Adrian Sardonios is the chairman of Sardonios Consolidated, a successful business with considerable sway in Andaria. Charismatic and intelligent, Adrian has worked diligently to improve living conditions in the Empire by introducing his nightclub chain, the Verdant, throughout the Empire as well as funding the publishing of the first stately newspaper and working on the Great Express, a project to bring what is dubbed as the railroad, to provide better access to different corners of the Empire.