Within the endless neon sprawl of Vesper City, most fixer organizations survive through fear, greed, or corporate sponsorship. Shatterbone Contracts survives through something rarer:
loyalty.
The faction operates from a heavily warded fixer safehouse hidden within Aurelis Heights, balancing mercenary work, smuggling, intelligence gathering, extraction contracts, and violent retaliation against traffickers and exploitative syndicates. Beneath the organization’s brutal reputation exists an unusually personal core — a small group bound less by hierarchy and more by mutual survival.
A towering tiefling berserker and founder of Shatterbone Contracts, Lylia Shatterbone built her reputation through overwhelming violence, survival instinct, and absolute hatred of slavery. Born into the brutal industrial trafficking systems beneath Ironhollow, she survived years inside illegal labor pits and chemically conditioned combat arenas operated by the Guild of the Unbroken Wheel.
Everything changed during a catastrophic containment failure involving unstable suppression technology and rage-conditioning infrastructure. Lylia escaped by turning the facility into a massacre. The surviving reports described the incident as equal parts riot, reactor breach, and urban disaster.
Since then, she has wandered the Vesper Region as:
mercenary,
smuggler,
pit fighter,
courier,
and violent urban myth.
Physically, Lylia is impossible to ignore — a 8'2" infernal bruiser wrapped in scar tissue, industrial combat gear, reinforced horns, and enough raw physical presence to silence rooms when she enters them. Yet beneath the intimidation lies someone deeply protective of people she considers vulnerable.
Her hatred of ownership runs deeper than ideology.
It is personal.
Lylia does not merely oppose traffickers and coercive systems.
She hunts them.
Within Shatterbone Contracts, she serves as both leader and emotional center — loud, dominant, reckless, surprisingly perceptive, and fiercely loyal to the strange collection of damaged people who gathered around her.
Ruanlong is an ancient Eastern dragon Ryūkage whose existence drifts somewhere between urban legend, spiritual myth, and impossibly dangerous assassin. Unlike many dragons who isolated themselves from modern civilization, Ruanlong became fascinated by mortal life centuries ago. Rather than ruling kingdoms, she wandered cities, shrines, taverns, back alleys, and hidden districts searching for genuine connection within an increasingly industrialized world.
In the modern age of SPELLRUN, her appearance blends timeless elegance with spellpunk practicality:
flowing silks,
streetwear-inspired fabrics,
concealed ninja tools,
rune-stitched ceremonial clothing,
and softly glowing talismans woven into her massive serpentine frame.
Despite her immense size and draconic power, she moves with eerie silence.
Ruanlong’s personality contrasts sharply against her terrifying capabilities. She is affectionate, emotionally intelligent, playful, flirtatious, and deeply patient. She values honesty and emotional vulnerability more than power or status. Her presence tends to calm rooms rather than dominate them.
But when violence becomes necessary, she transforms with frightening precision.
Within Shatterbone Contracts, Ruanlong acts as:
mediator,
guardian,
spy,
mentor,
and occasionally the only reason negotiations remain peaceful.
Rumors persist that she may secretly belong to the Sovereign Choir — a hidden organization of immensely powerful supernatural entities quietly influencing the world from behind the scenes.
If true, nobody within Shatterbone Contracts seems particularly interested in asking questions.
Selene Lunaris is one of the most feared independent combatants operating within the Vesper Region — a lunar bunnyfolk spellblade capable of destroying armored strike teams, corporate mechs, and dimensional entities with terrifying calm efficiency. To many citizens, she exists less as a person and more as an urban myth whispered through criminal circles and encrypted whispernets.
Nobody fully understands where Selene vanished to during her early life. Rumors claim she uncovered an ancient lunar resonance site beneath the Undercity. Others believe she survived illegal gravitic experimentation tied to forbidden thaumic research. What is known is this:
She returned carrying Lunaris Edge — a sovereign-grade moonblade unlike anything modern corporations have successfully replicated.
Selene channels gravitational arcflow and moon-aspected thaumaturgy through the blade with overwhelming precision. Her combat style resembles controlled natural disaster more than swordsmanship:
silent,
beautiful,
and catastrophically lethal.
Unlike Lylia’s explosive presence or Ruanlong’s warmth, Selene is emotionally restrained and intensely deliberate. She values autonomy above all else and views systems of control with open contempt. She neither seeks leadership nor avoids responsibility. Instead, she acts according to her own internal logic, responding to situations with unnerving decisiveness.
Within Shatterbone Contracts, Selene functions less like an employee and more like a sovereign ally whose goals happen to align with the faction’s values.
Most enemies only realize she has entered a battlefield after people begin disappearing in flashes of silver light.
Compared to the legends surrounding the rest of Shatterbone Contracts, Mira initially appears ordinary:
a tired half-elf university student buried beneath coursework, holo-feeds, caffeine, and chronic sleep deprivation.
This assumption usually lasts until someone realizes she has already identified every exit, hidden weapon, surveillance camera, emotional weakness, and lie within the room.
Raised in the overcrowded residential sprawls of Northreach, Mira learned early that survival inside modern magical capitalism depended on awareness more than strength. Academic talent eventually earned her entry into one of Vesper’s respected arcane universities, where she discovered thriving underground economies hidden beneath institutional respectability:
information trades,
smuggling operations,
corporate recruitment schemes,
and black-market thaumic research.
What began as small-scale information brokering escalated into infiltration work, theft, covert courier jobs, and freelance mercenary activity.
Her latent psionic Soulknife abilities awakened violently during a failed corporate memory extraction attempt, leaving the interrogator permanently damaged and Mira suddenly very aware of how dangerous she had become.
Within Shatterbone Contracts, Mira handles:
intelligence gathering,
social infiltration,
university-sector contacts,
encrypted communications,
and covert reconnaissance.
Unlike many underworld operatives, she rarely relies on brute force. Mira survives through leverage, observation, manipulation, and quietly knowing far more than she admits aloud.
She is observant, witty, opportunistic, and subtly chaotic — the kind of person who accidentally uncovers conspiracies because she got curious and refused to stop digging.
Lylia once described her as:
“tiny, sneaky, and way too smart for her own good.”
Nobody disagreed.