Editing Mutant Heirs of Doom Project/Gotland (section)

==The Merchant Families==
The real power in Gotland lies with the money, and the ones who have the most money are the large Merchant Families. These are dominated by the five large ones, often known as the "Five Brothers", but also consist of some 20 smaller ones, known as the "Little Brothers". Each of the larger five families have power and wealth that would rival many city states, having their own standing armies protecting their interests on the home island as well as on distant shores.

As often is around the Eastern Sea, these ruling families are primarily human, but the Voit-Monk orangutang mutants are an obvious exception to this, being treated with the same respect as the human families. This does not mean that the system is without racism, as the Voit-Monks themselves to be closer to the humans than other mutants and therefore above them.

===Adler===
"The World is Ours."

===Oudler===
"Eat or be Eaten."

The youngest of the Five Brothers, having only attained the status a couple of decades back, the Oudlers are without doubt the most agressive and expansionist of the families. It is in fact so agressive that it systematically hires pirate bands and sea marauders to attack and loot the convoys of other families, then selling the booty on the Visby market. Other families complain loudly in the Senate and elsewhere, but thus far the impressive firepower of the Oudlers hired forces has kept them at bay.

===Kippler===
"Logic and Method conquers Worlds."

===Raukenberg===
"Without Steam the World Stops."

===Voit-Monks===
"Knowledge is Profit."