The Family Business

The Family Business by Baron of Spades
The Family Business Family Business Chapter 2 Family Business 3 Family Business 4 Family Business Part 5 Family Traditions Family Business Part 7 Family Tradition 2 Family Business Part 9 Family Tradition 3 Family Business Part 11 Family Tradition 4 Family Tradition 5
Discussion thread 1 Discussion thread 2 Family Tradition Discussion Family Civquest Discussion
The Family Estate Family Business Extra 1.1 Family Estate 2 Family Business Extra 1.2 Family History

Hijinks across a universe spanning multiple timelines. Is it all connected? Sorta. Does it make sense? Maybe. Will there be violence? Yes. Will there be romance? Yes. Will there be lewds? Yes!

Synopsis

Adventures across a timeline as children of Old Gods and incompetent precursors strive to build a home in the mess left behind. Time however is still fluid. What affects one affects the rest...

Family Business

Follow Venian in the New Age. Heir apparent to one of the Great Families of Rezo, he is determined to prove he is more than qualified for the role of future Patriarch and the responsibilities that come with it. If he fails well...death is one of the nicer possibilities.

Family Tradition

Guide Sergei, a Rezan police officer through the minefield of warring empires and doomsday cults who all seem to want him. No not in that way! Maybe.

Family Estate

Fly along with Tybalt, gun-for-hire, and public nuisance as he sets out to build the most fearsome mercenary company the galaxy has ever seen! There's a lot of steps between that he hasn't quite figured out yet, but that's what you're around for!

Extra

Life of secondary characters as they unknowingly play a role in shaping the destiny of their world. And maybe get some squish-squish in.

Characters

Family Business

Venian

Full Name: Kekhar Venian Makag
Race: Rezan 3rd Generation

Bio: Son to the Patriarch of the Makag family, and named Heir Apparent. However a lifetime of avoiding assassination attempts and playing the political game has instilled an ambition that Patriarch won't satisfy. His plans have been disrupted when he chances upon a certain blue orb, which he believes is forcing him to do 'unorthodox, but very bad ideas'

Currently: Being naughty.

Suit up

Gyoji

Full Name: Chang Gyoji
Race: Tsang Naji

Bio: Daughter of Chang Narobu, leader of the Chang Clan of the Ming-Nahoku protectorate, now disgraced and exiled from her family and homeland. And it all started thanks to a chance encounter with a certain Rezan slaver. Has a slight, teeeeeny, tiny, fetish

Currently: Aiding her adopted family and writing lewd fiction.

A long day of totally-not-indulging-sick-fantasies

Gwendolyn

Full Name: Gwendolyn Ui'Feginte
Race: Daoine

Bio: Orphaned daughter forced to raise her belligerent brother on her own. Was recently captured by Gormoamhi on her quest to find their missing parents, got saved by Venian, and learned she has a Gormoamhi half sister. With her quest now impossible, her parents' "murderer" dead, she had a sudden void in her life that she didn't know how to fill. Enough drink brought a more ambitious woman out that Venian found very arousing.

Currently: Cementing her place into Rezan nobility

Yep, still a sword

Famiy Tradition

Sergei

Full Name: Sergei Kristoff
Race: Rezan 1st Generation (Sergal-Tsang-Naji mix)

Bio: Lieutenant 3rd class Sergei was an officer of the law. All he wanted was a comfy desk job where no one would notice him and he could spend his long life in general obscurity. Instead he's been roped into a conspiracy involving secret police, cults, ancient gods, and possibly time travel. So he is not very happy.

Currently: Posing for propaganda.

First day on the job

Family Estate

Tybalt

Full Name: Tybalt Mohrs
Race: Rezan 1st Generation (Krogan-Other(Possibly Space Badger. Or skunk) mix)

Bio: Tybalt Mohrs. Meat-head for hire. Likes fighting, likes guns, and like money. With his friend Rocket, he has vowed to sail the stars and become the most (in)famous mercenary the Empire has ever seen. Currently his plans have run into a snag when during a mission, he discovered a Mega-corp's secret weapon.

Currently: Learning how it feels like to be a missile flying at speed .

Last known photo

Rocket

Full Name: Jamarca Neibar Neiram
Race: Rezan 2nd Generation (Her family tree is a damn mess)

Bio: Tybalt's closest friend, a genius with a welder, and expert programmer. She has learned to build most anything from scratch out of necessity to make money, and keep the meaner locals from killing and/or eating her. She owes Tybalt everything, though she won't divulge to anyone what or how that happened. Just that she feels obligated to stick with Tybalt and help him no matter how much his empty-headed, idiotic, insane plans frustrate her. Tybalt's abilities of getting into trouble are really pushing how much of his shit she is willing to take when Tybalt discovers a Mega-corp's dirty little secret.

