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recipient of Cygnaran military contracts. Founded in
Cygnar’s capital city, Radliffe Gunwerks is well known
for its high quality and attention to detail. Radliffe’s
staff includes over a dozen skilled and overworked
gunsmiths as well as several gobber alchemists who
have been crucial in developing some of the new
ammunition designs for some of Radliffe’s signature
firearms. With the recent unveiling of the two-shot
rifle and the Quad-Iron pistol, Radliffe Gunwerks is
positioned to become the primary manufacturer of
the Cygnaran Crown’s military firearms.
Steam & Iron
Workers Union
The Steam &
Iron Workers Union
started as a labor
and craft workers
union during the
p o s t - R e b e l l i o n
r e c o n s t r u c t i o n
period. Its
m e m b e r s h i p
includes many of the
most reliable and
skilled engineers
and craftsmen
of the southern
kingdoms. They
have done much to
refine the steam engines
considered essential to
several important industries,
particularly the manufacture of
steamjacks, steamships, and steamrail
engines. Their workers do not actually lay rail lines
but accept contracts from the groups that do such as
Steelwater Rail and the Caspia Railway Society. The
Union is devoted to looking after their best interests,
landing lucrative contracts, and ensuring their people
receive consistent wages for their work.
The Steam & Iron Workers Union sometimes seems
to have more wealth and influence than it can handle.
They have a strong presence in most major cities of
Cygnar and Ord and are nominally headquartered
in Caspia where they cooperate lucratively with the
Cygnaran Armory to produce warjacks and the like.
Local branches have enormous leeway in handling
their affairs which sometimes leads to corruption and
graft due to the lack of central leadership. Workers
prefer this localized approach. The headquarters in
Caspia serves as the main branch of the Union; its
board of directors supervises changes in rules and
procedures, and Union agents ensure that these are
distributed to every local branch. The agents also
collect dues for the Caspian branch from each lesser
branch to maintain some semblance of a central staff,
but each city’s Union largely does as it sees fit. Smaller,
regional headquarters exist in Ceryl, Fharin, and
Merin, and these are most active in resolving contract
disputes between branches in their respective regions.
The Union has contracts with the Fraternal Order
of Wizardry and used to deal with the Order of the
Golden Crucible before its absorption during Llael’s
occupation. They provide base materials for major
projects within the Fraternal Order. In fact, such an
affiliation leads some arcane mechaniks to join both
the Union and their respective arcane order, making
it simpler to call upon the training and resources from
both. Although, as mentioned, the Khadoran seizure
of Crucible operations has reduced that relationship
to all but nothing.
the union in llael
the union has alWays had a fairly strong presenCe in
llael as Well as in Cygnar and ord and maintains regional
headquarters in meryWyn. in faCt, it Was the presenCe of
the union in llael that prompted the formation of the
free miners Company to attempt to negotiate better pay
and Working Conditions for Coal miners. as of yet business
as usual Continues during the khadoran oCCupation, but
many fear that this may not last long. While many members
are attempting to finish ContraCts for Cygnaran and ordiC
Customers, the loCal leadership is reCeiving pressure from the
oCCupation government to turn its efforts entirely to the
produCtion of Wartime supplies for the khadoran military.
so far the union has been alloWed to Complete existing
ContraCts, though transporting suCh Wares beyond llael’s
borders has beCome inCreasingly diffiCult, and union members
knoW it is only a matter of time before the khadorans move
to replaCe the Current leadership With high-ranking members
of the khadoran meChaniks assembly. this fear has led some
members to begin Covertly supporting rebellious elements
Within llael, and there may be serious problems With sabotage
if union shops are “required” to produCe WarjaCks and other
armaments for their khadoran oppressors.
Membership is considered a mark of quality, so
most professionals who work on steam engines or