The Followers of Sandwich are the prisoners and ancestors of criminals on the Isle of Sandwich, the Archipelago's penal colony.

Just six years ago, the prisoners rebelled, led by a truly insane man, Colonel Sherwood Sandwich. The jailers are now in the cells and the prisoners run free on the island. The warden has been sending reports off the island as though nothing is wrong, because the Colonel will kill him if he doesn't.

The criminals cannot leave, fortunately, as there are no boats and the water around the island is dangerously heated by volcanic activity.

Few realize this, but the Colonel has allies among the Pirates that are loyal to him, not out of fear, but actual friendship, unlike the criminals on the island.

His men have have been raising crops and supplying the pirates.

The Colonel is planning an invasion of Iron Peak in the next few months. He just wants to get his hands on some better weapons first, for which he is negotiating with the Modrons for one or two of their submarines. So far, the negotiations are going badly, due to his extreme personality problems. Twice he nearly murdered a Modron, simply because they can be very infuriating for those unfamiliar with their ways. In both cases, he was restrained by his pirate friends, because they knew that would cause more problems than it was worth.

No one's sure why he calls himself a Colonel, but the former prisoners obey him out of fear. He's been known to snap the necks of betrayers, right in front of his other men. Few of them would dare cross him. Fewer still would confront him without a weapon, but even that is little help.

He has an ailing mother and a kid sister that follows him everywhere on the island. His mother, Adelphia Sandwich, was imprisoned on the island for murder. She was pregnant at the time with Sherwood. Years after his birth, she was impregnated by one of the jailers who took advantage of his position. When Sherwood found out, several weeks after his sister's birth, he went on a murderous rampage, killing the guard. Within a few weeks, he organized the prisoners and led an uprising. His sister is now six years old and he looks after her carefully. The criminals on the island have been charged with her safety, under threat of death, so she pretty much has the run of the island.

He's a practitioner of an unusually brutal, Orcish martial art known as Smasha. He was taught by one of the prisoners, who decided to take him under his wing as a small child. Sherwood quickly learned to defend himself by killing anyone foolish enough to assault him. Thanks to his adopted father's tutelage, he needed no weapons. Most were found with snapped necks.

No one ever suspected that the string of violent deaths in the colony were all due to a child. The jailers simply never bothered to investigate too deeply, rationalizing like so: “Criminals kill each other all the time, right? No need to make a big deal of it.”

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