PURPOSE
The Red Hand mercenary company is an elite and relatively small force, specializing in military point-holding and capture, daring rescues, covert operations, intelligence gathering and hit-and-run raids. The Red Hand serves as a private, deniable strike force for its commanding officers, and its true purpose is known by few by basically everyone now.
HISTORY
The Red Hand is a notable mercenary organization which began almost on accident. To combat the threat of Reynard the Fox as he rallied local and mercenary men from his stronghold in Maupertius in the late summer of 2700, many clans and lords local to the region formed a loose coalition of arms. Among these, Alasdair White-Hand gave over a notable contingent of sworn armsmen and vampir childer to the ex-convict and lesser Dorchadan warchief Aly Rautire.
It's widely rumored that during negotiations Alasdair welcomed Aly into his bloodline and embraced her into the night as one of his vampir childer, and gave her a parcel of his father-name in native tradition; henceforth, she became known as Aly Red-Hand, and the mongrel group of soldiers fought under new banners made for the occasion.
The name stuck, and so did many of its surviving members; after re-organization, the decision was made to formally become a mercenary force, with new applicants tested and accepted over winter.
In the spring of 2702, Aly Red-Hand passed command of the group to Diarmuid ua Duibhne, John Grimm and Javik, before vanishing.On June 29th, they met in secret in Leathann, and discussed the future of the group and their plans. Their contract with the Seelie, in aiding the occupation of Mair, was considered fulfilled and terminated. The Red Hand is currently not affiliated with either court.
In September of 2702, the Red Hand launched their plan to steal the collected shards of both courts. Teams were organized to infiltrate each court, while another team set up a decoy site in the Witch Moors. The theft was successful, and the ritual to harness the power of the shards was completed. As a result, the stolen shards reformed into a mountainous gem, casting the war - and the world - into chaos.
Its future in the Willed World is pending!
MEMBERSHIP
The Red Hand is formally organized. There is a book of regulations, fixed pay scales and plans for advancement. In addition to certain insurance opportunities, members may benefit from paid leave, pensions, retirement plans and medical care (its way better than obamacare). Magical medical care for their troops are available where possible, and the fallen are disposed of with dignity.
The commanders negotiate with would-be employers, pay the fleet's wages, and organize standards and appointments. They actively recruit from shardbearers and natives alike, and will take recommendations.
Troops are organized into companies headed by lieutenants, with multiple lieutenants reporting to a captain. Captains head the larger segments of the mercenary body: intelligence, cavalry and infantry. Captains report to the commanders. The individual mercenaries in each company have signed contract with their captains or with the commanders which determine the scope of their benefits and wages.
Certain aspects of mercenary behavior are regulated by the drabwurld's law and custom, as interpreted by captains and commanders for their own convenience. A mercenary group is required to post warnings to local villages and on major roads in its area of activity. Of course, not all mercenaries abide by this - but the commanders of the Red Hand insist that they do so, if only to retain popular goodwill or in a private dispute.
HOW TO JOINIn any area where the Red Hand is active, one may find a member of the company and speak to them about joining. A Seelie looking to join may speak with Diarmuid au Duibhne and an Unseelie may speak with Javik. Any and all may speak with John Grimm.
Employment is not necessary to work with the Red Hand - an informant may pass along information without being a formal member. This makes cross-court interaction a little safer, but such arrangements will not benefit from the full membership. Other, more discreet payments and exchanges can be agreed upon.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FORThe Red Hand hires nearly every flavor of mercenary - swordsmen, archers, magic users and thieves are all welcome. Jobs range from full military campaigns to border skirmishes, as well as escorts, bodyguards and settling disputes.
While recruitment will focus largely on infantry and soldiers, the commanders will have a particular interest in hiring magic users and thieves (and any combination of the two). This is not publicly known.THE IC STUFFWhat your character can assume or know about the Red Hand at this point is as follows:★ It was once lead by Aly Red-Hand
★ They have been in the employ of the Seelie, and helped them hold Mair. This contract was recently seen as complete, and they no longer have a Seelie-backed presence in Mair.
★ Very recently, leadership changed hands.
★ They are currently actively recruiting for new members, most vocally those with military experience.
★ They were responsible for the theft of the shards from both courts, the greatest consequence being the gem reforming on the plains.
THE OOC STUFF
The Plan is at the bare bones stage right now. More will be outlined and discussed as it becomes relevant, and nothing is set in stone! There is no timetable for implementing it and it will be a constant work in progress.
This is an attempt at pursuing a third option, one that combines the goals of both the Seelie and the Unseelie. The exact means of doing this, as well as the direct results and consequences are currently unknown, even to us! If you have any comments, questions or concerns, please let us know, or get into contact with the mods.
