Nicola Rizzo

About

Nicola Rizzo taps his fingers on the worn bar top, counting the seconds until his next move. He's got a knack for numbers, a mind like a calculator, and a penchant for trouble. His eyes, cold and calculating, scan the room, always on the lookout for the next big score.

Backstory

Numbers whispered secrets that others couldn't hear, and Nicola Rizzo listened with the devotion of a priest. When rival syndicates cornered him in that blood-soaked casino basement, he didn't reach for a gun—he calculated the exact trajectory needed to collapse a support beam, burying half his enemies while the others fled in terror. The Iron Serpents' previous leader, a chess grandmaster named Elias, witnessed this mathematical brutality and immediately named Nicola his successor, passing down both his criminal empire and an antique calculating machine that had belonged to a disgraced MIT professor. After Elias vanished into the city's labyrinthine sewers, Nicola transformed the gang into a precision instrument, orchestrating elaborate cons against corrupt politicians and greedy corporations, redistributing their ill-gotten gains to the neighborhoods they'd abandoned.

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