Mercenaries
Explore the named mercenaries described in the compendium.
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- Aetheus BoldragonA clanless black dragonborn archer and ranger from Greenpine, once with the Scarlet Spears, who now lives a semi-retired life in Vansreik as a freelance monster hunter.
- Ahriman Fer’zaadAn Iron Islander born a slave, who learned to divine the true names of demons from his dead master's notes and fled to the Empire, where he joined the Morenar as a demonologist.
- Alana VardinAn orphan of the Vansreik streets raised by the Black Veil, now one of its most successful assassins, unwavering in her loyalty to the guild and a favoured dinner guest of the dragon Zherkses.
- Alveir GreenbladeA wood elf fighter who left his Da’fat-supporting k're, the Long Leaf, for a life of adventure, and joined the Shortstack Stranglers after Dhori Whitefang turned him away.
- Amelia StarkwoodA young herbalist, healer and nature mage, raised by her grandmother at the edge of a mystical forest, who joined the Scarlet Spears after uncovering a plot to desecrate the ancient groves of her homeland.
- Archdruid Perildien ElderwoodA two-hundred-year-old elven druid of the Circle of Lunara who led the rescue of Erdentree and gave up the post of archdruid to redeem companions slain by Blaspheus. He is now the spiritual leader of the Servants of the Moonlit Circle.
- Archibald the FlametamerAn Archon Academy graduate and fire mage who made a small fortune showing off his fire magic in the Farran Islands, then came to Vansreik and joined the Eagle Brigade.
- Arti BoulderheadA young mountain dwarf who grew up near the Dwarven Gates on tales of the Grimbolt Cripplers and travelled to Fort Drake's End to join them, where he is still proving himself.
- Augustus BrightbladeA paladin of Alarath raised in the Church of Vansreik who gave up the path to priesthood to fight in the wilds, and now works alone as a freelancer in Vansreik.
- Auximus TibaltAn expert scout and long-time hired tracker of the Legion who serves as Commander Gustavius's second hand in the Scarlet Spears.
- AzimuthA former legionary and gardener of House Von Rain who became a warlock of the fey Blaspheus and now hires out his sickle in Vansreik.
B
- Balthasar Jaeger VollAn orphan of Vossmark raised by mercenaries who rose to captain in the Scarlet Spears, helped put down the Twinrivers Rebellion, and then left to work as a freelancer.
- Bartouk HannekerA young fisherman from Mossentry who joined the Brine Blades after his best friend died of wounds taken killing a sahuagin raider with him.
- Batlamius GuillaA lumberjack from Vansreik who survived a wood elven attack on his lumber mill in Westreach, beheading the elves' leader in a rage that has never left him.
- BlazeA tiefling warlock from the slums of Neptune who made a pact with a fiendish patron as a child and now serves as second in command of the Morenar in Neptun.
- Brother UldhaevenA battle-scarred warrior priest of Alarath in the Scarlet Spears, known by his crimson-and-white robes and the red mohawk tattooed on his shaved head.
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- Cassedie UleseusA cleric of Alarath who left her church to go to Vansreik after dreaming of the city in flames, and who works as a mercenary in Westreach while she gathers the means to enter it.
- Chedwick the HostlerA former hostler of Vansreik on his very first day as an adventurer, armed with a shortbow, a few lessons from an old legionnaire and a treasure map bought from a street dealer.
- Cherrybell BellwaterA halfling wizard and shrewd politician, cousin of Turnip Bellwater and second in command of the Shortstack Stranglers, who dreams of a printing press for magical scrolls.
- Chestnutt OakberryA halfling potion master of Bellwater Concoctions in Vansreik who joined the Shortstack Stranglers to pay for his own potion, the ferocious heart, to which he has become addicted.
- CHOMPSA former Hanged Devil and pirate of Neptun, once called Rufus, who became a wereshark in Dark Water Bay and found a home among the Brine Blades.
- Commander GustaviusA former officer of the Third Legion, hero of the Battle for the Lion's Teeth, who now serves the Scarlet Spears as a rank-four commander and a political figure in the Western Provinces.
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- Damien FraizerA charming, whip-wielding acrobat from Vansreik, raised by a rogue and a performer, who joined the Scarlet Spears in search of adventure and purpose.
- Davos FratzA former leader of the Hunter's Guild of Vansreik, expelled for secret deals with nobles, who joined the Morenar and has risen in its military branch.
- Dhori WhitefangA wood elf of the Warmongers and founding member of the Action Company, a former freedom fighter honoured as a hero of Vansreik for saving the city from goblinoid raids.
- Donald WhentThe founder and high commander of the Eagle Brigade, a former Reik Storms captain who staked everything on opening the Deep Pit to Vansreik and made his guild famous with its first expedition there.
