Blackwater Company

Blackwater Company
Blackwater Company is a mercenary organisation spread out over all of Humaris. Their headquarters is Fort Bloodletter, which lies in the middle of Blackwater Lake. The organisation is well known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as the biggest and most organized mercenary band, with numbers being near the two thousand.

Pre-First Age
Blackwater Company was founded in 1200, after the deserter ex-general Crimson Barlaq left the Imperial Army during the Imperial-Xi'Dorei conflict. Unsatisfied with the military morals of the empire, the former General lead his band of deserters to the lawless Open, where he found Blackwater Lake. They set up camp, and over the seasons they build Blackwater Hamlet, a small town ment to house the soldiers and facilitate production of building materials.

In the summer of 1202 they completed the bridge to the small island in the center of the lake. In 1214 the construction of the initial version of Fort Bloodletter was completed, and Blackwater Company housed themselves. By 1220 their numbers counted roughly one-thousand men, having recruited bandits, sellswords, criminals and other deserters.

First Age
By the 1400's Blackwater Co. had significant presence and influence within Humaris. Their mercenary bands were frequently hired by nobles and politicians to handle different assignments, both legally and illegally.

In 1422, the Chosen Three encountered an abandoned Blackwater drug production facility hidden in the Ruined Temple in the east of M'ur. It seemed to have been abandoned for a while, and skeletons of Blackwater Company mercenaries were found.