Kinilan Peace Brigade
The Kinilan Peace Brigade is the segment of the Kinilan Army dedicated to maintaining the peace within the country of Kinilan. They were formed after the Wine Wars, primarily tasked with maintaining peace between the noble houses, in hopes of preventing any future civil wars.
During the Kinilan Revolution, members of the Brigade fought on both sides. Some defended the nobles as ordered, while others, more familiar with the nobility's excesses than most, were enthusiastic supporters of the revolution.
After the Revolution, the unit was repurposed to patrol trade routes, suppressing banditry and maintaining peace in towns too small to maintain a town watch. Before the Great War, they were reasonably successful, but as the war dragged on, soldiers were transferred out of the brigade until only a bare hundred men remained. Banditry flourished in the decades of the war.
In the last year and a half, since the end of the war, the Brigade has begun to swell with numbers. Many of the soldiers in the war have returned to their homes, or taken up the life of a professional adventurer, but the army remains much larger than it once was, and troops have been transferred back into the Peace Brigade in order to put an end to the bandits that plague the country.
Structure
The Peace Brigade is led by a Marshall, the second highest rank of the Kinilan Army. This is primarily due to the importance of the Brigade's original mission of preventing civil war. This pattern follows for the entire Brigade; every officer in the Brigade is a rank higher than one would expect based on the size of the unit they lead. This grants officers authority over those of equivalent rank in other Brigades, giving them the authority to requisition troops from other units on short notice.
Type
Military, Army Brigade
Training Level
Semi-professional
Veterancy Level
Veteran
I really liked the bit here about them being higher ranked than other groups because of civil war, it's a nice way to put a guard against that happening. Nice article!
Thanks! Glad someone else thought it was a good idea. When I was writing it I thought "y'know, I've never heard of anyone actually trying this. Is there something I'm missing here?"