Sigismund Dijkstra
The former head of Redanian intelligence and a man Geralt had many dealings with in the past, Dijkstra the spy is masquerading as a count named Sigi Reuven, and has amassed a great wealth in the city of Novigrad as part of the Big Four crime families. Embroiled with Philippa Eilhart, and Radovid’s frenzy of hatred for the sorceress, Dijkstra fell out of favor with the King, and has wisely gone to ground under the assumed name of “Sigi Reuven”. But you can never keep a good political wrangler down…
Francis Bedlam, King of Beggars
Without a ruler for nigh on two hundred years, Novigrad’s only “monarch” is the self-styled King of Beggars, a title that mocks the pomposity of such power. Managing a network of cut-purses and beggars, he offers them protection in exchange for the gossip they overheard, as well as a cut of their ill-gotten gains. He holds court in the aptly titled Putrid Grove area of the city.
Carlo “Cleaver” Varese
A violent and terrifying dwarf, “Cleaver” lives up to his nickname as he enjoys torturing his victims by feeding them to pigs and hacking off their fingers with his namesake blade. Unbalanced even during periods of peace in Novigrad, a recent attack by his rival Whoreson Junior has left Cleaver spitting blood. He means to hunt down and murder every one of Whoreson’s men, even if that results in leaving the city in ruins.
Cyprian “Whoreson Junior” Wiley
One of Novigrad’s most dangerous criminals, Whoreson Junior has inherited his father’s businesses across the city, as well as his sadistic and shocking foibles towards the harlots he encounters. With the unwritten armistice between Novigrad’s criminal groups broken, thanks to Whoreson’s willingness to murder his three rivals, he has turned an already tumultuous time in Novigrad into utter chaos. Perhaps there is method to his madness?