Crowcoin

Crowcoin
Role	City criminal mastermind; economic and intelligence branch
Affiliation	Blackice
Status	Missing
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-a#3]

Crowcoin is the city's criminal mastermind and the branch of Blackice that runs its economy and intelligence inside Iceverf. ^{[heralds-a#3]}

Overview

A canon summary of Blackice's structure names Crowcoin as the city's criminal mastermind, a sub-branch of the organization, and describes him as consciously dissolving his own power. ^{[heralds-a#3]} His standing order, separate from that retreat, is to gather information on Scuto. ^{[heralds-b#436]}

Players, stop here. What is hidden behind this point is game-master material. The full detail is on GM:Crowcoin.

Power and politics

Crowcoin operates with three certainties: that Blackice is finished as a unified force, that Godwin has already accounted for that, and that Scuto now matters more than the city. ^{[heralds-b#437]}

He voluntarily dismantles his own power rather than defend it — releasing his intermediaries, disbanding his enforcement units, and abandoning his safehouses cleanly — so that he becomes a man not worth killing. ^{[heralds-b#436 · heralds-b#437]}

Protectors: the Frost Claws

Crowcoin is guarded by the Frost Claws, spell-casting assassins built for illusion and ghost passage who always know his location. ^{[heralds-b#404 · heralds-b#405]}

Disappearance

After Faith and Magnus Arcanum raided Blackice's courier network and its captured agents gave up the chain that led to it, the network dissolved without resistance. ^{[heralds-b#438 · heralds-b#439]} When a Blackice-linked guard captain later tried to report a new discovery, he found no one left to report to but the goblins and the funeral home woman — because Crowcoin was missing. ^{[heralds-b#440 · heralds-b#444]}

Related pages

• Blackice — the organization whose economic and intelligence branch Crowcoin runs
• Godwin White — the mind whose calculations are said to have already accounted for Blackice's fall
• Scuto — the standing target of Crowcoin's intelligence order
• Iceverf — the city where Crowcoin's network operated
• Frost Claws — his personal spell-assassin protectors

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for Crowcoin that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Crowcoin so they cannot be mistaken for canon.