Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170429004637

The San Ho Hui or more commonly known as the 'Triad' is a series of related to sometimes 'criminal' and sometimes legitimate organizations within Xin, it's neighbors, and the Xin diaspora.

Triads are organizations built around making money and most have long established trade routes and connections others are newer 'families' trying to make their mark. Some Triads are actually legitimate merchants while others are wholly built around more illegal acts. For the most part the Triads are in the middle ground with some legal and illegal activities.

The major activities of the Triad are in drug trafficking (Opium mainly), Slave trading, and hiring out muscle to businesses. They also run trade networks of all sorts of goods some legal, some illegal, some fake. Others make themselves 'barons' of a certain industries or businesses. For example Zhengzhou has it's own Tea Baron.

The Triad is split into hundreds of competing families each with it's own assets, enforcers, and laws although the Triad runs a sort of council of the most powerful lords which determine some over arching laws (Things like rape are banned and murder is looked down upon).

Here are some infamous Triad families and their basic region of operations:

Black Dragons (Zheng Family): Far harad trade, thousand Islands.

Red Caps (Lou Family): Zhengzhou and other coastal Xinese cities

Steel Fists (Ling Family): Harad and Umbar

Long Fangs (Long Family): Silver trail is pretty much run by them 