Title	Support Offered
Pawn	New recruits or "contract-bound." Provided with standardised Gambeson, a basic polearm, and communal camp rations.
Man-at-Arms	Proven combatants. Access to the Company armoury for plate-and-mail, a share of "battle-spoils," and basic field chirurgery.
Sergeant-Checker	Squad leaders are responsible for 10–20 men. Entrusted with the Company’s tactical "Playbook" and authorised to negotiate small-scale local bounties.
Captain of the Square	Commander of a full company. Granted a stipend for a private mount, authority to sign mid-level contracts, and a seat at regional strategy councils.
Grandmaster of the Board	The ultimate authority. Negotiates directly with monarchs and high lords. Guards the "Golden Ledger," which contains every debt and contract owed to the Company.

The Chequy Company was forged in the bloody aftermath of the Great Fracture, roughly three centuries ago. Born from the remnants of a shattered ducal army that had been abandoned by their liege, the founding soldiers realised a bitter truth: loyalty to a crown was a fluctuating currency, but loyalty to a contract was absolute. Led by the disgraced tactician Charles 'The Hammer', they transitioned from a desperate band of survivors into a private enterprise that treated war not as a matter of honour, but as a rigorous science of profit and loss.

In their infancy, the Chequy Company was loathed by the traditional knightly orders. These "Chivalric Purists" viewed Charles's obsession with logistics, standardised equipment, and tactical withdrawal as cowardice. The Company’s early years were defined by the Conflicts of the Coin, where merchant guilds frequently hired them to dismantle the private armies of overreaching barons. During this era, they survived three separate "Excommunication Edicts" from the High Cleric, who feared a military force that answered to gold rather than Clērātas.

The turning point for the Company came during the Fifth Cathringian-Ogkan War. While Cathringia crumbled under the weight of broken supply lines, the Chequy Company used their meticulous system to maintain trade routes and protect grain shipments, for a steep, non-negotiable fee. By the time the war had ended, the Company had become indispensable. They had moved beyond mere "swords for hire" to become the arbiters of regional stability. Today, a Chequy contract is considered more legally binding than a royal marriage, and their checkered banners flying over a city signify a peace bought with the coldest of coin.