edahs
Level 3
There's a saying within the family, passed down through generations, "The most dangerous person in any room is the one nobody is capable of reading".
The Daggers strive to live up to that motto.
Their roots stretch back to the Kingdom of Kongo. Long before European powers spread their influence throughout the land, the Kingdom of Kongo maintained it's own diplomats, trade, and its own written correspondence with foreign nations across the water. The Daggers were never kings. But they understood kings. For generations they existed in the precise and valuable space just beside power; trusted, indispensable, and quietly essential to every major decision made in the rooms they've occupied back in their native lands.
That proximity to power became the family's greatest inheritance, and it's greatest curse. When political uprising suddenly came to surface within the Congo in the later half of the twentieth century, it affected almost everyone. What the Daggers had spent generations constructing was dismantled with brutal efficiency. Their assets were seized, and their networks throughout the lands dissolved. The family name that was once spoken with honor and respect within the Kinshasa's elite circles, was reduced to something people would rarely hear again.
What soon followed was not defeat... The Daggers aren't individuals who settle for a loss. What followed was a plan...
Nearly two decades of silent reconstruction began. First in Nairobi, where the family found it's footing again. Then in Paris, where they've spent a majority of their lives to allow their children a moment of growth in astounding institutions. It was in Paris that the family rediscovered something they had always carried out but rarely displayed and that as their taste for the deliberately beautiful. Art. Architecture. Language. All of which was seen as a artform to the Dagger and their form of expression. The understanding that how you present yourself is its own form of power.
By the time the late 1990s arrived and Karakura began opening it's doors to foreign migration, the Daggers were ready. They arrived quietly, as they always do. While other migrating families chased the islands' existing economy, the Daggers did what merchant blood trained them to do across centuries. Look towards aspects others weren't paying attention to. Unwarranted land, neglected districts, and a series of other buildings that needed work in areas that shouldn't be neglected.
When Karakura's infrastructure expanded and those districts rose in value, the Daggers rose with them. Their real estate holdings became the foundation of a wealth that was difficult to argue with on paper. What the old families whisper about in private certainly early arrangements made through connections to people operating in Karakura's grayer corners have never been proven. The Daggers have always been careful about what can be proven.
TRAITS & CHARACTERISTICS
Those who've spent time around a Dagger will tell you the same thing, they make you feel like the most interesting person in the room. That warmth holds a genuine presence, which makes it far more effective than charm that is merely performative. Underneath it runs quiet calculation. They are a French-speaking family that makes you comfortable enough to talk, and will remember everything you've told them. The family also has a deep reverence for things that've endured time. This shows in how they furnish their spaces, how they dress, overall how they carry themselves. They use these points as a factor of measuring the people around them. To earn respect from a Dagger is no small feat, it's not given out carelessly.
Only requirement is that you are expected to have a Dark Skin Toned Character & First names draw from Arabic and Islamic tradition.
If you wish to join. DM 'findshade' on discord.
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