![[AldousRedmainePathfinder-v1.png]] # Aldous Redmaine _Half-Orc Marshal | [[Sapphire Legion]] | [[Neverwinter]]_ ## Summary Marshal of the [[Sapphire Legion]], come up from [[Neverwinter]]'s Dock Ward with no house and no name to become the one honorable man in [[Dagult Neverember]]'s court. Blunt and incorruptible, he is loved by his soldiers and the city's commons as one of their own who rose, and has never hidden where he came from. %% ## Now In the North with the [[Sapphire Legion]] contingent aboard the [[Sapphire Sovereign]], marched to reinforce [[Bryn Shander]]. He senses a kill-team inside his own Legion answers to someone other than him, and has warned [[Reese]] about [[Ianaro Albreck|Ianaro]] — but does not know he is the kill-team's second mark. In S88 the knife falls in the field. ## Appearance Broad, gray-tusked half-orc gone silver at the temples, in [[Sapphire Legion]] blue. Old dock-hook scars cross his forearms; he has never covered them. ## Personality Blunt and unsentimental. Judges a man by what he does, never by his blood — his own was weighed against him too long for that. Loyal to his soldiers over the court, and to the court only as far as the debt he owes [[Dagult Neverember]] for lifting him out of the mud. Keeps his hands clean now like a man doing penance, and looks away from what he can't afford to see. Says the true thing when no one else will, then seems surprised he said it. ## Quote _"I climbed out of the Dock Ward on other men's backs. Don't take me for a good man — I'm just the only honest one Dagult has left, and he knows it."_ ## Connections **[[Dagult Neverember]]** — raised him from the docks; the debt he can't repay, and the man who now wants him dead. **[[Reese]]** — recognized [[Palien of Neverwinter|Palien]]'s crest on his plate and warned him; parted something like friends. **[[Lucian Margaster]]** — distrusts him; overheard his apprentice speak [[Reese]]'s name. **[[Ianaro Albreck]]** — [[Lucian Margaster|Margaster]]'s apprentice; flagged him to [[Reese]] as a threat. **[[Aldwin Rousset]]** — crossed him on the [[Neverwinter]] docks years ago; doesn't truly remember the man. ## Background **The Dock Ward:** Born in [[Neverwinter]]'s Dock Ward, a half-orc with no house and no name. He fought his way into the [[Sapphire Legion]] on competence and a body count — the only currency that would have him. **Dagult's Instrument:** [[Dagult Neverember]] saw the use in him and raised him: the ugly work first, the marshal's baton after. Redmaine did things he won't name to earn the blue. **The Purge He Can't Wash Off:** Early on, Dagult set him to break an uprising of people who had seen what Neverember was becoming — decent men and women, put down hard. That night is why Dagult trusted him with the Legion. A dock-ward strike he was sent to break, and broke worse than his orders, sits beside it. He talks about neither. **The Honest Marshal:** Since, he has kept his hands clean as penance and made himself incorruptible in a court that is anything but — and the rank-and-file and the commons love him for being one of their own who rose. That love is the thing [[Dagult Neverember]] now fears more than any plot. **The Old Heroes:** He knows [[Neverwinter]]'s legends and the men who died for the city — knew [[Palien of Neverwinter|Palien]]'s crest on sight. ## Secret **The Second Target.** The [[The Never Guard|Never Guard]] strike unit embedded in his own Legion carries two orders: kill the [[Cinderborn]], and kill Redmaine. [[Dagult Neverember]] cannot be seen murdering his coup-threat marshal, so the blow falls in the battle's chaos and is blamed on a giant — the Legion mourns a hero, and [[Lucian Margaster|Lucian]] eulogizes the man he had killed. Redmaine senses a kill-team answers elsewhere; he does not know he is its mark. See [[Iymrith and the Doom of the Ordning]] and [[Ambushed by the Never Guard]]. ## Stats **Base:** [[Knight]] (MM p.347), modified — a legendary commander. CR ~6. - AC 18 (plate and shield); HP 133; longsword Multiattack (3/turn). - **Commander's Rally (Recharge 5–6):** allies within 30 ft. add 1d6 to attack rolls and saving throws until the start of his next turn. - **Indomitable (2/day):** reroll a failed saving throw. - **Shield the Fallen (Reaction):** when an ally within 5 ft. is hit, Redmaine takes the hit instead. - **Won't Fall Quiet:** the first time he drops to 0 HP, he falls to 1 instead — his death is a choice the table gets a window to prevent. %%