Ruler/Year No. Company Where
Queen Rodenos ("The Great")
1 6 Wandering (Mountains near Eperkos)
2 15 Wandering (Mountains near Sarkeelos)
3 30 Rizogalo (Kingdom of Epethros) guarding pilgrims on the Sarkeelos road
4 50 Hired by Prince of |Nekra to guard the sacred temples against incursions by Rebel Sathros
5 200 Brought up to full strength as a company, on contract to guard prince of Nekra
6 200 Ksep steps down as Captain because he feels that the duties being asked of the company are dishonourable. Remains as
Chaplain and acts as the conscience of the Company.
7 200 Nekra
8 250 Nekra
9 250 Nekra
10 250 Nekra. Company is now being used as bully boys and enforcers by Prince of Nekra.
11 125 Company splits after disastrous series of police actions against rioting peasants. A third are killed. Some remain as Prince's
bully boys. Most, led by Kopto and Thracie, decide that the Prince broke their contract by forcing them into actions that did not
cover the remit of protecting him and leave. Ksep, sickened by the whole affair, quits and lives the rest of his life in a
monastery somewhere.
12 110 After a brief spell in Malono, the Company is thrown out by the Prince, giving way to pressure from the Prince of Nekra who
has by this time regained his throne. The Company takes ship to Zaketa and wanders, performing guard duty for merchants and
priests.
13 120 Zaketa
14 120 Zaketa
15 120 Zaketa. Company lands a plum position guarding the temples of Ohia the Viper.
16 120 Zaketa.
17 75 Disastrous year. High priests of the temples steal most of the wealth and sacrifices for themselves, blaming the company.
Company forced to flee, many are wounded or killed. Remaining company swears that the company will never again take
employment from any priest of Ohia the Viper. Company steals a ship and sails along the coast, steals supplies in Bakses, then
sends members in undercover to Limanos. Company votes and decides to head North, but before they can set sail they are
discovered and forced to flee into the plains.
18 50 Wilderness. Company fights as a mercenary band for various tribes. Unusually, company is not screwed by any employers. Keo
discovers something hideous and goes to investigate, is never heard from again. His pupil, Louzo, takes over.
19 50 Wilderness.
20 50 Wilderness.
21 75 Wilderness. Company votes to enlarge itself taking in tribesmen.
22 90 Wilderness. Company participates in the unification of the warring tribes under Onomazo the Bold.
23 90 Company discharged with regret by Onomazo, who has had great success in his campaigns but whose coffers are empty.
Company moves on to Stavrotos.
24 85 Selas betrays the company and company is forced to break a contract in the first time in its history, for Selas had signed the
company up NOT to fight in a crucial forthcoming engagement. Selas' name is cursed by the company for all eternity. For
several years afterwards the company finds it almost impossible to get any commissions but the older members of the company
are reluctant to move on.
25 70 Stavrotos
26 65 Stavrotos
27 62 Stavrotos
28 60 Stavrotos
29 50 Stavrotos. Company considers settling down for good, vote is narrowly carried, mostly by the older members.
30 50 Stavrotos. Company's name becomes more reputable, business starts to pick up.
31 60 Stavrotos. Thracie decides to step down as Captain as the company is prospering. Spasmos is killed in battle shortly afterwards
when two of his four swords shatter. Seeo takes over as sword trainer, but many consider that the company's back has been
broken. Most of the older members step down or retire; the rest of the company votes to stay in and around Stavrotos but starts
agitating for more profitable commissions. Treemoss leaves the company but subsequently meets up with them in the north.
32 45 Company at very low ebb. Important employers still remember the first betrayal and point to the new members as incompetent
youngsters. Vote taken on whether to move on at the end of the contract. This becomes a tradition. Vote is narrowly defeated
because Onomazo sends riders asking the company to enter his service once more.
33 50 Wilderness, under service to Onomazo.
34 75 Wilderness.
35 85 Wilderness.
36 100 Wilderness.
37 110 Praktoras the Captain is killed in battle. Selahee takes over. He proves to be a much more astute operator and rapidly bargains
the company into a position of great strength in Onomazo's armies. Company recruits significantly once more.
38 200 Onomazo begins to fear th power of the company, forbids further expansion. Company votes to leave rather than submit.
Onomazo's gratitude turns to anger and the company has to fight its way out. It ends up of all places in Galadiahos.
39 250 Company is regarded poorly in Galadiahos and Rodenos forbids the civil service to hire the company for any reason, in
perpetuity. This ruling still stands today as none of her successors have reversed it. Company gains strength but the new recruits
are not of high quality and there is no money for training and equipment. The company becomes essentially a merchant guard
unit.
40 250 Galadiahos.
King Ohra
1 250 With Rodenos' death, her sickly son Ohra succeeds to the throne. No longer held back by his mother, he begins a series of
purges and orgies that leave the country ravaged and burnt. No stranger to royal displeasure, the company fights against his
brute squads, often for free, and is forced into hiding.
2 125 Company is caught is a disastrous engagement at Vradee. It is the only rebel unit that doesn‘t break and although the royal
forces win the day, it is a pyrrhic victory. Ohra rules for another five years but the seeds of his downfall are sewn on this day.
The company flees back into the mountains where it first started and survives as a band of outlaws and thieves rather than a
mercenary company. Louzo the sorceror loses his life in the great battle, as does Keezato the quartermaster.
3 125 Mountains of Galadiahos
5 90 Mountains of Galadiahos
6 75 Company remnants are recruited by the forces of the king's rebel brother, Skara, and act as his royal bodyguard.
7 100 Company recruits Proales, a master engineer, from Skara's army. Company strength is increased. Company participates in the
final campaign that topples Ohra. The actual takeover is achieved with considerable sorcerous aid from the company, resisted
by the Berdevo who serve Ohra. The Berdevo become aware that the company has renegades in its midst and begins a silent
murder campaign.
