The Abazobari

For generations, The Veskarium's Abazobari family held only moderate status in the empire. Though they were intelligent and martially proficient, they never stood out. The family’s eldest living member, the vain and condescending Velatoresh Abazobari, was unsatisfied with this middling existence. She wanted eternal celebrity and power for her family’s name and for countless generations of Abazobaris to come.
Velatoresh was cutthroat and cruel, and once she set her sights on attaining everlasting splendor for her family, not even the Veskarium’s laws could stand in the way of her realizing this goal. Fearing that her family’s story would eventually fade into obscurity, she took radical approaches to ensure its legacy. She began by paying assassins to take out competitors: more highly regarded Vesk and even students who overtook her children in school. She paid off authorities to turn a blind eye when an Abazobari would clash with the peacekeeping Hammers, as well as school and military administrators to ensure relatives were accepted into educational or military programs that they may not have properly qualified for. On top of these drastic measures, she began radicalizing her children, nieces, and nephews. She instilled in them the idea that no matter their current status in the eyes of “outsiders,” the Abazobari family had the most superior blood of any being in the Veskarium pumping through their veins. She indoctrinated them with the desire to live forever through legacy and the impulse to quash inferior beings, vesk or otherwise, with a cold, elegant, iron fist.
Upon the matriarch’s death, her beloved children took her place and now maintain control over the family’s funds and activities. These new leaders are at odds on how to accomplish Velatoresh’s ultimate goal.

Structure

The Abazobaris consist solely of blood-related family and any spouses they’ve taken (though the latter are not permitted to take the Abazobari surname). No strangers are allowed to join or even learn of the family’s internal workings. Despite this tradition, these xenophobic vesk maintain a cabal of non-vesk mercenaries to do their dirty work so they can keep their own claws clean. They refrain from hiring vesk agents in case a particularly patriotic hire exposes them to the authorities, and they see non-vesk as expendable and inferior, believing them “too stupid and ignorant of vesk customs” to truly understand the family’s nefarious machinations. This superiority complex may eventually lead to the Abazobaris’ ultimate downfall.
Velatoresh’s eldest, the twins Grigal (CE male vesk soldier) and Sabatra (CE female vesk soldier) are warfare-obsessed fanatics. They believe that the only way to establish their family’s lasting legacy is for the Abazobari family to go to war with the Veskarium itself—and die together in a blaze of zealous glory. They care not that their name would be shunned and spat upon for generations, only that they would be remembered. Luckily for the Abazobaris, a few other family members manage to keep them in line.
Trintivya (NE female vesk envoy), the youngest sibling, wants to do the unspeakable in the eyes of her fervent older siblings: she wants the Abazobaris to cease their illegal and extremist activities and live crime-free lives fighting for the Veskarium as any other vesk would. She believes they can become legends through talent alone.
Whether these differences in opinions between the Abazobaris will eventually end in the family’s self-destruction is yet to be seen, but as all of the members of the family gradually collects into groups based around each sibling’s school of thought, conflict between the individual Abazobaris is beginning to seem more and more likely.

Public Agenda

The Abazobaris still seek notoriety (or infamy). The fanatical vesk, with the exception of Trintivya and her growing following, are willing to murder, assassinate, extort, bribe, and even undermine the autocratic Veskarium to stay relevant. The specific means by which they will accomplish this goal are still hotly debated among the family.

Assets

The Abazobaris are based on Vesk-Prime and operate out of a manor-turned-fortress that has been in the family for generations. Within these steel walls, Velatoresh’s children decide every plan of action. The building also contains a large facility where the youngest generations are homeschooled and combat trained, from ages as young as 5 years.

History

The Abazobaris’ history of eccentricity and superciliousness means they’ve made enemies of many of the other vesk families, as well as contacts outside of the empire. The Abazobaris are insufferably smug, and there are undoubtedly rivals who suspect they are paying off authorities or ordering assassinations to maintain their fragile relevance, but no one has yet been able to prove it.

Type

Illicit, Cartel

Location

Vesk-Prime