Bones of Effandi
The "Bones of Effandi" was the name of the mercenary group largely based out of Anwer, Daendar, and Tsrach. The group was led by a coarse man who claimed to have once served in the Rutar named Effandi.
The group prided themselves on being able to work as a “skeleton crew”, doing tasks often requiring more men than they brought. The crew was loyal to Effandi, and to his coin, but they also had good relations between many of the members.
Effandi was from a small village in Anwer, as were most of the other men (not the same village), though two brothers hailed from Tsrach, the barren wasteland south of Anwer.
Disbandment
Nearly all the members of the Bones of Effandi were found slaughtered one day by Cin, the only member to survive (who had been out foraging).
Though Cinnamon did not stay in Anwer long after the Bones of Effandi were killed, he managed to ask a few people he knew if they had heard anything about a bounty on the group or any grudges between Effandi and other mercenary leaders. While it had long been rumoured that Effandi was rivals with the Aztan of the Anwer village of Vanaha, named Deirza, few would speculate whether he had anything to do with it.
Some, instead, guessed that the group had been killed by Tsrachian slavers when they refused to comply, but Cinnamon had a hard time believing that given the presence of the Tsrachian brothers in their group, and their distance from the border when they were killed. Others still theorized that Effandi had offended the powerful recluses who lived in the Grove of the Anterna (seemed unlikely) or the ever-warlike peoples who protected the little-known land of Oseshadha.
On the day he found their bodies, Cinnamon had managed two solid clues in all of his searching: a strange black-blue shard of a weapon blade (he guessed) that he found lodged in Sannoya’s back, and the fact that all of the Bones’ weapons and other metal items has been turned to ash. In the years since, he had not managed to learn anything else about the shard or the ash, though he kept both (the ash in a small vial).
DISBANDED/DISSOLVED
Bones of Effandi Members
- Effandi, leader
- Sannoya, cook
- Cin, mercenary
- Lool, mercenary (former, freed by a game of Alldn)
- Dunwad, mercenary
- Advad, mercenary
- Jenter, mercenary
- Poin, blacksmith
- Chalwa, driver
- Shain, mercenary
- Yavach, mercenary
Type
Military, Mercenary Group
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