Knight-Sergeant Bastian Grier — Drillmaster of Edgewood Garrison
The steady discipline underneath Edgewood Garrison's calm, Knight-Sergeant Bastian Grier drills every rotating warden until a raised alarm becomes instinct instead of panic -- and privately carries every name he's ever trained.
Introduction
Every warden who rotates through Edgewood Garrison passes through the drill yard before they ever stand a real watch, and every one of them remembers the man who put them through it. Knight-Sergeant Bastian Grier doesn't care how a recruit looked back in Brightcrown. He cares whether they can still hold a line when they're exhausted, frightened, and the horn is already sounding — because he's seen exactly what happens when a garrison isn't ready, and he has spent every year since making sure Edgewood never finds out again.
Profile
Name: Bastian Grier
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Alignment: Lawful Good
Role/Class: Knight-Sergeant & Drillmaster, Edgewood Garrison
Challenge Rating: 2
“I don't care how you looked back in Brightcrown. I care whether you can still hold that line when you're exhausted, scared, and the horn's already sounding. Show me that, and we're done here.”
Appearance: Bastian is broad-shouldered and thick through the neck, built like a man who has spent decades demonstrating stances rather than just describing them. Old scars cross one forearm and the side of his jaw, and his close-cropped hair has gone iron-gray at the temples. He wears a battered chain shirt over a padded gambeson even on quiet drill-yard mornings, carries a scarred buckler he's had since long before most of his current recruits were born, and keeps a weathered brass whistle on a cord at his throat, worn smooth from years of use.
