#urswyck

Jaime loses his sword hand

They mean to scare me. The fool hopped on Jaime’s back, giggling, as the Dothraki swaggered toward him. The goat wants me to piss my breeches and beg his mercy, but he’ll never have that pleasure. He was a Lannister of Casterly Rock, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard; no sellsword would make him scream. Sunlight ran silver along the edge of the arakh as it came shivering down, almost too fast to see. And Jaime screamed. ~A Storm of Swords (Jaime III)

Hi again! Continuing Sellsword Summer I've decided to put together some more members of Vargo Hoat's sellsword company, the Brave Companions (or Bloody Mummers, really), starting off with a block of infantry

When Arya first sees the Mummers in A Clash of Kings she notes how odd the whole eclectic bunch of war criminals look, which provided a basis (and a lot of freedom) to get started on figures to represent the sellswords:

Arya did not know who Bloody Mummers were until a fortnight later, when the queerest company of men she'd ever seen arrived at Harrenhal. Beneath the standard of a black goat with bloody horns rode copper men with bells in their braids; lancers astride striped black-and-white horses; bowmen with powdered cheeks; squat hairy men with shaggy shields; brown-skinned men in feathered cloaks; a wispy fool in green-and-pink motley; swordsmen with fantastic forked beards dyed green and purple and silver; spearmen with colored scars that covered their cheeks; a slender man in septon's robes, a fatherly one in maester's grey, and a sickly one whose leather cloak was fringed with long blond hair.

I’ve tried to include a mix of named characters and unnamed generic sellswords from assorted places in Essos and Westeros in the block, I’ll make some separate spotlight posts on each of them to run through the process there!

(edit: I see it’s in Sons of the Dragon too, for obvious reasons; not sure how I overlooked that, but then I only got to read that novella a bit late.)

The Brave Companions (all the named ones)

Urswyck

Michael Emerson - 62 years old, American.

For the final couple of named sellswords in the block of Bloody Mummers infantry, I’ve got Urswyck and Septon Utt, two officers (somehow) in the sellsword company

Urswyck was a fairly simple kitbash from some assorted Perry Miniatures plastic sets, with a cloak added (and blonde hair sculpted to the bottom of it). I’ve tried to emphasise his cadaverous look by giving him a very pallid skin tone and red rings around his eyes, along with sculpting on some very thin, brittle hair on his head. I’ve given Urswyck a blue/grey paint scheme, so that he can pass as a Frey if I need him to! 

Utt gets described as wearing chainmail over grey septon’s robes in the books, but those two colours blend together a lot on the tabletop! So to emphasise the robes a bit more, I decided to just use a Footsore Miniatures monk without any chainmail.  I’ve added a shield with Vargo Hoat’s black goat to him to visually set him apart from the other sellswords and mark him out as someone who has the dubious distinction of holding a position of authority in Vargo Hoat’s band. 

robb didnt want to give jaime away so they are bringing him bakc for ransom but they arent actually gonna bring em back