The Crystal Vein is a powerful organization of previously wartime spies, they deal in the discrete transport of goods, information, and occasionally if the price is right, people. Many believe their direct hand in the war was what led to the fragile peace the realm now enjoys. But with a shaky transfer of power and the ascension of King Valenford I, the vein has gone dark, and those once privy to it’s machinations now seem in the dark.