The Răzbunare are a group of wandering immigrants from the continent. Many are fleeing the constant wars enveloping the larger nations far to the south and east of the Imperial Isles. While generally welcoming of immigrants the Răzbunare have proven problematic wherever their carts have taken them. Accused of tempting wives and husbands into debaucherous acts as well as theft, murder and any of a dozen different crimes the Răzbunare are generally a source of strife in the towns near where their brightly-colored wagons end up parked.

After many incidents the Empire passed new laws about how the Răzbunare were to be handled, eventually rounding most of them up into camps, with the more traditionally troublesome or dangerous peoples organized at the fringes of the larger encampment to minimize damage should they begin to act out. The largest and most unruly of these groups of people were the Romarii. Several of the larger Romarii groups banded together and vanished from the larger Imperial camps, hoping to break through into the relatively tolerant lands of the Seven Lords to the north and on north toward Sarland.

The Legion met and rounded them up near the town of Nightbrook, re-organizing them into a single large camp while the High Council decided what to do with this particularly rebellious group.

After several incidents, including the robbing of one of the lesser nobles’ emissaries and complaints from some of the citizens of the town of wives and husbands being seduced and shops being stolen from, the decision was made to send the Romarii back south for removal from the Empire. The situation escalated quickly, breaking down into an all-out battle. The majority of the Romarii were slaughtered in the ensuing melee and resulting fire, including women and children and the elderly and the bands and town of Nightbrook itself were all but destroyed with the few survivors fleeing in to the woods and hills southwest.