The Metinan Company

[Lord of Boars 556]

 

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THE METINAN COMPANY

BANNARD AZ METINNE

 

Sacramenta et Numini

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“I have come to stomp out on your skull should you stoop to madness. The chaos that killed your man."

-Peter III Helane, moments before skirmishing the Duke of Morsgrad. 

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HISTORY

The Metinan Company was founded in the earliest years of the second age by Bernard de Salier, an outcast from his homelands, along with his meager companions. The company was met with strict hardship from every nation they went to occupy, finding it fit to establish themselves in the wilderness. Fleeing to a cave in the wood of Tiber, the company quickly expanded their horizons to the founding of a city. Welcoming those houses and clans outcast from their home realms, the Company found itself at the doorstep of perpetual employment. 

 

FEALTY TO THE PROPRIETOR

The Company is owned solely and wholly by one individual, the Master-and-Proprietor, Janusz Mansfeld. All members of the company are undertaken in leal service to him and his company’s clients, and all company profit circulates in his name. The proprietor is formal only in his role as owner of the company, and informal in his conduct in all other respects; seldom does he obtrude in company affairs and the duty of daily function and assignments falls to his delegates in the officership.

 

SENIORITY IN RANK

Those most senior of the companymen are awarded a higher status and ranking of ‘Senior Companyman’, their battle-tested experience proving them worthy of trust in leading the completion of contracts assigned to them and for the privilege of assembling troopes.

 

RANKINGS

Master-and-Proprietor (Maest az Bannard)

Holding the titular and fiscal ownership of the company, the Master-and-Proprietor oversees all company endeavors.

 

Coinmaster (Maest az Aur)

Responsible for the timely and orderly payment of the company, the Coinmaster is naturally second only to the Master-and-Proprietor.

 

Captain (Kondotaar)

A grizzled veteran even amongst the senior companymen, the Captain is raised from his peers to oversee long-term contracts, such as the City Watch of Saint Luciensburg.

 

Senior Companyman (Fordren)

Though once an honorary title for deceased companymen, the title of Senior Companyman has come to be awarded to those distinguished and skillful companymen. Senior Companymen are allowed a limited authority over their subordinates, expected to keep the ranks ready and disciplined.

 

Companymen

The standard rank in the company is simply that of “companyman.” It denotes one who has proved himself worthy of acceptance into the guild of sword brothers. Aside from the general ability to be awarded contract in the Company’s name, companymen will choose a martial specialization in standard arms (venstren), heavy arms (silwren), ranged arms (brasren), or as cavalrymen (ervelren); and will take a non-combative craft of their choice.

 

Unoathed / Non-Combative (Mundan)

Men which have not committed themselves to the company for a term of employment or have not yet shown proficiency in an area of combat will be referred to as “unoathed”, and will aid the company strictly in non-combative manners.

 

COMPENSATION

Compensation to companymen is handled primarily by the coinmaster, who is also tasked with the general drove of bookkeeping, accounting payment and the outfitting of companymen. Soldiers employed by the company are provided with room and board as well as basic tackle and arms. Naturally, they receive a portion of a bounty aided in completion, with bonuses awarded for exemplary and meritorious conduct. A dilatory companyman shall receive no pay and be potentially removed from the roster.

 

CONDUCT

Disregarding the significantly informal conduct of its past, the Metinan Company holds to a more strict discipline of its men. Those employed are forbidden to draw the blood of innocents, men of the cloth and children. Furthermore, soldiers must be practicing Canonists and be disavowed from degenerate tendencies. So too is a companyman forbidden from disseminating sensitive information to third parties. Should a companyman cease to work before the duration of his contracted period has expired, he will be considered a deserter and bound for punishment.

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“And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the Heartland: and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

-Guy de Bar, prior to the Cleansing of the North.

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CHAIN OF COMMAND

The company and all its members are firstly in servitude to the proprietor, chief in ownership and directive. The proprietor appoints the senior companymen as he sees fit through merit and length of employment, as well as appointing captains of contracts where required. 

 

The companymen are secondly under the watch of their respective head of contract, be it captain in the case of long term contract or senior companyman in the case of a lesser contract. Captains within the Metinan Company hold universal authority over all senior companymen and companymen regardless of assigned contract, while senior companymen at the head of completion of contracts find their jurisdiction ends there.

 

Senior companymen in the ranks are comprised of those companymen who have displayed exemplary lengthy service or significant merit, and thus attain a higher status and command over the lesser companymen. 

 

Under all are the standard companymen, who work to prove themselves in a meritocratic environment amongst their peers. Companymen are assigned to contracts on the basis of interest and need.

 

Outside of the traditional call of rank are the non-combatives employed by the company, including the coinmaster and untrained. These men pay service to the company not through merit of steel, but through merit of other skills. Should they prove to be useful behind the hilt of a sword, they shall be put to work as such.

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“The art of battle is similar to the art of chess in that a sword to the throat of your opponent will secure you a desirable outcome."

-Janusz Mansfeld, after being put into checkmate by a companyman.

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CAPTAIN CASTILE’S MEAGRE TROOPE OF ST. LUCIENSBURG

The Watch of St. Luciensburg is a subsidiary entity of the Metinan Company, wherein most soldiers employed find their inceptive training and first assignment. The company is perpetually employed by the City-State of St. Luciensburg, entrusted with the protection of her walls and inhabitants from ne’er-do-wells, villains and foreign legions. The captain of the watch finds it within his abilities to command all those assigned to him in the upholding of such a contract. The troope is led by Captain Lukas Castile.

 

CONTRACTS

The Metinan Company actively seeks contracting from outside parties for security, resource acquisition, and other miscellaneous work. Upon the obtainment of a contract the company appoints a senior companyman with the task of its completion through any means he sees fit. The pricing of contracts is adaptable, bending to risks both tangible and political accordingly. Those interested in formalizing a contract should further a notice to the company’s address. 

 

 

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