- The Guard — Kraiton’s city watch, leaderless since Brekker’s assassination and scrambling to hold order while the treaty sits unsigned.
- Craiton Hall of Intellectual Mastery and Progress — Scholars and crystal-craft researchers based at Kraiton’s university, valued for their grasp of crystal-power interaction and quietly central to this year’s treaty negotiations through Isaac Newt.
- The Syndicate — Kraiton’s organised crime, run from the shadows by Red and tapped into every back-alley rumour through fixers like The Mouth.
- The Illuminated — Crystal vampires seated in high office throughout Kraiton, long dismissed as urban myth until a letter on a dead assassin - and later Isaac Newt’s own confession - confirmed them. They feed via a device disguised as ritual apparatus, which doubles as a means of converting new victims into their kind.
- Deepwell Holdings — An obscure mining enterprise improbably favoured in this year’s crystal allocation, and the thread the party is currently tugging on.
- The Lamplighters’ Guild — The utility that runs Kraiton’s crystal-lamp networks, lighting streets, homes, and workshops; their allocation is the line item no councillor dares cut without provoking a riot. Now the target of a heist the party is planning, aiming to snatch one of the Illuminated believed to work within it for questioning on Mulder’s whereabouts, with Mara Brightwater offering help from the inside.
- The Foundry — Kraiton’s golem-crafters, whose construct hearts run on refined crystal and who supply guardians to estates, gate-houses, and the Guard itself.