Vanlouen Nurses

The Vanlouen Nurses are an all female enforcement arm of the global Vanlouen crime and business empire and along with hounds, Night boys, and various paramilitary contractors are responsible for security, debt enforcement, intimidation, assassinations, and any other tasks that require violent or amoral means to accomplish.

During the Second Bog War Bruce trained a civilian medical corps similar to the red cross to serve as a neutral humanitarian body during the conflict and provide medical aid and care to both sides. However Bruce tasked Richard Paris Lemming with implanting a parasite in the nurses' brains that would link their frontal cortexes to The Hound Hive, thus inexorably tying their collective well being to that of the pack, governed by the singular goal of furthering the interests and power of its Alpha, Bruce. During the war they were employed as spies who cruelly sabotaged the enemy's medical care, their efforts helped destabilize the Darkwood Free Armies and turn the tide of the war.

Proving extremely capable and useful during the war Bruce kept the Nurses in the Hound Hive and folded them into his criminal operations. Their methods became harsher as his power grew, and they used violence and intimidation against his opponents to advance his power both in the criminal underworld and politically.

The Vanlouen Nurses have a primal hatred of Richard Lemming and bully and accost him at every opportunity, Bruce generally lets this go on until Richard is at risk of death or permanent injury at which point reigns them in. Richard does not seem to learn from this and repeatedly frequents the various clinics, spas and caves where the Nurses are employed or slumber, only to be surrounded and beaten for hours.