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After the events of Leviathan, Vergilius and Charon came into the employment of Limbus Company. As a guide, Vergilius directs the Sinners to their destination and will not get directly involved with the mission, and he will not fight unless Dante is in imminent danger. On occasion, he will enact disciplinary measures on Sinners, be it verbal or physical, to ensure the mission will not be further hampered by their behavior. Charon (Hangul: 카론, ka-ron), is the offbeat, childishly strange driver of Limbus Company's bus, Mephistopheles. She is a returning character from Leviathan, where she is introduced as Lapis (라피스, Rapiseu), a headstrong young woman who grew up in Vergilius' orphanage. Her disappearance leads to Garnet, her childhood friend and fellow orphan, and Vergilius investigating what happened to her, eventually discovering she has been abducted by the Ring. As part of the Ring's experiments with the glass window, Lapis' personality was overwritten with an Identity of herself from another Mirror World. This process left the Identity known as "Charon" trapped in Lapis' body, with no memories of who Lapis is. Vergilius would ultimately take the job as Limbus Company's guide as a part of a deal made with Faust to one day get Lapis back. Charon is a short girl with grayish skin. Her droopy eyes are of a similar gray color and tend to have a vacant, emotionless look. Charon has silver hair with bangs and that covers her ears; in the back, it is tied into two thin, floor-length twintails. Charon wears grayish-green, church-like attire in the form of a ankle-length, long-sleeved dress and hat. Her hat is tall and brimless with silver rims; the lower rim splits and curls outwards to make room for a mural of a dark cross within a larger, silver cross with two dots below the cross's arms. Charon's dress has a high collar, a very low neckline, a layered skirt and rounded hems; she also wears a pleated white top with a cross mural on the chest, black boots with white laces, black gloves and two black belts with silver buckles. The hems and edges of the dress have silver lining; the outermost skirt parts in the middle and has geometric murals (the same as on her cuffs, lapels and bottom rim of her hat) running partway down its length whereas as the inner skirt has black outlining. The collar and hems of Charon's dress have the same cruciform mural as on her hat. Charon carries with her a black, square-type oar. Charon is a laconic, quiet individual whose few words are blunt and brief. Charon simply seems to be in her own world, and repeatedly proves that she is neither shy nor scared of the Sinners. Similarly to Vergilius, Charon stays disconnected from the group and shows no interest in becoming close with them. Her stubborn refusal to learn how to use a map or navigate properly in Canto I: The Outcast is indicative of her unwavering nature and tendency to resist outside influence. Charon has somewhat of a childish personality, frequently using phrases such as "vroom-vroom" or "shimmy-shaky" and talking about Mephistopheles as if it were a living being. She also refers to herself exclusively in third person. At the beginning of Limbus Company, Charon has a pre-established relationship with her guardian Vergilius, who treats her as something of a daughter. Their relationship shows off both of their softer sides: Charon will act more childlike and needy with him, and Vergilius treats her with a surprising amount of affection. However, Charon seems to be missing some memories of the time they've spent together, and will sometimes contradict herself. For example, when Vergilius mentions that she used to hum when she was sad, she denies this, stating she only hums when happy. Though she comes off as relatively detached and carefree, it's clear that Charon has more going on underneath the surface. Vergilius would at one point remark to Dante that she is "going through a long tunnel with no end in sight". Lapis' father was a Syndicate boss who loved his daughter, with it being well known in the Syndicate how much he cared about her. While on a Fixer Contract, Vergilius killed her father and many of the other members of the Syndicate. After the death of her father, Vergilius had Lapis was moved to an orphanage where she would be well taken care of. At the orphanage, she became close friends with Garnet, but didn't open up to any of the other children. Lapis often talked about Vergilius, who occasionally stopped by the orphanage to drop off gifts and see her and the other children, and looked up to him. One Christmas Eve, the orphanage was attacked by Iori and Tomerry, and Lapis witnessed the deaths of many of her fellow orphans but managed to survive. Half a year after the destruction of the orphanage, Lapis planned to meet with Garnet and catch up. She had gotten a job at a fruit harvesting company and seemed to have been recovering from the trauma of the attack. However, Lapis would never get to make it to the meeting as she was kidnapped by the Ring. She had a camera on her at the time of her abduction and was able to record inside the corridors and the laboratory where they were running experiments on other orphans who had grown up alongside her. Somehow, this video was sent to Vergilius's Office, which resulted in the Office Fixers and Garnet, who had been attempting to request help from Vergilius to find Lapis, deciding to infiltrate the laboratory. While the Office Fixers only decided upon the job to get information about the Singularity that was being created through these experiments, Garnet only cared about rescuing Lapis and the other orphans. Lapis along with the kidnapped children from the orphanage were used for experiments by Aseah and Jumsoon as they refined the glass window and tested refraction rates. Despite his best efforts, in his attempt to save Lapis, Garnet suffered from being subjected to extremely high refraction rates and turned into a gem-like cocoon like many of the other subjects did. Vergilius eventually arrived to the laboratory and, after dealing with Jumsoon, found Lapis resting in a test tube. When it was opened, however, the girl inside was confused about being called "Lapis" and asserted that her name was "Charon". The experiments with the glass window had been successful, and Lapis had been overwritten by this Charon Identity. Charon explored the room, and found a broken shard of Garnet's gem which had been shattered while Vergilius was fighting. She showed the gem to Vergilius, despite not knowing what (or who) it was, and he decided that Charon would be his responsibility to care for from now on. Not long after, the LCA broke into the laboratory and Faust offered a deal to Vergilius: if he worked as the guide of Limbus Company, they would help him get back Lapis and Garnet. As seen in Limbus Company, Vergilius would ultimately agree to this deal and have Charon work alongside him at the company. Limbus Company Charon works as the bus driver of Limbus Company, and drives them to their destinations on their search for the Golden Boughs. While not often the focus of a scene, Charon is often found at Vergilius' side when not she is not driving. She never gets involved in combat, and typically waits in the bus until the Sinners return from their mission. During Canto I: The Outcast, Yuri, a Fixer who traveled with the Sinners while they were on their first Golden Bough retrieval mission, attempted to teach Charon how to use maps to navigate, as Charon simply drives based on instinct. Unfortunately, Yuri died before getting any of her lessons to stick with Charon and she has continued driving as she always has. In Canto VII: The Dream Ending, Charon and Dante had a short conversation, with Faust helping act as a translator for them. Dante asked Charon what she would like to do if they got a chance to visit a normal amusement park while not working, and Charon answered that she would like to eat candy. While Charon often asks Vergilius for sweets, this appears to be a connection between her and Lapis, as Lapis had a dream when she was a child to one day try all the flavors of candy in the world.

