Stag Lord Bandits

Bandit Mob of the Stolen Lands

### Goals

To serve the Stag Lord, to plunder the Stolen Lands, to start a Kingdom of Thieves

### Years Active

4700-4710

*"By the bloody bones of St. Gilmorg, who wants to know?!"*

*-Password to enter The Stag Lord's Fort*

The Stag Lord Bandits were a group of bandits who threatened the Greenbelt for several years. Lead by the vicious Stag Lord, the group became more and more powerful as did the Stag Lord, until his death in 4710 AR at the hands of the Kingmakers.

## Description

The Stag Lord Bandits were a loosely affiliated group of bandits, with a single common factor; they were all pledged in service to the Bandit Lord, the Stag Lord. Many of the bandits under his service did not know him personally, simply serving a stronger bandit who did; however, in the end, much of their spoils went to him, and many of their orders and tactics came from him too. This ended up in the creation of a network of criminals throughout the Stolen Lands, operating similarly to a franchise, with regional bosses under service of the Stag Lord gathering their own band of thieves. Each Bandit carried a single marker: a silver pendent in the shape of a stag's skull.

## History

The Stag Lord's Bandits never had an official inception date; the Stag Lord started out as a lone bandit at the age of 18, roaming the Stolen Lands in his Stag Skull Helmet. This lead to him slowly growing a following of other bandits, impressed by his brutality and skill. As he grew stronger, more bandits came to follow his lead. While the Stag Lord had a vicious start, committing atrocities across the land (such as the murder of Davik Nettle), as he grew older he fell further and further into alcoholism, relying on his lieutenants more and more to make decisions for him. When Dovan from Nisroch heard about the elimination of the Thorn Ford Bandit Camp in 4710 AR, he put out a call to arms for all the different branches of bandits throughout the Stolen Lands to come together in order to storm Oleg's Trading Post in revenge, ultimately causing The Kingmakers infiltration of the Stag Lord's Fort. Following this, the Stag Lord was slain, along with the majority of the fortress, high-ranking members included. The Stag Lord's Bandits dissolved into weaker, independent groups after this, returning law and order to the Greenbelt at last.

## Members

#### Leaders

* The Stag Lord (Leader)
* Akiros Ismort (Right-Hand Man)
* Dovan from Nisroch (Lieutenant)
* Auchs (Lieutenant)

#### Thorn Ford Camp

* Kressle (Leader)
* Happs Bydon (Right-Hand Man)
* Hal de Banditte

### Stag Lord's Fortress

* Ayles Megesen: Ayles is a soft-spoken man whose calm demeanor should not be taken for passivity—Ayles enjoys the act of torture the most among the bandits, and often spends hours after a fight dissecting surviving victims.

* Cragger Kench: A former cutpurse, Cragger was beaten senseless by the Stag Lord for drinking a bottle of his liquor, and his injuries have left him a little dim-witted— although not so dim-witted as Auchs.

* Dirty Jeb Megesen: Ayles’s younger brother, Dirty Jeb likes to think he got his nickname for his penchant for fighting dirty, when in fact the moniker stems from his aversion to hygiene.

* Falgrim Sneeg: Falgrim Sneeg is an older Varisian with graying hair and an unruly beard. A former mercenary, he possesses an unnerving calm in the face of violence. Falgrim was in fact an old associate of Kesten Garess, a fellow guardsman who betrayed the former and stole from him before becoming a bandit. Kesten would have offered a handsome reward for his arrest... unfortunately, Kaska got a little too busy with Burning Hands to discover his identity.
* Fat Norry: Behind only Auchs in size, Fat Norry somehow never seems to lose weight despite the hard lives the bandits live. This rotund bandit is rarely seen without some sort of food clutched in a greasy hand. Norry was once a part of the Thorn Ford camp of Bandits, but when he was afflicted with Goblin Pox by Kaska Tanavin and witnessed the total annihilation of both Happs Bydon and the other bandits helping him steal from Oleg's Trading Post, he fled south and was discovered by Akiros Ismort, who brought him to the Stag Lord's Fortress, bringing the first news of the Kingmakers to Dovan.
* Jex the Snitch: The least popular with the men but perhaps the Stag Lord’s favorite minion is this aptly-nicknamed man. His penchant for reporting the other bandits’ mistakes to the Stag Lord is likely to earn him a shallow grave before much longer.
* Topper Red: Topper Red was a struggling street poet from the city of Pitax. He fled that city when an affair turned sour, and eventually joined the Stag Lord's ranks while romanticizing the thrilling life of a lawless brigand.