The Ash Legion

The Ash Legion is the best equipped and largest mercenary company in Saad. Founded in 563 A.F. by a group of villiagers who banded together after their families and livelihoods were destroyed by the Necromancer, the Legion remains dedicated to its original purpose of stamping out necromancy wherever it is found, aiming to prevent such a tradgedy occuring again. When not out slaying abominations, its knights and initiates can be found earning funds by guarding caravans, performing tasks for the nobles of the realms, pursuing the King's bounties and even occasionally working directly in the service of the crown.

Ironstone Keep
Ironstone Keep is a mountain fastness residing in a high mountain valley the capital city of Arn. Cold and imposing, the stone keep is dug into the side of a cliff, with the only entrance a mighty oak door bound in iron and meeting a drawbridge to the top of a rocky hill rising from the valley floor. Once a millitary garrison of the Imperium, the keep now serves as the citadel of the Ash Legion, a place where the company trains its initiates and stores its most valuable relics.

People
The Ash Legion is hundreds of men strong, and maintains offices in nearly all of Saad's major cities. Its soldiers are known for being fiercely loyal and going above and beyond the call of duty in order to safeguard the lives of innocents.

Senior Knight Broderic
Hailing from the prosperous plains city of Lorenfall, Broderic joined the Ash Legion at an early age.

Knight Commander Renegast
the bad dude. A spi.

Secrets
Unbeknownst to anyone outside the upper echelons of the order, the Ash Legion is waging a secret war against the Necromancer. The Legion Elders know that the magisters of the old Imperium were experimenting with dark magic, and they suspect that the Necromancer has uncovered something of theirs. They have found a few relics of the Imperium, and they know that Darius Ironblood was significant in some way, and they know that the Librarian will kill to keep knowlege of these topics secret. They do not know that the Necromancer, the High Magister and the Black Emperor are all the same person, nor that the Librarian himself is a survivor of the catastrophe that brought the Imperium down.