Place
Ludus
The Ludus is the headquarters of the Warmongers, a former gladiator school inside the city walls of Vansreik that has been turned into a fortified stronghold. The three-storey building houses about two hundred mercenaries, both guild members and aspiring adventurers.1
The guild's founder, Jogard Di, came into possession of the Ludus through greed, and the same greed, together with his wanderlust, still drives him.2
Who can be found there
Many mercenaries can be found at the Ludus, among them Jogard himself, Dhori Whitefang, Gregor the Brute, Jax, Kerwyn, Majeek, Sazz’rast Saveer, Sophia Greendale, Tamryn and Valakar.3
Notes
Sources
This article draws on:
- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 46, 67, 84, 88, 92, 101, 126, 133, 136, 144, 164
In Ludus
CharacterJogard 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.
CharacterValakarA 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.CharacterDhori 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.CharacterSophia 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.CharacterTamrynA 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.Related articles
CharacterJogard 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.
OrganisationWarmongersThe 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.CharacterDhori 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.CharacterGregor 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.CharacterJaxA 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.
PlaceVansreikA lawless city inside the Great Crater of Mortenox on the south-western edge of the Empire, grown up around the Deep Pit, whose noble houses, church and rival mercenary guilds compete for the riches buried beneath it.
PlaceDeep PitThe vast pit at the centre of the crater of Vansreik, a dungeon over the ruins of the old City of Mortenox whose entry is regulated by Tickets that the mercenary companies of the city compete for.
CharacterDonald 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.
CharacterGabriella 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.
CharacterNessa 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.