The Broken Lances

member_of

• →The Marrow Lances — The mutinous wing rotting inside the company.
• ←Marn the Breaker — The breaker's hand is in the rot, though he won't say so.
• ←Broken Lances — The mutineer swordsmen and reavers the player fights are the Broken Lances cell in harness.
• ←Bron Coldhand — Bron is the Broken Lances captain who holds Hewngate.
• →The Marrow Lances — The Broken Lances are the mutinous rot inside the Marrow Lances — technically still members, working the inside to sell contracts out.

references

• →The Marrow-Oath — The oath they have started to break.
• ←quest.the-silver-road-escort (unresolved) — The mundane test of whether a Sworn keeps the oath when the road turns crooked.
• ←quest.the-bought-oath (unresolved) — Break it and the Broken Lances rise.
• ←Quartermaster Adda — Her ledger is the map of who has been bought.
• ←quest.sold-on-the-gorge (unresolved) — The Broken Lances are the proximate betrayers; exposing their contract is one resolution.
• ←The Marrow-Hollow Silver — The Broken Lances were paid, or told they would be paid, with silver from the Hollow — whether the payment was real is the quest's open question.
• ←The Crookbridge — The Broken Lances would cut the Crookbridge if they turned openly against the Keep — it is the key to any siege of Vandahl's position on the Spur.
• ←Spur Feral Dog — The feral dogs at Foldfast Steading have been raiding the Broken Lances' food stores — a mundane annoyance that complicates their camp.
• ←Marrek's Roost — The Broken Lances visited Marrek's Roost to threaten him after he kept mending the walls they knocked over — the Roost is known to them.
• ←The Weeping Cleave — The Broken Lances know about the Weeping Cleave from their camp at Foldfast and have considered using it as a second route if the Silt Hands' relay is compromised.
• ←quest.a-wall-worth-mending (unresolved) — The quest directly targets the Broken Lances' covert movement route across the Spur — mending the walls disrupts their unseen access.
• ←quest.coin-from-inside (unresolved) — The Broken Lances are the antagonist faction of the quest — the ones paying Berru's turncoat Lances.

rival_of

• ←Bralen the Grey — He knows roughly who the rot is and his hands ache to cut them out.

ally_of

• ←The Greycloaks — The mutineer Lances sell the Greycloaks the one thing rabble can't steal — the schedules, the guard rotations, which caravan is worth taking.

owns

• →Hewngate Keep — The Broken Lances were hired to garrison Hewngate and kept it — the keep is theirs by seizure, run as a toll-and-ransom holding.
• →The Foldfast Steading — The Broken Lances have quietly camped at Foldfast Steading, using its standing walls as a hide to watch the castle road.

authored

• ←The Hewngate Ransom-Roll — Kept in Bron's fair clerk's hand — the Broken Lances' own honest accounting of dishonesty.

located_in

• ←Hollow-Pines Camp — The Broken Lances rot has reached the camp fire; contracts get sold over it and the line between escort and client has blurred.
• →The Marrow-Hollow — A Broken Lances escort contract took a College party into the Marrow-Hollow under the pretense of a legitimate dig; only the escorts came back.

enemy_of

• ←Oathblade-Captain Berru Andas — Berru is hunting the Broken Lances infiltrators inside her own garrison without being able to name them yet.
• ←Old Marrek the Wallwright — The Broken Lances have been knocking Marrek's walls down and gave him a threatening visit when he kept mending them.