Black Company

Black Company / Therianthropy

Warren Woodhammer, known as Apex, is a mountain dwarf of the Woodhammer family whose Witchborn therianthropy transforms him into a massive ape. A brutal close-quarters fighter with ties to the Black Company, Warren is known for raw strength, violent momentum, and an instinct for turning any battlefield into a proving ground. He does not fight for glory, law, or mercy; he fights to find the next thing strong enough to challenge him. When Apex enters the fray, strategy usually gives way to survival.

Black Company / Centrum (2100 MB -) / Pyrokinesis (Flamespeaking)

Ignotus, known as Blaze, is an infernal sorcerer and former member of the Swarsbard Three whose pyrokinesis manifests through flamespeaking. A strategist more than a hero, he built the Black Company into a mercenary aid organization with darker business beneath the surface. Through his partnership with Maskara Azur, Ignotus distributes enchanted masks to criminals, then profits again by retrieving them. Now tied to the reformed Centrum, he treats fire as symbol, weapon, contract, and warning.

Black Company / Supernatural Intelligence

Ledger is the mute monk-financier who keeps the Black Company balanced, funded, and far harder to collapse than its enemies would like. Raised in a temple culture where offerings, survival, and devotion were all counted together, he learned to treat accounting as discipline before crime gave it sharper purpose. His perfect recall, rapid calculation, and an unsettling memory for every debt, favor, and missing coin. As Ignotus’s trusted right hand, Mickey rarely needs to speak. The books speak for him, and the numbers don’t lie.

Black Company / Whispering (Mental Manipulation)

Secret Coin is a bronze dragonborn broker and primary negotiator for the Black Company, polished enough to seem diplomatic and dangerous enough to make diplomacy feel like a trap. Once a smuggler, he rose through the underworld by treating secrecy as currency and memory as collateral. His whispering lets him bind agreements into recollection, alter what clients believe they remember, and ensure contracts cannot be casually escaped. Belial keeps his origins obscured while speaking for Ignotus’s interests.

Black Company / Maskweaving

Maskara Azur, known as Shroud, is a human illusionist, maskmaker, and former Von Queef University student whose art turns identity into a tool. Once a street performer, she refined her craft during the Drakkuskan War, using illusion to defend VQU before her work found darker markets through the Black Company. Her Witchborn maskweaving lets her imbue masks with alternate personas, abilities, and dangerous emotional truths, making each creation part disguise, part weapon, and part temptation. Chaotic Neutral and theatrical by instinct, Maskara sells transformation to people who may not survive becoming someone else.

Black Company / Supernatural Strength

Timonos Truthstriker, known as Tiny Tim, is the Black Company’s immovable wall: a hulking bodyguard whose loyalty to Ignotus borders on self-erasure. He follows orders with absolute devotion, whether from faith, charm, or the simple certainty that Ignotus is the person he is meant to protect. His strength makes negotiations feel fragile before they begin, and most threats end when he steps forward with Tina, the massive axe he treats like a trusted partner. Timonos speaks to Tina often; no one knows if she answers, and few are brave enough to ask. Beneath the Company’s muscle is a man who might have become a hero, had someone else earned his loyalty first.