Nityz

Nityz
The only remaining rivals to Mayor Neville Darvine's power on the SFT were the Nomarem, who still ruled the Territory's southwest, and the DC chapter of the international crime syndicate the Night Guild, which controlled much of DC during Charles Dessur's time.

Locals called them the Nityz, and Darvine succeeded in driving them underground but the Nityz were in DC for the long term. They still had influence throughout the city and held the Rat Nest; their fortress built over the ruins of the old Nomarem town of Wrensville.

Nity Influence
The Nityz influenced DC by selling drugs to the Maze gangs, who in turn granted immunity to the businesses owned by people who paid the Nityz a protection fee or were part of their secret membership.

Coordinating economically and socially over time, the collective Nity allies had promoted themselves into positions of power within all of DC's communities and social groups, and constantly provided the Nityz in the Rat Nest with intelligence on the entire city.

Nity Custom
The Night Guild had a strict code of conduct that varied by region but wherever employed it probably function to set its members apart as higher class criminals, or at least within the poor and uneducated populations they employed and scouted for recruit members.

The most noticeable Nity custom in DC was their suits, with the quality increasing according to rank. The second was in their speech, which was standard Tuvord minus all vulgar and slang terminology.

Banned from swearing, the Nityz communicated their vulgar ideas by using obscure catch phases, substituting similar sounding words and combining the sounds of multiple words, so it was common for outsiders to recognize all the words a Nity said, and not understand.