I’ll put a bullet in your head and a sword in your heart, provided someone pays me to do so and proves to me why it should be done.
Justified mercenaries, these Knights will accept a bounty provided the cause is just.
The Oath
I give my word to break legs, crush skulls and snap necks. I’ll put a bullet in your head and a sword in your heart, provided someone pays me to do so and proves to me why it should be done.
Rumor and Fact
The word around the freehold is that the Tolltaker Knights are the foulest mercenaries found among changelings. With blood-blemished blades tucked into their belts and snub nose revolvers strapped to their ankles, they offer up a single purpose in this world: to hurt people for payment. The rumors are that they’re particularly good at it, too, as precise or as inexact as one needs them to be. If one person pays the toll, another person ends up in the hospital — either in a bed, or in the morgue. They’re louts, drunkards and murder-for-hire jackboots… or at least, that’s what everybody believes.
The rumors are true, mostly. They’re mercenaries, yes. They’re good at what they do, indeed. But there’s one clause to their order’s oath that most people seem to forget or ignore, and that’s the nature of proof. The Knights won’t go after a target unless they agree that the cause is justified — and proof must be supplied toward this end. Now, justice is in the eye of the beholder; one Knight may be a tad more lenient regarding what “injustice” deserves meting out the order’s trademark brutality, while another may refuse to give into such monstrous opportunism.
