Richard Lexicon Conde'Nast
Richard Lexicon Conde'Nast is stocky, well-fed, distinguished by a full beard, and possessed of a voice that carries gravitas the way lesser men carry weapons: visibly and with full intent. The patriarch of the Nast family traces his pedigree to well before the Fall of Old York, and he has turned that lineage into the foundation of the Lineage League, an organization that tracks Pure Blood genealogy and, more quietly, recovers lost technology from the old world.
He operates from Lineage Hall, a massive pre-fall library in Old York, where his team follows Pure Blood family lines back to their ancestral sites. When those sites yield pre-fall technologies, the League recovers the blueprints and instructional materials, archives copies for itself, and delivers the originals to families deemed worthy of recreating the devices. The deliveries are disguised as recovered family heirlooms, a gesture that frames technological restoration as ancestral inheritance. The families receive their ancestors' innovations wrapped in the warm fiction of rediscovery. The League keeps copies of everything.
It is generosity and control performed in the same gesture. Conde'Nast decides which families receive what technologies, which means he decides which Pure Blood households gain the manufacturing advantages that pre-fall knowledge provides. Every family name in Old York passes through his ledgers. Every heirloom comes with the implicit understanding that the League remembers who received what, and from whom.
The oversized pre-fall library suits him perfectly. A man who trades in genealogy and secrets needs a building with enough shelves.
He operates from Lineage Hall, a massive pre-fall library in Old York, where his team follows Pure Blood family lines back to their ancestral sites. When those sites yield pre-fall technologies, the League recovers the blueprints and instructional materials, archives copies for itself, and delivers the originals to families deemed worthy of recreating the devices. The deliveries are disguised as recovered family heirlooms, a gesture that frames technological restoration as ancestral inheritance. The families receive their ancestors' innovations wrapped in the warm fiction of rediscovery. The League keeps copies of everything.
It is generosity and control performed in the same gesture. Conde'Nast decides which families receive what technologies, which means he decides which Pure Blood households gain the manufacturing advantages that pre-fall knowledge provides. Every family name in Old York passes through his ledgers. Every heirloom comes with the implicit understanding that the League remembers who received what, and from whom.
The oversized pre-fall library suits him perfectly. A man who trades in genealogy and secrets needs a building with enough shelves.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Richard Lexicon Conde'Nast founded the Lineage League from a pre-fall library in Old York that he claimed as Lineage Hall, combining his family's deep Pure Blood pedigree with an organizational mission to track genealogy and recover lost technology. The Nast family traces its lineage to before the Fall, and Conde'Nast leveraged that history into institutional authority.
The League's operations follow a systematic process. His team identifies Pure Blood family lines, traces them to ancestral sites, and mounts recovery operations to extract pre-fall technologies. Recovered blueprints and instructional materials are archived at Lineage Hall, with copies delivered to families the League deems capable of recreating the devices. The deliveries are framed as recovered heirlooms, lending an air of ancestral providence to what is functionally a technology distribution network controlled by a single man.
Conde'Nast's position gives him unique influence over Old York's Pure Blood elite. He controls which families receive which technologies, tracks every Pure Blood name through his genealogical ledgers, and maintains archives of everything the League has recovered. The combination of genealogical knowledge and technological gatekeeping makes the Lineage League one of the Heights' most quietly powerful organizations, and Conde'Nast its undisputed center.
The League's operations follow a systematic process. His team identifies Pure Blood family lines, traces them to ancestral sites, and mounts recovery operations to extract pre-fall technologies. Recovered blueprints and instructional materials are archived at Lineage Hall, with copies delivered to families the League deems capable of recreating the devices. The deliveries are framed as recovered heirlooms, lending an air of ancestral providence to what is functionally a technology distribution network controlled by a single man.
Conde'Nast's position gives him unique influence over Old York's Pure Blood elite. He controls which families receive which technologies, tracks every Pure Blood name through his genealogical ledgers, and maintains archives of everything the League has recovered. The combination of genealogical knowledge and technological gatekeeping makes the Lineage League one of the Heights' most quietly powerful organizations, and Conde'Nast its undisputed center.
Pure Blood patriarch of the Nast family; founder of the Lineage League. Tracks bloodlines and redistributes pre-fall technology.
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Pure Blood
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Living
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