warmaster

plural warmasters

1. sword and sorceryAn advisor to the sovereign who specializes in waging war.

   Edwin, his sons and his warmaster led their horses to the gate in the stockade.

   2014, Edoardo Albert, Edwin, High King of Britain (The Northumbrian Thrones 1), Lion Fiction, →ISBN, page 208

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   Ozymandias had jumped into the projects of warmasters so completely that he thought he might be losing sight of his original objectives.

   1981, Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone, Ozymandias, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 152

   The emperor sat within his tent of silk surrounded by his captains. His warmaster, Darik, was beside him.

   1985, David A[ndrew] Gemmell, chapter 21, in The King Beyond the Gate, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 261

   The Lord-Protector at the vanguard tipped back his helm and nodded gallantly, and ladies threw scarves and favors until his horse was festooned like a maypole. His warmasters rode behind him as an honor guard, grim and silent.

   2002, Jim Bishop, “Goblin King”, in Jess Lebow, editor, The Secrets of Magic, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 104

   Walking away, Magnus abandoned his warmasters with that chilly notion to tuck into their bedrolls and guarantee them a restless sleep.

   2014, Christian A. Brown, Feast of Fates, →ISBN, page 433