Drake's Company

Drake's Company was a group of adventurers who were active in Orodeth. Their leader and namesake was the paladin Drake Roxley.

Membership

 * Bran - Male aarakocra ranger. Tortured and killed by the Cult of the Howling Hatred.
 * Drake Roxley - Male human paladin of Nalindra. Lost in the lair of an aboleth.
 * Gnarls Blackwood - Male half-elven bard. Slain by an extremely powerful elemental in the Plane of Water.
 * Láfièlthién - Female elven cleric of Del'Braeth. Torn apart by a hydra.
 * Qwynn Cupsigh - Female halfling bard. Retired to Brightstone.
 * Ru Bae Ya - Female human wizard. Lost in the lair of an aboleth.
 * Sumac Briarden - Male half-orc druid. Lost in the lair of an aboleth.
 * Waedin - Male aarakocra monk. Slain by undead while battling a necromancer.

The Hunt Begins
Drake's Company originally came together in 2964 when bounty hunters Drake Roxley and Bran sought allies in Drakkengarde to hunt down a dangerous tiefling wizard named Bastian Thermandar, who was wanted for murdering high-ranking members of the Mercantile Alliance. Joining their crew were Qwynn Cupsigh, Waedin, Láfièlthién (Lafiel for short), and Ru Bae Ya.


 * Arrive in Red Oak, hear rumors of strange happenings, odd weather
 * Investigate tomb
 * Investigate Lance Rock, Waedin dies
 * Kill the necromancer
 * Bury Waedin, back to town
 * Follow strange masked figures, find hidden underground earth cultist and followers
 * Hear about missing caravan, nearby graves
 * Exhume graves, find bodies of caravan guards, earth cultist, feathered guy
 * Track feathered guy to Feathergale Spire
 * Feathergale Knights turn out to be air cultists, try to kill party, saved by aarakocra
 * Chase air cultists into temple, meet bard
 * Bran shoots bard, flee from cultists, Lafiel hides and works recon
 * Back to town, Lafiel is not dead!
 * Bran leaves to find allies to fight air cult
 * Party prepares to head to Sacred Stone Monastery, but gets lead on Thermander
 * Head to Scarlet Moon Hall; druids performing rite of the wicker giant to fix nature
 * Druids turn out to be fire cultists
 * Fight cultists alongside real druids, ornery werewolves
 * Cultists chase heroes away
 * Off to monastery
 * Kill earth cultists, blame fire cultists
 * Meet friendly lich Rennard Carras
 * Kill earth abbess, blame fire cultists
 * Hell hounds show up and help sell the deception
 * Minotaur smashes through the wall
 * Floor collapsed onto orcs
 * Rescue prisoners, find minotaur on its way out of the kitchen
 * Lead prisoners to Westford
 * En route, orcs
 * Spend a week in Drakkengarde, hire samurai, Ru Bae Ya throws a party
 * Rivergarde Keep, Drake fails to fake killing someone
 * Lafiel rejoins the group, Drake gets grumpy
 * Drop off prisoner in Drakkengarde, hear about fire sorcerer terrorizing Nettlebee Ranch
 * Wake up ancient barbarian revenant, turns out Nettlebees faked the fire sorcerer and defiled his tomb to lure heroes in and kill them under orders form earth cult
 * Guilty parties are questioned, Ya tells the barbarian to kill them
 * Red Oak Village attacked by fire cult; druid dies, party almost dies, Ya refuses to let them sacrifice Drake
 * Fire tower burned down, descend into caves for days
 * Find fire temple
 * Drake turns into Boar Drake (Lafiel says he's always been a bore...)
 * Stupid ogres
 * Viva la Salamander revolución!
 * Bastian captured and brought to Drakkengarde
 * Bastian give life imprisonment in exchange for information; Drake gets mad
 * Drake drops Bahamut for Nalindra
 * Spending the new year celebration in a dwarven shrine to Berronarr Truesilver
 * Shrine occupied by treasure hunters led by an ogre mage, Lafiel channels Truesilver's power to divinely smite them to death
 * Loose the ghouls, kill the wyvern, dispatch Aerisi Kalinoth and set the djinn free
 * Windharrow tells his story, Lafiel wanders
 * Fight through water area, find water weirds, bypass troll, kill a terrifying hag
 * Lafiel returns, troll in tow
 * Dragon turtle; weird backpacks die
 * Rest in a hut, lizardfolk show up, Lafiel gets a fat lip
 * Qwynn turns a demon into a newt. A lizardfolk eats it. It gets better.
 * Weirds drag Lafiel into a river, Drake goes after her, both go over the waterfall
 * Finish clearing the temple; fireball a bedroom, claim to be a cultist, kill some ghouls
 * The fountain
 * Meet lizardfolk, admit to slaying the dragon turtle
 * Fire cultists prisoners of the water cult; convinced they're fire cultists
 * Return to lizardfolk with turtle proof; cultists realize the truth and die
 * The whirlwind orb
 * Balloon Packs, backtrack down below to finish the water cultists
 * Explore a bit on a boat, find some cultists who say where the prophet is
 * Everyone takes the bubbles; Drake winds up far behind
 * Ya throws a fireball, Qwynn casts d-door, the rest almost all die
 * Fly back up, taunt cultists with Drown. Sending to Qwynn (you're all dead, I'm just hearing things), celebratory drinking
 * Terrible visions, back down to investigate, boat is destroyed
 * Water portal. Lafiel sees a wave, ducks back out. Gnarls gets hit, pulled back out. Gnarls goes in again, does not come back.
 * Lafiel goes in, nearly dies but comes back out. Drake and Qwynn go in, Ya somehow pulls them out. No hope of rescuing his body.
 * Something terrible - an aboleth!
 * Sorrowful return to Drakkengarde, meet a new (old) druid.
 * Drake demands Thermandar's head; guard says the cults have devastated Red Oak and Westford. Kill all the prophets, and we'll see.
 * Terrible dreams!
 * Rush to stop the water cult from destroying Drakkengarde
 * Box destroyed, boat on fire, banish Lafiel with the orb
 * Head to Yalnos for an auction on another orb
 * Auction
 * Off to Silverstone
 * Meeting with Dark Lady dragon
 * Air cult still active with new leader
 * Qwynn claims leadership, slays old leader, finds air portal
 * Explore caves
 * Harpies and mushrooms and giants, oh my!
 * Oops, there's the fire cult leader.
 * She's dead, Qwynn runs off and tries to summon the Howling Hatred.
 * Need to destroy the weapons, but we sold Drown.
 * Get rewards, get legend lore, return and check out the water caverns.
 * Everything's slimy. The water's fouled.
 * Diseased, enslaved lizardfolk attack!
 * Further down, horrible visions of madness.
 * Everyone almost dies to an aboleth.
 * Everyone does die to the aboleth.
 * Saved from the aboleth.
 * Years pass.
 * Joining Drake in going to Varen to find his family's killer.
 * Attacked by a Scyllan, Ya and Sumac hop through the Nine Hells.
 * Dinner with Stormlord Lanak Iskarr.