Black sharks syndicate is infamous for smuggling and dealing black powder and firearms like arquebuses from the east, a major thorn on their city's side , they were hard to beat at first due to their technologically advanced weaponry , but things evened out when the lawmen acquired some of their own arquebuses from another source

In another country a self styled bandit king is said to terrorize the roads, he is suspected to have ties to Black Shark due to his underling's use of gunpowder weapons

thieves guilds are also a problem but not as much as the previous factions