Lore

Influential Organizations of Imarel - by T.A. Saunders ©2010 v1.5

Hazjid

In Tashran it is said that the government has a blade to the neck of the Hazjid and the Hazjid holds a blade to the balls of the government. While perhaps something of a crass metaphor no truer words have ever been spoken. The Hazjid is a multi-generational organization that dates back to the city's beginnings. Hazjid is actually a family that established the first guild of thieves and assassins that eventually stemmed out into extortion, whore houses, gambling and a slew of other sordid business enterprises that maintain their shadowed control over Tashran.

The Hazjid of today consists of the head of the family, who is pure blood and his descendants. These immediate family members are in charge of political and financial affairs and rarely get their own hands bloodied in family business. Then, there are those who have been welcomed into the family, either by marriage or by initiation. These are the assassins, thugs and ground people who run things for the Hazjid on the streets of Tashran. Finally, there are the Daji, or those businesses and families loyal to the Hazjid that offer safe houses or refuse to speak to authorities when crimes are investigated. Outwardly there is no real way to identify a Hazjid though there seems to be some means that they can identify each other, though none have come forward and offered explanation. Even those who have ‘left the family' as it were are tight-lipped about such secrets.