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An Obsidian Guard colonel reports to Grendel about his son's unit's counterinsurgency work

This post discusses the events of “Son of Grendel,” a prequel novella set around a year before my steampunk military fantasy novel Battle for the Wastelands. The major spoilers are in the premium section, however.

MEMORANDUM FOR

TO:                Grendel, First Lord of the Northlands

FROM:           Colonel Herluf Annarsson, Obsidian Guard

SUBJECT:      After Action Report (AAR), Suppression of Banditry In Jennerston Region of the Basin.

1.     GENERAL INFORMATION / INTRODUCTION

Ever since the final defeat of the Camrose Confederation, the Obsidian Guard has been asserting Norridge’s control over its component lands in the eastern Basin. To that end, the Fourth Stenhus Infantry Regiment had been showing the flag between the existing flatlander communities and the new Sejer and Jiao veteran settlements. During one such movement, a group of flatlander bandits ambushed one of the regiment’s columns and killed Lieutenant General Wang Fai, an experienced and decorated officer who had served with you since before the unification of Sejera. Wang was on his way to take command of the entrance to the Pass; it does not appear the bandits knew his identity.

In order to avenge his death in a highly public fashion, you detached elements of the First Norridge Infantry Regiment, commanded by your son and heir Captain Falki Grendelsson, to hunt down and eliminate this group of insurgents, subject to my overall command.

2.     SUMMARY

·       Deployed Location: Jennerston, southeastern Basin.

·       Deployed Personnel:  Captain Falki Grendelsson, First Norridge, Obsidian Guard

·       Duration of Deployment: Approximately one month

·       Contingency Purpose: Support suppression of banditry in the southeastern Basin.

·       Scope of Operation: Hill country around Jennerston, ten miles in all directions

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