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- Eleanor PonytailA halfling Sun Monk of the Monastery of the Inner Flame, one of twenty monks who joined the Scarlet Spears in thanks for their aid against the dark elves of Gras’ur Baer.
- Ember HillbellyA red-bearded hill dwarf cleric of the Grimbolt Cripplers, born into the company, who works inseparably beside her twin brother Moss in the search for the Lost Axe of Glodein.
- Esther of the BluelandsA former imperial soldier whose family was slaughtered when Karthul, a herald of Blaspheus, entered the Bluelands; after years as a bandit she joined the Servants of the Moonlit Circle to seek revenge.
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- FazonHuman leader of the Followers of Zolan in White City in the Raphael Efsanesi campaign, who hires out his fighters and mages to Raphael, shields him from Zolan's searching power and refuses to cross the Empire.
- Ferka Doru’festanA honey badgerfolk fighter of the Barb-ba Kus tribe who left his homeland for adventure in the Empire and became a hero of Nearlake after helping to defeat a hill giant.
- Frederick SweetmeadA famous halfling bard from Bellwater, known for his song "Ogre's In The Barn", who is the chief recruiter of the Shortstack Stranglers and a formidable swordsman.
- The FangA cleric of Malakar, patron of thieves, who entered the Black Veil with the current Wing and serves as the guild's head of intelligence and bookkeeper, reporting each week to the dragon Zherkses.
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- Gabriella the KindA renegade battlemage who opposed the Scarlet Spears in the Rebellion of Twinrivers and now works as a freelance mercenary, searching for the mercenary Balthasar to learn why he spared her life.
- Garamain HullA wizard expelled from Archon for his fascination with forbidden spells, hunted by witch hunters for practising magic without papers, who found sanctuary in the Black Veil and became its head arcanist.
- Garrick the BoldA towering half-orc headhunter of the Scarlet Spears who, with his partner Icarus Poeniteamus, hunted the traitorous House Daemus almost to extinction.
- Gazelle the LamenterA bard of the Black Veil, trained at the Empire's College, who after losing their inspiration found a dark new art in violence and was recruited by the Wing.
- Golbert BrownbutterA halfling cleric of Amarath in the Shortstack Stranglers, who joined the guild to keep his closest friend Jinxy from dying at the hands of monsters.
- Gorthak TuskcarverA seven-foot Northerner from Nornfall, last survivor of his clan, who found a new family in the Shortstack Stranglers after Frederick Sweetmead took him in.
- Gregor the BruteA half-orc hunter from the outskirts of Vansreik who left the Hunter's Guild over its treatment of non-humans and now leads the Warmongers' hunting missions.
- Gregory DaskA renowned hired warrior who served the nobles of West Reach and then the Brine Blades, until disputes with Isabeau Blackthorn led to his expulsion; he now works alone.
- Gunter BronzesaddleA young dwarf of the Grimbolt Cripplers, born to a family that left the ancestral halls, who serves the company as infiltrator and marksman and hides a hard childhood behind his jokes.
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- Hector Mc’raaA half Iron Islander necromancer of the Shortstack Stranglers, son of an imperial ambassador, who came to Vansreik hoping to learn arcane secrets after the war mages refused him.
- Hemlock TwinhammersThe captain of the Grimbolt Cripplers, a son of the weaponsmith House Twinhammers who took up the company's leadership after Duffrein Grimbolt fell against the red dragon Coralax.
- Hermann ÇelikyüzThe heavily armed leader of the Bloody Coin, a band of mercenaries hired by the Porvis house, who clashes with Kemp Corvus's company of thirty at the Porvis forest house in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign.
- Holden FainAn Archon-trained diviner and historian of the Eagle Brigade, drawn to Vansreik by the story of the Deep Pit and obsessed with tales from before the second coming of the Dark One.
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- Icarus PoeniteamusA nobleman whose family was destroyed by House Daemus, who became a headhunter and a mercenary of the Scarlet Spears alongside his partner Garrick the Bold.
- IfanelleA former infiltrator of the Owls, abandoned and hunted by the Empire she served, who now works for the Morenar under the heretic mercenary Blaze.
- Isabeau BlackthornAn orphan of Neptun who rose through the Hanged Devils, left crime behind and became a founder of the Brine Blades, where she leads the intelligence branch.
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- JaxA tiefling from Farran, orphaned on the streets of Neptun, who became a member of the Action Company and the Warmongers' ambassador to the church and nobility of Vansreik.
- Jinnaxius EidreinA tall halfling swordsman known as Jinxy, nephew of Turnip Bellwater and held to be the finest blade of the Shortstack Stranglers.
- Jogard DiA former pirate and warlock who founded the Warmongers, one of the most active mercenary guilds of Vansreik; he looks thirty but is in his late sixties.
- Justinian VolkhA witch hunter from a family that has followed the calling for generations, who has recently joined the Scarlet Spears to carry on that legacy against dark magic.
