NPC - Sir Nyarad of Bissel Ezred of the Ogre Slayers

NPC - Sir Nyarad of Bissel Ezred of the Ogre Slayers

Sir Nyarad of Bissel is the company commander, Ezred, of the Ogre Slayers, a spear and sword armed company of Bisselite footmen. He is a moderately experienced warrior, excellently trained in both weapons and tactics. Currently he is on his way to the border region with Ket because of Hobgoblin incursion in the area. The Ogre Slayers, two hundred strong, are composed primarily of veteran troops with only a smattering of green recruits.

His sub-commander or Alzred, is Agas a cousin, but someone who has been with him since their days training for the military life on his father's estate. All the nobility of Bissel train and serve for a time with the various Bisselite companies of Foot, Horse, Scouts or Archers. Agas' spear and chain shirt match those of regular troopers in the Ogre Slayers but his green shield and plumed golden helm mark him as an officer.

Fotor (Chief Sergeant) Vadaz commands the scouts attached to the Ogre Slayers, fifty men who are experienced with the wild and dangerous border area. He and many of his men are Rangers rather than just regular fighters and Vadaz is older and more experienced than Sir Nyarad but of common birth.


Alzred Agas, Ezred Nyarad, Fotor Vadaz

Adventure - The Black Pyramid of Skalesh

The Black Pyramid of Skalesh

In the Littlemark the Border Companies scout the mountains of the Barrier Peaks for incursions of humanoid tribes as their compatriots keep watch on the northern border with Ket and spar with the Kettish Horse Guards along their side of the border. Avar Toth is an experienced scout among the Bisselite rangers who watch the mountain passes. For more than a week he has tracked a strange band of goblins who raided into Bissel and then suddenly retreated back through a fresh pathway that had recently been opened after an avalanche of stone brought down previously unpassable cliffs. What he found has turned him back toward human lands to warn of what he has seen.

Within the well-named Barrier Peaks he found a mountain carved into the shape of a pyramid, carved from black stone and swarming with a community of strange goblins. These are the Kazpek goblins; strangely civilized, unusually strong and squat of build. These goblins bred with the decadent remnants of a dwarven kingdom and the black pyramid, once a vast dwarven fortress lost so long ago that even the memory of its name has been forgotten.

Deep within the pyramid is the body of their God-Priest Skalesh, last of the line of Dwarven Kings, a monstrous combination of dwarf, goblin and daemon and his porgeny who he consumes to fuel his existence stretched further than any mortal should be allowed. 
His pyramid-mountain sinks its dark roots into the UnderOerth and their he has warred with the Drow, the Kuo-Toa, the Deep Gnomes for centuries but he controls little more of the UnderOerth than he does of the upper realm. Now, after the great avalanche and collapse of the barrier cliffs, he has a way open toward the human lands of Bissel and then the Flanaess. His eye is toward extending his domain and his scouts are but the tip of a spear pointed east into the heart of Bissel.