King Skara
1 125 Moleeno promoted to Lt. Sanos becomes Sgt. Company serves as the red brigade of the royal guard, the "banished brigade".
2 140 Galadiahos
3 150 King Skara is slain by Berdevo assassins and many members of the company are cut down in their homes, including the
Captain (Selahee), Proales the engineer and Istera the Chaplain. The scattered remnants flee by ship to Stavrotos. The Berdevo
establish a religious regent until Skara's only daughter comes of age.
High Priest Naos (Regent)
1 60 Moleeno, recently promoted to Lt, becomes captain in the aftermath of the slaughter in Galadiahos. Company takes on minor
guard duties in Stavrotos once more, licking its wounds.
2 75 Company heads into the Sathros wilderness in an expedition on behalf of the merchant council of Stavrotos. This expedition, in
search of some mythical cities, takes several years and is mostly fruitless, although some Rakhokalia ruins do shed a bit more
light on the nature of the Berdevo and their masters.
3 70 Sathros Wilderness.
4 65 Sathros Wilderness.
5 60 Sathros Wilderness. Treemoss meets company and takes up travelling with them. He is now getting quite old and seeks to
return to home to set down roots for the long slide into treedom.
6 60 Company returns to Stavrotos only to be discharged in dishonour for failing to find a fortune in gold and jewels in the
wilderness. Company votes to move North, accompanying the legendary oldest brother north to his place of rest.
7 55 Company takes up several short contracts in the twin cities of Kemih and Silakhan, employed by a variety of priests and petty
nobles. Company finds a substantial ex-patriot Galadiahan contingent and recruits many.
8 125 Twin cities.
9 125 Twin cities. Company contracted to defend the city against piratical raids. Company begins to turn into a force of marines.
Queen Evnia
1 200 Company is at full strength for the first time in many years. Moleeno and many of the seasoned officers choose to step down,
seeing that the company is becoming a marine rather than infantry force. The venerable Seeo hands over as trainer to Skaree,
who has a great hatred for outlanders and pirates since her parents were slain by them. Eleos steps down as sorceror and
disappears with Moleeno- it is suspected that they have been offered senior government posts or even overall command of the
armies of the twin cities.
2 200 Loyismos. The company is now a marine force and fights outlander pirate incursions full time as a quick-response unit. The
company gains four ships of its own, Saya, Sakitya, Kepala and Seqali.
3 200 Loyismos. Treemoss disappears one day.
4 250 Loyismos.
5 250 Loyismos.
6 250 Loyismos.
7 250 Loyismos.
8 250 Loyismos. Company is becoming feared throughout the seas as the scourge of pirates... and smugglers. The rulers of the twin
cities start employing the company's presence as a law enforcing measure to intimidate its own people.
9 225 Loyismos.
10 225 Loyismos. Company is getting a black name as a band of thugs for the nobles despite never actually having put down any civil
uprisings.
11 250 Loyismos. Nomad tribes, hit by drought, invade Loyismos. The company serves as a quick response unit to defeat the invaders
as they cross the river. Battles are exceedingly bloody and the city leaders deliberately delay reinforcements, resulting in heavy
casualties. When the company sails up to the twin cities they find the gates barred and the city masters unwilling to pay them
for their efforts. Inflamed by the treachery, Morfazo (the new captain) orders the twin cities burnt and the city leaders
surrendered to him. From bogeymen to popular heroes because of their defeat of the nomads, the move gains popular support
from the rural people and the government of the twin cities is overthrown. The first action of the new government is to expel
the company. The company takes its two remaining ships and sails north to Sungai Baik.
12 180 Sungai Baik. Company is employed as marines against the pirates once more at Cantik.
13 200 Cantik
14 200 Cantik
15 200 Cantik
16 200 Cantik
17 200 Pirate theat finally abates, company is discharged. It sails up-river and takes service in the northern city of Safir under various
commissions.
18 200 Safir.
19 250 Safir. Morfazo steps down as captain. Trehatos the Pagoth takes over.
King Mapas ("The Butcher")
1 250 Perak.
2 250 Perak.
3 250 Perak. The Company is once more hired for an expedition into the wilderness to the North of Perak.
4 225 Wilderness.
5 215 Wilderness
6 200 Wilderness.
7 180 Wilderness.Company discovers great riches in the north. Their employer, Dimana of Perak, attempt to betray them when they
return to Perak; the company is ambushed and many are killed.
8 75 Company flees Perak under a cloud as Dimana has spread stories of evil sorcery and devil worship and human sacrifice.
9 60 Company once more takes to the seas, this time as pirates themselves. The company is split by feuds and rivalries until Trehatos
is forcibly deposed, the first captain to whom this happened. The remnants of the company set sail for the Kingdom of Perahu.
10 45 Company is at its lowest ebb in living memory. There are scant few people willing to hire them and the escort missions are
extremely dangerous.
11 45 Pembelian.
12 45 Pembelian. Company begins to rebuild its tattered reputation and begins to recruit once more. For the first time the local
recruits start to outnumber those who came originally from Galadiahos.
13 60 Pembelian. Company awarded major contracts for the first time.
14 75 Merah. Company contracted into the service of the city elders as an honour guard. After the frantic brutality of the wastelands
fighting the outlanders the company accepts swiftly.
15 75 Merah.
16 75 Merah. A new outlander incursion reaches the gates of the city and the city is besieged. The company forms the backbone of the
resistance.
King Tharos
1 60 Merah. Mopping yp operations against the invaders.
2 60 Merah. Back to honour guard again.
3 60 Now. Merah.
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