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Border Patrols

A patrol from the Seventh Banner under Knight-Warden Rabican move to secure the old ruins north of Yursgrad against an incursion from the...

The Banner of Madrigal

The song of the fall of Madrigal was one of the oldest lays sung in the old Kingdom before the Cataclysm. Even after the Kingdom's...

A Storm of Arrows

Commoners, yeomen and those too young for the battleline - all those who could draw a bow were employed in the ranks of the Black Order...

Siege Weapons

The Black Order's artillery division comprised of a variety of war machines the Order had either constructed itself, repurposed from...

The Banners Muster

Let it hereby be known that squires Loring, Mather, Kaherdin, Gahalatine and Tristram have each acceeded to the rank of Knight-Brother of...

Milana, Sister-Martial

Even before the Cataclysm, the society of the old Kingdom was one positioned on a constant war footing. The depredations of raider clans...

Gymir-Whose-Laugh-Stinks-of-Killing

The ettin regarded me quizzically. Up close, I understood Baelden's fear of the beasts. Although they resembled mortal men in their...

Black Order Foot Knights II

The Black Order's vanguard relied increasingly on its infantry during the long march North, as the r ocky highlands north of Yursgrad...

Black Order Foot Knights

The Battle at Black Cross, the climax of a brutal civil war between the surviving Orders of the Kingdom, saw the Black Order's rise from...

The Order Marshals for War

An army shot from September 2017 - back then the Order was pretty infantry-heavy and relied on its lighter-armoured cavalry with only a...

Knights Errant

The Order took on a great number of warriors after the Battle of Black Cross. Of these disparate and varied recruits, the knights who had...

Knights of the Black Order

Those few survivors of the once-formidable knightly Orders of the Kingdom were left without lands, lords or allegiance in the world after...

Yursgrad's Hounds

Those sons of Yursgrad who came from mercantile families, or whose fathers had proven themselves in battle to the Order, were grouped in...

The Claws of Yursgrad

Those of Yursgrad's sons who did not have the brawn or constitution for the shieldwall were put to use in the second wave of the Black...

The Yursgrad Militia

The town of Yursgrad was one of the few northern border towns not directly affected by the natural disaster which shattered the Kingdom's...

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