The Setting

Administrators are the documentary backbone of Central. They maintain the records upon which the government of Kindred New Orleans depends, including registrations, Havens, Domains, Notices, licenses, legal filings, judgments, official correspondence, and the countless other records necessary to keep the City functioning.

Administrators are notoriously precise. Records are expected to be complete, accurate, current, and properly authenticated. They issue official Notices, process declarations and applications, maintain Central's registries, and are often the first representatives of Central encountered by a newcomer to the City.

An Administrator may request information, issue documentation, or communicate a lawful requirement of Central, but an Administrator is not a judge. When compliance must be compelled or a matter requires judgment, other Offices become involved.

Administrators are immediately recognizable by their immaculate white suits, long silver jackets, and smooth golden full-face masks with brilliant blue lenses. Their appearance is standardized, immaculate, and deliberately impersonal.

Enforcers are the judicial and enforcement arm of Central. They investigate violations of Law, execute lawful Orders, conduct Collections, intervene in Breaches of the Peace, pronounce judgment, impose sentence, and, when necessary, carry that sentence through to its conclusion.

An Enforcer is not merely a police officer. Enforcers are trained in the Sanguine Constitution, Council Acts, controlling precedent, procedure, evidence, and the lawful use of force to an extraordinary degree. They are the judiciary of Kindred New Orleans.

Straightforward violations with clearly established facts may be judged by an Enforcer immediately. Serious, contested, unusual, or high-penalty matters may proceed to Court, where Enforcers themselves serve as the judges. When lawful sentence requires execution, they may also serve as executioner.

Enforcers are known for an almost unnerving degree of calm. They do not posture or engage in unnecessary displays of aggression. When violence becomes necessary, however, they employ it with extreme speed and efficiency and are expected to stop the moment its lawful necessity ends.

Every Enforcer wears the same black combat armor, constructed from stab-resistant, fire-resistant, and conductive layers reinforced with offset tungsten-carbide plating. Their helmets are similarly armored, with chalk-white faceplates and red lenses. No personal markings distinguish one Enforcer from another.

Wardens are Central's principal security and tactical response personnel. Where Enforcers exist to uphold and judge the Law, Wardens exist to protect the institutions, people, infrastructure, and locations upon which the City depends.

They guard Central, secure sensitive facilities, protect detention areas and archives, escort important personnel and materials, reinforce threatened locations, and respond to situations requiring specialized tactical capability. Their equipment and loadouts vary considerably depending upon the engagement for which they are deployed.

Wardens are not Enforcers and possess no judicial authority merely by virtue of their Office. A Warden may secure a scene, defend a protected location, restrain an immediate threat, or carry out a lawful security Order, but judgment of criminal guilt belongs to Enforcement.

Their armor resembles that of the Enforcers but is heavier, bulkier, and more modular. Their helmets evoke the profile of an old plague doctor's mask without directly reproducing one, using sharper and more jagged forms with pale grey lenses.

Every Warden also wears a specialized cloak capable of active camouflage. When engaged, the cloak adapts to the surrounding environment, allowing an otherwise heavily armored Warden to become remarkably difficult to distinguish from their surroundings.

Physicians are the doctors, surgeons, researchers, medical specialists, and forensic experts of Central. Their work concerns the unusual medical realities of the Blood as well as the treatment of Ghouls, mortals, and others whose conditions intersect with Kindred society.

Central Physicians study Vitae, torpor, supernatural injury, the effects of Hunger, blood-borne conditions, unusual manifestations of the Condition, and injuries that ordinary mortal medicine was never designed to understand. Individual Physicians may possess dramatically different specialties.

Physicians also serve an important forensic role. When physical evidence requires medical interpretation, cause of injury is disputed, an unusual Blood condition must be identified, or a person's physical state becomes relevant to a Court proceeding, a Physician may provide examination and expert findings.

Their uniforms resemble traditional medical attire adapted to Central's distinctive appearance. White coats and clinical equipment are paired with very soft-white full helmets. Each helmet bears the Rod of Asclepius, the traditional medical symbol of a single serpent entwined around a staff.

Treasury is responsible for the wealth, property, material resources, financial obligations, and economic interests of Central. Its agents ensure that a government intended to survive indefinitely possesses the resources necessary to actually do so.

Treasury manages accounts, investments, procurement, property, material reserves, lawful revenues, expenditures, contracts, transfers, and other assets held on behalf of Central. It also maintains the financial records necessary to distinguish public property from the personal wealth of those who happen to hold Office.

Treasury Agents may become involved when a lawful fine, restitution, forfeiture, contractual obligation, registered Boon, or other financial matter requires formal accounting or transfer. Their presence does not itself indicate a criminal investigation. Sometimes Central simply wants its accounts settled.

Treasury Agents are unusual among Central Personnel because their masks do not conceal the entire face. They wear charcoal-grey suits with a contrasting grey pinstripe. Their polished golden masks cover the lower face from approximately the bridge of the nose downward, with an expressionless human face etched into the metal.

Proctors are Central's educators and examiners. Their purpose is to ensure that the Governed have meaningful access to the knowledge necessary to live within New Orleans without accidentally becoming a danger to themselves, the City, or the Peace.

Newcomer orientation, instruction in the Sanguine Constitution, education concerning civic duties, lawful hunting practices, Breach prevention, and other matters of public knowledge fall within their Office. Where the Law requires a person to demonstrate knowledge or competency, a Proctor may administer the examination.

Their existence reflects an important principle of the Sanguine Constitution: Central cannot reasonably expect residents to obey rules it makes inaccessible to them. Proctors therefore do more than teach. They help ensure that the Law itself remains something the Governed can actually learn and understand.

Proctors wear long robes in muted colors with raised hoods that conceal most of the head. Their full helmets resemble the face of an owl, chosen for its association with wisdom and knowledge. Bright orange lenses shine from beneath the hood and make a Proctor immediately recognizable.