The town of Wargstadt fields a unit of jaegers. They march behind the town banner which depicts a large black hound who,it is said, still haunts the town square at night - 400 years after it single handedly defeated the leader of a pack of invading wolves on the feast of S. Stephen. The black hound ( who remains nameless in the sources) died in the attack ,but by killing the leader the thirty other wolves were routed and the town saved...The unit is made up of two shooting fraternities whose rivalry is the stuff of legend. The Warg fraternity favours the rifled musket and the Stadt fraternity an early ,yet deadly, air rifle. Each year they compete along with all comers from the valley in the annual shooting contest. In times of war the two rival fraternites put differences aside and fight in a single unit under the town banner in their distinctive fraternity uniforms- the Warg in purple and the Stadt in green. Any invaders of the valley will find these light infantry a force to be reckoned with...
I love the little bits of myth or history that help give units like this a bit of "color". Thank you.
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