Currently: Learning how it feels like to be a missile flying at speed . Call her Rocket. She loves it.

Other Major Characters

Characters from other adventures in the Familyverse transcending time and space!

Iagn

Full Name: Kekhar Iagn Makag
Race: Rezan 3rd Generation

Bio: Son to the Patriarch of the Makag family, Iagn is considered a black sheep. Few members acknowledge he exists, and fewer still treat him like a Makag. So he chose to become the degenerate everyone expects him to be, and loving every second of it. The only one to take him seriously is his half-brother Venian, making Iagn devoted to seeing Veni achieve every single one of his goals. Even the impossible ones.

Also he likes to collect swords. Like. A lot.

Currently: Being naughty.

Sampling the best the worst of society has to offer

Taruvik

Full Name:Valeras Vinn Taruvik
Race: Rezan 2nd Generation

Bio: Inheritor to a family broken by stagnation and ancient glory, she is determined to revive the Taruvik family and leave a mark so grand, Rezo will never forget them!

Currently: Conquering the province

Guk

Full Name: Guk
Race: Gormoamhi

Bio: Guk is Gormoamhi. Guk is simple man. Guk wants a warm, dim place to call home, meat in his belly, and a bed full of females. But Guk doesn't get nice things. Guk is stuck doing things he doesn't want to do, but he has to do them or one of the many threats around him will kill him! Mother Goddess help him because his clan can't.

Currently: Being dumb.

Races

There's a lot of races in the Familyverse. A lot.

Rezan

A human-like race(though they find the implication insulting) for the 'base form'. They are secretive, letting few outside races know of their existence. Most interactions involve raiding for slaves, or trading their bizarre artifacts for slaves.

Physical appearance

Rezans are humans, at least they may have been. Their appearance can vary drastically based on ancestry, though the most common factors between all forms is pale skin, grey-to-white hair/fur, and colorless eyes.

Abilities

Besides physical appearance, Rezans possess a range of other abilites that set them apart from other humans.

• Functional immortality- Rezans age normally until puberty is completed. Then the aging process slows to a crawl or halts completely. Then a Rezan lives possibly forever. "Possibly" being the operative word because Rezan life can be so dangerous there has been no observed death of a Rezan by old age.
• Alternative Magic Source- Rezans do not pull magic from the same source as other races of the Familyverse. Other races use the natural currents that criss-cross the universe and draw power, then shape it. A Rezan draws power from "Somewhere Else". Where this is not even Rezans are entirely sure, but the result is a magic that is far less stable, more potent, and most importantly, can be made into solid matter.
• Sensing Magic - Rezans can sense if magic is being used. Some perceive it as a taste, others hear it, or smell it. Some might even feel an ache in their joints. Whatever the case, if there is a spell being shaped, Rezan magic being drawn, or an enchantment in place, a Rezan can naturally detect it.
• Genetic Compatibility - Other races in the Familyverse have a difficult time producing offspring with each other. With Rezans it's a guarantee. Hybrids are commonplace among Rezans, but just how hybridized a Rezan is depends on their Generation.
• Limited Trait Inheritance - Hybrid Rezans inherit traits that were unique to their non-Rezan ancestors and can persist to the 2nd generation. If for example, a Rezan managed to find, seduce, and boing a dragon, the child would inherit all the abilities of the dragon, as well as any grandchildren afterwards. Sometimes it persists even further but this is a rare occurence.
• Gorods - If Rezans interbreed with only Rezans, the offspring has a chance to become a massive hunch-backed humanoid with limited intelligence, a short temper, and a massive appetite other Rezans call a Gorod. Throughout history, Rezans have used these as mounts.

Generations

Rezans can have offspring with any race. However it is born more out of necessity than anything else. A Rezan who breeds with other Rezans can produce a Gorod. The chance of creating a Gorod however varies depending on the generation of a Rezan. Rezans group Generations based on how far back the last non-Rezan parent was, which is the factor that determines likelihood of Gorod-creation. The chart breaks down the different generations.

1st Generation

First Generation Rezans are Rezans with a non-Rezan mother or father. This is when the majority of non-Rezan physical traits manifest and is also the least likely chance that breeding with another Rezan produces a Gorod. If both parents are First Generation, the child is as likely to be another First Generation that has the combined traits of both parents, or will be a Second Generation (Refer to the dotted line in the chart). What's unique about 1st generation is occasionally they posess traits that would normally not appear in the Rezan race(non-pale skin, colored eyes, etc.)

2nd Generation

The last non-Rezan is a grandparent to this generation. The Rezan side begins to take over, suppressing physical traits of the non-Rezan ancestors. They may still manifest the most prominent features of their non-Rezan side however. Chances of a Gorod from a Second Generation are more likely than a first, but still unlikely. This generation is known for having the greatest variability in their children.

