Death Merchants

Whoever hired the Death Merchants is interested in eliminating Orpheus Group's database or recovering certain files.

Overview

At very least, however, we can reveal that the person (or group) hiring the Death Merchants is not responsible for the initial attack. Still, he or they hire Death Merchant to eliminate all non-essential personnel or kidnnap those individual deemed "valuable." Unfortunately for the characters, they are of the expendable variety.

There are two reasons why a Death Merchant might work with the crucible. First, Death Merchant work for the highest bidder or first customer. Characters with access to plenty of ready cash might hire a Death Merchant to protect them from the freelance assassins being sent after them. The second reason is thet the Death Merchant is on the run himself, perhaps from a former employer or botched mission. He may his adversaries. A murdered Death Merchant returned as a Spirit may join fugitives to avenge himself against his killers.

The upside of adding a Death Merchant to the crucible is obvious - access to a trained killer. The downside is that a Death Merchant is potentially loyal to his next paycheck or has his own agenda.

References

*Orpheus Crusade of Ashes, p. 33, 121