Arrowhead Company

Arrowhead Company was the name of a sizable mercenary company employed by the Dwarven war council given charge of the western post-mountain region.

Composed almost four-fifths of humans, the company was hired in the summer of 317, while the prolonged Boreal Caverns Impasse was in its seventh month. While the hope was that the great numbers provided by Arrowhead Company would be enough to rout the United forces from their ensconced positions, the difficulty Arrowhead Company had in traversing both the natural caverns and the Dwarven tunnels proved their undoing. Arrowhead lost dozens of men to environmental causes before encountering kobold soldiers, and their lack of familiarity with underground warfare led to a simple skirmish becoming a dwarf-escorted retreat.

Arrowhead Company's leader of the time, Mulligan Archer, demanded a rise in pay to continue serving the Dwarven side, citing the unfavourable terrain as a reason. Foolishly, the war council agreed, and paid the Company another month of the increased wage. Arrowhead continued to report losses, and while some were genuine, this was largely a disguise for the fact they were withdrawing men from the tunnels. Before the month was out, Arrowhead publicly abandoned the job, taking with them deserters from both sides of the conflict who were weary of the impasse.

It is speculated that it is primarily the sheer loss of resources represented in the hiring of Arrowhead Company and the failure to advance the impasse or make other progress that led to the disbandment of the Dwarven war council in favour of handing command of the western front to a single general, namely Hargen Shalebeard.

- Senka DiDay