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The 7th Moon

第七月

Gangsters from across the sea

A Japanese crime organization led by Yamato and her brother; after his death she took his name, crossed to America, and set out to rule New York.

Fairfax Industries

菲尔法克斯实业

Titan of arms and invention

A family firm famed for armaments and invention, with a mercenary subsidiary and enemies on every side — even Pocket, born into it, says it needs to die.

The Patrons

守护神

Wish-granting gods, two rival sovereigns

The Archmother and The Hidden King, the two transcendent beings the ritual is meant to summon. Each courts heroes of every stripe with wishes and gifts, and the promises differ from one person to the next.

Paradox

悖论

A secretive thieves’ guild famed for elaborate heists; its masked members give up their names, strike at the most untouchable, and put their spoils on show in pop-up museums.

The Vatican

梵蒂冈

The Holy See’s hand from overseas

The power of the Holy See behind the Venators, which sends assassins after the uncanny and is often accused on all sides of overstepping.

The Arroyos

阿若悠一家

A Spanish Harlem family who took in Ivy when she was living on the streets; Carlos, the head of the household, is running for mayor of New York.

The Baxter Society

拜克斯特协会

Legendary old-school monster hunters

An international society of hunters that has made killing monsters its calling; Grey Talon helped found it, and its name is renowned, yet it is now said to be in decline.

The New York Oracle

《纽约神谕报》

Prophecy and rumor for five pennies

A New York fortune-telling tabloid running for over twenty years, mixing current events, advertisements and urban legends; not even the city’s celebrities escape its pen.

Tunnel Rats

隧道老鼠

The underground trade beneath New York

An underground outfit led by Mo & Krill that runs illicit goods between the boroughs through its network of tunnels, and shelters those close to it.

Mendoza Syndicate

门多萨集团

Spanish Harlem’s shadow empire

A criminal syndicate that once held New York’s Spanish Harlem in its grip, driven off the streets by Ivy — though its boss, Mendoza, is rumored to be lying in wait in the shadows.

The Djinn

镇尼

A mysterious people who sleep in bottles, hoping to buy a corner of Wyoming from the United States and build a home of their own.

United States Federal Government

美国联邦政府

A union looming over all kingdoms

The national power behind the OSIC and the Sandman Division: the one Haze serves, an old grievance in Seven’s heart, and a force Rat King cannot get around on his road to founding a nation.

Friends of Humanity

人类之友

An extremist political organization formed by Hathorne’s descendants, hostile to the non-human, rallying in New York and Boston — and the prime target of Vindicta and Grey Talon.

Kelvin's Arctic Expedition

开尔文远征队

A generation’s finest, buried in ice

An Arctic expedition made up of the most brilliant scientists of a generation; every one of them was lost to the ice, and only its leader, Kelvin, came back.

The Sideshow

康尼岛杂耍团

A roving home for outsiders

A troupe of carnival performers on Coney Island, and the home where Celeste hides beneath the lights.

Geist Foundation

盖斯特基金会

A treasury behind a good name

Lady Geist’s charitable foundation, which funds schools and expeditions and tends her reputation besides.

Ixians

伊克斯亚人

A foreign bloodline from the north

A people from Ixia, not human, whose descendants are scattered across New York and think very differently of their blood.

The Knickerbockers

纽约博克队

New York’s professional basketball team, on the minds of fans, bookies and gamblers alike; its wins and losses sway the mood of the whole city.

Wraith's Organization

灵魅的组织

The underground organization Wraith runs in New York, holding its ground through gambling, protection and debt; in her own telling, of all the trades in “organized crime,” it keeps the closest books.

Occult Industrial Complex

神秘工业复合体

A vast system binding magic, souls and industrial production together; McGinnis calls herself its lead engineer, while its opponents vow to bring it down.

The Baroness Hotel

巴隆妮斯酒店

New York’s most celebrated hotel

A first-class hotel in Manhattan, New York, whose front door The Doorman has kept since its inception, and which prides itself on striving for perfection in its hospitality.

Vampire Nation

血族国度

A rigidly ranked nocturnal aristocracy

A rigidly hierarchical vampire society whose order is upheld by viscounts, elders and salons.

Whiteside and Graves

怀特赛德与格瑞墓律所

The New York law firm where Graves’s parents work, which once lost a client at a Christmas party.

Blackmore Family

布莱克莫家族

Proud house, heirs all alike

The illustrious family Apollo comes from, whose children pride themselves on their birth — and for that very reason are lumped together and mocked time and again.

Militant Alchemists (Warden's Family)

好战的炼金术士家族

Warden’s family, alchemists and fighters for generations, trained to stave off a mystic apocalypse, yet were caught unprepared when the Astral Gate opened.

The Soho Coven

苏荷女巫团

An old coven withering on the vine

A coven of witches based in Soho; Baba counts herself its backbone and sees looking after it as her duty.

Hathorne Family

霍桑家族

Generations of blood and bigotry

Descendants of the Salem judge John Hathorne, scattered among ordinary people through marriage and changed names; Vindicta holds them in blood feud.

Jamie West

杰米·韦斯特学院

The art school where Violet studies; she skips class to take part in the ritual, dreading that her teachers will find out, yet hoping to win the school an endowment.

New York Municipal Coven

巫政厅

New York’s municipal body of witches, which runs a shelter for stray familiars in Soho and sees to the retrieval and dispatch of Soul Urns.

The Cause

大业

The calling Warden would die for

The cause Warden has sworn to follow unto death, financed by the spoils he gathers, advancing step by step toward completing the ritual.

The Holliday Family

哈雷黛家族

A family that has held the law and the gun for generations; the heirloom revolver and the sheriff’s mantle weigh on the shoulders of every descendant.

The Soviet Empire

苏维埃帝国

An empire flourishing in a brave new world of mysticism, led by the specter of Catherine the Great, its spies scouring every corner of the earth for treasures.

Alchemy Bureau

炼金局

The office that governs alchemy

A New York office that oversees alchemical affairs, forever at odds with Hank’s bar.