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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil the Knight" data-source="post: 7030400" data-attributes="member: 6801269">The Quinchino's will be the reoccurring  antagonist faction for the Endhome / SoG story line. They are the most aggressive of the families and have fast tracked their way to the top through numerous dubious deeds. The Quinchino's are the ones behind the Greentree Bandits. The bandits are raiding the other families caravans out side the city, and selling their goods on the black market. Also they have enlisted the Rat Brood who are raiding other families goods inside the city from warehouses, and once again peddling them on the black market. The Rat Brood play another roll, where they are slowing down the sewer upgrades that Governor Pool has promised the populous. This was actually coincidental, where the workers for the sewer upgrades stumbled upon a few of the broods nests. After the city guard was dispatched to destroy them they found them selves under increasing attack by well armed, bipedal rat men. After they were attacked first the Rats asked the Quinchinos for help. Seeing an opportunity they stagged a theft from one of their own warehouses, to draw attention away from them selves, then they gifted the rats with well made arms and armour to defend their homes and disrupt the Governor's sewer upgrades. Which brings us to the aforementioned Sons of Gruumsh adventure. If the party manages to quash all the Quinchino plans, Fernando Quinchino moves to more drastic measures. He comes to an agreement with a group of orcs amassing in the North under the orog Thrull. He has them begin to raid other families caravans coming through Fools Pass. In return fernando gifts the orog with prisoners (a scion from each noble house including his own half brother) to sacrifice for their ritual. After the orcs have taken the city Fernando will be appointed as governor.Quinchino FamilySource: LCoB, SoG (Leiyraghon)Game Purpose: Antagonist faction (villain)Faction Type: CompanyGoal: To become the greatest family in the city.Background:Compared to the Gaspar, Pulanti and Pool families, the Quinchino's are relative newcomers to Endhome and their greater status even more recent. When Angelo Kilkar became Philippe Quinchino and gave up his bandit ways, he agreed to build a lavish Hotel, The Heaven's Gate, with some of his ill-gotten booty. The Quinchino's keep close ties with some of the more unsavory  characters in Endhome, and are known to dabble in predatory lending, unsanctioned gambling as well as to be the owners of several brothels. They do, however, run a smashing good hotel, and that business is completely on the level and has provided the family with a steady and healthy stream of gold for decades.Members:Fernando QuinchinoFernando is the eldest son of Phillippe Quinchino, and the heir apparent to the Quinchino Fortune. With his father now at death's doorstep, Fernando has taken over the day-to-day operations of the business. Like all of Phillppes Sons, Fernando was taught that brutality is as important as cunning when it comes to business and has made use of his martial skill on more than  a few uncooperative business partners. Since Fernando has taken over for his ailing father the family has gone back to some of its more dubious ways. The family achieved it's greater status by bringing down the Palunti and Bruil families who had been caught in a stalemate that allowed civil unrest to torture the city. Immediately after securing the status as a great house and on the verge of a dominating the city, Fernando solidified his families position by sponsoring the idea of an elected Senate. This magnanimous gesture help temper his family's otherwise unsavory reputation.Fernando is a no nonscence figure who's motto, where he to have one, would likely be, "I'd rather you fear me, than love me." And indeed, when anyone who knows Fernando, sees him coming they are likely to duck for cover either to avoid his profanity-laced diatribes, blunt humor, or a smack on the back of the head. His approach to life has had its benefits, for those whom he does trust show him complete loyalty.Despite his girth (he weighs about 280 pounds), Fernando is surprisingly quick. He sports short, course black hair and two bushy eyebrows. His chest and back hair are likewise course and thick, and explode out from his slightly unbuttoned well made linen tunic. He often wears a huge gold necklaces, thick gold bracelets, and a gold ring with the symbol of a bull on his pinky. Beneath his lavish yet functional red velvet coat he hides a short sword with his families crest on the pummel, which he always keeps on hand.Philippe QuinchinoTechnically the patriarch of the Quinchino family, at the Golden age of 105, Philippe is now bedridden and on deaths door. Philippe was born Angelo Kilkar. Angelo was a particularly clever and ruthless bandit who made his living praying on merchant wagons coming in and out of Endhome. Angelo was increasingly elusive, and try as the local authorities might, they we're unable to find his hideout and put an end to his raids. Finally, Angelo approached the authorities of Endhome and offered to put a halt to his banditry under one condition: they allow him to join the community under the name Philippe Quinchino.Kalen QuinchinoKalen Quinchino, Fernando's younger half brother, is a weasel who spends more of his time in the city's taverns than at home. Like all of members of his family he was trained to fight and has made good on his promises more than once to show some one who's boss in the midst of a bar room brawl. Though he has keen wit Kalen despises work,  unless it involves drinking and fighting, and will go out of his way to avoid it. His perfect day consists of waking up past noon finding a bar with cheap drink and easy women to stumble into where he can pick a fight.A little leaner than his brother, Kalen has the course black hair of his father and brother that he keeps shaved right down on the sides and slicked back and longer on top. his eyes are emerald green just like his mother who died in child birth.Face: Quinchino ThugRelationships:Allied with Rat Brood and Greetree to bring down the other familiesAgreement with the orcs of Xul-JarakCommand fear from the populousThe most hated amongst the great families but are still respected for their power.Notes:Greater HouseFamily colors, Red and GoldTheir family coat of arms is blazon thus Or, a bull Gules on a terrace Vert, the bordure of gules charged with eight flames of the fieldQuest Notes:Party find a letter in the Greentree bandit hide out initialed A.K. (Angelo Kilkar). It was written by Fernando using his father's real name as an alias. If confronted about it Fernando denies it all (Greentree Bandits)The Brood mother will tell the PC's the truth about Quinchino's but her word will not hold up as evidence.(Rat Brood)Once party has foiled Greentree and Rat Brood Fernando has strikes up an deal with the orcs of Xul-Jarak. It is him who will feed the Scions miss information (through his incompetent younger brother) that led them to be captured by the orcs. The orcs get the sacrifices needed to complete their ceremony and Fernando is promised lordship over the city after the orcs conquer it. (SoG)The Quinchino's refused to grant the PCS, an audience expecting them of Gaspar treachery. All they will do is point the finger at the Pulanti (SoG)If party ask around at some of the town's bars they will find that Kalen has been running his mouth about a big find (map to Xul-Jarak that fernano planted on him) (SoG)When party foil the orcs plan he invites the party to dinner, in celebration of rescuing his half brother. Fernando, being devious and calculating, is trying to turn the defeat of the orcs at Xul-Jarak into a win for himself by setting an ambush for the party, his ailing father and his younger brother, which he will blame on the party. (SoG)</blockquote>

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