District 14 (Nagel und Hammer)

Nagel und Hammer

“	Nagel und Hammer... The Wing that values experience above all else.	”
–Meursault

Nagel und Hammer (German: lit. Nail and Hammer), otherwise known as N Corp., is one of the 26 Wings of the City, overseeing District 14. They are infamous for their draconian Taboos and violent enforcement system, that reaches even to other Wings.

Overview

N Corp. is divided into two major factions, "Nail" and "Hammer".

District 14, led by N Corp., is known for its prestigious universities and peculiar townscape, made up of completely white buildings, as if they are covered in snow.

The culture of the Corporation sees experience as its highest value. Within the Wing, many have made criticisms of prosthetic use in humans, considering pain to be a necessary component of the human experience. However, this ideology is not held equally within the Wing, leading to multiple factions forming. In the extreme, the Wing's beliefs have manifested in the formation of an Inquisition that carries a great hatred for those with prosthetics, leading to its employees raiding towns to "purge" them of the presence of prosthetics. While overall N Corp. is comparable to the other Wings, except with somewhat more "rigidness", it appears the Inquisition has grown in recent years.

The Wing is notorious for particularly harsh enforcement of its Taboos, even sending specialized Fixers to swiftly kill those outside their District for breaking them.

Singularity

The abilities of N Corp.'s Singularity are unknown, but the Corporation is responsible for manufacturing "Canned Experience", which grants anyone who consumes them experience of certain things, even if they had none prior. Once such Canned Experience, widely available across Nest N in vending machines, allows the consumer to experience suicide without actually committing said act. According to N Corp. Großhammer Meursault and N Corp. Mittelhammer Don Quixote's Identity Stories, it's implied that these canned goods can be used for indoctrination, as the Inquisition utilizes them to keep some of their employees obedient.

N Corp., particularly Director Hermann's group, has also been developing a technology based on Yi Sang's Mirror. Through this technology, Kromer was able to view different Mirror Worlds and witnessed another reality where Sinclair became her subsidiary.

Notable Groups

Golden Bough Expedition

The group led by Director Hermann, an expedition team working to locate the Golden Boughs for their leader's plans to create a primordial human and destroy every Mirror World. Their members all have their own prior relations to the Sinners.

League of Nine Littérateurs

After the fall of the League of Nine Littérateurs, Hermann formed a new League of Nine within N Corp., with the purpose of continuing her Mirror World experiments. Gubo, Aseah and Yi Sang joined the group, although the latter would later leave the group and flee N Corp.

Inquisition

The N Corp. Inquisition is a subdivision of Nagel und Hammer. It consists of fanatic employees who carry extremist beliefs over the purity of the human flesh, who bear an immense hatred for those with prosthetics. These fanatics carry out what they define "purification", meaning the murder and torture of people with prosthetics, particularly through the use of hammers and nails. Part of the members of this group are made to take Canned Experience that reinforces their belief in the need of purification.

This subdivision is run under a ranked hierarchy:

• The One who Grips: the highest ranking among the group, and their cult leader. Gives orders to other Inquisitors, who follow them unconditionally with religious zeal;
• The One Who Shall Grip: The Second highest rank among the group, and important to The One who Grips;
• The Großhammer: the second-in-command inquisitor, personally ordered by The One who Grips themselves to deliver justice upon those they deemed heretics;
• Mittelhammers: the third-in-command inquisitor;
• Kleinhammers: the second lowest pawn for an inquisitor.

Taboo Hunters

There are a total of 14 Taboos in N Corp.'s District. If any one of these Taboos are violated, a Taboo Hunter will be dispatched to kill all offenders. These Fixers are incredibly powerful and can easily kill even experienced combatants. So far, the only known Taboo out of the 14 is "no visual recording", which led to Moses confronting a Taboo Hunter named Vespa Crabro and the annihilation of Vergilius's Office.

Known Citizens

This includes the Limbus Company residents and personnel of N Corp.

Nagel und Hammer
Hermann's Group
	Hermann N Corp. director	Gubo Co-director	Aseah Researcher

Citizens
	Meursault Formerly employed

Canto III: The Unconfronting
Inquisition
	Kromer The One Who Grips	Guido Großhammer

Sinner Identities

The World of N Corp. Identities were added in the Season 1 Target Extractions as Seasonal Identities and can be obtained through the Dispenser from Season 3 onward.

World of N Corp.
Inquisition
	Faust The One Who Grips	Sinclair The One Who Shall Grip	Meursault Großhammer	Rodion Mittelhammer	Heathcliff Kleinhammer	Don Quixote Mittelhammer

Trivia

• Other N Corp. citizens seen in additional Project Moon media include:
  • Moses (Distortion Detective) - Owner of an N Corp. Office
  • Ezra (Distortion Detective) - Moses' employee
  • YuRia (Distortion Detective) - Owner of an N Corp. Workshop
  • Vespa Crabro (Distortion Detective) - N Corp. Taboo hunter
• N Corp. is currently the only known faction to have been able to intentionally create Peccatulum as they do so in both Leviathan and Canto VI: The Heartbreaking.
• N Corp.'s motif of nails and hammers is reminiscent of the Silent Girl Abnormality, also seen at the end of Library of Ruina.

External Links

• Nagel und Hammer (나겔 운트 하머) - Korean page (Namuwiki)

Navigation

Factions
Wings	Extant Wings	A Corp. - B Corp. - C Corp. D Corp. - E Corp. - F Corp. - G Corp. - H Corp. - I Corp. - J Corp. - K Corp. - M Corp. - N Corp. - O Corp. - P Corp. - Q Corp. - R Corp. - S Corp. - T Corp. - U Corp. - V Corp. - W Corp. - X Corp. - Y Corp.
	Collapsed Wings	Old G Corp. - Lobotomy Corporation
Fixer Organizations	Associations	Hana - Zwei - Tres - Shi - Cinq - Liu - Seven - Eight - Devyat - Dieci - Öufi
	Fixer Offices	Rosespanner Workshop - Molar Boatworks/Molar Office - Wuthering Heights - Edgar Family - MultiCrack Office
Syndicates	Five Fingers	The Thumb - The Index - The Middle - The Ring - The Pinky
	Other Syndicates	Yurodiviye - Tingtang Gang - Los Mariachis - Tieqiu Crew - Twinhook Pirates - Blade Lineage - Kurokumo Clan - Dead Rabbits
Other Factions		Hooligans - Casino Security(Casino Slaves) - N Corp. Inquisition(Corroded Inquisitors) - Technology Liberation Alliance - Pequod Town - T Corp. Gangsters - The Wild Hunt
Monsters		Trash Crabs - Mermaids(Pallid Mermaids - Pallidified Things) - Gnomes - Bloodfiends