Black Silver Syndicate

The **Black Silver Syndicate**, also known as the Black Silver Mercenary Company, Geckoi Underworld, or Thieves Guild, is a gang and underworld organization on Glies. It is mostly comprised of Geckoi but also has other races working for it. It is one of the few parts of the underworld actively resisting against the Eclipse incursions into the western part of Glies.

## History

### Background

According to Bota Freezefingers, the Black Silver Syndicate is an organization that helps the rich stay humble and makes sure that those of the law are kept in their place.

### Laughing Swamp operation

The syndicate is first encountered in a cave of the Laughing Swamp. A group of adventurers comprised of Schmeg, Anaalius Penetratius, Brewbad, Mataal Ika, and Scribbles come across a cave they were planning to rest in. Instead they encounter the black silver addict Kilolo who tells them that the cave is used by a bandit group for making black silver. They take some of the drug and leave the area with Kilolo as the gang returns to the cave. Honest-Affirmations also traveles throughout the swamp selling black silver.

### Uzu village operation

Utica Fo is a Black Silver agent working in the Uzu village. She was exorting the mill owner Xia Whiteleaf as well as using her mill for their drug operations. Their operation is busted by a group of adventurers comprised of Akakai, Verp, Worgh the Wyrd, Kenji, and Zhan Ren. They fight against Utica, eventually capturing her, and turning her over the guards.

### Brambled Hollow operation

Bota Freezefingers and four Black Silver Enforcers have a small base inside some ruins in the Brambled Hollow. They encounter Stinkler Smelgore and make a deal with him and his party - Coots Robin, Mori Suzuki, The Goker, Dirst the First - to deal with some grunts of the Eclipse that are in the area that they have been forced to deal with. The party agrees and he gives them supplies that were originally meant for the Eclipse. They are able to takes out the Eclipse scouting party freeing the Black Silver members from the ruins.

### Okogi operation

Xue Xue is a Changeling blacksilver agent in Okogi running from trouble in Khao. She tells the party of Hex, Sunder, Ryn Lostone, Tori Hayden, and Haruko that the true reason why the Emperor has invaded the West to find someone he is afraid of: the Divine Wind. Xue Xue offers the party the chance to work with the Syndicate. They could use its ability to move people around to find the child and disrupt the Emperor's plans. The Syndicate enjoys this amount of freedom because they are under contract with the Eclipse to make Black Silver shipments. They therefore have a mutual relationship, but the Syndicate still has their own interests in mind. Xue Xue also offers the help of the Syndicate to move the village if they decide to retreat and move to a new location. However, in exchange the village will become a hub for the Syndicate to make drug runs. After a long debate, the party decides to engage the Captain in combat, but if it looks like they are about to lose, the Syndicate will evacuate the children and other non combatants and keep them safe, even if it means bringing them into their fold

### Daimyo's Son operation

Elwreath, Alda Uziko, Solokai, Motoko, and several Blacksilver Swashbucklers conduct a mission to kidnap the Daimyo's son near Dozo in an attempt to learn what he knows about the kidnapping of women in the Daimyo's area. However, Machio Manis and Eli Bloodbane conduct a ritual on the battlefield where they fought summoning forth the power of Crowley. They lose control of the spell causing Depthar to be summoned forth. They start massacring and infecting the Blacksilver members. The Swashbuckler's and Motoko are consumed by the Depthar while the fate of the others are unknown.

## References

1. ↑ Scrolls of Not'Chek: Episode 02
2. ↑ Shrine of Sin: Episode 05
3. ↑ Shrine of Sin: Episode 03
4. ↑ Lost at Sea: Episode 05
5. ↑ Pride of the Nightwolf: Episode 08
6. ↑ Among the Reeds: Episode 04