The New League began researching Mirror technology, with Yi Sang being tasked with finding a way to destroy the Mirror Worlds, Aseah working on a system to overlay Identities, and Gubo hunting down the former members of the old League of Nine. Eventually, Yi Sang would abandon the New League and flee N Corp., while Aseah would be kidnapped by the Ring. The former would never return to N Corp., while the latter would be recovered by Gubo, and return to the New League followed by a number of researchers from the Pointillist faction of the Ring. The faction would come to recruit Sonya of the Yurodiviye and Huan of the Jia Family; later on, the former Whaler Ahab and the former Chief Butler of the Edgar Family Nelly would join the group as well. The New League utilizes Abnormalities and is able to extract E.G.O from them, making use of N Corp. E.G.O in combat. Goals The goals of the New League of Nine Littérateurs are largely unknown at this time, though the faction expresses clear interest in the search for the Golden Boughs. The New League of Nine Littérateurs is heavily involved in the study of Mirror technology and Mirror Worlds, with Hermann directing her researchers to find a way to destroy all the worlds and the possibilities reflected in the Mirror. Whether this is the ultimate goal, or a milestone in the process of achieving said goal, is currently unclear. The New League, particularly Hermann, presents a recurring interest in researching and creating a form of pure human. The faction's experiments both in Wuthering Heights and in their headquarters involve making use of human subjects to produce a "dough", a pure being free of dregs upon which any Identity can be applied. The doughs created as result of these experiments appear to be masses of flesh. Upon being superimposed with an Identity, a murky mist will emerge, and the flesh will take the form of the Identity. A failed experiment will result in the dough not changing shape, but becoming animated. These doughs are used by the New League's members for physical training. The New League's research aims to reach a point beyond the dough, to a form of primordial humanity, which is noted to be quite similar to the Imperial Worm carried by the Hongyuan Hierarch. Despite this, it appears the ultimate endpoint of the experiments is known only to Director Hermann, and even the high ranking members of the factions are not privy to the details. ### Current Members

Hermann

• Gubo
• Jia Huan
• Aseah
• Sonya
• Ahab
• Nelly

The Inquisition

The N Corp. Inquisition is a subdivision of Nagel und Hammer. It consists of fanatic employees who carry extremist beliefs over the purity of the human flesh, who bear an immense hatred for those with prosthetics. These fanatics carry out what they define "purification", meaning the murder and torture of people with prosthetics, particularly through the use of hammers and nails. Part of the members of this group are made to take Canned Experience that reinforces their belief in the need of purification. This subdivision is run under a ranked hierarchy:

