The Ballot Stuffers
by John HareIs the nick name giving to Kerin's Kampaigners.
This group is lead by Kerin, a mage from Glantri. Their
specialty... rigging elections and nominations of public officials.
This band has had its hand in almost all of the power struggles in
Darokin over the last 5 years. The members are a mixed sort of
unsavoury individuals and can be considered skirmishers. However
they normally are rabble rousers. The use all sorts of dirty tricks
to help their client win his position. Sometimes they even succeed.
Their tactics range from magical to the mundane, of casting charm
spells, suggestions to bribery, blackmail and it is rumoured
poisoning, to get their client in place. The amount of effort they
put forth depends entirely on the amount of money the client is
willing to spend. Several of Kerin's lieutenants are members of the
Darokin Thieves Guild, and another is a cleric (some suspect of
Loki). Kerin's group has one at least one occasion been hired by
both members seeking a position! They have also been known to do
jobs for the Merchant Houses in respect to stealing trade
documents, waylaying caravan trains and other unsavoury business.
While many of the Merchant Families would like to get rid of them
entirely, the amount of blackmail information that Kerin has
collected is substantial, and could ruin most of the major houses.
It is rumoured that one of the devices the Kerin has in his
possession is a ring of x-ray vision which he has used to powerful
effect to locate safes and the documents inside. The band has never
had more than 100 members at any one time. And depending on the
season normally fluctuates between 40 to 80 members. Many of this
additional personal are lowlife hired on as muscle for some of the
more pushy jobs. Of course these low lifes aren't kept appraised of
what Kerin has really been hired for, only to say beat up some rich
fob who wears a blue cape and green hat.