The Summer of the Swordsman

It has been hard just lately for a mercenary troop to find work in a backwater like Danskagge. The choice may come down to working as a fire control troop for a regional princeling or else joining the navy of the worst pirate in history in an attack on the great trading alliance.

Which would be better? To starve? or to be killed in all-out fighting?

Oristides, the second in command of the troop, looks back on that hectic summer, when the world turned upside-down and the enigmatic Swordsman stepped into their midst and took matters into his own hands.