Editing Baroque Blue (section)

=====Jade Mirror=====

It takes a unique man to simultaneously rule over the Triads and the Solupa Rings while killing each and every single Yakuza to step foot in a city with just under 100,000 Japanese-American citizens. The Jade Mirror would be just such a man... if he were a man. It is agreed by everyone that he isn't. What he is, that is open to debate. His gang, the Spiders (technically, the Lung Te Hsien-ch'üan), terrify everybody in Little Asia with a weird terror mixed with pride, but for the rest of Baroque, simple terror usually suffices.

The Jade Mirror is a hunched old man in horrible shape. He seems to have seen a lot of combat, and has not come through unscarred. His most distinct trait is his incredibly long fingernails, painted black, so unwieldy that they prevent him from using pens, thus requiring that he travel with a scribe at all times. Strangely, it is an open secret that he is accepted by much of Baroque's sizable Asian community as "The Emperor of America". Whatever their reasons for this belief is, it means that even upstanding citizens who wouldn't usually have anything to do with organised crime bow to him and provide him favours, and that his extortion money is paid far more happily than the municipal.

His crew- the '''Lung Te Hsien-ch'üan''', commonly called the Spiders- run all the crime in Little Asia, keeping out all the opposition. They all carry a spiderweb tattoo on their right shoulder. The elders act as elders always do, sitting around teahouses and accounting firms, making phonecalls and conducting business, but the youths have formed an immense go-gang and ride around other districts on bikes, condicting the villiany they are prohibited from committing at home on someone else's turf.