I thought I'd post more about the current state of Corvis. Maybe that will give y'all ideas about your character backgrounds and motivations.
Corvis is not a pretty place to be at the moment. Only a few months ago (during Longest Night), it was attacked by a horde of shambling thralls. Then, about two months ago, the government of Corvis was taken over a short, but bloody coup and ruled for a few weeks by forces of Vinter Raelthorne's old Inquisition. They quickly turned back the clock, targeting "witches" and anyone else they saw as a threat (rich or poor). The City of Ghosts would have become the staging point of a huge skorne invasion force, if a group of adventurers hadn't done the unthinkable and brought the mercenary company known as the Immortals back to life and defeated the skorne army as they were entering the city.
A week after the main force of the skorne were defeated, Cygnaran cavalry finally entered Corvis, and quickly declared marshal law. The city has been under their strict control ever since. The army has had its hands full working together with what was left of the city fathers to form a new city council, and reconstitute the Watch. Many Watchmen had been executed or had become corrupted by Raelthorne's agents, and the gallows and headmen have been kept very busy for the past few months, dealing their swift and potent justice. The army has set up their headquarters in the old City Hall in South Corvis.
At the same time, there has basically been a war between two of the major criminal gangs, the Griffons and the Gertens. Sparked off by an unknown battle at one of the Griffons' safe houses during the occupation, the two organizations have been littering the streets with wounded and dead members for weeks. Without a fully-functioning watch, the army has made a few arrests, but has done little to slow the fighting.
During the occupation, an unknown arsonist set fire to the Grand Cathedral of Morrow, burning it to a husk. The Inquisition-controlled pro-term mayor (since killed) quickly blamed nefarious sorcerers and necromancers for this atrocity, although most people believed that with the Prelate of Morrow in hiding, it was probably a crude move to build support for the illegal government. Since the liberation, Church funds have been flooding into Corvis for the reconstruction of the cathedral, and many commoners have volunteered their time and money to help rebuild what was the pride of Morrowans throughout northhern Cygnar.
