My Dragon, my Friend, my...Lover?
He was a sellsword, not a merchant. his job was to protect whatever lay in the bag up to a certain point, then get his pay. petty conflicts and politics were above his paycut, and he treated them as they deserved: like drunken revelers.
The desert
Unorganized bands of sellswords like this had the highest death rate of any army he knew. everyone here was here because he had nowhere else to go.
Wrack and Rune, Part I
Jerim was new, he had been in the family's service less than a year - and word had it, he was a sellsword adventurer before he decided to settle down and take a steady job.
Chasing the Unicorn - PART 8: ANOTHER PLACE
He took his blade in both hands again, inverted in another murderstroke, and began to swing it at parias' supine form, the sellsword on his back literally and back-foot metaphorically, forcing him to roll and kick himself away from bart.
The Missing Lynx, Part VI
The indicated sellswords, a coyote and a weasel, quickly split off from the rest of the group. the others quickly moved back toward their waiting horses. kavah moved to follow them, but his path was suddenly blocked by a length of runed bone.
Chasing the Unicorn - PART 2: LACHHEIM
Parias stared at him, the moment of clarity shared between two very different men hung in the air, and anguish seemed to pass through the seasoned sellsword, his face rippling between emotions so fast bart couldn't even note it before he spoke.
Ponyfinder - Get in the Game
You're sellswords, not super heroes, i suppose." bed time frowned a little at this declaration. "i just want to help. i don't need a lot of bits for that." twilight pointed at bed time. "that's the spirit! such wonderful civic-mindedness."
The Missing Lynx, Part VII
An unassuming mousekin in a bulky coat and bandanna, whom the lion had apparently deigned as the only other capable sellsword in the entire camp aside from kavah. "they're a waste of skin and fur," the mouse rasped.
Services
As he trudged on through the snow, approaching the edge of town, the sellsword caught sight of a man, a rodent of some kind from the looks of him, though he was so well bundled up he could be just about anything.
Lupine Lunch
Who would have thought that kâlyn would be so tenacious as to hire a sellsword to hunt me down!? not me, that's for sure!
Profile of Drake Hellblazer Harkonen
Using the drago name, he joined various armies across the world as a sellsword, and even befriended the soldiers of the armies he fought for, including other mercenaries if there were any.
Upon Crooked Foundations 2
"hello.", roviden said, doing her best to smile at what looked like a sellsword. "don't suppose you'd have work for a fellow mercenary?", the bull asked as he took a seat by roviden. "we're not mercenaries.", folgren said, looking somewhat puzzled.