Name : Umbra Of Nex ( Shadow Of Death )
Title : Ranger Commander of the Stonecrow Clan.
Serves : Kamin Stonecrow
Background : At the age of 23 the Stonecrow clan challenged my clan the Woodwolf clan to a champions fight.
I was that champion.
But i refused the challenged declaring that we should fight as soldiers to the last man. But the headman refused and accepted the call and so i vanished into the forest and was followed by 17 of the clans best bowmen and hunters for i was my clans best hunter.
My clan's new champion failed the challenge and the Woodwolf clan joined the Stonecrow clan.
Me and my men fought the Stonecrow clan for weeks. One ambush after another we slew there warriors leaving no trace of battle and no body behind. My clan had the rare gift to tame wolves and with us went 4 dire wolves that aided us in tracking.
Weeks later low on arrows and exhausted from constant battle we believed we had there leader in our sights but when we entered there camp under cover of night we were surrounded by over 300 men. We fought every one of us carrying a sword and an axe and believing ourselves to be doomed we attacked the ambushers in a berserk fury. We slew many , the ground was covered in blood and bodies before we where knocked unconscious at the order of there lord in hes anger at losing so many men.
When we awoke we were told we would each fight one of our brothers as amusement for there leader. And so seeing the chance to give them an honorable death we fought and 9 of us were left. Having witnessed our skill in battle and having lost over 100 men hunting us before the trap Kamin Stonecrow then laid a choice upon us. Serve him , Train a core of fighters in our own skills and make him the undisputed master of the clans. Or watch our families butchered in front of us before we died.
And so we serve him and the 9 of us that survived have the brand of a crow on both cheeks and every other member of our clan living or born after that day had a brand placed on there left cheek.
6 Years have passed and a lot has changed. My daughter trained as a ranger from the day the deal was struck serves now as my lords personal bodyguard and assassin. She is betrothed to he's son a lazy slob with no fighting skill but he adores her and that is enough.
The 9 of us that lived have done our work well.
The stonecrow clan now has a 100 man strong ranger regiment commanded by me and the regiment is split into 4 bands of 25 each with 3 dire wolves for tracking and more being bred ready for the next rangers bands.
The other 8 survivors form my personal guard each one has a dire wolf companion and the alpha wolf is my own companion.
A further 100 rangers are training even now and standing guard on the mountains observing and slaughtering all who are not of there clan who try to pass over them. Every ranger is a master marksman and an expert at concealing himself and have dire wolves for tracking there chosen victims.
In those 6 years many unfortunate souls have ventured into the forest which the Stonecrows call home. None have ever escaped alive.
Every ranged has a crow branded on hes for head the day he's training is completed as a mark of honor and loyalty to the rangers.
To the Stonecrows the rangers had a very different name.
The Hominibus Mortuis ( The dead men ). Because they never left one of there fallen on the field resulting in whispers amongst the Stonecrows that the rangers were never truly dead. These whispers spread far and fast along the trade routes until they where heard in every corner of the realm.
For clarity's sake ill be describing the rangers here.
Rangers are the tribes elite ambush troops.
They were all black armor and face plates as depicted here.
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They are the very best the clan has to offer at what they do they are marksman and hunters who and are near impossible to see at night or in a forest and when there bows fail them they fight with a berserk fury with 1h sword and axe.
There armor is made out of leather with metal rings in it. They also have a hood and face plate.