“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 Paraisopolis, right down to the display room, the butcher’s bench, and Dr Griffiths himself greeting visitors at the door with a checked ID and a joke about dead ravens. The ground floor is exactly what it claims to be – workroom, storage, ..
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. A dockworker’s routine check of the crate’s ballast sand was all it took. As ..
STATUS Civilian fixer, unaffiliated SECTION Ship Inn regular; broker of information, favours, and worse FIRST ON RECORD Session 15 – the Ship Inn assassination attempt 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. ..
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 of command ..
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 the sight ..
STATUS Alive, in Section 18’s care – status still under review 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, Cove Street ..
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 ..