“Sapientia et Magia” – wisdom and magic – reads the Griffiths family motto, carved into a crest above a home that stopped being anyone’s idea of wise or magical long before the Agents ever forced their way in through a boarded window. By the time they found it, acting on a map traded for Agent ..
Author : Captain Brin
Deep in what most maps simply mark as Green Hell, the true name of the jungle surrounding the ziggurat is the Charnwood – and the structure itself has stood there since long before anyone surveying it could put a date to. Stone pillars line a single great hall, leading up to the ruin of a ..
“Preserve. Honor. Display.” Get Stuffed traded as a perfectly respectable taxidermy warehouse in the oldest part of Section 18 – the kind of block where the buildings crowd close enough to lose an alley between them – right down to the display room, the butcher’s bench, and Dr Griffiths himself greeting visitors at the door ..
It arrived inside a crate marked as coral cargo, on a Drusalan merchant ship unloading at the wharf like a dozen others that week – one of five deliveries logged from Kalitzim through Marakoff Mercantile, all addressed to Lord Morden’s warehouse. As the crate was lifted to the dockside, the plate release mechanism was ..
STATUS Civilian fixer, unaffiliated SECTION Ship Inn regular; broker of information, favours, and worse Valka is easy to place in a crowded room – long hair, an easy smile, and a set of teeth that catch the light wrong, metal where enamel should be. He was at his usual booth in the Ship ..
STATUS Unclear – carries authority nobody at Section 18 will explain SECTION Reports past Brin, directly to the Commissioner and Lord Morden FIRST ON RECORD Session 12 – the warehouse square riot Boosay turns up when something has already gone wrong, usually from a direction nobody was watching. He answers to a chain ..
STATUS Unclear – last confirmed alongside Dr Griffiths SECTION Formerly held at Get Stuffed; Dr Griffiths’ own brother FIRST ON RECORD Session 28 – found behind bars, delighted to see Mikael alive Pitr first turned up as a ‘prisoner’ – one more cell in Griffiths’ basement, cracking his own window in delight at ..
STATUS Deceased – died in the Cove Street apartment fire, Session 13 RANK Probationary Agent (rookie), same intake as Branson ASSIGNMENT General patrol, Section 18; had hoped to join the K9 squad ACCESS LEVEL Standard patrol officer, probationary AGE Unrecorded – young, early in his career ORIGINS Chuza-born; family ran the Chuza Cures apothecary, ..
STATUS Civilian consultant, unaffiliated SECTION Called on by Section 18 as needed FIRST ON RECORD Session 7 – the museum grimoire theft Asquith Cedartree the 3rd keeps a private museum on the mezzanine floor above one of Chuza’s antiquities halls – a cluttered, lamplit room of things most collectors would rather not display. He holds ..
STATUS Captain, Section 18 SECTION Commands the Agents directly; answers upward to the Commissioner and, when it comes to it, Lord Morden FIRST ON RECORD Session 1 – inaugurated the Agents into the Guild himself Brin has run Section 18 since long before any of the Agents pinned on a badge, and it was his ..