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- KaldorA half-elf from the slums of Vansreik who left the thieves' guild after a stolen concoction gave him psychic power, and found refuge with the Servants of the Moonlit Circle.
- KerosA triton sellsword of the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign, shipwrecked far to the north of Neptune, whom Castor and the merfolk warrior Ademaris rescue beneath the sea and who later escorts Castor's pupils to their exams.
- KerwynA master archer from the slums of Neptun, known as the Bow of Punishment, who serves as head assassin of the Warmongers and is a member of the Action Company.
- Klaus the Lone BladeA freelance swordsman in his early thirties who earned the name Lone Blade by defending the hamlet of Sweeteal against a goblin horde.
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- LachlandA Northerner of the Servants of the Moonlit Circle, known as the Shepherd of Bears, who fights beside three brown bears and seeks to end the undead existence of his father Karthul.
- LeylandaA pacifist worshipper of Viridia who serves among Amarath's clergy in the temple of repentance at Reik's Gate and has joined the Servants of the Moonlit Circle.
- Lorraine SepthA human swordswoman and headhunter who grew up in the household of the bandit captain Albus Sept, trained for ten years under Clement Threecrows and now waits for work as a freelancer in Vansreik.
- Luccas MaireinA young human sorcerer and bandit, exiled by his own people after his powers surfaced, who now works with the Morenar while staying loyal to Sigusmund the Boar.
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- Magnus DriftwoodA former captain of the VII. Legion, born in the slums of Marble City, who gave up his rank in search of a greater purpose and founded the Brine Blades with Marisela Stormweaver and Isabeau Blackthorn.
- MajeekA charming rogue from the Islands of Farr and a founding member of the Warmongers, who helped Jogard Di establish the guild and secure its legal right to operate.
- ManfredA mercenary mage of the Yeni Dünya campaign, a runaway from Archon who first attacks a band of adventurers in Aquila, is later found gravely wounded in a fishing village and trades what he knows for healing and safe passage.
- Marcus GaiusA former warrior priest of Alarath whose faith in a unified Empire was broken at Grand Serrin, and who became a powerful apprentice of Lord Dagoth Levain Von'Saldor in the Morenar.
- Marisela StormweaverA storm sorceress of Neptun, called the Lady of the Storm and Siren of Neptun, who co-founded the Brine Blades and is the company's public face and keeper of its finances.
- Matias CainA stern cleric of Alarath, once a priest of the Church of Shamyaza, who serves the Eagle Brigade as its second in command, head advisor and head chaplain.
- MaxA wandering sellsword of the Zincirsiz campaign, a fair-haired man with a braided beard who says he comes from White City, whom the mage Jonathan River met in the village of Elm and who went with him into the waters of the vanishing lake.
- Merindiel StargazerAn elven arcanist and mariner, a graduate of Starsong, who survived the destruction of the Wave Carver by an undead ghost ship and became Marisela Stormweaver's right hand in the Brine Blades.
- Moss HillbellyA gentle, quiet hill dwarf druid, twin brother of Ember Hillbelly, born into the Grimbolt Cripplers and devoted with her to the guild's quest for the Lost Axe of Glodein.
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- Neanoth Jeal’tlousThe first son of the dark elf House Jeal'tlous of Marthen'terrain, who left his house after a fall he helped bring about and now serves the Morenar as its representative to the House of Grezzit Baeren.
- Nessa SevenembersA young warrior of the Eagle Brigade, still inexperienced beside the other members but of great promise, who fights in the front line with a war pick.
- Nicklaus the Gray FoxA former legionary who left the Empire's service after what he witnessed in battle and found shelter among the Servants of the Moonlit Circle.
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- OlafA young northern sellsword of the Zincirsiz campaign, captured by orcs alongside the mage Jonathan River, who chose to stay at Jonathan's side as tracker, guard and interpreter on the road south.
- OzzigusA gnome inventor from the Underdark, fondly known as Ozzie, who escaped his creditor's headhunters into the Brine Blades and now serves as the company's ship master.
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- Percival MillA renowned vampire hunter from Neptun who came to Vansreik on a hunt, joined forces with the Eagle Brigade and later became a member, settling in the city.
- Pretty Face RandorA charming bard and swordsman, Isabeau Blackthorn's closest friend from the Hanged Devils of Neptun, who left the gang and was given a second chance in the Brine Blades.
- Prince Kardakar ThunderfistA dwarf warrior cast out of the Dwarven Halls after the Gauntlets of the Red Storm corrupted him, who now fights as the right hand of Hemlock Twinhammers in the Grimbolt Cripplers.
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- RampartA former bandit turned hired killer in Vansreik, recruited into the Black Veil and slowly rising through its ranks.
