Bear Regiment

Bear Regiment is one of the Imperial Regiments. Their leader is General Fergon Chevar.

## Background

*'"Listen to the roar of the Bear and despair."**To understand the Bear Regiment, one has to understand the legend surrounding its origins. The Bear Regiment has its roots within the very ranks of the regiment they have been rivals with ever since their creation: The Bull Regiment.*

*According to legend, a group of the best warriors of the Bull Regiment was unsatisfied with the strength their training gave them. Sure, they outclassed all other soldiers of the Empire when it came to physical strength, but they felt that they should go even further. They wanted more, much more than what any training, even the training of the Bull Regiment, could ever give them. They wanted to be not just another strong soldier of their regiment, they wanted to be THE perfect soldier. They took a look around - and the Wolf Regiment quickly caught their attention. The power of science had given the Wolf Regiment its powerful armies. But this power could surely do more than just that. It would serve them as well. The warriors contacted Imperial scientists and asked them to increase their strength to outclass any other human.* *They did not want any of the other changes that the werewolves of the Wolf Regiment had to endure, they simply wanted to increase their own body strength. The scientists were intrigued but due to financial issues in the Empire at the time, their resources were stretched thin and they required funding. The general of the Bull Regiment disapproved of the entire operation and refused to fund the research himself. So the warriors had to invest their own resources - making it clear that success would mean that they would not share the results with the Bull Regiment if the latter did not support it.* *Due to the low resources, the abilities of the scientists were limited. So they decided to modify the process that had led to the creation of werewolves. Instead of wolves, they took bears due to their greater strength. The results were both outstanding and worrysome. The warriors who underwent the process were turned into giant bear monsters, strong and as tough as a bear, but also wild and mindless. However, the remaining warriors were able to subdue them, though it was due to wits rather than brute strength. It took some time but eventually the now as "werebears" labelled beasts could be given orders - if they were simple enough. The remaining warriors became the handlers of the werebears. While this wasn't what they had wanted, they had indeed created great warriors - or rather war beasts that could cause terror and damage if provoked - and the handlers had learned to provoke their former warrior friends while directing them at a target. After they had proven the strength of their beasts to the Emperor, they were given troops, resources and funding. The Bear Regiment was born. However, unlike the Wolf Regiment, werebears would not become the heart of their forces. The beasts were still too uncontrollable. Instead, the regiment was trained in a way similar to the way the Bull Regiment trained its forces to make them as tough as possible - without making them super-strong humans however. They had the werebears for that - and the bears that they eventually also tamed. The bears and werebears would become the war beasts of this otherwise "normal" regiment. And to this day, the Bear Regiment and the Bull Regiment remain rivals. The current leader of the Bear Regiment is General Fergon Chevar, who, like the original founders of the Bear Regiment, had once been a member of the Bull Regiment - not only that, he had once been its second in command and eventually even a*
friend of General Dorbric. General Fergon was a strong and fierce fighter, however, in his eyes, the Bull Regiment was too wild and uncontrollable for its own good. However, he could not change the regiment and so left it to join the Bear Regiment - while it used wild animals, its soldiers were still disciplined humans.'