Overview
The Carters Consortium is a transport-and-logistics faction that repeatedly appears in poison-supply, shipment, and market distribution lines. Notes portray it as operationally broad but politically diminished from former top-tier status.
Current Status
- Active in current-era wagon and stall logistics, including Hollow Flesh Market operations.
Role in Story
- Core freight/distribution spine across multiple poison-related arcs.
- Repeatedly appears as a practical movement network behind materials and guild-side market flow.
Timeline Highlights
- Introduced via notebook-linked wagon transport tied to brain grit operations.
- Expanded into Pagked throughput and linked leadership by the Shroud.
- Continues as visible market-logistics infrastructure in the Field of Maidens arc.
Session Evidence
- In Session 21, a recovered notebook said fetchling/staff pickups periodically loaded brain grit onto a wagon provided by the Carters Consortium.
- In Session 22, notes described Carters Consortium as a major Lower Faction for county shipping and transport.
- In Session 22, notes stated Carters Consortium was formerly one of the Great 5 factions but lost that standing after leader exposure as Pharasma worshippers.
- In Session 28, ledger interpretation described Carters Consortium as the only present guild in Pagked and tied to shipping technological developments.
- In Session 29, the party learned Carters Consortium was transporting mundane alchemical goods from Pagked to Yled.
- In Session 29, notes identified The Shroud as leading Carters Consortium interests in Pagked.
- In Session 33, The Shroud said Pagked-manufactured chemicals were being sent by Carters Consortium to Nathnelma in Yled.
- In Session 33, The Shroud said Carters Consortium would try to rebuild Pagked.
- In Session 47, party notes said Carters Consortium was running wagons and shipping for Hollow Flesh Market stalls.
- In Session 50, party notes said Carters Consortium might be interested in the recovered stone tablet.
Relationships
- Named in logistics tied to Brain Grit movement.
- Local operational leadership in Pagked tied to The Shroud.