Lothern Sea Guard

Lothern is the greatest city in Ulthuan and capital of Eataine, the most powerful of all the Elven kingdoms. Just as the people of every Elven realm provide Spear and Archer regiments, so the city of Lothern provides the majority of the fighting crews of the Phoenix King's fleet. The Sea Guard can fight as effectively on land as on sea, and are equally resolute defending the walls of Lutheran as battling across the decks of Elven warships.

Most Elven soldiery is called to arms only in times of great need, for there are too few Elves to maintain large armies all the time. The Sea Guard, however, is always kept at strength and retains a core of full-time warriors. When the armies of Ulthuan go to war, the Sea Guard go with him, to crew the many warships and secure beachheads enabling the rest of the army to come ashore.

The function of the Sea Guard means that they must fulfil the dangerous tasks of defending their vessels from attack, mounting boarding actions against enemy ships and attacking coastal positions. To achieve this, they are armed with both spears and bows, the better to achieve their many tasks combining the best aspects of High Elf Spearmen and High Elf Archers. Those who have witnessed the Lothern Sea Guard in action can attest to their practiced skill, disembarking effortlessly from their boats as the kneel brushes against the shore. Advancing in a disciplined formation through the churning foam, spears lowered and bows at the ready.

Lutheran houses the numerous Sea Guard regiments when they are not in active service, and the regiments maintain a number of large and well equipped barracks. These buildings, like andy Elven structure, look elegant from the outside, however the eagle-claw bolt throwers mounted in the ornate minarets and upon the shimmering blue-tiled roofs bear solemn testament to their martial purpose. Lutheran is the one place in Ulthuan where a non-Elf may walk with any degrees of freedom and the Sea Guard stoically ensure the protection of Ulthuan's greatest city. Each Sea Guard regiment spends three seasons of the year actively patrolling the seas around their island home and protecting Ulthuan's colonies, and it is in their remaining quarter that they recruit new warriors and hone their skills. While other seafaring nations, like the Norse, the men of Marienburg and even the Empire, proclaim the excellence of their own ship-borne warriors, there is no doubt that the Sea Guard are the finest marines in the Old World and beyond.