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Character | Journal: The Inquisitor (Nasrin Lavellan) |
Court: Unseelie
Position:
inquisitor/interrogatorMercenary, informant. Whatever you'd need or like.Anything else? For the moment, she'd like to be kept off the books until she's fully ready to have her name in the pot. Mostly to keep people associated with her safe but also to have an ace in the hole when the chips are down. She's also a magic user, though she wouldn't know they're looking for one.
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Contact: PM to gordianknots, or else email (PM me for email address, or else Sandy has it on file.)
Character | Journal: Waver|
Court: Unseelie
Position: At the outset, informant, but plot depending I'd like to consider moving Waver into a more direct military position.
Anything else? Waver's aware of what Alyosha's plans were (he was informed during March 2701 during timeskip.) He's available, in particular, for magic use and could be useful in a command position eventually. I'd like to work to build him there, but realize that others probably would like to have that position and would rather they have first dibs.
Waver also has CR with John and Lancer, if this impacts your IC planning!
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Character | Journal: Steve Rogers |
Court: Seelie
Position: Soldier/bodyguard/etc.
Anything else? John talked to Steve about joining this during the silver sickness event, in case anyone's curious about how the big star-spangled blond got there. :>
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Character | Journal: Elizabeth of York |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Iiiiidk! She's like Xena:
She's a mage, scholar, diplomat, warrior—but since you'll be no doubt attracting a lot of muscle to the cause, her magic and tact with diplomacy might make assigning her a job easier?
Character | Journal: Lagertha |
Court: Seelie
Position: She likes to fight and tell people what to do. Please let her command some people if you're comfortable!
Anything else? Nope!
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Character | Journal: Leo Valdez |
Court: Seelie
Position: Informant maybe, and also offering his skills as a blacksmith to provide enchanted weapons and such! Depending on how things play out he might move into a more active position later on, but until then, he'll want his membership to keep quiet.
Anything else? as the son of a god, he can summon fire! not sure if that counts as a magic user or not, but he can do some magic stuff (see enchanting weapons and whatnot).
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Character | Journal: Gabranth |
Court: Seelie
Position: informant, investigator, possibly a mercenary or bodyguard as long as his involvement is kept on the down-low -- due to his position as a Marquis, he is super careful about who he's publicly known to be involved with!
Anything else? again, he reeeally doesn't want it to be known that he's working with a band of mercs, but he's willing to do whatever it takes to help find an alternative way to deal with the Void. (also he has some CR with John Grimm, though it's been a long while since they last spoke!)
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Character | Journal: Flint |
Court: Unseelie
Position: THIEF, mercenary, spy, bodyguard. mostly, if a mission requires an utter lack of remorse or morals, Flint's your man. he's also a brilliant tactician (he's ex-Navy).
Anything else? nope! he might want to keep his involvement with the operation quiet though, because he's naturally paranoid and doesn't like it when people can guess his plans.
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Character | Journal: Clarke Griffin |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Red Hand Captain serving under John Grimm.
Anything else? Clarke's an adept magic user and some of her magic can make thieving more successful! And she has 24/7 shard concealment, which I completely forgot to include.
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Character | Journal: Saralegui |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Unofficial, but totally down for being a source of funding, providing a safe haven if needed, and using his more unique abilities to help as he did for Aly.
Anything else? ~mind control~
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Character | Journal: Katherine Pierce |
Court: Unseelie.
Position: Mercenary, investigator, soldier, whatever you need a hot vampire who can do almost anything and feels no remorse (which is a big fat lie) for.
Anything else? Katherine is a 500 year old vampire who is able to mind control and manipulate dreams. She has super strength and super speed, as well as simply being a natural born survivor. She was a Traveller Witch when she was human 500 years ago and knows some magic (taking over another person's body and other ... stuff). She's in it for herself (she'll gladly take on anything if she gets something out of it) and is not afraid to kill. She might want to keep her membership quiet only because her theme song is Staying Alive.
Character | Journal: Luke Castellan |
Court: Seelie.
Position: Thief.
Anything else? I'd like for him to be unofficial (or kept off the books) given his rank as a Knight of the Golden Cadre and Marquis, but he cannot literally turn down any opportunity to use his sticky fingers. Luke's a natural born thief so if there's any thieving (especially difficult break-ins!) that needs to be done or lock breaking, he's your guy. His dad's Hermes so he's great at navigation and running, has gossiping cows, foxes that are pretty smart, and two snakes that are pretty knowledgeable on stuff. If you need to get in contact with him just moo and a cow will let him know I guess.
