Powers of the Realm · Mercenaries

Mercenaries · also Adventuring company

Grey Pike Fellowship

A contract hall selling convoy steadiness, bridge-holding, colonial escort and hard respectability to merchants and councils.

A body whose recruiting clerks compete for escort men, foreign guards, shrine hands and discharged veterans.

Ties

At the table

Bought for steadiness; its rates are quoted for a decade against a company thought to have lost a witness. New companies are measured against it.