Knightslayers

The Knightslayers were a group of warriors who were formed early in 103, of the common calendar. Their leader was a woman named Surda, who's husband was slain by a knight of the Human Alliance. In her rage, the woman surprised the knight when she beat him in the face with a shovel, and then proceeded to murder the man with it.

Now a wanted woman, Surda took the knights gear and fled, to the frontier kingdom of Urdran. For long, Urdran had been a kingdom of outlaws and cutthroats. Many of the kingdoms' inhabitants had suffered at the hands of the nobility, or the church of the Sacred Flame.

She quickly gained support for her quest for vengeance against the nobility of the Alliance. The village of Amberine, on the very edge of the kingdom and surrounded by a swamp, that made moving in heavy armour extremely perilous, for those who did not know the safe paths.

History
The young woman that would become one of the most infamous outlaws throughout the Alliance was once a humble farmer, on the outskirts of a large city. While not considered overwhelmingly beautiful, she was recently married to a young man from her village. They were not married long when a local knight rode out to demand why the newly weds had not asked the lords permission before marrying. When her husband dared to speak out against the knight, the noble struck him down.