Businesses
Oldtown Council
A council of seven members that owns lands and businesses in the Oldtown district of Westmeath. They are prominent members of the Community and the Council dates back to the original founding of Westmeath.
Westmeath Agricultural Research Cooperative (Westmeath ARC)
A research and development agricultural facility, they hold the patents to countless hearty crops and pest resistant strains. One of the world’s top agricultural researchers, Dr Amita Dubois, runs the cooperative.
It is funded by the Oldtown Council and its crops are used as a form of food bank and low income supplementation.
Yggdrasil Corporation
A subsidiary of Aesir Holdings, they own an empty warehouse and small fleet of black vans. It is suspected that they are a front for something, but unsure what.
Unidentified Tech Companies
In the sixties, several large tech companies moved facilities to Westmeath due to military contracts. With the tech companies came people, infrastructure, schools, and other businesses. In under fifteen years, Westmeath went from a backwater town to a metropolitan city.
The tech companies are extremely paranoid and have built massive city block sized campuses that have security walls around them.
Organized Crime
Andromeda Syndicate
One of the most elusive crime groups in the country, it is known to only operate in Westmeath, Toronto, and Quebec City. The Syndicate is brutal to its enemies and controls a lot of the smuggling and human trafficking in its territory.
Blue Bloods
One of the country’s most notorious, and hard to shut down, gangs. They operate each city as a cell with no one knowing the national leaders. They mostly deal in drugs, thugs, weapons, and robberies.
Daemon Bikers
The Daemon Bikers are Westmeath’s largest drug dealers. They deal in everything. They are known to make deals rather than go into a turf war.
Religious Organizations
Bifröst
This is a new religion that believes that a great power, they call the Key, will unlock a gate to a new world where they and the devout will be given their eternal reward. They seem to mix Christian, Norse, and science fiction concepts.
They are known to be violently devout.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel church
An Anglican Church first built in the early 1900’s. The Reverend is known to be extremely accepting. This church is also an Aetherborn sanctuary.
Siblings of Death
A cult of trained assassins that believe the way to paradise is on a wave of blood. Once they are hired for a job they do not stop trying.
