Bolstering Bill

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Description

The Marcher yeomen make use of these practical pole-arms in their fighting lines to help reduce casualties. A couple of soldiers armed with these weapons can provide speedy assistance to fellow warriors who have collapsed due to injuries, allowing them to move back out of the press under their own steam. A warrior armed with a bolstering bill may be a trained physician themselves, but more likely they are expected to keep fighting to cover the retreat of their comrade and keep the line solid.

The character of Bolstering Bill appears in a number of comic songs, stories and poems in various parts of the Empire as a simple yet well-meaning soldier-boy who helps his companions through any number of amusing or hair-raising scrapes with a combination of good humour, honest camaraderie and more than a little tough love. While these tales are generally accepted as being made up, the character of Bolstering Bill is sometimes mentioned as being an Exemplar of Loyalty

In Highguard and Wintermark especially, it is common for a pair of champions to fight side-by-side, each equipped with one of these weapons (and occasionally other similar items such as the Bondring). In this case, the weapon is generally called a brother's beacon (Highguard) or a brothers' bulwark (Wintermark), regardless of the genders of the warriors involved. In other nations one of these weapons may be called variously an indomitable hook or a good neighbour.

Rules

• Form: Pole-arm. Despite the name any pole-arm may be a bolstering bill.
• Effect: Once per day you can use a hero point to use stay with me while wielding this weapon.
• Materials: Crafting a bolstering bill requires seven ingots of weltsilver and five ingots of green iron. It takes one month to make one of these items.