Reik Storms
The Reik Storms are the oldest mercenary guild of Vansreik, though they no longer function as one. Technically they remain a separate organisation from the City Watch, but in practice there is no difference: they are the City Watch with better gear, and the main armed force of Vansreik.1
Donald Whent was once a successful captain of the Reik Storms in charge of the city’s defences. He strongly supported sending the Reik Storms into the Deep Pit to secure some layers of the old city of Mortenox, but his ambitions were met with mockery from the other commanders. Seeing his superiors’ attitude, he left and founded a mercenary guild of his own, the Eagle Brigade, convinced that he needed adventurers and swords for hire rather than soldiers who only wanted quiet, paid days.2
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