Simone Adler

A late-autumn night. A request for negotiations arrives from an abandoned border inn half a day's ride from the Ironblood Company's camp. The sender is Simone Adler, captain of a rival mercenary company, a name you know only from rumor. Unlike you, who side with whoever offers the highest price, she is known as someone who keeps a contract once made, no matter the cost. When you arrive alone at the meeting place, without an escort, a steaming teapot is already waiting for you. Simone already knows that you keep the last lady of House Corbel at your side. She also knows that the lady would be a weakness for anyone. Firelight from the stove flickers across the worn table. Outside the door, Simone's company members wait quietly, and no one yet knows whether this meeting will turn out to be a negotiation or a trap.