Snowshield Count

Snowshield Count
also known as Count Snowshield, Count Rosemen
Role	Count
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-b#64]

The Snowshield Count is a noble commander who led a column of fifty soldiers toward Hollowbridge, traveling the same route as the party during the Winter War. ^{[heralds-b#64 · heralds-b#67]}

Overview

While the party was headed to Hollowbridge, the Snowshield Count was independently moving in the same direction with his fifty men. ^{[heralds-b#64]}

The Hollowbridge Ambush

The Count and his column reached Hollowbridge and found it empty and largely in ruins, with only a few buildings still standing, so the column camped in the surviving structures for the night. ^{[heralds-b#67]} That night, Gnoll infiltrators planted explosives in the standing buildings while Winter Elf archers fired into the town from the surrounding treeline, catching the camp between the two attacks; the party arrived in the town in the middle of this chaos. ^{[heralds-b#67 · heralds-b#71]}

Command and battle stats

For the Hollowbridge fight, the Count's column carried a "Commander" bonus for his tactical leadership in the battle-stat system built to run the battle, set against a heavy-armor bonus and cold resistance on one side and minor losses, disrupted organization from being caught by surprise, and a weakness in ranged combat on the other. ^{[heralds-b#96 · heralds-b#97]}

In play

In the battle-event tables built for this fight, the column is referred to once as "Count Rosemen" rather than "Snowshield Count." ^{[heralds-b#89]}

Needs a decision: Whether the name "Count Rosemen" reflects an actual tie to House Rosemen or is simply an alternate name for the same count^{[heralds-b#89]}

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for Snowshield Count that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Snowshield Count so they cannot be mistaken for canon.

Related pages

• Hollowbridge — the ruined town he marched to, and where Gnoll and Winter Elf attackers ambushed his camp
• Snowshield's Forces — the fifty-strong column he commands
• Gnoll — the infiltrators who ambushed his camp at Hollowbridge
• Aric Rosemen — shares the surname used for this count in play once; no confirmed link (see Unresolved above)
• Bella Worthmore — said to have pledged him support against the Winter Elves (unconfirmed)
• Aenarch Empire — the empire whose Regency structure the title "Count" belongs to
• Regency — the Imperial subdivision his county-level title sits within