Night Brigade
A group hunting Nomad across the cosmere. He believes no planet can hide him from them for long, and times each Skip to put as much distance between himself and the Brigade as his remaining Investiture will allow. STD:TSM:Ch 1
Known facts
- arrives-in-orbit-over-this-worldA starship of the Brigade settles into low orbit around Canticle during the dismantling of Beacon — first spotted as a "new star" by a child on deck, bright with reflected sunlight. Nomad identifies it on sight and notes that the cousins of the Threnodites have caught up to him faster than he had hoped.STD:TSM:Ch 26
- commands-armies-of-the-deadA largely mercenary force, known across the cosmere for brutal efficiency — Nomad tells Contemplation they are the only army he knows that makes the dead keep fighting. They are not pillagers; they are a precision tool, and they do what their contract or their goal requires. Whole worlds have been left desolate when the contract called for it. Cousins of the Threnodites, they take a particular interest in shades.STD:TSM:Ch 27
- arrives-in-orbit-around-canticleThe TimeTellers notice a Night Brigade ship in orbit above Canticle and decide to lie low rather than hail it. They do not connect the timing to their newly-arrived Rosharan mercenary; Nomad knows perfectly well that the Night Brigade keeps the reason it hunts him quiet — the Dawnshard is too valuable a weapon to advertise as something on offer.STD:TSM:Ch 45
- arrives-on-canticle-just-behind-zellionA Night Brigade cell led by the Admiral reaches Canticle roughly a day behind Zellion's departure, dismisses local accounts of his death as unreliable, and pivots toward the Refuge — whose Scadrian crew failed to register their embedded presence with them — to extract recordings of his time on the planet. He is, the Admiral admits to herself, one step ahead of them again.STD:TSM:Epilogue
Events
- STD:TSM:Epilogue A Night Brigade cell — a handful of soldiers and the Admiral — has reached Canticle in a stolen local ship. They wait inside while Truth-Is-Waiting makes his report and the Admiral decides their next target.
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