Bolverks Army

Bolverk - Crusade of Ashes and Blood - Reims -- medieval

Rode Generaals Leger (Red Generals Army)

Erik Eigermann -- Herra Lorde

Bolverk -- Maestre de Campo (Field marshal)

Ilse Reinegger -- Dominae ex Castris (Lady of the Camp)

The Red Generals are a study in extremes. Erik Eigermann is youthful countenance is shadowed everywhere by the brutish North-man Bolverk who is obviously decades his senior and who defers to him as any baron would his liege lord. These two lords are bound together by the Dominae ex Castris, Ilse Reinegger, and her influence over the High Lord and Field Marshal is a powerful but subtle thing. As the army marches ever eastward her influence is felt all the more through the camp and the camp is slowly being divided by two opinions. The first is that she is a sorceress who has bewitched these two great men or that she is the embodiment of the army's spirit much like Athena or the Valkyries.

The Red Generals Army is far from regimented and only loosely organized. The army consists of five companies of roughly one thousand men-at-arms, there are three crack companies led by high-born lord soldiers and two auxiliary companies made of disgraced nobility, newly minted knights and commoners. The desertion of the men of the 3rd Company took the Cross and joined Hugh, Count of Vermandois (brother of Philip I - King of France) there ceased to be a 3rd Company and few will speak of the 3rd Company save to curse them. Recently after leaving the Ilse de France, the army has taken the Cross and raised the Banner of Christ, drawing many young men of both noble and common blood; for now they have been organized like the other companies, but as time passes their numbers grow for the Glory of their Savior and the hope of Salvation, they are not motivated by adventure or coin, but by faith itself.

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Companies and their Commanders

1st Comapany

Sterkain Anton -- Lord Captain Commander (company = 1,000 men / 500 personal men-at-arms / 350 infantry / 100 cavalry / 50 archers)

Leonard Haenraets -- Lord Commander (men-at-arms 250 men / 150 infantry / 50 cavalry / 50 archers)

Aldebert Durant -- Knight Commander (men-at-arms 250 men / 200 infantry / 25 cavalry / 25 archers)

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2nd Comapany

Cristianus Havenguld -- Lord Captain Commander (1,000 men)

Paul Van Dael -- Lord Commander (500 men)

Ruben St. Martin -- Knight Commander (500 men)

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4th Comapany

The Red General's fourth company is often and loudly called the "Fighting Fourth" for its savagery in combat and its trooper's unwavering courage.

Anton Hendriks -- Knight Commander (1,000 men)

Sjoerd Stefs -- Knight Sergeant (500 men)

Judocus Sauvageot -- Lord Knight (500 men)

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5th Comapany

Daan Roelan -- Knight Commander (1,000 men)

Robert Van Althuis -- Knight Sergeant (500 men)

Walahfrid Sault -- Sergeant (500 men)

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6th Comapany -- Frankish Auxiliaries

[[ |200px]] Childeric of Thierry -- Knight Commander (1,000 men)

[[ |200px]] Grimbald of Remi -- Knight Sergeant (500 men)

[[ |200px]] Fulrad of Baudry -- Sergeant (500 men)

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Camp Followers

[[ |200px]] Chrodegang -- Camp Constable (military law enforcement) {100 constables}

[[ |200px]] Brocard of Burgundy -- Master Jongleur {dozen performers}

[[ |200px]] Megenhelda -- Whore-mistress of the Red Tent (self proclaimed) {500 whores}

[[ |200px]] Veneranda -- Mistress of the Blue Tent (Camp Watering-hole / tavern) {50 serving staff}

[[ |200px]] Notker -- Captain of the Camp Cooks (honorary title) {100 cooks}

[[ |200px]] Grifo -- Lead Groom {100 grooms}

[[ |200px]] Rathier -- Barber-surgeon {20 apprentices}

[[ |200px]] Theodon -- Camp Chaplain {25 priests}

[[ |200px]] Munderic -- Provisions Master {15 scribes}

[[ |200px]] Corbinian -- Master Engineer {15 engineers}

[[ |200px]] Wido Wichmann -- Father & Head of the Wichmann Family of Coffin Makers and Gravediggers {A dozen}

Jews of Cologne

2000+

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Stories of the Red General's Army

Narrators

Gervasius (a latinized German sergeant)

Elek Baráth (a Hungarian barbarian auxiliary)

Stories

• Mainz stands for Mogun

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