The Alilandra Mercenary Company

Based in the town of Brette, the Alilandra Mercenary Company takes on the role of forward scouts, investigators, guards, assassins, or hunters.

The Alilandra Mercenary Company are contracted within the city and within surrounding villages by individuals or by the authorities, which the company has many close links with. On occasion the Company is called upon to complete tasks in other towns such as Allbrette or South Bay, and rarely in Fureck, the largest city in the region. The Alilandra Mercenary Company also has a representative in the Ere-Stade council, and can be called upon for advice, or mercenary services, within the capital

The Company has several ranks of mercenaries for hire, the lowest performing the more mundane tasks, and an elite rank of mercenaries who choose their jobs from a list of contracts. The most novice recruits are often given jobs within Brette, just in case additional support is needed, but most elite groups have autonomy to perform their contracts as they see fit. Those who break the Alilandra Mercenary Code are often hunted down by the mercenary company and are subject to the code of the company, which may result in differing degrees of severity, but the Company is allowed to exact discipline within its own ranks however it chooses, separate from Ere-Stade law.

The Company often has more work than it can provide cover for, but remains the highest order of mercenaries in the lower east territories of the island realm of Ere-Stade. Its history spans back to the founding of Brette, now a small town, where Alilandra, a merchant princess settled and required a guard. Wanting to keep them fresh and active, she would occasionally hire a small number of them out as mercenaries. Having the funding to equip them well and provide the best training, they often proved themselves more than capable, and she was petitioned to hire them out more often; so a profitable enterprise grew. Upon her death, she willed her estate be turned into a training ground and the Alilandra Mercenary Company to continue fulfilling contracts and providing their service. Alilandra's mansion now serves as the main barracks of the Company, and employs mercenaries trained outside its walls as well as ones within. An apprenticeship at Alilandra's is highly sought after, and some nobles buy their children a place, considering it good for them as a way of stopping them from becoming too reliant on their guards.

The Island Realm of Ere-Stade

A blog for the Island Realm of Ere-Stade, a Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition World.

Posts here will contain nuggets of information about the world and the actions of the players within. Updates will happen when they happen, but generally, whenever a one-off session is played within the world, or as the Ere-Stade Campaign progresses, more information will appear here.