Allied Factions: Therengrad Spellbinder's Ring, 
Opposing Factions: Rilador, Tanril Agezar

Common Knowledge

The Camonna Tong are criminal entrepreneurs, offering careers in the fast-paced world of extortion, smuggling, slavery, and burglary. They have room for everyone from middle managers to young lookouts. Rooted in an ancient criminal syndicate from the hobgoblin Xiang Empire, the Tong have been persistently active in Temir for the past sixty years, stubbornly maintaining footholds and organizing crime in many of the Cities by the Sea. 

How do they work?

The Camonna Tong organize crime by employing the disenfranchised and surrounding them with a climate of loyalty and being part of something larger. The specifics of how they do it depend on the region. Some use an organization of cells and keep operations clandestine. Others maintain an organizational structure that affords ambitious members the opportunity to rise in it. Either way, their policy is simple. People who commit crimes on their behalf will profit, and people who do not will suffer. The Tong have filled a lot of gaps in Temir, edging out other thieves' guilds with their aggressive tactics and external resources. 

Who is involved?

Everyone. Nearly. What makes the Tong dangerous is that they can employ anyone from urchin runners to Dukes, using leverage, loyalty, and infiltration to do so. Through their rackets, they make others complicit in their crimes and use that complicity to further their own goals. The Tong of Temir may be decentralized, but they still maintain a ruling council. Its higher ranking members can be found in the courts and councils of the region, influencing decisions at the highest level.

The Camonna Tong’s relationships

Despite the organization's size, the Tong have few allies in the region. Law-abiding organizations will typically have nothing to do with them, and other clandestine or criminal organizations regard them as an aggressive rival. The Rilador have a strict policy of hanging any Tong members they find on a raided ship. They maintain close connections with the Therengrad Spellbinders' Ring however, who have been known to provide magical backup and protection on sensitive operations, and afford their members protection from the Tong's influence.