Ages' Beginnings - An Arrow/Immaculate Reboot

To understand the Mittekrieger you must understand the Principelity of Mittleland and to understand Mittleland you must remember the importance of the High Company of the Mittekrieger. Above all you must note that House Venetianer originated from this realm, said to have left for desire of greater wealth.

First Mitteland; the counties were independence founded durning ages of raiding and subjected under the reins of many times of the now neiboures of Mittleland. Eventually a local legend that came to be the first Prince of Mitteland, Arya of House Suess, managed to ensure union of the counts and their independence from foreign force through aid of diplomacy and warfare. Arya I would be succeeded by his eldest son Felix I; he would become Prince about six years before the birth of who would be King Adam of Srabija. It was continues until the formation of the Republic of Bogatstvo resulted in a revolt in the city of Mitte that saw the last continues ruler from House Suess, Prince Okan, beheaded by his own guard and the realm bought under the first Grand Mayor of the Republic of Mitteland; Georg Sturm. Yet his successor came to be the last; Grand Mayor Felix Kaspar proclaimed himself Prince in his later years to ensure his rule would pass on to his family and his family alone; he succeeded in crushing objection, with aid of mercenary bands such as the then young Company of Mittekreiger with usage of the wealth from trade. He hence was taken by old age and replaced not by his son Andreas (who died in battle durning the rebellion) but by his grandson Jonas. 37 years before Henrik Dragic became Doge of Bogatstvo came forth the rise of the last Prince of Mitteland, Jaydon. Jaydon faced increased foreign aggression and turned to rely on merceneries in reaction to the tiredness of his levies and his distrust of his own marshal, Count Simon von Brandt of Rosaland. This came to a close relation to the mercenary company that be the Company of the Mittekrieger.

The High Company of the Mittekrieger was founded by an exile from Ravan, a skilled bowman by the name of Obrad Petrovic who was exiled his objection to the republican system; he would merge with his fellow exiled warriors with local Mitteland bands to forge the Mittekrieger, while assimilating to Mitteland culture. The company has centralised itself in Mitteland but had served outside, such (ironically for its founder) the Republic of Bogatsvo. When Prince Jaydon came to power he was greeted by an aged High Captain of the Mittekrieger, Gerhard Martz. Yet 29 years before Henrik Dragic’s appointment as Doge it came for Martz to pass on; his successor would be a man with little patience but great ambition; Michael Jollenbeck.

Know that at the time of Michael Jollenbeck’s succession that Prince Jaydon was cursed with an invasion from the Duchy of Braun and raids from warriors hailing in the service of House Jurich. Michael managed to hold resistance but he came to demand more and more gold for his loses from the Prince of Mitteland. Eventaully, after pushing both Braun back and forcing House Jurich to take humility, Michael Jollenbeck demands were met with objection from the Prince. What happen next depends on who you agree with.

According to the loyalists of Michael Jollenbeck the Prince had enough gold to pay and was simply treating the mercenaries as a mere levy; it even goes as far to say that one of Michael’s closest colleges, Ghalem Jund, had his tongue cut out for openly criticising the Prince for “having more greed then the damned Jurichs!” What resulted was justice to defy a broken Prince and to hence take a dew payment in the form of the Principality itself, ensuring a more protective governance.

According to the remains of House Kaspar either said they were broke from the war and demanded reinsurance that they in time pay for the debt or that they had gold but Michael fancied the Princedom over a fatter vault. They proclaimed that Ghalem’s verbal attack was also a physical attack against the Prince, which the Prince replied in what was reguarded as a act of mercy compared to what could have been inflicted.

There exists a alterative claim Michael did not dream of land and that the Prince lacked gold; what happened was simply a break down in diplomacy married with Jaydor’s poor judgement and Michael’s wroth. This was aided further by the plots of the Count of Rosaland who with aid from the Count of Ostenland played mercenary against prince for their own benefit, so they could continue to keep their counts while their fellow counts had their titles stripped so that the Mittlekrieger could split among themselves.

After forcing Jaydor and his family to leave Mitteland the mercenary Michael Jollenbeck declared himself Prince Captain of Mitteland and of the Mittlekrieger. He declared that “all my warriors are princes” and rebranded the Company of the Mittlekrieger as the Princes of the Mittlekrieger, with the High Prince Captain serving as supream for both Mittleland and Mittlekrieger. Michael ruled till 14 years before Henrik Dragic’s appointment as doge; he died of food poisioning. His successor was Ghalem Jund’s son, Jeffres, who knew not war in his time as he died from a hunting accident in the second of Henrik Dragic’s reign as doge. When Henrik Dragic declared himself archduke his enemies hired High Prince Captain of Abdu Maier of Mittleland and Mittlekrieger; he was slain by Henrik’s forces and the next High Prince Captain, Nym Stark, had the Princes of the Mittlekrieger change sides to Henrik’s side.

Since the replacement of Henrik by the cunning of House Venetianer the Principelity of Mitteland has remained under the oak of the Mittekreiger; as House Venetainer like Obrad Petrovic assimilates itself into the local culture it has entered in tense relations with the Mittekreiger, especilly after Archduke Emil allowed House Jurich to do an old time raid on Mitteland without objection. Now as Archduke Andreas takes the throne he neiboures a man who lost his eye to a Jurich raider; “One-Eyed” Flynn Volk, who also claims from his mother side to have the blood of Nym Stark. Indeed the mercenaries now take an isolative status when it does not come to business; when it does they serve protection for trade in Mitteland and provide their forces to the highest bidder. Should House Venetainer offend the Mittlekreiger then the merceneries may bless the enemies of Andreas with a discount. For now profit is the prime focus, as Flynn eyes his heir and second in command, Prince Captain Damir Bogdanovic of Dunkelgrünland.