Library of Ruina Main Character Index
The Library (Roland) | The Wings | Syndicates (The Five Fingers | Subsidiaries | Other Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble) | Fixers (Associations | Offices) | Other Guests | Distortions | Abnormalities | Others
The Library (Roland) | The Wings | Syndicates (The Five Fingers | Subsidiaries | Other Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble) | Fixers (Associations | Offices) | Other Guests | Distortions | Abnormalities | Others
The Five Fingers' Subsidiaries
The subsidiaries are Syndicates which have directly subordinated themselves to one of the Five Fingers. open/close all folders
In General
The Kurokumo Clan
In General
- "Looks like the Fingers are fiercely wrestling for the ownership of the Nest that L Corp. once had reign over."- Roland
In addition to their role in Library Of Ruina, they also make a brief cameo in chapter 29 of Distortion Detective. There, they set up a roadblock on the way to L Corp's Nest and try to extort Moses' group for safe passage. Ezra pays them the cost, but Vespa suddenly kills them and recovers their money.
- An Arm and a Leg: With a serving of Eye Scream. Their chapter's story starts off with them extorting a couple for protection money, and when they couldn't cough up the cash to pay them anymore the trio chopped one of their arms off plus an eyeball as payment instead.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: They get their asses handed to them by Tanya, a.k.a L'heure de Loup. Unable to keep fighting, they're forced to head into the Library as execution.
- Damage Over Time: The group focuses on inflicting heavy bleed damage with relatively cheap cards.
- Meaningful Name: "Kurokumo" (黒雲) can be translated as "black clouds". Fitting, considering the cloud patterns decorating their symbol and which they tattoo themselves with. This refers to their irezumi tattoos, irezumi being a style commonly associated with the Yakuza in Japan.
- Power Tattoos: They make liberal use of this and also show them off, meaning boob windows for both men and women.
- Rags to Riches: They were originally ordinary denizens from the Backstreets before rising to become a powerful Syndicate.
- Yakuza:
Word of God from the English translation team confirms that the Kurokumo Clan is based on the Yakuza. Their casual clothing (and Sayo's kimono) threats and extortion, katanas, and irezumi tattoos all contribute to this atmosphere.
Sayo
Sayo
- Bullying a Dragon: Sayo and her underlings really have a lot of fun pushing Tanya around, which comes around and gets them absolutely trounced and forced into the Library.
- Dragon Lady: Given the theme of the Kurokumo Clan it seems only fitting she would play hard into this trope.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: Sayo wears her kimono really loosely, exposing her tattoos.
- Katanas Are Just Better: She's always seen with one at the ready.
- Kimono Fanservice: She wears a black kimono that shows off quite a lot of cleavage.
- Ms. Fanservice: The most blatant one in the game; her design doesn't leave much to the imagination.
- Prim and Proper Bun: Sayo's hair is styled like this to match her position in the Kurokumo Clan.
- Tattooed Crook: She has a pair of tattoos on both of her shoulders, and is a member of what's essentially the City's Yakuza.
- Trash Talk: Upon seeing Tanya in the flesh, the Yang has to clarify to Sayo that she's got a wolf's head.So she’s a wolf, not a dog? Still appears to be a little bitch to me.
Yang
Yang
- Eyes Always Shut: Not always, one of his portraits has him opening his left eye, but for the most part they are.
- Tattooed Crook: Has one on his chest which extends to both of his arms.
Gin
Gin
- Cruel Mercy: The one responsible for taking the arms and eyes of the freshly impoverished Nest citizens who have to live under their watch. While getting cybernetic replacements is completely possible in the City, the couple is not only broke enough to not be able to afford paying the clan, they’re in no working conditions to either get new body parts or work off their debt thanks to now being armless and half blind.
- Electronic Eyes: He’s replaced one of his eyes with an amber contraption.
- Younger Than They Look: Despite his graying hair, Gin is actually the youngest of the named Kurokumo enforcers at only 31 years old. For reference, Yang and Sayo are 32 and 35, respectively.
The Rumanos Cartel
In General
Another Subsidiary of the Thumb. Their forces have been crushed by the Black Silence and were unable to attend the meeting. They were soon cut off from the group due to failing to recuperate their strength.
- Get It Over With: After being caught up in Roland's aimless rampage rather than try and entertain the notion of giving whatever information they have the Cartel boss insists they just kill them. His request is obliged.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: At the meeting of Thumb subsidiaries shown in the Thumb's episode, Kalo receives word that the Rumanos Cartel still hasn't managed to recover from the Black Silence's attack. Kalo immediately orders for the group to be "cut off" for failing to get themselves back together, which makes them useless to the Thumb.
