The Sons of Sanchen

The Sons of Sanchen is an outlaw faction which derives from a much larger faction known as The Riders of Doom.

History
The Riders of Doom has been for a very long time the most feared of all outlaw factions in Trinpolis, controlling the entire criminal underworld in the north, center and the west of the continent.

The Riders have a very intricate hierarchy which ultimately lead to the "Shattering year" when high ranking officers would leave the faction to start up their own gangs, one of which were the Haukur brothers who made The Sons of Sanchen.

The Sons we're one of three successfull factions to have come out of The Riders of Doom. By making an honest income through slave trade they were noted by many city states as a legal slaving guild which gained them access to many farms and ports.

After receiving word that city states begun to decline their offers due to their affiliation with The Riders of Doom, The Sons decided to go back to their old ways.

The Sons did a rookie mistake during one of their first raids by attacking a Nashirae town, The Sons were chased out swiftly by the 100 men strong militia. The aftermath of the failed raid spread across the criminal underworld which made the Nashirae invulnerable to raids by city staters.

The Sons' raids were much more planned than The Riders' raids, which induced more fear into the hearts of the city staters, this obviously angered the city states' goverments who decided to have professional soldiers guard caravans.

Three years ago The Sons' biggest and bloodiest battle known as "The Battle of Geovna river" where the 15 Sons ambushed the 40 mercenaries protecting a trade caravan coming in from Septima. The leader Freki "Bloodaxe" Haukur had ordered his men to light logs on fire and rolling them down at the mercenaries to cause mass confusion so The Sons would have more time to take them all out. In the end The Sons won with heavy losses which led to their sudden quietness in Trinpolis.

The affect
The Sons and the Doom Riders have inspired for many books and has altered law enforcement techniques gravely. The play "Gunjan the Horrible" is about the fictional Doom Rider who was one of the officers who took part of "The Shattering year" and made a faction heavily inspired by The Sons, written by the famous Amite playwright Matas Vytautas Admiraal

The phrase "If I wanted to die I'd anger a doom rider" has been widely used even if they mean a Son.

The mercenary industry has gotten much larger.

Slave traders are much harder to trust after The Sons' escapades in Trinpolis.