West Marchers

The West Marchers were a group of adventurers. Formed in The Polished Pump on 1st Flamerule 1519 Waterdeep, they were based on Cassalanter's Spear, a magical ship, and had a fun and varied crew who got along all the time! They lost and gained members frequently, as they adventured throughout the world and worlds.
== Mood Board ==
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== Active Members ==
*Master & Commander Arnaud DuPont Leroux, a well-spoken yet indomitable tiefling who was well-liked. His role as 'Captain' of the Spear was unquestioned by his amazing leadership, even in the most difficult situations.
*Helmsman & Boatswain Solodar Tailor, an edgy metal-armed human tinkerer with a cursed throwing knife. He was inseparable from the helm's wheel. He was heavily wanted in Thay. Solodar was one of the three original crew.
*Quartermaster Catriona MacGillivray, a cheery, witty blonde Saemhl dwarven engineer, and one of the oldest crewmembers, having been on board only a day less than Solodar.
*Skip Engineer Chek, a charming dashing roguish engineer. He was experienced with more advanced magical tech, and he operated the Spear's planar engine.
*First Mate Giroud, an accident-prone, often-oily Vortic-Waterdhavian human engineer and rifleman
*Master Gunner Dain Greyfoot, a gruff grey-bearded Darim dwarven gunner and superstitious old lad.
*Battalion Captain Angélos, Son of Anándreas, an Athenian battalion captain taken on in Hellas.
*Unit Crowbar-52, a huge log-clearing CABLAM unit taken on in Tokfir but finally fixed by Chek.
*Firemage Al-Kantar, a Nethir hobgoblin wizard. She wasn't great at her craft, but Soot kind of got her confidence back up.
*Fistfighter Mori, a quiet pale tiefling monk hired alongside Soot. She was silent and brooding, but a great help when a pair of flying fists were needed.
*Speaker Goro Valden / Gunther Gorosson, a hipster tiefling who sort of hired himself in Hjarofjall. He was Soot's 'replacement'. He was a well-spoken man.
*Acting Captain Forte, an ex-captain of a ship herself who joined the party in the wastes near Vörgåsen. She was a mysterious demon-human who was quiet, but a great help. She revealed to Arnaud that she was in fact once Hummanus Voratiant. He took that quite well. She also acted as temporary captain during the Spear's great time of need, fleeing from the bay of Waterdeep as the ship was shot to shit.
*Engineers Leandra and Pavlos, two Athenian engineers from Angelos' battalion left aboard the ship when the crew fled from Athens. They were brother and sister, and both of them claimed Hephaestus as their father.
*Poet Groźdug, an orc who spoke in verse. He was recruited from Middle-Earth.
*Brigadier Aethelrik, a fairly-dead-but-risen Galean dwarf who spoke in an old tongue and was scary-looking. 
*Professor Langdon, a historian and chronologist who Mori recruited aboard. He was half Lakayan and knew the Disforza family well.
*Corporal Reginald, a Vortais sailor given a slimy-skin disease by the Keeper of Galea that required him to dampen his skin every hour or two.
*16 Vortic sailors, loggers and soldiers recruited from the Mercatorium on Tokfir. Armed with rifles and naval axes, they formed the bulk of the crew.
*8 Netherese goblinoids and humans, hired from Xinlelal. Some were mages or alchemists, and a decent help.
*6 Darim mercenaries with hammers and swords, friends of Catriona's. They were gruff and stout.
* 19 Sheilas, all babbling small goblins named Sheila, brought aboard by Chek.
== Ex-Members ==
* Captain Hummanus Voratiant, a heavily armoured poleaxe-wielding human warrior with a penchant for murder. He was the captain until a mutiny, when he was thrown overboard to drown.
* First Mate Master Marco Polio, a well-spoken ascetic half-elf with powerful punches. He was the First Mate until his betrayal to defect to the Lusken Army loyalists at Pellegrina's Landing.
* Private Jeffery DuBois, a friendly Vortic human killed by Hummanus' bombardment at Pellegrina's Landing, right before Arnaud's eyes.