3rd Generation

The closest non Rezan would be a great-grandparent to this generation. While some still have one or two physical traits from the non-Rezan side, they are suppressed, and not nearly as big. Horns and claws will be shorter and dull. Fur will appear in patches or grow slower. Some may even appear as the "Baseline" Rezan. Fun fact: A Rezan-Human First Generation hybrid looks exactly like a Third Generation baseline Rezan, causing a lot of confusion. Of the three, these Rezans are most likely to produce Gorods, and are often encouraged to find non-Rezan mates to "thin the blood".

Gorods

The genetic dead-end of Rezans. Born sterile, they appear as a normal infant, but quickly grow in size and musculature compared to normal babies, and will be the size of a human adult in three years. However they will continue to grow, developing muscle and claw. They also develop mutations upon maturity. Some have even greater mass, some grow to the size of houses, most cases it's having a more messed up mouth with extra tendrils, grabbers, stabbers, and/or additional rows of teeth. Their intelligence is seldom greater than that of an infant, and are temperamental to most people besides immediate family. Training them is incredibly difficult, but not impossible; and given the demand for healthy Gorods in Rezan society, there are whole families that specialize in breeding and training. This is as lucrative as it is damning for the family as these Rezans will find themselves ostracized from the rest of society, kept at a spear's length in any interaction, and only contacted if a breeding contract is to be secured.

Gorods are valued for their near limitless stamina, ungodly endurance, willingess to commit violence, and ability to eat damn near anything(even if they can't actually digest it).

Gulpa

Humans have to deal with Goblins. Rezans have to deal with Gulpa. Small, furry, aggressive, and breeds fast, Rezans flip flop between using them as meat shields, or pests that need to be eradicated. But no matter how many are killed, there's always more, ready to attack and pillage any Rezan dumb enough to let his guard down in the wild.

Grafla

Another race native to Rezo. They inhabit the cave networks beneath the Gamin historical home province. Nearly blind, the Grafla have an amazing sense of smell that lets them navigate the dark and fight the Scrshk that they share tunnels with. Gamin invented the devices that gave them sight. Seeing Gamin for the first time, the Grafla gave them their own name- "The Beautiful Ones". The Grafla are totally devoted to the Gamin and will do anything, even if it means destroying their race, to protect their Beautiful Ones.

Tsang Naji

A bipedal race of 4 armed dog-people. Native to the Nahoku islands, the early human settlers first assumed they were gods. This has helped the Tsang Naji place themselves in the aristocracy of Nahokan society. They are rivals with the Mo Sala

Mo Sala

A tall humanoid race that shares the Nahoku islands with the Tsang Naji. Bitter rivals since before the human colonists, their feud was tipped in the favor of the Tsang Naji when humans though the dog-people were gods and the Mo Sala demons. Much of their homeland has been claimed by the Tsang Naji and the Mo Sala now exist as nomad clans, traveling from one hidden sanctuary to the next as they continue to harass the Tsang Naji at every opportunity. MoSala

They never take that mask off.

Hwaesi

Towering horned humanoids found in the northern provinces of Ming Zhuo and the Nahoku islands. They subsist entirely on raiding the other races, who they view as inferior.

Daoine

Rabbit-folk that are puny but powerful. In the hands of a Daoine, heavy weapons that a human needs two hands to lift, can be swung by a Daoine like it weighs nothing. Belligerent, they fight each other as much as they do their hated enemies, the Gormoamhi. When excited their eyes turn red. Split into a number of other ethnicities.

Gormoamhi

Giant humanoids with blue-purple hides that prefer to live underground. Their race is vastly lopsided with only 1 male for every 10 females. The men are thus pampered and treated as delicate objects(which they very much aren't) to be protected, or bartered with as a precious commodity. The females in turn take on all other roles from warriors, to artisans, and record keepers.

They believe themselves to be the only true race of People, and everyone else are non-people put on the world for them to play with. This philosophy has lead their technology to stagnate, as they do not create more than their bare basics, and will take anything else they may need from non-people. This is also why they regularly attack non-Gormoamhi settlements and squat in the ruins. Why build a shelter when non-people do it for you?

Elves

Dirty knife ears that ruin everything. More on them later.

Jassanid

A once humanoid race that has become a specialized race of reptilian-arthropod-humans. Their society is a strict caste based society, with each caste having its members molded to fit their place through carefully monitored selective breeding(and a bit of blood magic). None of the castes have true autonomy save for the leaders, the Sirassar. The Sirassar all have their own ideas of perfection, and each one will claim their own stretch of territory where the castes and races are altered to suit their own beliefs; and will battle their peers to prove it(or some other petty reason like 'His palanquin is shinier than mine') This inability to unite may be the sole reason the collective Sirassates haven't conquered the continent.

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