Mentioned in Gerik's support conversation with Innes, Gerik got into mercenary work to protect a friend of his, later, his friend gets killed. Gerik considered leaving the mercenary business, however, Gerik could not abandon the friends he made after becoming a mercenary and he eventually ended up forming his own group. In Gerik's support conversation with Joshua, Joshua implies that Gerik's Mercenaries is a larger group than the characters recruited in the game, as Gerik mentions Joshua cheating his men out of money in gambling matches.