Marauders of Chaos · kept by Tom
The Order of the Welling Rune
4 living souls of 4 · 0 battles, 0 won · spoken of in the taverns as Newcomers after 20 nights
“The Order was founded near the year 1800 by Godefrey de la Vieuxbourg, Castellan of the Ferric Keep, who styled himself la Lance Sanglante after a rune of welling dragon-blood impressed itself upon him in the hour of a kill. The Annals of Hargendorf for 1867 tell of armoured reavers who cut down a garrison, demanded a duel, and left a symbol of slaughter daubed upon the square in the blood of the townsfolk; Herr Lehman von Grafenrich calls them plain Norscans, and Herr Lehman is wrong. Theirs was no headlong dive into heresy but a long and certain road, and they ride it still beneath a writhing crimson rune on a black field. Now a Questoathed of the Order has come to the City of the Damned with three of his brethren. I pray to the God-King that you never face them, and I confess that as I write of them my quill grows steadier, not weaker.” — from the Codex Sanguinatum of Brother Waldemar, called the Lunatic, sometime Scribe of the Order of the Cleansing Flame
The muster roll
Open a warrior to read their record.01Merovech de WormsbourgChieftain · heroQuestoathed
Merovech de Wormsbourg's statline M WS BS S T W I A Ld 4 5 4 4 4 1 5 1 8 Skills & special rules
- Leader
Tale
Lord of the brotherhood of the mailed fist, thrice honoured by the Axe-Father, slayer of Roland de Hauteville and taker of the skulls of champions. The Codex Sanguinatum says the ground resounded when he rode out from the Ferric Keep, and that all who saw his pennants knew the Order was abroad. He has sworn an oath that brought him south from the frozen forests to the soft green lands and, at last, to Mordheim. What the oath demands he has told only the Bloodfather, and the Bloodfather does not say.
Nights in the City
1 night out between the battles. Each is on the line below, folded between the battles; the whole ledger is at the Curfew.
Follow their story
One night is folded between the battles.One night in Mordheim
- Night 2 · Wellentag, 11th of Pflugzeit
Merovech won at the Pit without drawing steel. The wagers paid out. The story paid better. The Pit drew the overflow from the gibbets. They wanted more of what they had seen.
- Night 2 · Wellentag, 11th of Pflugzeit
The Tale Continues…
02Reinmar von AltakreSeer · heroBloodfather
Reinmar von Altakre's statline M WS BS S T W I A Ld 4 4 3 4 4 1 4 1 8 Skills & special rules
- Wizard
Tale
An Imperial name and an Imperial education, both put to uses the Colleges would burn him for. Reinmar reads the rune where the brothers cannot: in the pattern a wound leaves on stone, in the way blood runs across broken ground. It is he who daubs the symbol of slaughter on a square when the fighting is done, and he who tells Merovech what it means. The brothers call him Bloodfather.
Nights in the City
The taverns call Reinmar Reinmar Who Played the Fiddle now. 8 nights out between the battles. Each is on the line below, folded between the battles; the whole ledger is at the Curfew.
Follow their story
8 nights are folded between the battles.8 nights in Mordheim and Fussenbach
- Night 2 · Wellentag, 11th of Pflugzeit
Reinmar sat with Sister Agathe in the ruins by Sigmar's Bridge and said little. The saying was not the point. The two of them did not speak on the way home.
- Night 8 · Angestag, 17th of Pflugzeit
Reinmar von Altakre sang the boat song with the wrong words. In Fussenbach the words matter. The ale stopped coming. The Flagon's window glowed green from the wharf side. The landlord drew the curtain and it glowed through the curtain. In the Flagon a Watch sergeant, deep in his cups, said the name of somebody in The Order of the Welling Rune and a price for it.
What Reinmar did Finish the cup and go. By the time anyone might have asked, it was done. The cup was finished. The sergeant was still talking when the door closed.
- Night 10 · Wellentag, 19th of Pflugzeit
Reinmar drank two and went home. The village barely noticed. That is the point of a village.
