets with the corrupted guy, convinces him to embrace.