Casteviedan Venator

  Even before the radio was invented and going back as far as to a pre-civilized society, the Venators have always existed within the human tribes that hailed out of Casteviedo. To them, the pigeons were not pests but lifesavers. They were messengers between tribal leaders to warn each other for threats, establish secret meetings and sometimes even used to a degree within hunting. To locate prey.   In the current age, the Venators have never been as important as they are for the Casteviedan people and the Revenant Legion. Where technological limitations fall flat, birds are already perfected by nature. Where the radio might not reach, or gets destroyed, the pigeons already stand ready to fly. Where the enemy moves in silence, the eyes and ears of raptors are far keener than any other instrument that humanity has.     The Venators are usually promoted from Logisticarius or the aspiring Kennel Masters that fail their physical tests. As backline units, they focus less on combat and more on training their birds as well as maintaining radio posts and delivering messages. This means a good portion of both engineering and penmanship go into their field education.       A long barreled lever-action revolver that holds only four shots, but serves as an incredibly accurate pin-point precision weapon with massive stopping power. The firearm is a poor choice against swarm units, as it must be loaded bullet by bullet and has a slow rate of fire. However, for a backline unit that mostly keeps out of combat - the revolver has felled many monstrous units that tried to fell the Revenant Legions’ communicators.       The Venators wear a light and mobile half plate above their torso, with scalemail shoulderplates and a segmented kilt that protects their lower bodies and knees. Where the light raiment deviates from the usual standards worn by the sharpshooters and logisticarius - is their sleeve.   On top of the wearer's dominant arm, the olive green and earthy brown lorica segmentata carries a cured leather bracer. Which is one of the rare cases where leather is used as armour on a unit of the Golden Empire. This bracer carries the purpose of protecting the wearer from the claws of their own raptors, without sacrificing mobility.