Jaque

Jaque
Biographical information
Full name	Jaque
Worship	Shining Ones
Events	Battle in the Fields of Emalitos Ambush on the Hilltop
Affiliation	Basileans 78th Legion of the Basilean Hegemony (former)
Physical description
Race	Human
References
Sources	Steps to Deliverance

Jaque is an retired ex-basilean soldier of the 78th Legion of the Basilean Hegemony.

Biography

3854

In 3854, Jaque had joined the Basilean legion was part of the 78th Legion of the Basilean Hegemony, which was lead by Captain Dionne. This was until Dionne disobeyed orders and rebelled agains his Basilean commanders. Despite Jaque not joining Dionne, he along with other members of the 78th were discharged, branded and imprisioned by Dictator Hugh as punishment for Captain Dionne's rebellion against the Duma, guilty by association.

Six months after being imprisioned Hayden was released. Out of the 23 soldiers from the 78th Legion of the Basilean Hegemony who were sent to prision, only 9 survived including herself, Hayden and Constance.

3865

Hunt For Dionne

By 3865, Jaque had joined a mercenary unit of Men-at-Arms Crossbowmen led by Constance.

Constance's mercenaries, including Jaque, were recruited for an expedition to hunt down Constance's former captain Dionne and were waiting for the arrival of Tancred, 15th Order of the Sacred Ark Cohort and the 32nd Legion of the Basilean Hegemony along with other members of her unit including Hayden, Carmen, Wulf, Mallius and 25 others (30 in total).

Constance and her mercenaries began to travel with the 32nd Legion of the Basilean Hegemony and 15th Order of the Sacred Ark Cohort and were 3 days away from the Mountains of Tarkis, setting up camp to rest for the night.

Eventually the expedition force arrived south of Emalitos, Constance and her mercenaries have set up camp and were discussing the events which occured within Emalitos against the townfolk between Orion and Hugh.

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Battle in the Fields of Emalitos

As Dionne's rebels found and began to attack the expedition, Constance and her mercenaries began to get into positon, moving north and taking postion to the right side of the road near Emalitos. Hayden gave short blasts on his horn to communicate to those who could not hear Constance. The mercenaries arranged themselves into three columns, with ten men/women each row. Looking ahead of them, they saw hundreds of warriors in formation. Constance order the unit to load.

Constance and her mercenaries began to fire at the incoming Men-in-Arms Swordsmen while being peppered with shots from the rebel's crossbow unit as the Swordsmen marched towards the mercenaries, and were managing to slowly pick off swordsmen while taking their own losses. Hayden would quickly tend to the wounded the best he could.

Constance's mercenaries continued to fire at the oncoming swordsmen, even ignoring getting hit herself, as they got closer and closer. The enemy crossbowmen had turned back from the Paladins and continued firing at the mercenary unit. One group of Men-in-Arms Swordsmen managed to get close enough and charged at the mercenaries and locking Hayden into hand-to-hand combat.

As Orion's paladin's charged, the enemy crossbowmen shots attempted to slow them down. Some of the mercenaries had began to flee then Orion heard the order from Tancred to break off his attack which he complied despite the shock of the Constance's mercenaries including Hayden.

The rebel swordsmen charging at the mercenaries stopped as they reformed to face Orion's paladins. Constance ordered her mercenaries to fire while they had the chance. The rebel swordsmen turn again to fact Constance and her mercenaries once they saw Orion's paladin's cease their charge. As they did, Tancred and his paladin's smashed into side of the swordmen, spliting the unit into two. The swordsmen turned to run, only to be cut down by the paladin knights. The battle was won.

After the battle, after reforming and continuing the hunt for Dionne, Constance, Hayden and the rest of the Mercenaries along with the 32nd Legion arrived in Torgias to meet up with Tancred, Orion and unknowningly Aestelle. Constance dismissed her unit and she along with Jaque and Hayden went to see if Orion wanted to join them for a drink which Orion wanted to accept however Orion knew they will soon be on their way north. Hayden then left to round up the mercenary forces before they got too drunk.

The expedition continued on through the Mountains of Tarkis, as Hayden rested with the rest of the unit, Constance was summoned by Hugh, via Tancred, due to an issue at the head of the column due to a collapsed bridge. Orion and Aestelle managed to fix this and the expedition continued on.

Ambush on the Hilltop

After three days of tracking the Abyssals, the expedition were resting for the night when Tancred was awakened unexpectedly, sensing something nearby. Leaving his tent, he attempted to try to find the source of this disturbance and walked around the camp. Sensing Abyssal's sorrounding the campsite, he quickly ran to Jeneveve and asked her to subtly start waking up the paladin's starting with Xavier. Tancred then moved to two sentry guards on duty and advised them to quietly wake up Hugh and prepare his men for battle. Tancred advised the enemy was all around them and they began to set up their defences with Constance, Hayden and the rest of the mercenaries took the eastern side, Captain Georgis took the north and west and finally the Tancred and his Paladins to take the south, with some of the best paladins preparing to mount their horses.

Hayden with Constance and the rest of the mercenaries based themselves on the eastern side of the hilltop. Noting they can hear them chittering in the distance, Constance advised to stay hidden and to start shooting only when it's neccessary. Suddenly, the Lower Abyssals emerged in their direction and Constance advised one of the squires to alert Hugh and commanded her troops to fire then quickly loaded again to fire off another shot.

Eventually Hayden and the rest of the mercenaries were overun by the Abyssals and Hayden was taken as a prisoner of war.

Capture and Retirement

After the battle, Hayden awoke to find herself imprisioned by Abyssals with Constance and Jaque inside a wrecked small farm building. Hayden informs Constance that Carmen and Wulf were with them to begin with, however they were taken away and presumably killed. Am'Bira's lower abyssals then dragged the three out of the room to begin torturing them, breaking the spirit of Jaque in the process. As Am'Bira continued, Dionne arrived questioning why the prisoners hadn't been executed and Dionne discovered they were his old 78th Legion of the Basilean Hegemony troops that served under him. Dionne dismissed Am'Bira and decided to free Constance, Jaque and Hayden who then left the abyssals as quick as they could. Eventually, Hayden decided to leave Constance and Jaque to go retire in peace with his daughther Maya.

At an undisclosed tavern, after the Battle of Andro, Hayden was playing music on his lute. Hayden then noticed two newcomers enter, Constance and Jaque. Hayden was happy to see them both and more so that they had survived. Hayden's daughter, Maya, was one of the serving girls and went to get them both a drink. Constance informed they were paid well from Tancred and were reforming the company, wanting Hayden to join them. Hayden refused however and they all, including Maya, sat down to catch up over drinks.

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