The White Knuckle Trading Co.

Describe a famous criminal organization and the unlawful acts they commit in your world. The White Knuckle Trading Co. exploits the devastated, desperate working poor from The Mainland and the traumatized and derelict of Lornshore alike. Funded by The Bogusevich Family in Invergrat and locally managed by Abernathy Crane with direct operational input from Ilya Bogusevich, the trading company is the most interested in acquiring local contraband to resell in the mainland, making commission off of bounties ferried forth in search of outlaws who have disappeared into the gritty shale anonymous isolation of the island, and turning interest on debtor's deals made with persons wishing to be smuggled in or out of the locale, by virtue of their monopoly on trade between Lornshore and the ports of Invergrat and Ambergris to the northwest.

Public Agenda

The White Knuckle Trading Co. purports to be a legitimate, neutral-minded shipping company based out of Ambergris on the Mainland, here to offer some honest and reasonable commerce and trade between the main harbor town of Lornshore and the rest of the continent. Founded by former whale-tumor trawlers, they are known as the only steady survival line of hardy, daring, seafaring folk brave and experienced enough to traverse the cold, haunted waters and dream-currents to safely ferry food, supplies, resources, and occasionally people with enough coin to spare between the harbors of the wider world and the isolated island. They offer high wages for difficult, largely seasonal work, and in addition to sailors, they often keep customs contacts, local guides, and contracted mercenaries on their payroll, both on this side of the sea and the other.

Assets

Capital Resources

A fleet of six large vessels, two iron trawlers, and nine smaller schooners.
A refinery made out of a derelict flooded mine-attempt in the southwestern marshland moors.
A front-facing guild and conscription customs office in the main harbor.

Services Offered

Ferrying of bounty hunters to the island.
Smuggling of disillusioned denizens from the island.
Contracting mercenary monster hunters and guards for hire (on the condition that they get to keep anything they kill, for refining into Dreamtallow)

Contraband