The Black Company

Welcome to the Black Company Campaign Setting Playtest Website

There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye's handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.
Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill. One bolt struck the bronze plaque sealing the tomb of the forvalaka, obliterating half the spell of confinement. It rained stones. Statues bled. Priests at several temples reported sacrificial victims without hearts or livers. One victim escaped after its bowels were opened and was not recaptured. At the Fork Barracks, where the Urban Cohorts were billeted, the image of Teux turned completely around. For nine evenings running, ten black vultures circled the Bastion. Then one evicted the eagle which lived atop the Papter Tower.
Astrologers refused readings, fearing for their lives. A mad soothsayer wandered the streets proclaiming the imminent end of the world. At the Bastion, the eagle not only departed, the ivy on the outer ramparts withereed and gave way to a creeper which appeared black in all but the most intense sunlight.
But that happens every year. Fools can make an omen of anything in retrospect.
-Coaker, Annalist

This website and the forum uses the Book Antiqua font.

HOME - brings you back here
ANNALS - takes you to the forum, password is the same as the one you used to reach here.
INSPIRATION - stuff to get you going or if you want more black company
ROSTER - a list of the characters we make up
CONTRACTS - stuff we have to do for the playtest
ENEMIES - any bad NPCS we use
ALLIES - any good guys we meet, yeah right
MAPS - some fan created maps, the first one is beautiful
LINKS - more Black Company stuff