Name: The Periph Family Stated Purpose: It's a family, really, it doesn't have a purpose, does it? Only royal families have those sorts of things, like the Mraz. We are not Prince Hamlet, nor were meant to be. Despite being small and relatively weak in terms of criminal power—when the Periphs break the law, they prefer to always do so in ways that can be explained away if necessary, and tend to do so in subtle manner; they are not a mafia—they have been kept almost completely safe from assassinations and other outside attacks from a combination of factors: