Contract Wars

Contract Wars or mercenary wars are a series of ongoing conflicts between mercenary companies which mostly involves the competition for valuable and expensive contracts that lords or city states might ask for. These conflicts are short and bloody and could easily wipe out a sellsword company in just a few weeks of fighting. Contract wars are usually fought between two companies but can easily scale up to include governments, settlements and even kingdoms. These conflicts usually always are fought in the Free States in the southern regions of Clamund due to the cutthroat politics and city states which fight amongst each other almost regularly.
== History ==
Ever since there was a need for mercenaries and sellsword companies in Clamund. There has been contract wars. During the rise of mercenarism in Clamund, contracts were plentiful and endless, there was no need to fight for contracts since there was plenty of work to go around. However, when war was lacking and issues were dealt with, many mercenaries often found themselves jobless for years at a time. Some would resort to drinking while others would migrate to other regions to find solutions to their joblessness as many mercenaries refused soldiering for kings. 
One of the first recorded incidents of a contract war would arise out of the Free states during the early Age of Iron between the Free State of Croton and the Republic of Gorno; two states with sizable private armies that nobles regularly sell out to mercenary contract abroad. During the year 499, The Petty Kingdom of Dortmund would come into conflict with the Empire of Visimar over border disputes which would begin a series of conflicts that would ripple through the Western Free States. During the early years of the conflict, the Republic of Gorno would send a sizable army to fight for Dortmund but not before the Free State of Croton would send their own. The two armies would meet at a crossroads in the Border Lands before the two would fight, each claiming that they are going to fight for Dortmund. By the end of the battle, the two states would consider themselves at war until the end of the Border War in 504. 
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