Dawn Scorpions

Dawn Scorpions
Race(s): Tiefling

Active Civilizations: Lemuria

Description
The merchants who formed this collective wanted a name that illustrated their combinations of industriousness (early rising, ergo "dawn") and vicious competitiveness (venomous, ergo "scorpions"). Some merchants build a relationship of trust or cooperation, but these were all businesses that worked on the edge of legality and maintained market position through fear and secrecy. It was only a few businesses, 11 at their height, and their cooperation brought their trades into greater degrees of mutual dependency. When they came across a deal on magic items, they collectively leveraged their businesses very highly to get the monopoly on the supply. Unfortunately, a very lucky (or, perhaps later, unlucky) fence found the items first and managed to get away with them. The Dawn Scorpions suffered a huge loss from which they were unable to recover before the continent's sinking became apparent and everyone began evacuating.

Public Agenda
The merchant society's primary goal is to make money by dominating certain markets, via traditional means (controlling supply, using marketing to increase demand) and less savory means (kidnapping competitors' families, extortion).

Private Agenda
Unknown.