Davos Fratz
Davos Fratz is the former leader of the Hunter’s Guild of Vansreik, a skilled archer and tracker who now serves the Morenar.1
Expulsion and the Morenar
Davos was thrown out of the hunters' guild for making private hunting deals with nobles and not declaring his hunts to the guild. Soon afterwards he was invited to a meeting with Joseph Kalkerian, who asked him to join the Morenar and continue hunting under a private licence that only the count grants.2
Davos knew that most of the city's merchants and powerful nobles were tied to the organisation. It had tried to recruit him once before, and he had turned it down, seeing nothing to gain in a guild full of nobles and merchants. Now he was desperate: out of work, with the only trade he knew closed to him, he accepted Joseph's offer and joined the Morenar as a candidate.2
Over the next year and a half Davos helped the guild complete many hunts and took private contracts from its mercantile branch. He has since risen to a higher rank in the organisation's military branch.2
The hydra
A hydra is reported to have been sighted within the crater. Davos wants to find a way into the crater to hunt the creature and find its lair.2
In battle
Davos fights with the longbow, never closes to melee and keeps large obstacles between himself and his prey. An ambusher and tracker, he knows he can draw out a fight by never letting his quarry rest, and he uses poisoned arrows and traps to cripple and pin down his targets. When he is the one being hunted he does his best to escape, knowing that pursuers usually go after the slowest member of a group.2
Notes
Sources
This article draws on:
- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 11, 50
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