Six Families, six doctrines
Above the crews sit the Crime Families — older structures that grant permits, demand tribute and decide whose rules the street has to live with.
Adema Trading
The Branch Ledger · North Blocks
“The branch that helps is the branch that is helped.”
An import-export and remittance business with branches in five countries that lend to each other before they lend to anyone outside, and settle in goods as often as in money.
Black Harbour MC
The Charter · Iron Docks
“The patch is not given and it is not sold.”
A chartered club with a clubhouse behind the dock road, four chapters in other cities and a written path from hangaround to full patch that has not been shortened for anyone.
Casa Veridano
The Long Table · Old Quarter
“A covenant outlives whoever made it.”
Casa Veridano presents itself as the keeper of promises made before most current organisations existed.
Círculo Monteluz
La Luz · Iron Docks
“No route survives without someone keeping it open.”
Círculo Monteluz is less interested in owning cargo than in maintaining the relationships that allow cargo to keep moving.
Comando Calderón
The Assembly Vote · North Blocks
“The blocks decide.”
Took over the services the city stopped delivering to the blocks — water, transport, security — and charged for them. Membership is voted on by people who live there.
Consorcio Bravamar
El Sello · Neon Mile
“Control the crossing, not just the destination.”
Consorcio Bravamar controls the points where one economy becomes another.
Federación del Sol Rojo
The Table Agreement · Neon Mile
“Hold your plaza, pay your fee, keep your seat.”
Not one organisation but an agreement between people who each hold a piece of ground, pay into a common fund and accept one arbitrator when they cannot agree.
Hanul Specialist Group
The Engagement · Diamond District
“Scope, price, delivery. Nothing else.”
Four small teams of people who served together, contracted out to larger interests who need work done precisely and want no relationship afterwards.
Kerrow Maritime
The Ship's Articles · Iron Docks
“The voyage decides.”
Every voyage is its own company, every master a shareholder, and every dispute settled by people who have all been at sea with each other.
Kestrel Advisory
The Engagement Letter · Diamond District
“Nothing we do is illegal in isolation.”
A company formation and accountancy practice that kept every client it ever had, including the ones who stopped being able to explain their turnover.
Lowland Transit Group
The Shift Book · Iron Docks
“Nothing is stolen. Things are moved early.”
Terminal planners, crane operators and hauliers who worked out that the valuable thing is not the container but the twenty minutes in which nobody is looking at it.
Meridian House
The Charter · Diamond District
“The terms decide the outcome.”
Meridian House presents itself as older, calmer and more legitimate than the city's other powers.
Sablon Frères
The Band's Word · Neon Mile
“The village first, then the coast.”
A village band that followed the leisure trade to the coast, took the public contracts that came with it, and never once recruited outside the people it grew up among.
Shtëpia Kodra
The Given Word · North Blocks
“The house answers for the house.”
A single household that arrived with nothing but relatives in four cities, and discovered that being able to trust a courier absolutely is worth more than owning the cargo.
Sirin Commercial Group
The Mandate · Diamond District
“Everything is a department.”
Formed in a year when whole industries changed hands on a signature. It kept the structure of a company because the structure was the point: departments, mandates and minuted decisions.
Sunward Yard
The Yard's Word · Neon Mile
“The yard eats first.”
Started as two boats and a shore contact. Became a standing arrangement the day the mainland side realised it needed the water more than the water needed it.
The Anka Trade Circle
The Circle's Word · Diamond District
“Credit is memory.”
Freight forwarders and exchange houses on a route that predates every border it crosses, bound by partnerships that are renewed rather than signed.
The Ashcombe Lines
The Number · Neon Mile
“The line runs whether you do or not.”
A city supply operation that stopped waiting for buyers to travel in and started sending standing orders out to towns that had never had a reliable one.
The Brigid Street Union
The Word on Brigid Street · North Blocks
“You are owed what the street says you are owed.”
Three streets of dock labour, licensed bars and building work that never needed a written rule to know who answered for what. The Union was the name outsiders gave it; the families involved simply called it the street.
The Halcyon Wing
The Named Party · Diamond District
“Nothing moves. Everything settles.”
A settlement network that closes balances between four cities without a single note crossing a border, and a property arm that exists to absorb what the settlements leave behind.
The Halloway Firm
On the Firm · Neon Mile
“You are on the firm or you are not.”
One door business, one market pitch and eleven people who came up together. It has never been anything more organised than that, and does not intend to be.
The Iron Word
The Iron Word · Old Quarter
“What you did in there is what you are out here.”
A code written on the inside and carried out with the people who kept it. Standing is not bought here; it is remembered from a place where money bought nothing.
The Jade Meridian Society
The Register · Diamond District
“A dispute settled inside is not a dispute.”
Registered a century ago as a mutual aid and trade association. It still runs a funeral fund, a scholarship and an arbitration committee whose rulings no member has ever taken to a court.
The Kaishō Civic Association
The Cup · Old Quarter
“Be visible. Be unarguable.”
Listed at a public address, with a crest, an office and a documented succession going back six holders. Its income sits behind construction and entertainment companies that file accounts on time.
The Noren Compact
The Seal · Iron Docks
“What isn't written down doesn't exist.”
The Noren Compact treats power as an administrative fact.
The North Blocks Assembly
The Border Agreement · North Blocks
“One voice outside. Six inside.”
Six sets that spent four years fighting over the same eleven streets, then spent one afternoon agreeing borders, a shared fund and a single person who speaks for all of them.
The Tanger Transit Ring
The Clearance · Iron Docks
“Paper moves faster than cargo.”
Small shipping agents and freight handlers who realised that knowing exactly how a clearance is processed is a more durable asset than owning any of the freight.
The Verano Cooperative
The Shared Book · North Blocks
“The book is the household.”
Six family workshops that pooled premises, labour and buyers into one production book, and share the risk in the same proportion as the return.
Vatra Dravena
The Vatra · North Blocks
“A name is carried by everyone who stands behind it.”
Vatra Dravena is built around collective reputation.