Will you join their cause and do the same?įirst you have to choose your background. The Brotherhood continues to fight to protect the commoners of the Riverlands in the name of King Robert and Lord Eddard.
Trapped behind enemy lines, they became a guerrilla fighting group, and were joined by deserters from different armies in the war as well as commoners trying to defend their homes. The group was indirectly created by Eddard Stark, when he sent out a force of knights to restore peace and justice to the Riverlands. Their goal is simple, to protect the smallfolk from any force preying on them, regardless of which King or Lord they support. The Brotherhood Without Banners is what some would regard as an outlaw group working against Lannister interests in the Riverlands. Will you choose benevolence and malevolence? Or somewhere in between. A Robber Knight and a Hedge Knight are two sides of the same coin as one once put it. Or all of them at once over time, they can be honorable or dishonorable depending on their way of doing things. They do not have the family name or the purse like real knights, so they spend all their money on armor and a horse and riding tourney after tourney in the hope of impressing some lord or winning some prize."Ī Hedge Knight can be many things, a lords Retainer, an adventurer, Torney fighter, Bandit Hunter. They get their name from where the sleep: under the hedges of the Seven Kingdoms and ditches and stables. "Hedge knights, now, are a different breed.