- Night 12 · Marktag, 21st of Pflugzeit
Reinmar drank at the Flagon in the usual silence. Companionable, by now. The chandler's candles burned green and the chandler sold them anyway and said it was the tallow.
- Night 14 · Bezahltag, 23rd of Pflugzeit
Reinmar von Altakre kept the usual stool at the Flagon. The usual pumpkin ale. The chandler's candles burned green and the chandler sold them anyway and said it was the tallow.
- Night 16 · Angestag, 25th of Pflugzeit
Reinmar drank at the Flagon and was neither welcomed nor asked to leave. Ash from the west came in under the Flagon door and settled on the ale. Nobody minded.
- Night 18 · Wellentag, 27th of Pflugzeit
Reinmar von Altakre sat where they always sit. The landlord poured without asking. The landlord wiped ash from the bar between rounds and asked, every time, whose it was.
- Night 20 · Marktag, 29th of Pflugzeit
Reinmar von Altakre kept the Flagon's corner warm. Nobody argued for it. The Flagon's fire would not draw and the room filled with the smell of somewhere else burning.
- Night 2 · Wellentag, 11th of Pflugzeit
The Tale Continues…
03Guillame ShieldbreakerChampion · heroBrother Knight
Guillame Shieldbreaker's statline M WS BS S T W I A Ld 4 4 3 4 3 1 4 1 7 Tale
The name was not given for shields he has carried. Guillame came to the Order the way most of its knights do, by winning the duel the Order demands of every keep it passes, and then finding he had nowhere to go home to. He delights in seeking challenges with fellow knights, laughing in the face of their false chivalry as he adds yet more skulls to his collection. He hopes to lay them someday at the grand altar of the Ferric Keep for the glory of the Axe-Father.
Nights in the City
3 nights out between the battles. Each is on the line below, folded between the battles; the whole ledger is at the Curfew.
Follow their story
3 nights are folded between the battles.3 nights in Fussenbach
- Night 3 · Aubentag, 12th of Pflugzeit
Guillame traded at the tithe barn and was paid from the tithe chest. The tithe is the Elector's. The Elector will not hear of it, which is the problem. The hanged man's boat was sold before he stopped swinging. The bargeman who bought it did not want it. He wanted what was under the boards.
- Night 5 · Backertag, 14th of Pflugzeit
Guillame Shieldbreaker kept the usual arrangement on the lower docks. The usual coin.
- Night 7 · Konistag, 16th of Pflugzeit
Guillame Shieldbreaker moved the usual sliver through the usual bargeman. The usual tenth for the ferryman.
- Night 3 · Aubentag, 12th of Pflugzeit
The Tale Continues…
04Krylov VasilyevichChampion · heroBrother Knight
Krylov Vasilyevich's statline M WS BS S T W I A Ld 4 4 3 4 3 1 4 1 7 Tale
A Kislevite by his name and his patience, and the only brother who does not seem to enjoy the work. Krylov keeps the Order’s pennants and mends them by lamplight, the crimson rune on the black field, and rides at Merovech’s left where a Questoathed keeps the man he trusts. He speaks little in the Reikspiel and less in his own tongue. The Bloodfather says the rune took him in a snowfield east of Praag, and that is all the Order knows of it.
Nights in the City
3 nights out between the battles. Each is on the line below, folded between the battles; the whole ledger is at the Curfew.
Follow their story
3 nights are folded between the battles.3 nights in Fussenbach
- Night 3 · Aubentag, 12th of Pflugzeit
Krylov sat by the Flagon's fire and listened to the landlord's boy tell the story of the mill wheel. It gets longer every night.
- Night 5 · Backertag, 14th of Pflugzeit
Krylov Vasilyevich kept the Flagon's corner warm. Nobody argued for it.
- Night 7 · Konistag, 16th of Pflugzeit
Krylov Vasilyevich sat where they always sit. The landlord poured without asking. Krylov kept watch on the lane. A Watch patrol passed and pretended not to see.
- Night 3 · Aubentag, 12th of Pflugzeit
The Tale Continues…