Old World Order: Denarians and Freeholders
The Order of the Blackened Denarius
The Order of the Blackened Denarius is composed of Fallen angels bound to thirty silver coins. These coins, said to be the payment to Judas Iscariot for betraying Christ, permit the Denarians to possess mortal hosts. Denarians are old, powerful, and very dangerous entities. They have rampaged across two millennia of history, opposed only by the Knights of the Cross.
The Denarians are led by Nicodemus. Nicodemus has possession of those denarii not currently in use (or captured by the Knights of the Cross), and he passes them on to suitable targets for corruption. It is suspected that his ultimate plans involve bringing about the Apocalypse.
Freeholding Lords
Under the Unseelie Accords, powerful individuals are permitted to be signatories. These are the Freeholding Lords.
Dragons, scions, and even old gods fill the ranks of the Freeholding Lords. In the view of the supernatural nations, they are arcane “city-states.”
Marcone’s Mafia
John Marcone is the first “pure vanilla” (i.e., non-supernatural) mortal to have signed the Unseelie Accords as a Freeholding Lord.
The majority of Marcone’s forces are mortal criminals who are somewhat clued-in to the supernatural. A small number are combat-ready mercenaries, unfazed by weird magic shit. Marcone also employs at least one magical contractor (see Sigrun Gard) for magical protection and information-gathering, in an attempt to understand supernatural issues.
It is likely Marcone will assist the White Council, at least in a limited fashion, against the Red Court in the course of the Vampire War. (Interestingly, most of his major conflicts have been against the Denarians and the Black Circle.)
Harry: Marcone confounds me. He’s criminal scum, no debate there. But, on occasion, he does something so…right, that I need to pause and consider. Damn him.
March continues with the Outsiders and the Circle, in two weeks.
Faeries
Black Court vampires have all the vulnerabilities that are described in Dracula: holy items, holy water, garlic, fire, running water, and so on. This has left Black Court vampires rather thin on the ground. The ones who have survived are the old, powerful ones, who have the intelligence and the capabilities to avoid public attention and to protect themselves from other supernaturals.
There Is No Spirit Of The Law
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