Mercenary guilds
Explore the named organisations of hired adventurers and fighters.
Showing 15 of 15
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- The Action CompanyThe elite cadre of adventurers within the Warmongers of Vansreik. With Jax and Kerwyn at its side it defeated the black dragon Zher’kresk and its goblin clans, and its members were honoured for saving the Western Provinces.
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- Brine BladesA young mercenary guild of sailors, pirates and cartographers that excels at coastal and sea missions, welcomes misfits seeking a second chance and is led by three branch heads from a hidden coastal stronghold.
- The Black VeilOne of the oldest assassin guilds in the Empire, ruled from its lair by the adult black dragon Zherkses the Cruel. Membership lasts for life, fear holds the guild together, and its assassins never take contracts inside Vansreik.
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- DemiryürekA band of dwarven sellswords of the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, bound by brotherhood in arms rather than blood, three of whom travel north with Kemp Corvus and Sarah and fight beside the company beneath Gromkar.
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- Eagle BrigadeA mercenary guild of Vansreik founded by Donald Whent, a former knight and captain of the Reik Storms. Disciplined, devout and loyal to the Empire, it is one of the most prominent guilds in the city and is caught in a bitter feud with the Warmongers.
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- Followers of ZolanA disciplined company of mercenaries in the Raphael Efsanesi campaign, founded by the ageless Zolan the Undying, which runs a fighting arena in White City and hires out its warriors and mages to whoever pays.
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- Grimbolt CripplersA dwarven mercenary company of about 1,600 warriors, founded in the city of Westreach by dwarves cast out of their homeland, who seek the Lost Axe of Glodein to redeem their honour. It is led by Hemlock Twinhammers from Fort Drake’s End.
- The Grand TableThe gathering of the heads of Vansreik's three main mercenary guilds, Turnip Bellwater, Jogard Di and Donald Whent, who meet once every two months at the tavern Halfling is Your Mother.
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- MorenarA mercenary organisation led by its founder, the low-ranking noble Lord Dagoth Levain Von’Saldor. It keeps a clean face in the Empire through its ties to merchant guilds, takes contracts from anyone who can meet its high price, and binds its members to it for life.
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- Red CouncilThe seven-member council that leads the Scarlet Spears, with one seat for each province of the Empire. Its members form the company's fifth and highest rank and plan its future and grand campaigns.
- Reik StormsThe oldest mercenary guild of Vansreik, which no longer works as one. Technically separate from the City Watch, it is in practice a better-equipped City Watch and the city's main armed force.
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- Servants of the Moonlit CircleA mercenary company founded through the druid Circle of Lunara by the survivors of a mission that freed the fey spirit Erdentree from the Feywild. Led in spirit by Archdruid Perildien Elderwood, it fights the influence of the dark archfey Blaspheus.
- Shortstack StranglersThe largest and least organised mercenary guild of Vansreik, run by the halfling thief Turnip Bellwater from the tavern Halfling is Your Mother. Its members come from Bellwater and beyond, and its main trade is information.
- The Scarlet SpearsThe largest mercenary company in the Empire, founded about a century ago and organised like the imperial legions. Governed by the seven-seat Red Council, its five ranks of “spears” fight by the Empire’s rules of war, and it is the oldest company in the Western Provinces.
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- WarmongersThe newest of Vansreik's authorised mercenary guilds, founded by the pirate and warlock Jogard Di, quartered in a converted gladiator school and locked in a violent feud with the Eagle Brigade.