*Second Mate Bernárd Atir, a charming Vortic human crack-shot rifleman and history buff. One of Arnaud's favourites, he was killed by The Fallen Branch, meaning that Arnaud, Soot, Mori, Forte, Giroud and al-Kantar forgot he existed.
*Soot, a half-elven wizard. He was a great help in social situations, but he had a dark past. After he killed Luca Calinezzi, he was voted to be thrown off the ship in disgrace. Many of the crew despised him for this. 
*Guest Luca Calinezzi, a rich Waterdhavian mafia boss. He formed a relationship with Catriona, but was attacked and shot in the night by Soot.
*Several Vortais sailors, Darim mercenaries and Netherese firemages. Many died during the battle with the Tree of Death, and some more left in Colchayulo when they heard news of the vendetta, unwilling to risk their necks. More still died in the firefight at House Calinezzi.
*Sheila Number 16 also died as the Spear fled the port of Waterdeep.
*Rear Engineering Officer Archibald, a green-brown Ne'em'iran grung - a cute, unintelligible and silly bipedal inflatable slimy frog who ribbited a lot. He joined his family in Nemyrah after the group freed them from the Keeper of Galea.
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 Other Articles: Story of the West Marchers, West Marchers Quests.
== And Afterwards? ==
After freeing Ne'em'irah from the Keeper, and after Waterdeep had taken a beating, the crew realised perhaps it was time to hang up their hats, just a little. It was the autumn of 1522 when they began to wind down.
Soot, Mori, Professor Langdon, and Angélos left the crew in the spring of 1523, bound for Lakay. There, they accompanied Mori to Fort Thunderlord, where Langdon and Mori confronted Lord Protector Machavellio. Machavellio's pride was wounded by their brazen attitude, and after a short duel, he entrusted them with a task - to assassinate Niesz Jakovky Fyidorovasky, a Volenyan prince, and frame it as a bandit attack. They travelled across Lakay for many weeks, and successfully carried out the deed on the outskirts of the city of Blackwater. 
This act, only a year into the occupation of Lakay by the Volenyans, sparked the Imperiya to declare the Volenyan-Lakayan War in summer 1523. Langdon returned to Sedia, and Angélos went to live in Fort Thunderlord. Soot and Mori travelled back to the moors south of Penmorwen, and returned to the ruins that were once her family home. Mori was laid to rest with her scroll at the end of 1523, and was finally at peace. Soot then began the months-long journey overland back home, through Turmish and the Danderillon, along the Great Northern Way. To Waterdeep. He would arrive in the summer of 1524.
Meanwhile, the Spear then travelled to The Fallo to find, and catch up with, Master Marco Polio. They found him in the city of Treviso, with his loyal followers of the Stanky Leg now the dominant religion of the city-state. They spent some quality time with him during the summer and autumn of '23, reminiscing about the old times - Catriona, Solodar, Giroud, Forte and Arnaud shared many a drink together. After several long, great months living in Treviso with him, it was time for them to leave. Forte remained behind with Marco, but the others departed. After a brief stay in Waterdeep to make good with Warad and Edward, to help rebuild, and to help the city recover during the dwindling end of the Moor Wars.
They set out on their journey in the late autumn of 1523 across several planes, and into more glorious adventures yet untold. Their crew had dwindled, but still yet remained Arnaud, Giroud, Catriona, Solodar, and many of the original Vortic sailors plus some of their pick-ups like Leandra, Pavlos, Chek & the Sheilas, Grozdug, Aethelrik and more. They would not be heard from for a few years by the reckoning of Faerun.
Soot returned to Waterdeep in the warm summer of 1524 to a Waterdeep less glorious. The Moor Wars had risen and fallen, and a peace treaty was signed only a few weeks after Soot returned. In this time, he worked closely with Warad and Edward Loveridge, as well as teaching the children at the Rosepetal Orphanage. In the coming years, as Waterdeep recovered from the wars and its territory losses, and with the advent of Lord Don Zaretti's more harsh reforms, he retired to continue his arcane studies, joining the society of the Moonsilver Academics and the Readers of the Light of the Goldstar, or more casually known one day as the Moonstars.
And thus, the West Marchers fell out of memory... for now.
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