The Ramier Family
In General
A Thumb subsidiary that attended the summit with Sottocapo Kalo.
- The Queen Pin: As revealed by the voice clips for the Thumb receptions, the family boss that leads them is one.
- The Unfought: None of their members were received as Guests for the Library. In fact by the time they "appear", Kalo has instructed the syndicates under the Thumb to back out of the conflict for L Corp's Nest per the orders of the Capo dei capi.
The Night Awls
In General
One of the many Syndicates that is a Thumb subsidiary. After the Night Awls' boss inadvertently insulted the Thumb's Capo dei Capi, Sottocapo Kalo issued an order to execute all members of the Night Awls, forcing a few survivors led by the second-in-command Allen to flee into the Library.
- Armed Legs: One of Allen’s legs is a bladed pegleg. With his exclusive combat page, Stiletto, he pulls off some blindingly fast stabs.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Enforced by their passive, Stiletto (Not to be confused with Allen's exclusive combat page which is also named Stiletto). They gain whopping +2 power on all Pierce die but are also penalized with a -2 power on all other offensive dice. This means that they'll end up in trouble against any enemy that is resistant to Pierce attacks while generally steam-rolling over any enemy that is not resistant to Pierce attacks.
- Devious Daggers: A syndicate serving as a subsidiary to the mafia-like Thumb and their members utilize stiletto knives. In keeping with the deviousness Allen's page has passive called Chink in One's Armor which can destroy a block dice if his speed is 3 or greater while clashing with a melee combat page. Their combat pages have attacks that inflict Bind on hit making it more likely to capitalize on that.
- Injured Vulnerability: Their passive, Mercy, has Offensive dice gain +1 power when clashing against targets with less than 10% HP.
- Morton's Fork: After their boss accidentally insults the Thumb's Capo dei Capi, the remaining members are forced to either face certain death from the Thumb, or just as near-certain death entering the Library. The Night Awls' second-in-command Allen and some of his subordinates would end up choosing the latter in a desperate bid to find something in the Library that will get them back in the Thumb's good graces.
- Sinister Switchblade: Even if their standing in the Thumb isn't ideal, they're a deadly syndicate all the same and those stilettos aren't for show.
The Carnival
In General
- "Quality fabric is a rarity. Tailors are just as important as Syndicates and Fixers. There guys seem to be operating underground. Looks like they're eating people to make silk..."- Roland
- Ambiguous Situation: Exactly what the Carnival members are is left ambiguous. They sound like robots yet they have fairly organic, though bizzare, bodies that they use to eat people. Given the Head's rules on artificial beings and the fact that their powers originate from a Singularity that they stole, they are most likely just humans (or some other organic beings) in origin, though.
- The Dividual: While they're identified as Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, and have their own voices, their only book drop is simply the 'Book of the Carnival', painting them as such.
- Eldritch Abomination: When neutral they look like tall humans in black cloaks and a mask, but the moment they move for a kill they'll reveal their twisted black flesh and absurdly sharp spines and teeth. One of their cards shows that behind their masks they have lamprey-like mouths, and their coats split open to show enormous mouths filled with spines and huge pointed teeth.
- Genuine Human Hide: As stated, they can make a special silk out of the people they've killed. It's surprisingly durable too.
- Human Resources: The Carnival specializes in this, since they create high quality silk from humans which can be used to create workshop armor. The silk they create is infused with that person's bodily qualities. For example, cloths made from silk created from an agile person can allow its wearer to move faster.
- Personality Powers: The fabric they make from eating people contains properties reflective of the person that they ate.
- Stone Wall: Their fighting style makes use of their mostly neutral defenses by using plenty of evade and defend dice before winding up for a big and deadly hit through moves like Tailoring, which stacks bleed on top of its considerable damage.
- Strange-Syntax Speaker: All three speak in terse, curious sentences, but are apparently much more eloquent when writing if their page backstory is anything to go by. Roland and Angela copy and make fun of their speech after their defeat, though Angela is less than amused with Roland's attitude while doing it.
- Turns Red: Their passive has them gain two strength per scene if one of their own dies, making them more powerful to compensate for a loss in their trio. This passive can be applied to your own librarians once their page is acquired.
- Vocal Dissonance: While all members resemble tall, nearly-identical looking, centipede-like abominations in robes and wearing a white mask, Beta most notably has the voice of a young girl that doesn't fit how she looks like, but with extra synthetic voice effects.
