Dawncrown Company

## **History**

The Dawncrown company was founded as a way for skilled rangers, trailblazers, and *information acquisition specialist*s, to have a place to coordinate forces within the Dawnfury Accord. While many of the other military leaders were active Blood Knight's, the families with accomplished ranger captains banded together in oppositional rivalry to the Dawnfury Chapter. Acknowledging the need for a Ranger corps, the first Commander of the Dawnfury Accord allowed for the creation of the Dawncrown company of rangers. This division within the Dawnfury Accord would grow to rival the Dawnfury chapter of Blood Knight's in size. It's members would constantly argue over who was the true military power within the Accord, emulating their Silvermoon city counterparts;.

## **Organization**

### Greenfoot

The most common rank within the Dawncrown Company; the Greenfoot is the entry rank of those who join the Company. This is not to say that they are unskilled footpads, for each Greenfoot is as skilled as the common Ranger. The difference is that the Dawncrown Company is not a place for the "common Ranger". Greenfoot rangers are usually assigned to a squad led by a ranger. Oftentimes they part of the frontline forces against the enemy before them. As they start to learn the unique battle tactics of the Dawncrown Company, and gather more experience in actual combat situations, the Ranger unit leaders may assign them to further tasks. These can even include accompanying the ranger on specific scouting missions, information gathering, or establishing footholds in unknown lands. With time, the Greenfoot will be recognized by the upper leaders, and be elevated to the rank of Dawncrown Ranger.

### Ranger

Second in number to only their Greenfoot students, the Ranger is where the vast majority of Dawncrown work is completed. While assigned to a unit, the Ranger cooperates with other rangers of his unit, and his Greenfoot students, to complete the majority of missions assigned to them. Often times, Rangers will be assigned anywhere from five to twenty Greenfoots to teach, based on their aptitude. They will also be one part of the unit, with a total of five other squads to round out the total unit. It is the Rangers responsibility to both: get the mission complete, and train the Greenfoots (Greenfeet?) that will someday replace them.

### Corporal

There is a strange amount of secrecy about the rites to attain the rank of Corporal. Accomplished Rangers will tend to draw the eye of a Company Captain, which then will place them in an accelerated track to advancement. The Rangers will shift in responsibility to accompany the Captains on strategic missions, briefings, debriefings, reports, and meetings galore. As they accomplish all of these heightened responsibilities, they are soon invited to a corporal assignment ceremony. The intricacies of which are unknown to the general public. After this event, the Rangers are advanced to the rank of a Corporal within their realm of specialization. They are also placed in charge of a whole unit that matches their rank. Sword Corporals are assigned to units with high martial capabilities. Bow Corporals are assigned to archer regiments, often acting as as rain of death in military ambushes. Finally, and most secretive, are the Shadow Corporals. These corporals are assigned the small units that specialize in tactical eliminations, information gathering, and enemy asset assessment.

### Captain

The Captains are the officer corps of the Dawncrown Company. While still skilled in combat, and a sight for any enemy to behold, the Captains are reserved for dire circumstances. The bulk of their work is in the analysis of information brought in by the various units. After processing all the information, it is the Captains responsibility to issue the proper orders of engagement, and advancement. They also are required to report to other units their success or failure, so that these units may funnel that information to their Captains, who then utilize it in a constant stream of updated information. To be a Captain is become a master of battlefield strategy, tactics, and information assessment.

### Ranger General

A true one of kind in a generation. The reason they are called "one of a kind" is because there is only ever one of them at a time. Watching a Ranger General actually participate in combat is to watch a ferocious lynx, stalking its prey. They pounce from the shadows and slay their foes with seemingly a single strike. Yet you are not safe from a General at a distance, oh no that is where you are the least safe. With the eye of a soaring Dragonhawk, able to find the most minute of movement, and swoop down with a deadly strike, The Ranger General can end your life from almost any distance within their expansive eyesight.

The current Ranger General is Melisara Silverthorne. A (former?) High Elf with a knack for instilling powerful spells into her arrows. With the draw of her bowstring, she can ready an explosive surprise. She can also prepare arrows that have effects even some Magisters would not have thought of. Her grace on the battlefield, ingenuity and creativeness at equipment management, and tactical brain have made her a well respected addition the illustrious Triumvirate of the Dawnfury Accord.

As head of the Dawncrown Company Melisara has taken on the role of the tactical command. While the Dawnfury chapter specialize in battlefield operations, and the Phoenix Court are masters of high damaging attacks with magical onslaughts, it is through Melisara's words that their forces are directed. With her ability to asses the ever changing, ever evolving, chaos of battle, she recommends the key points for the Court to cast their spells. As well she can indicate the weak points in an enemy line. These chips in armor provide succulent targets for a Blood Knight charge. Let us not forget her ability to use her own Ranger corps to manipulate these tides to her own whim. Truly Melisara has earned her rank as the Ranger General, even without firing a single arrow.