Brotherhood of the Woods

Brotherhood of the Woods
Official Information
Faction	Vlandia
Leader	Randomized
Fiefs	None
Tier	?
Wealth	?

The Brotherhood of the Woods is a minor clan of Vlandia. They are a peasant rebel group based out of Jaculan that has since devolved into becoming brigands and bandits, effectively working as mercenaries available for hiring by any factions in Calradia willing to pay.

Official Description

The Brotherhood of the Woods started out as a Vlandian peasant movement, hiding out in the forests, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. However, they encountered the usual problems that any long-running rebel movement might face - they needed to ensure a steady supply of food, and also ensure that none of the poor would dare earn a bag of coin by informing on them. Slowly but surely, the movement began to make use of extortion, terror, and corrupt deals with the local authorities to survive, becoming little different from any other organized bandit group in Calradia.

Members

Their leader and membership are randomly generated at the beginning of each game.

Troop Tree

Brotherhood of the Woods Troops
	Sprout
	Sapling
	Arboreal

Trivia

• After the companion Rolf join the player's party in Mount&Blade: Warband, mentions she remembers encountering him as a part of a bandit gang called the "Brethren of the Woods".
  • Rolf - and by extension the Brethren - is implied to be from around the border region between the Kingdom of Swadia (Ehlerdah) and the Khergit Khanate (Halmar, the possible Warband successor to the Western Empire town of Jalmarys) while the Brotherhood started in the Jaculan area (the possible Warband successor to the Rhodok town of Jelkala) - the geographical span between the two areas makes the possibility of both groups sharing a 173-year-old continuity debatable.