The Legion

The legion has a long history of success in the field, and a as a social support. The legion opens its arms to all that will serve, and many answer this call - for a multitude of reasons. The only way for a foreigner to become a citizen in the empire is to serve in the legion, criminals can have their terms commutated for service, debts can be erased. The legion owes much of its success to promoting on a merit basis only, every officer starts as a cadet in the cohorts, and must earn their way from there.

An individual legionary is not terribly impressive as a warrior, but admittedly well equipped. The strength of the legion is instead in its discipline and training, they are among the best soldiers on the planet, with the legions being equipped to wage full-scale warfare. The legion is a blunt forced instrument, arguably the best blunt forced instrument in the world, but when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail, end the legion has found it self stretched into areas it was not created for or trained for.

Officer Ranks

Enlisted Ranks

Legions of Note

Some of the most decorated or significant legions in the imperial forces:

The 7th legion - The emperor's own, having never been defeated in battle The legion is tasked with guarding Amon Lhaw and the Emperor therein. The legion is not native to any one city, but instead they invite the best legionaries of the other legions to join. The 7th has the best weapons, armour, and training, and each legionary is equipped in oblium plate and fields the finest weapons

The 11th legion - specializing in siege warfare, the 11th legion is the only army of men to ever break a dwarven stronghold

The 21st legion - The legion that would not break. During the war of sundering, the 21st legion was tasked with keeping a fortress in the Ered Gorgoroth against eh forces of Morgath. Their martial strength and skill, alongside their determination to hold the mountain meant that eventually Morgath would have to break the mountain itself asunder to break the legion

The 23rd legion - The vanished legion. The 23rd marched into the Sarch Nia Chin, tasked with cutting out a growing eldritch threat that lay within. The legion never returned from its task, and its sigil was lost, but they seem to have accomplished their task as the forest started to return to normal.

Irregular forces of the Legion

Éoherë

Highly trained horsemen, the Éoherë tasked with keeping law in the empire when the local constable or sheriff are outmatched, The Éoherë tend to work in small groups, with a unit never exceeding 120 and a single rider is often enough to calm a situation. The Éoherë are given wide latitude in their tasks, often acting as judge, jury, and executioner when they are called in.

Sindar

A mirror of the Éoherë, the Sindar instead hunt that which goes bump in the night. Sindar initiatives are taken from the legions, and must show no small amount of courage and quick thinking that is then taken and molded into fighting the forces of darkness in the world, anything from a boggart to werewolves to necromancers.

Treoraí

Arguably the least glamerous job in the legions' irragular forces, the treoraí are lamplighters and wayfinders. They set out at dusk each day, lighting and maintaining the lamps along the roads in the empire and helping any they meet along the roads, helping to keep the empire a safe and secure state.

Rimors

Rimors are the spies and scouts of the empire, trained in espionage and skullduggery, they excel at gathering information in foreign lands, assassinations, inducing paranoia. The most secreative of the branches, not much is known by the common public.