Building a Criminal Empire Lord of the Rings + Breaking Bad + The Sopranos = Skulduggery It’s a world ruled by elves, and they have decided that alcohol and magic is illegal for all the other races. But I know how to make whiskey. In fact, that’s the easy part. Selling it under their noses and not getting caught and hung will be the hard part. I’ll need to build a crew, I’ll need to slit some throats, and I’ll need to be five steps ahead of our overlords. Wanna join me in building a criminal empire?

Building a Criminal Empire Lord of the Rings + Breaking Bad + The Sopranos = Skulduggery We’re starting to make some coin, but I’m always looking to improve. So, how can I sell more whiskey and make even more gold? Double cross my distributor? Buy new businesses to serve as fronts for my operations? Steal a few precious artifacts from those blue-blooded elves? Yep. All of the above, and we’ll kill anyone who gets in our way.

Building a Criminal Empire Lord of the Rings + Breaking Bad + The Sopranos = Skulduggery The best part of being a human is everyone constantly underestimates you, and that means they never see it coming when your dagger plunges into their heart. Our business is growing, but so is our list of enemies. Dwarven gangsters? The Assassins Guild? The commander of the Elven Guard? Yup, they are all problems for us as we expand our criminal operation throughout the realm, and we gotta get rid of ‘em all if we’re going to make mountains of gold. Fortunately, they’ll never see it coming.

Building a Criminal Empire Lord of the Rings + Breaking Bad + The Sopranos = Skulduggery With each rival my syndicate eliminates two more appear, and they are out for blood. The assassin’s guild, the dwarven miners, and the elven overlords are all looking to put our heads on a pike. If my whiskey business is going to thrive it's going to take a little magic, all of their skills, a lotta luck, and the help of an enslaved djinn to overcome the odds against them. The risk is high, but the rewards are money, power, women, and revolution. Those are worth dying and killing for, so keep your blades sharp.

Building a Criminal Empire Me and my bootlegging crew have had runaway success moving our illicit product throughout the city, and many of our rivals have been eliminated or brought into the family. Unfortunately, this success has drawn the attention of the domineering elven authorities, including the Guildmaster of the Thieves’ Guild and the Captain of the City Guard. I’ll have to get the authorities off our backs, keep the whiskey flowing, and continue to follow the lead of my magic keys. Or we’ll all end up dead.

Building a Criminal Empire Nothing goes on in this city without me knowing about it. We run the whiskey business. We run the brothels. But it's not all fun and games: while we’ve eliminated our smaller rivals and obstacles, there are still powerful forces in the Elven empire and their Dwarven toadies who could topple our criminal empire. But the tide has turned, and soon our enemies will be dead, or they’ll be turned into allies. We have to play it smart, because this isn’t about running rackets in one city. It’s about moving into every city and then toppling the Elven empire before they even know the danger they are in. One drink at a time.

Building a Criminal Empire For the last several months, our whiskey business has expanded throughout the city like a virus, and we’ve gotten rich and powerful. The time to step out of the shadows, grab power, and make my mark on the world is now. Our enemies are lined up, and now it's time to knock them down like dominoes. Once the last one falls, we’ll own the city lock, stock, and barrel. The elves won’t know their empire is doomed until it’s too late for them to stop us.

Building a Criminal Empire Being a big fish in a small pond is great, but being the biggest fish in the biggest pond is even better, and now that we have the ability to expand our whiskey business to every city in the elven empire, that’s exactly what I’ll be: The richest crime lord in the realm. But I’m not in this for the money anymore, so I’m not gonna rest until the last elf has paid the price for their crimes.

Building a Criminal Empire The decadent, oppressive, and disgusting Elven Empire is teetering in the wind, ready to be toppled. One strong push, and the whole thing will come crashing down. That, my friends, is where I come in. Today we’ll light a fire under the elves and we’ll watch their empire go up in flames. There will still be long nights and hard fighting ahead of us if we want to gain our freedom, but in the end it will all be worthwhile. Let the streets run blue with the blood of the tyrants!

Building a Criminal Empire The Whiskey Revolution is here! We dealt the decadent Elven Empire a heavy blow by poisoning their holy wine and killing tens of thousands of the blue bloods across the empire at once, but they still possess large armies of deadly infantry, terrifying cavalry, and arcane spellcasters. Each Elven soldier is a match for two, or even three, humans, so the only way we’re going to win our freedom is by the same way we got here in the first place: outmaneuvering and outfoxing them at every turn. Today is the day we fight for our freedom, and I win my kingdom. Until Death Takes Us!