Zixin Kao

The Kao clan runs the Singapore Syndicate, which has expanded its holdings to Moscow in alliance with the Japanese Yakuza. Across all of Southeast Asia, the Syndicate runs gambling circuits, casinos, clubs, drug and human trafficking. Zixin Kao is grandson and second heir of the Syndicate’s patriarch. He was raised Read more…

Moscow

Moscow is a strange city. On one hand, it is cyberpunk modern and on another it is the aristocratic kingdom of the tsars. There is no in between. Despite Stalin’s destruction of much of Moscow’s architectural heritage, what remains is enough to convey the impression of a medieval capital that Read more…

The Facility

The Facility is located 22 floors beneath the Kremlin. It is a secret base of operations accessed by only those with highest levels of security clearance granted by the Ascendancy. There are two access points to the Facility, but only one is actually used. It can be entered from within Read more…

The Syndicate

The Syndicate is an organized crime group operated by the Kao clan of Singapore with influence and business all across southeast Asia. Their major criminal activities include illegal gambling, extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking, and human smuggling drug trafficking, and money laundering. They operate a large number of casinos and clubs Read more…

Atropos

Atropos, who was the oldest of the three Fates, was also known as the Inevitable. She was closely related to death since it was Atropos who would choose the mechanism of death. It was her task to end the life of mortals by cutting their thread. She is most frequently Read more…

Lakhesis

Normally seen clothed in white, Lakhesis is the measurer of the thread spun on Klotho’s spindle. She is the apportioner, deciding how much time for life is to be allowed for each person or being, by measuring the thread of life with her rod. She is also said to choose Read more…

The Moirai

In mythology the role of the Fates was to ensure that every being, mortal and divine, lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe. For mortals, this destiny spanned their entire lives, and was represented as a thread spun from a spindle. Read more…

Klotho

Klotho is the youngest of the Three Fates, and the one who spins the thread of human life. This power enables her not only to choose who is born, but also to decide when gods or mortals are to be saved or put to death. In mythology, it is said Read more…

Helena Asquith

“You can control your destiny, but you cannot control your fate” Helena Augusta Victoria Asquith was born to old, aristocratic blood and great familial wealth, the kind of fortune amassed from the bowed backs of others. Her illustrious family have been raised in the Di Inferi tradition for centuries, and Read more…

Elias Donovan

Elias was born into the respectable Donovan family as the second son of five children. The Donovans raised their children as devout Latter Day Saints amongst the other congregations of Kanab, Utah, USA. Elias’s childhood was spent in pleasant obscurity and consisted mainly of church, arid desert highlands and a Read more…