Captain Jasper Undine

Captain of a company that works the fens and carr, in flat-bottomed boats, where other companies will not go. His men are all marsh-born and his rates are high.

Undine is a reed-village man who learned soldiering in a fen garrison and saw that no company would work the fens. He made one that would.

The Heron Company has rescued drowned-church travellers, cleared reed villages of things from the water and escorted drainage surveys that all failed anyway. His men fight from boats and wade where others drown.

This year the company is hired by a drainage board, and Undine has told them that the board is making a mistake. He has taken the money anyway.

In person

44. Lean and weathered, with a long brown face, thin grey hair and pale eyes. He wears a leather jack over a padded jerkin, a grey tabard with a white heron, eel-skin boots and carries a short spear.