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Character | Journal: Gilgamesh |
Court: Seelie (with neutral leanings)
Position: Gilgamesh is best suited for positions of command—Diarmuid has been formally inducted as his knight—or for political roles. He can also serve as an informant for Leathann-related activities, and will lend his sword in times of great need.
Anything else? While he will never resort to petty thievery, Gilgamesh is a potent magic user and is able to enchant equipment for fellow recruits. His Charisma enables him to rally troops and lead them to battle, and he will be seeking an official position of power in Leathann in the coming month.
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Character | Journal: Xion |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Honestly given what she's learned about the war she'll probably be leery of direct combat positions, but on the other had they're what she's best at given her inexperience and current skillset. I'd love for her to explore other options though with combat being secondary. MAYBE LET HER BE PR or something, cuteness will make up for what she lacks in diplomacy (I'm kidding. Mostly)
Anything else? Magic-user! Specifically she's able to use healing from home and will probably start trying to learn drabwurld magic soon. There's also a bunch of weirdness involved in her being what she is (an artificial creation, in short) but idk how that'll affect anything, and she doesn't know it anyway.
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Character | Journal: Merida |
Court: Seelie, heavily leaning neutral
Position: mercenary, trainer, teacher, diplomat, swordswoman, archer, magic user
Anything else? Merida recently went on a quest to try and procure the spire 6 site for the Red Hand, after being approached by Diarmuid and John, and while she didn't claim the territory (she beat Cesare but lost the battle when hers were overwhelmed, still being played out), I feel like she would have joined afterwards anyway. She's also Diarmuid's adopted daughter and is interested in looking into a third option and what she can unlock wrt her shard. With magic, she knows Cu's runes (expert level) and is going to learn Blizzard magic from Riku, and as a princess has been taught how to negotiate and be diplomatic.
Character | Journal: Terra |
Court: Seelie
Position: unlisted for now until experienced in how the Red Hand operates. magic user, swordsman
Anything else? uses a key shaped sword effectively for combat, capable of channelling magic through it. for now his magic remains as earth based, but will likely change in the foreseeable future. capable of sensing the Light and Dark in people's hearts, as well as using the darkness in his own to some degree, and has great physical strength.
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Character | Journal: Bellamy Blake |
Court: unseelie
Position: An Agent since April under John Grimm, now a Red Hand Captain still under John!
Anything else? he's got some magic to improve sneaking around + also shard concealment
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Character | Journal: Rin Tohsaka |
Court: Unseelie.
Position: Outsider unless Waver Velvet is more involved, then whatever works best. She's very good at magecraft and has been known to create items of magical power, communicators (notably for an Alyosha only network), and make things fly in the sky.
Anything else? She has an extra air ship floating (ha ha) around that was created per commission for Mair so it's more battle ready than the others she's designed. With the right persuasion, she could give it up for the cause. If you need additional communicators made to the existing network for Alyosha, just poke me and I'll get those rolling.
More importantly, her cr with Alyosha involves some pretty intense memory sharing training via the shard, a life or death situation in which they almost died from blowing up a shard (oops), and a number of her close cr (Unseelielot, Waver) were very involved with her. She vaguely knows of the sigils, but has been kept at a distance from a lot of the intricate plans for her own protection.
No one's stepped up for shard training in the past couple months with me, so she could offer than and therefore help people unlock rank 1 and help spar with them in order to bolster their strengths.
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Character | Journal: Hermione Granger |
Court: Seelie
Position: Supplier and, perhaps, informant! I doubt Hermione would be an 'official' member considering her rank and position as Marchioness, but she will donate potions, healing supplies and protective garments to the Red Hand.
Anything else? Hermione is the legal daughter of John Grimm, now, and she is good friends with Diarmuid and would help them as much as she can c:
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Contact: plurk: @kalinda99, aim: ichliebeuni, or you can PM me :)
Character | Journal: Simon Monroe |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Recruiting people, likely Seelie people, he has a high charisma score/is good at convincing people of things, so if he could work for Javik doing that it'd be cool. He could be an informant, too, if he hears anything useful, and also do research on the Void. He'd like to keep his involvement on the down-low, particularly if it's a lot of communication with the other court.
Anything else? Will need to get him an alternate communication device, even better if it can do anon. Also I have developing CR with Clarke and Ariadne, a tiny bit with Bellamy, and I'm working on getting some with Javik and Steve, so ICly those are all possibilities for Simon's eventual membership. Right now he doesn't really know about the Red Hand (he might have heard of them as a merc group) and he'd just like to find another way to stop the Void, but he's not aware of any effort to do so. I intend to work on getting him some magic and shard activation.
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Character | Journal: Aqua |
Court: Seelie
Position: She's going to want to be unlisted until she has experienced how the Red Hand does things. After that first mission or two, she'll decide whether she wants to change to be officially listed. Infantry. Magic user.
