House Marr

Start-class article · First seen: pre-campaign brief · Last seen: ongoing reference

House Marr is the Velkris merchant house that dominates the city’s flesh trade: slaves, debt-workers, sex slaves and labour pens in the lower districts, and bonded service, companionship houses, household placement and labour recovery in the upper, the same trade in cleaner language. It is one of the five houses of the Council of Factors, led by the tiefling Lysa Marr, and its saying is “Marr always offers a way out. The price is the trap.” It is world-brief canon only; the party has not visited Velkris and has not met Marr placement on screen.

Overview

House Marr is the Velkris merchant house whose industry is people. The honest word for it is slavery, which the brief says the wealthy rarely use; they say bonded service, debt labour, household placement, indenture, punishment contracts or labour recovery. In the lower districts people know what it is, and in the upper districts they prefer clean language. By the brief the institutional spine of the trade is Marr.

It is one of the five houses of the Council of Factors. Its factor is Lysa Marr, and its saying is “Marr always offers a way out. The price is the trap.” The house has not appeared in play.

Known traits

Lower districts. Slaves, debt-workers, sex slaves and labour pens (world brief).
Upper districts. Bonded service, companionship houses, household placement, entertainment contracts and labour recovery, the same trade in cleaner language (world brief).
Reach. Marr does not own every body sold in Velkris, but it sets the price (world brief).
Not stated. The brief gives no terms for a Marr contract, no premises, and no account of how the house treats those it holds.

Relationships

Council of Factors. One of the five houses; Lysa Marr sits for it in the Silent Hall.
House Brask. In the brief’s account of bonded service, Marr is the institutional spine and Brask the enforcement.
High Registry and House Orlan. The paperwork behind the trade, by the same account.

Notable named figures

Lysa Marr, factor: a tiefling woman, known for warmth, charm and contracts no desperate person should sign (world brief).

History in the campaign

Not yet seen in play.

Status

As of session 23. Off-screen and unvisited. The party has not met a Marr factor, placement house or retainer, and the house has not been named at the table.