claws of the Ascenzia night
The Carabassi family has long dominated the underworld of Ascenzia. For several generations, this shadowy family has had a hand in every kind of crime in the port city, from the cutpurses of Sinner's Landing, to protection rackets on the Slope, and even in the noble intrigues of the Constellazione district. Whatever the game is, they always get their cut.
It is also known in Ascenzia that you don't cross the Carabassi. By day, they swagger around the streets with seeming impunity. By night, they rule by the law of the knife. It's said that those they mark will never see them coming; the Carabassi see everything, and move like ghosts through the knotted alleys.
The Carabassi act somewhat like a thieves' guild, but with a strict hierarchy based on family lineage. Although the Carabassi broker jobs and collect tithes from the local operators, only blood relations are permitted entry into the organization. It is said that the Carabassi line has its origins in far away Koshkovia, but now has branch families throughout Delon and Capracia.
