Crawford Starrick

Grand Master of the London Rite at the Order's institutional peak, Starrick did not conspire against Victorian Britain's institutions — he owned them: gangs through the Blighters, medicine through Elliotson, money through Twopenny, transport through Attaway's rails and his own omnibus lines, all administered with a teacup and an org chart. He is Germain's economic Templarism perfected: rule through markets, not monarchs. The Frye twins' arrival dismantled his portfolio one decapitation at a time, and his response escalated with magnificent Victorian logic — if the city could not be owned, its head of state's entire circle could be erased at a ball.