The One who Grips: the highest ranking among the group, and their leader. Gives orders to other Inquisitors, who follow them unconditionally with religious zeal;

The Großhammer: the second-in-command inquisitor, personally ordered by The One who Grips themselves to deliver justice upon those they deemed heretics;

Mittelhammers: the third-in-command inquisitor;

Kleinhammers: the second lowest pawn for an inquisitor. ### Taboo Hunters

There are a total of 14 Taboos in N Corp.'s District. If any one of these Taboos are violated, a Taboo Hunter will be dispatched to handle the offenders. These Fixers are typically of a high grade, with the only currently known N Corp. Taboo Hunter being Grade 1, and have many augmentations, and they can easily kill even experienced combatants. So far, the only known Taboo out of the 14 is "no visual recording", which extends to owning or viewing videos that were recorded in N Corp. When this taboo is violated, the Taboo Hunter's first priority is the retrieval of any copies of the footage that have not yet been deleted. After that has been dealt with, the Taboo Hunter is meant to retrieve those who violated and send them to N Corp. The Taboo Hunter is not expected to kill the violators, but if facing resistance they can decapitate the target and transport their body in a preservation cube

The starting point for all Fixers, Offices are basically much smaller versions of Associations, they don't have as much manpower, and are often swamped in debt to the Wings. An Operator handles the managing of the Office, hiring new recruits and such. Some poor state Offices are handled by only one Fixer, which says a lot about how hit or miss the business can be. This isn't to say all Offices are worn down, some people simply don't like the additional responsibilities joining an Association brings. It all depends on the financial state of the Office and its location. The Associations are large professional organizations made up of Fixers and their managers, they specialize in the more dangerous line of mercenary work, taking jobs no one else wants to. Though this isn't to say they don't take non-combat jobs. They help manage most of the offices under their contract, and have much higher pay and better equipment than a basic Office. Due to their larger structure, Associations are able to cover more ground with their Fixers and can take requests from any District. Most of the headquarters of said Associations are likely based in Nests, where Directors and Fixers manage requests from either the City's denizens or Affiliate Offices. A President is the head of an Association, this is split into several Branches that oversee the different parts of the City: North, South, East, and West. These are run by a Branch Manager, while a General Manager directly oversees all branches. these are further divided into Sections, which is run by a Director. Sections are ranked from 6-1, 6 being the lowest recruits and 1 being the highest ranking Fixers. There are currently 12 Associations, which are managed by the Hana Association, and they all have different uniforms, rules, and specializations in their line of work. In the City, the Hana Association classifies and ranks certain threats and organizations based on how much people pay for it to be eliminated. Though, this mostly goes hand in hand with how dangerous the threats are as well. Urban Myth: Threats that are unconfirmed as to whether they exist or not, being noteworthy enough to catch the attention of the Associations. Usually an Affiliate Office or similar will investigate on their behalf, if the threat is confirmed to be real and active, they are exalted to Urban Legend. Urban Legend: Having a widespread influence on society, their actions have made them known to nearly every person in a District. They control a large power base and have bested previous Fixers or Syndicates from removing them. These threats are what Associations focus on, as the payout for these is significant. The Stray Dogs are Urban Legend class. Urban Plague: Threats that have disrupted society in more than a few Districts, the mere mention of their name is sure to turn heads. A challenge for even seasoned Associate Fixers, every mercenary and Association will be out for these. Yesterday's Promise was an Urban Plague. Urban Nightmare: While few of them exist, these class of threats are capable of affecting nearly every District, whether it be Nest or Backstreets. Their removal is of the highest priority, and even the Wings will send their best to stop them. The Distortion Phenomenons are one example of an Urban Nightmare class. Star of the City: These are the most dangerous and most powerful threats to threaten City Society. An event that will go down in history, all efforts will be used to put the threat down. Color Fixers and the Hana Association are the first to be sent after these, as they have the skill and expertise to handle them. Stars of the City are often seen as something that the lowly citizens and dredges aspire to be, not to become exactly like them per say, rather to reach that same level of recognition, fear, and respect. It's the main reason the Head does not go to wipe every Star out, as they accept these aspirations. Even though many Stars are felled, there will always be more to rise. The "Eight Chefs" are one of the Stars. Impurity: A rank only which only can be granted by the Head, Impurities are Stars that are seen as defilements to the City, and are typically banished to the Outskirts by the Head's forces through the Territory Expulsion Procedure. The Library eventually reaches the rank of Impurity.