Anything else? She uses a key-shaped sword and can use her magic in conjunction with it. She can also sense the light and darkness in another person's heart. That's about it.
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Character | Journal: Dick Grayson |
Court: Seelie
Position: spy/informant, bodyguard, courier, ...mercenary that doesn't kill... also, he'd like to keep his name off the books for now and if/when that changes, he's MOST LIKELY going to prefer going masked and with a codename rather than his actual name
Anything else? HE DOESN'T...actually...know the Red Hand exists yet, but I would love for that to change ;u;b
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Character | Journal: Riku |
Court: Seelie
Position: Riku isn't actually ready to become a Red Hand member quite yet, though that's something I'd like to work him toward. So off the books for right now!
Anything else? RIKU HAS A LOT OF MAGIC. He's got access to pretty much all his magic at its basest levels (aside from Curaga, which heals a lot, and fire, which is. You know. Gone) and is a Keyblade wielder so there's that. He can also sense darkness in people's hearts, and in addition can exploit the darkness for some minor things (he can move through it and see perfectly in even the blackest night).
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Character | Journal: Zack Fair |
Court: Seelie
Position: Official. Zack is a powerful swordsman with years of military experience. He is also a capable magic user.
Anything else? Having completed a quest with the assistance of a small group of Red Hand mercenaries in Leathann, Zack Fair was given a letter of recommendation by Gilgamesh and joined their ranks in July. Diarmuid was his contact.
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Character | Journal: Lauralae |
Court: None, native, worshipper of the Shuck, undead Revenant?
Position: Informant, thief, magic user, anything! She has blood magic, a wolf form and was bid by the Shuck to gather shards.
Anything else? Seriously, she'd do anything for John. ("probably followed john into camp one day and then just stuck around")
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Character | Journal: Dorian Gray |
Court: Seelie
Position: Informant, thief. Connected to the entire Drabwurld underworld.
Anything else? Dorian doesn't want to be official. But hey, why not try things out for fun?
John, please stop growling at him whenever he's near Hermione. Please. ALSO, HI JAVIK sorry 'bout the babe (only Dia likes Dorian)
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Character | Journal: Flora |
Court: Seelie
Position: Unlisted. Magic user, ambassador/politician, teacher, soldier. Good for any sisterhood or nature-related issues, as well as Leathann.
Anything else? WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR JOHN AND DIARMUID. and has been on team third option for quite a while, ever sin aly so.
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Character | Journal: Bucky Barnes |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Soldier/Assassin
Anything else? Bucky wants missions with Steve 8| I'm only partly kidding, he works best as a sneaky assassin but if he needs to work with people he works best with people he knows and trusts and that's Steve. Also his CR with the leaders is just with John for the moment. Also he'd rather be unlisted since he's still acting as Ariadne's primary bodyguard and it might not be good for PR if people (like the queen) found out.
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Character | Journal: Richard
the Lionheart|Court: Unseelie
Position: Mercenary
Anything else? Is trying to be just an average soldier, but likely failing miserably. He's a commander and actual historical military prodigy and it shows. He will be trying to move through the ranks and quickly so that he can get to a position that he works best in. Though he is really good at just looking menacing and punching people too.
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Character | Journal: Johnny Storm |
Court: Unseelie
Position: As a baron with 4 stars under his belt, he wields considerable influence and is pretty good with getting things done when he sets his mind to it. Case in point: the rebuilt spire. Johnny's good with leading people and getting straight into the action -- and his charisma and charm enable him to network and move around easily. He'd rather his membership be kept a secret at this point. He also has Jack, who's damn good at one hell of a lot of things, as well as coordination and putting things to action.
Anything else? Johnny's got massive firepower at his fingertips, in all senses of the word. But he won't use it on people who don't deserve it or people who aren't attacking him. But he has a myriad uses for it, too. And depending on whether his boon is approved, he can fly again. He's currently looking to learn blood magic, water and earth, so there's that.
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Character | Journal: Jack Benjamin |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Spy or soldier. Jack has had military training and gone on undercover missions before. He can see through his cat's eyes (don't laugh, it comes in handy) and can also offer a little financial support from his brothel. In a pinch, it could be used as a hideout for someone, but he's cautious about endangering his employees. Good for miscellaneous things.
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Character | Journal: Arno Dorian |
Court: Unseelie
Position: Informant/courier, but unlisted. He can also do spying but that's something more along the lines of him not mentioning it unless the situation requires it.
Anything else? Diarmuid introduced him to the Red Hand and its ways in the battle of the White Citadel. He also has shard concealment at night. c: