Glaive Conscript By Imperator-Zor Watch

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This fellow is the son of a farmer, like many other farmers in his kingdom. Most farmer's sons become farmers, with some being taken up to be apprentices by blacksmiths or cobblers or other local artisans. He learned how to grow crops and raise animals and do the thousand various tasks that farmers did. In his eighteenth year some officials of the local High Lord were looking for new recruits and when nobody volunteered, he was drafted by the lead official along with another young fellow. This was hardly unusual for young men and while he did not like it he did not put up too much fuss. He was taken down to the village blacksmith shop where the local iron beater provided part of his taxes, a glaive and a few dozen iron steel plates that would be assembled into armor vests. After five days of walking and collecting more young farmers he got to the local city to become part of his duke's regiment. He got a month's worth of training with glaive and warpick and marching in formation, got paid three meals, a place to sleep and a bronze coin a day. For the next few months he did odd jobs around the province and went on patrols along the road to scare off bandits while helping the tax collectors for five months in the local in Duke Tzimeir's Third Glaive Company (along with 143 other men) under the supervision of some scarred sergeants. It was a lot of work, but he was used to it. Then war came when a group of mountain barbarians launched an attack, sacking a few villages. Tzimeir sent his second and third glaive company, first crossbow company and a wing of thirty horsemen to deal with these attackers. They cornered a host of a three hundred barbarian raiders and wiped out most of them, though they did take some casualties. Afterwards they went up into the mountains, freed some captives taken and burned a couple of their towns and fields. On campaign he earned four bronze coins a day. He spent the remaining three months helping some survivors of the raids in the kingdom rebuild their town before returning to his village with a decent amount of money for a peasant and some memories he'd rather not have gained.

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