- Revna SpearmaidenA Northerner shield maiden from the town of Hargal who travelled to the Western Provinces with fur merchants and became a front-line warrior and sailor of the Brine Blades.
- Riktor RaveenAn ex-bandit from Vansreik's criminal underworld and one of the Black Veil's newest recruits, hired by merchants and shopkeepers to remove their rivals.
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- SaphirA tiefling spellcaster rescued as a sickly baby from a hag's hut by Turnip Bellwater, raised as one of his family and now a member of the Shortstack Stranglers.
- Sazz’rast SaveerA surface-born drow scout and cartographer of House Saveer, sent by his family to Vansreik to learn about the Deep Pit, who has joined the Warmongers for the time being.
- Seischa GrasheelA sea-born monster hunter exiled from the sunken city of Athrokaan after she killed a kraken hatchling, who sold her sword in Neptun before joining the Brine Blades.
- Shaila BellwaterTurnip Bellwater's younger sister, a halfling herbalist and archer who left the quiet life of Bellwater for adventure with the Shortstack Stranglers and has become hooked on the Deep Pit.
- Sigusmund the BoarA notorious bandit captain of the Great Western Road who, cornered by the Scarlet Spears in the Crooked Teeth Valley, joined the Morenar with all his men and plunder.
- Sophia GreendaleA priest's daughter from a farming village near Vansreik who swore an oath to Shamyaza when a cult destroyed her home, and who joined the Warmongers in the hope of facing that cult again.
- StabzzA fast and stealthy goblin assassin of the Black Veil, cast out of his clan after killing seven of his war boss's generals, who now wants revenge on goblins of every kind.
- Streffan KlausA seasoned spearman of the Scarlet Spears in his early forties, low in rank but fiercely loyal and respected in his unit, who has spent most of his life serving the company across the Empire.
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- TafHalf-orc warrior of the Followers of Zolan in the Raphael Efsanesi campaign, hired by Raphael as a guard for the wizard Falstad's dangerous errand into the Collector's hoard.
- TamrynA young Archon graduate who came to Vansreik to study under the witch Quadina and was sent by her to the Warmongers, where the pressure of adventuring proved the better teacher.
- Turnip BellwaterThe halfling master thief of Bellwater who founded the Shortstack Stranglers, the largest mercenary guild of Vansreik, and who earned the guild its name by strangling a dark elven high priestess in the Deep Pit.
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- Ulvar the HunterA headhunter from the north, wanted in the Empire for killing a ranking official, who was found in hiding by the Wing and reluctantly joined the Black Veil. Unusually sociable for the guild, he often visits Vansreik.
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- ValakarA young sorcerer from the farmlands around the Crater who fled to Vansreik when his powers awoke, rose with the Action Company of the Warmongers and was changed by the blood of the black dragon they slew.
- Vaness Von’freveinThe second daughter of Lord Fargus Von'frevein of Vansreik, a sickly child who became the warlock and protector of the archfey Erdentree, was declared a heretic and now serves with the Servants of the Moonlit Circle.
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- The WingThe head assassin and representative of the Black Veil, a half-elf whose true name is lost, who has held the post for at least two decades and deals with the mercenary guilds of Vansreik on the guild's behalf.
- Wanguff VolterA jolly former sailor and pirate who came to Vansreik after stealing his captain's magical rapier, and who is the newest member of the Shortstack Stranglers.
- Willford the HexbreakerAn Archon-trained abjurer, son of a Scarlet Spear commander, who joined the Scarlet Spears as a war mage after watching his father die defending a noble house's children, and is now head mage of the Spears in the Western Provinces.
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- XamanA half-elven warrior born in the high elven outpost near Vansreik, who left the Scarlet Spears rather than kill elves and now serves the Eagle Brigade as its envoy to the outpost.
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- Yortkul GrootlegigglesA forest gnome ranger of the Oakenheart Conclave, whose heart was replaced with one of gemstone and oak, sent to watch the threats of the West and now a member of the Servants of the Moonlit Circle.
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- ZamiraA tiefling archer from the slums of Vansreik who began as a hunter, was found wounded by Damien Fraizer after a goblin ambush, and with his help joined the Scarlet Spears.
- Zardrak ThroneguardA dragonborn of the Throneguard clan and follower of Alarath who joined the Eagle Brigade in Vansreik, where a Northern seer foretold he would avenge the war-priest Cassius Fillius.
- ZeekeThe son of the Vansreik city guard's captain and a new member of the Morenar, who hopes membership will carry him to the head of the city guard.
- ZherafinnAn orphan raised by the Black Veil who became a skilled markswoman, taking a gun from a witch hunter she killed and learning to master it, with the help of the gnome Ozzigus, in Vansreik's Grand Gear.
- ZherdainA half-elven assassin of the Black Veil in his early thirties, raised by the guild and named for its dragon, who hates killing and is kept alive by his friendship with Alana Vardin.