Crime Families

= Head Crime Families = The Head Crime Families in the underworld of Fernava are who the ones who call the shots. Many businesses and allies; both illegal and legal pay for supplies and protections. Siding with a family is a contract for life. While rare; some purely neutral facilities and groups exist outside their power, but these are hard to maintain due to the competition and pressure.

Carmeli Family
Regarded to be the most powerful family; the Carmeli's have a powerful presence. They have some influence in every district and provide protections for businesses that pay their 'fees'. The Family are most similar to a traditional mafia; they take pride in their work and do not take disrespect on the street or in the news. Playing around with them is a dangerous game. All direct members of the Carmeli's have a silver feather drawn onto the back of their right hand. They filled the other half of the power gap left behind in the aftermath of the Forsythia Disaster.

The Carmeli family's power structure is centered around a central member of the family that started the group, called the Nest Family, and each prime family member has their own troupe of trained guards around them who preform different functions depending on what that member values. The absolute head of the family is Father Carmeli, and there's actually a great deal of infighting in the Nest Family.

The Carmeli's have a calling card whenever they have a direct hand in the killing of someone. This is the the beheading of the target of whoever incurred their wrath. They have a special way of decorating this act of violence, which is unknown to the general public to prevent copycats.

Medina Family
A matriarchy; the Medina Family is the only direct rival to the Carmeli. With hands in the pies of each district as well. They operate in largely the same way as the Carmeli's but have a direct rivalry and mutual hatred for each other.

The Madina carries a great deal of numbers compared to the Carmeli, and their power structure isn't as closely centralized. Rather, it follows a chain of responsibility. At the top of the chain is the Medina Queen, and below her are four ladies who manage a specialized branch of the Medina. Each lady has two thorns who act their direct assistants and confidants. Followed by all of the normal members of the Medina who are assigned to a branch, then the bottom rung is the servants and slaves who make up the largest fraction of Medina's forces and are the bulk of it's force.

They also have a special calling card when it comes to marking their assassinations; which involves a special kind of poison produced only by the family being used whenever they have direct involvement in erasing someone. This is also a guarded secret.