Willford the Hexbreaker
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Willford the Hexbreaker is a wizard of The Scarlet Spears and the company's head mage in the Western Provinces. Members of the Archon are rarely seen working as mercenaries. He is listed among the mercenaries skilled as arcane blasters, and is described as loyal, determined and a genius.1
Childhood
Willford was the son of a Scarlet Spear commander in the Northern Provinces and was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. But he was not physically able, disliked playing with other children and had reflexes slower than an ox, and his family considered him a disappointment for not resembling his brothers or trying to be like them.2
Away from his family's scorn, he found comfort in books, above all history and the sciences. He learned to read at the age of three and taught himself to speak Elvish fluently by seven.2
Archon
When Willford was eight, a professor of magic from Archon met him, recognised his potential and spoke with his father. His father hesitated, for he held a strong dislike of sorcerers; yet out of compassion, and knowing that keeping Willford among them would mean a life wasted on something the boy never truly wanted, the old soldier let the wizard test him. The tests revealed a high intellect and remarkable arcane potential, and his training began. He cast his first spell within a month of arriving at Archon, and within a few years he became a recognised wizard specialising in abjuration.2
The raid
After graduating, Willford served as advisor to a noble family in the North, in a city where his father commanded the watch. In his fourth year of service the city was raided by Northerners and most of its defending militia was massacred. Willford protected the noble house's children together with his father and a few members of the watch.2
Several miles outside the city they were ambushed by seven axe-wielding barbarians. The guards fell one by one until only Willford and his father were left to defend the children, and Willford watched his father die, unable to stop a javelin from piercing his armour despite his arcane ward. Driven by grief, he unleashed a powerful spell, and lightning arcing from one barbarian to the next burned the rest to a crisp. Alone with the children in the forest, he led them to safety, but the event changed him profoundly.2
The Scarlet Spears
That day Willford resolved to join the Scarlet Spears. He gave up his post as an advisor and joined the company as a war mage: he could not save his father, but he could at least support those who had fought beside him. Over the following years he rose through its ranks, and he was recently appointed head mage of the Spears in the Western Provinces.2
In battle
Willford prefers to stop enemies from casting harmful spells on his allies and to bolster his allies with protective wards. He stays behind his companions, yet close enough to enemy spellcasters to counter their magic.2
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- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 10-11, 13, 146
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ÖrgütThe 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.
ÖrgütArchon AcademyThe largest and most powerful school of magic in the realm, set on a floating island above the Great Western Sea, which every mage in the Empire must attend and which serves as both university and prison.BölgeNorthern ProvincesThe northern provinces of the Empire, bordering the lands of Fraza, where imperial supply lines serve the legions and northern customs such as the Day of the Thousand Fangs have taken root.BölgeWestern ProvincesThe western provinces of the Empire, forest country of wood elves and rangers where northern settlers have been common since Skolpa's raids and the great mercenary companies compete for contracts and influence.YerWestern SpearA stronghold where many members of the Scarlet Spears mercenary company can be found.
KarakterCommander 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.KarakterStreffan 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.KarakterZamiraA 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.KarakterFazonHuman 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.KarakterHermann 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.