Bertrand the Brigand is the most famous of the Herrimaults, the masked outlaws of Bretonnia who take to the greenwood to defend the common folk against the cruelty and corruption of wicked nobles. Once a yeoman wronged by a tyrannical lord, Bertrand turned brigand rather than suffer injustice, and gathered about him a band of loyal outlaws — the giant Hugo, the sharp-eyed archer Gilles, and others — who share his creed. From hidden camps in the forests he wages a private war upon the venal and the cruel, robbing greedy barons, ambushing tax-collectors, and turning up unlooked-for to save a village from monster or marauder. To the peasantry he is a hero and a legend whispered by firelight; to the lords whose strongboxes he empties he is a hunted criminal with a price on his head. Yet even his enemies among the nobility grudgingly concede his courage, and in Bretonnia's hour of need Bertrand and his Herrimaults have marched openly to war — proving that honour is no monopoly of the highborn, a lesson the dukes would very much prefer their peasants never learned.
Heroes & legends
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Louen LeoncoeurThe LionheartedThe grail-blessed King of Bretonnia — a warrior-king preserved in his prime by the Lady's cup, who rides the hippogryph Beaquis at the head of every charge he asks of others.
Repanse de LyonesseThe MaidA humble peasant maiden granted a vision by the Lady, who took up sword and banner and led Bretonnia to victory in an age when its knights had all but despaired.
Tancred, Duke of QuenellesThe Vampire's BaneThe grim Duke of Quenelles, whose bloodline swore an eternal grudge against the vampire Red Duke and who has spent his life hunting the undead across the southlands.
The Fay EnchantressVoice of the LadyThe Lady of the Lake's living voice in Bretonnia — the prophetess before whom kings kneel, who blesses monarchs, claims the fay-touched children, and carries the goddess's word out of the otherworld.