The Cinnabarim Company is an independent merchant guild with its own standing army that operates in the Merrivale Islands. It is owned by a Nim artificer named Nesban. The Cinnabarim are treasure hunters for hire, much like the Retainers, except they lack the Retainer's extensive code of conduct when it comes to interfacing with foreign cultures: the Cinnabarim are unapologetic when it comes to their colonial mindset. As a company, they exist to personally enrich Nesban and his board of investors. His standing army, which consists mainly of conscripted sellswords and Nim engineers from Telrain, is well-paid and well-outfitted with all sorts of Clockwerk technology.
Rumors abound that Nesban acquired control over the Cinnabarim Company through treachery against his own family. The greedy Nim, they say, hoards relics recovered from the ocean for his own personal collection, especially Rasan masks, which are believed to contain the spirits of imprisoned Rasa.