English Mistery

The English Mistery is a small reactionary group seeking the restoration of a more feudal England, returning power to the landed nobility. As such it tends to be quite a rural movement. In some places local landowners have adopted its vision, claiming land and imposing duties on tenant farmers backed up by forceful militia support if needed. The Mistery is also traditional in its religious outlook seeking a return to Catholicism as the national religion. The Mistery make use of foreign volunteers mainly from Catholic countries from eastern Europe. When not performing combat duties, volunteers act as itinerant labourers on the big estates. Economically these settlements achieve high yields and are highly valuable to the royalist war effort. Equally, they are prized targets for their enemies and so have to be well defended. Militarily a lot of the Mistery's resourced go into supplying garrison forces, but when needed they can provide militia infantry of the occasional cavalry unit to the mobile field armies.