Leviathan's Pearl

This group started off as a small group of four members. These four members trained together in the streets and got proficient enough in the art of combat to start their own small mercenary band. As a band, they started off with a simple code: Stay true to your word, do not steal, do not kill unnecessarily, and remain loyal to the band.

Initially, they were hired by merchants to get protected from thugs and thieves, earning a good reputation with these merchants but also with people around, making more people wanting to join them. As they grew in numbers, they acquired more contracts with merchants, expanding their reach on the city, but also earning them contracts to start guarding trading ships that went to Ryubavoda but also came back from it.

It is said that during one of their missions, they encountered a giant beast named a Leviathan and managed to defeat it, getting a large black pearl from the beast. That is how they named their first ship, and how the company got its name later on.

With the money they earned, they bought themselves a ship, and named it after their adventure, naming it the Leviathan's Pearl. They got a leviathan carved into the bow of the ship, integrating their black pearl into the design. Afterwards, they used their ship to continue guarding ships. That said, it wasn't enough for the small band to just do guard duty over and over, and instead they collected tips and information on the merchant trade, finding out many flaws in their business plans. Seeing that these merchants didn't truly know what they were doing, they thought that they could do better and thus started off their own merchant business, using their own mercenaries to guard their ships.

Observing the work of the merchants while they were still mercenaries, they had realized that these merchants were content with the small resources they had, and were only grudgingly trading with the creatures native to the sea. Thus, they started to push the boundaries of the city, trying to find new resources on the continent. Sadly for them, the beasts were too powerful to be pushed back, and thus they fell back from that idea. Instead, they turned towards the sea and started to build good relationships with their neighbours of Ryubavoda, also hiring people from that city to start exploring the bottom of the sea for them, to find precious resources. Through exploration and diplomacy, they expanded the aquatic city's borders and discovered many precious metals at the bottom of the sea, establishing mines of silver, cold iron, tin and copper. With these new established mines, trade picked up even more with the underwater city. Up until the Leviathan's Pearl company showed up, people from that city were mainly using weapons and tools made from coral and seashell, but after the trade, the Leviathan's Pearl company brought back the ore mined in those mines and started experimenting with them, eventually creating bronze. Then, they started to show how efficient bronze could be to the underwater people, and these people started ordering more and more tools and weapons made of this alloy. As time passed, the Leviathan's Pearl company experimented even more with that metal and with the help of alchemists from Ryubavoda, they eventually perfected the craft and eventually created Elysian Bronze.

With the new special material, they sold a lot of it at cost to Ryubavoda to increase radically their reputation in that city, but also to help them strive against the various threats roaming the deep sea, allowing them to fight back against sea monsters and Adaro who were frequently raiding the city. With their new weapons and armor, they managed to fight back so well against these threats that they managed to build some form of peace. Happy about the turn of events, they welcomed the Leviathan Pearl's company to have property in the city, but also were convinced by them to establish an embassy in Yartar, to further strengthen the relations between the two cities.

Ever since, the Leviathan Pearl's company have been pushing more and more for new resources and to build more diplomatic relationships with neighbours. During one such expedition, though, their capital ship was sank and forever lost, and that is when they decided to name their organization in the name of the ship, to forever immortalize it.