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The Vance Mercenaries

The Vance Mercenaries (Vance Mercenary Company) are a hardened, pragmatic band of sellswords and seasoned fighters operating across the provinces and trade routes of the Empire. Unlike politically entangled black-ops syndicates, the Vance Mercenaries represent the gritty reality of the imperial mercenary underworld—living and dying strictly by contract, steel, and coin.

Company Overview & Operations​

  • Frontier & Trade Contracts: Regularly hired by wealthy merchant houses, provincial barons, and town councils for caravan escort, border patrol, beast extermination, and garrison defense in lawless frontiers.
  • Pragmatic Code of Survival: The company survives on ruthless discipline and collective survival instincts. They avoid courtly entanglements and ideological crusades, focusing strictly on fulfilling their contracts and ensuring their members live to collect their pay.
  • The Volume III Plains Clashes: While deployed on caravan escort and regional mercenary duties, the Vance Mercenaries took catastrophic casualties when Jean and New Elpis's elite archery corps systematically targeted and decimated their sellswords from the backline.
  • Reputation: While lacking the arcane sorcery of noble knightly orders, their rank-and-file fighters are tough, resourceful, and experienced in chaotic skirmishes and melee warfare.

Key Figures​

  • Geld: The gruff, battle-scarred commander and leading figure of the Vance Mercenaries. A veteran frontline brawler who commands absolute loyalty from his men.
  • Veteran Sellswords & Vanguard Blades: A diverse cadre of grizzled swordsmen, crossbowmen, and camp skirmishers who form the defensive core of the company across provincial campaigns.