United Cities, being a major faction, has a long list of relations with factions both inside and outside their empire.
Headed by Longen, they are a large and entrenched organization forming the backbone of UC's economy[25] that runs the supply chain to all UC towns which feeds the vast majority of townsfolk[26]. The guild also maintains private military forces comprised of Samurai and various other guards, and is apparently allowed to engage in limited conscription as well.
Underlings of Traders Guild that engage in the practice of slavery to run the economy. They engage in the capturing, trading, transferring and working of slaves as means to keep their industrial cogs working, typically capturing the incompetent and poor such as the likes of Starving Vagrant, Rebel Farmers and Escaped Slaves.
They have close ties to the likes of Manhunters and Slave Hunters who help capture and re-capture slaves.
Headed by Phoenix, they are a major faction that engages in border conflict with United Cities at Bast and Skimsands ever since the borders were pushed back from Okran's Valley[27] and destroyed the region in the process, possibly causing the ire of the peasant populace[28].
Headed by Phoenix, they are a major faction that has engaged in border conflict with United Cities at Bast and Skimsands ever since the borders were pushed back from Okran’s Valley.
United Cities intends to capture/kill Valtena to send in forces to take their defensive position Okran's Shield[29], and then conquer their towns, take over their mines, and enslave some of their people when viable.
Headed by Esata, they are a faction that are considered to be savages[30] kept at bay from pillaging them thanks to The Holy Nation[31]. UC has a bounty on Esata to take her out and have The Holy Nation wipe out the Sheks for them[32].
They are noted to start pillaging the desert once the military of The Holy Nation is sufficiently disorganized[33][34].
Headed by Boss Simion, the Rebel Farmers are composed of the most impoverished outcast peasants and farmers who have been pushed out of towns and farms as a result of being unable to pay rent and taxes[35] and resorted to banditry and insurgency across the entire UC sector[36], typically engaging in raids on caravans and travelers. Considered to be an annoyance to UC authorities[37].
Beggars, destitutes and thugs from the bottom of society originating from the populated city of Heng[38], their characters engage in banditry in The Great Desert and Heng.
Headed by Tinfist, the Anti-Slavers are a group of elite ninja fighters who engage in the disruption and destruction of slavery and it's economy. Considered to be terrorists and freedom-preaching loonies[39] that unleashes famine and banditry to cause death and destruction across the Empire[40][41].
The effectiveness of their raids have been blocked off by the defensive perimeters of Longen[42], Kana[43], Ren[44], Ruben[44], Grande[45].
Hiver-dominated[46] immigrant peasants and serfs that make up the lower working class of the Empire whose presence is noted to have significantly sparked crime-rates and poverty[47]. They typically live in Vagrant Camps or UC towns dependent on whether or not they reach the legal threshold.
Greenlander xenophobes who see non-Humans as problematic elements of their society that need to be ridden of, likely inspired in part by United Weeklies.
They are hired hitmen of Traders Guild in cases of Thug Attack.
Groups of bandits and ninjas that engage in banditry across the desert.