Factions

• The Abbey of Saint Viro and the Faithful — The city's foremost religious institution. Runs hospitals, orphanages, and food relief.
• The Binding Crafts Guild — Carpenters, masons, shipwrights, and the building trades.
• The Covenant of Silver Scales — The premier merchant association for high-value agreements. Contract law and arbitration.
• The Fog Wardens and the Shadowed Wardens — Venturia's law and order, and the specialist division that handles what the visible Watch isn't equipped for.
• The Gardener's Guild — The horticultural guild that tends the Tiered Gardens.
• The Harbor Wardens' Compact — The guild controlling everything moving through the ports.
• The Metals Guild — Smiths, jewelers, metalworkers, and the Mirrorwrights.
• The Veil Court — The semi-secret society that keeps the city's traditions of masks, identity, and performance, and stages the Autumn Masquerade.
• Volante & Associates — Aurelio Volante's spice-and-dye house in the Market Tiers.
• The Warehouse Consortium — Constanza Marea's dockside storage and cargo power base.
• The Wine Merchants' Guild — The guild behind the Winecradle and Venturia's impossible vintages.