Eventide Shield

(mercenaries)

The Eventide Shield are a mercenary group with several chapter houses across the western continent including a small chapter house, on a fortified hill 10 miles outside the Citadel of the Autocrat. They have a fearsome reputation, always fulfill their contract and always sell to the highest bidder. They have sold their services to the Helegu Khaganate among others

20 years ago one chapter was employed by the Roaring Host to destroy a rebellious general who had taken up refuge in an abandoned fortress at the fringes of the Brass Desert near the Paracer Ascension. For destroying the rebel general, his army and his followers Captain Bail Kenzee were allowed a share of the loot which included a +1 greataxe that was formerly in possession of the general’s Jinserric¹ personal champion.

Captain Bail’s chapter spent a further 10 years in the pay of the Roaring Host finishing up in Treonol selling their services to the Autocrat. They were heavily involved in massacre at Phobos², the Gestahl bloodbath³ and Jeshi Widom⁴ execution.

5 years ago after the Jeshi Widon execution, the Captain retired somewhere to the Chalk Tablelands. He took with him the Great Axe (nick-named the ‘woodcutter’), which he wielded along with a shining greatsword, a personal retinue of guards, his best friend and personal champion Drake Olgad, his lifelong household steward Eekeb Vandorack and an entire household worth of slaves & servants awarded him by the Autocrat.

Treonol chapter-house leadership:

• Rin Darkfighter - Captain of the Eventide Shield Mercenaries (Treonol Chapterhouse)
• Cos Andromias - High Steward of the Eventide Shield Mercenaries (Treonol Chapterhouse). Cos is also a High Priest of Bhaal

Notes

¹ Jinserric are a northern tribal people

² Thousands of combatants and noncombatants deemed to be enemies of the Autocracy hunted down and ‘defeated’ by the Autocrat

³ The annihilation of a united Jayak army (the Jayak were the tribal people who were part-integrated part-at war with the Treonol who warned you about the Tiefling’s curse

⁴ Well-known ‘hero’ of the Autocracy who became a people’s champion when he was seen to be politically taking on the ruthless Grand Merchant Ruslan of House Mederen; executed at the order of the Autocrat after being declared enemy of the state and a massive manhunt