George/Geo

Mercenary code and the five states

Geo is thrown outside the stable. He thought Maelor's father was a good man. He finds some soldiers of the army there. One of them tells them being a soldier is limited but being a sellsword or a mercenary is what a warrior would desire. The soldier says that there is a group called the Blue Mimosans. he could join them. Many of its members were killed during the war against Perseus.

Geo goes to the place as told by the soldier. He finds the group. Their leader died two days ago in the battle.

The 3000 Perseus soldiers under the command of the Knight Ser Wernz  were in siege of the  front castle out of the five castles of the Idleton Baron. The 300 Blue Mimosan were tasked as archers and rangers  at the top of the castle. Geo is given 20 copper coins as he wears the famous purple ranger dress of the Mimosans.

He wears their light armor and a helmet .

"Draw and Loose" are the only words Geo hears during the battle. The archers fire arrows to the sky under the rangers command. Geo is at the north part of the front castle with 40 other archers. His fingers are hurting after drawing atleast fifty arrows and loosing it in the air. They are only asked to defend but a pike flies through the air and kills the chief ranger commanding them. The sunsets and the attacking Perseus soldiers halt as they plan to attack at dawn.

Geo listens to one of the wounded archers saying "I live my life a killer for coin and shield and die my life  the same for glory and pain".

The archer next to him says that this is called the mercenary code.

The mercenaries across the east and the west continent have different codes. The mercenaries of the west have their subtle nature compared to their west cousins. There are sellswords who protect a master of his for coins, there are sworn swords who vow for their masters and follow the vow  until they die, Then there are assassins who are paid heavily to assassinate someone by their master.

The five states are in opposite the Forsberry state .The separation ocean separates Forsberry from the 5 states. The five states comprises of Quora, Winon, Yandra, Vixon and Trans. Quora is at the west while Trans is at the east, Winon is at the north while Vixon at the south. Yandra ,also called the land of slaves is at the middle. Its full of deserts and  hurricane. The slave city is only the city in Yandra which has a population of at least 700,000.They comprise of some thousand masters and the majority are their slaves . Yandra provides slaves to Trans and Vixon where silver mines and oil is found . All the exiled men from the west continent are exiled to Forsberry. If the people of Forsberry do not want to give refuge they send them to Quora where the reformer rules. He is not allowed to execute the exiled but to decide whether he becomes a slave or a member of the army.

The five states rebelled against this law as they regard their reformer as their god They Called him the Gods " Avatar" meaning gods human form while some called him the holy one. The capital of Trans is called the Holy City which is full of temples and shrines. The reformer stays in Quora for 6 months and then he travels through the other states for a year and then resides in the Holy City of Trans for 6 months. This cycle repeats. The reformer is called the governor at modern times. But the eastern continent still are intact to the ancient myths and beliefs. Half of the population are deity followers including masters and slaves while the other remaining comprise of eastern assassins mercenaries of the east, exiled sell-swords or sworn-swords or soldiers or knights.