Steel Legion

== Characters ==
=== Living ===
* Peyton Frinch (MU, James) (Merchant's Guild Membership until 6th Felmont 1005)
*Ulysses Neuman (Cleric, Ben) (Merchant's Guild Membership until 6th Felmont 1005)
*Rolsby (Hedge Knight, Tom)
*Dargana (Dwarf, Abbi)
*Falco (Halfling, Al)
*Mortai (?, Stacey)
=== Retired(ish) ===
* Xavier (Assassin, Ben, stationed on Island of Dread)
*Charles Blondin (Acrobat, Ben, chilling near Caves of Chaos)
=== Dead ===
* Bellestrus Pumfrommet (MU, James)
* Fandango Esplanade (Acrobat, James)
* Funchum (Dwarf, James)
* Grubsnitcher (Thief, James)
* Reginald Pontmercie (Knight, James, killed by Doppelganger which I then played as)
*Sundure (Tom)
*Henstone Claywall (Ben)
*Ardley (Kieran)
*Zillin Lancap (Al)
* Rufus (Fighter, Al, killed by Saber Tooth Tiger)
* Renton (Dwarf, Tom, Ogre'd)
* Ywain (Knight, Ben, Ogre'd)
* Ignatius (Fighter, Al, Hobgoblin Chief)
*Kaidan (Beast Master, Al, Bugbear'd)
*Grantan (Halfling, Tom, Owlbear'd)
*Rathel (Elf, Al, Drabek'd)
*Eladon (Paladin, Tom, Drabek'd)
*Falstaff (Mage, Al, Speared by a lizardman)
* Other people who died at the grottoes
*Approx 10m hirelings
== Communal property: ==
=== Specularum Vault ===
Living Owners: 
* Xavier (founder)
* Peyton
Vault contents:
* 1500 GP
* Blood tear worth 1200GP
* 11 Guards (30GP/mo, currently covered by profits from Courage) - one is Adith
*2 empty chests
=== Castellan Keep Steel Legion Outpost ===
Description:
* 30x30 2 story house with 20x20 fenced in garden/graveyard
Contents:
* Stuffed mounted minotaur head with "Steel Legion - Princess Neufmarche, Gode de Rochelles, Peyton Frinch, Kolby, Ulysses, Rathel - 26th Fyrmont 1004"
*Bedroll (weighs 50 coins)
*1 key for bugbear wine-room
*1 keyring for bugbear cages
*1 keyring for hobgoblin cages
*Quarterstaff
*Shortsword * 2
*Handaxe
*Shield
*1 suits of plate mail
*2 suits of chain mail
*Net
*Barrel with a few herbs and some catnip remnants
*Barrel of oil (7 flasks worth)
*Broken skull-embossed scrolltube
*2 broken magic bullets
*4* Novice's Amulet of Impurax
=== East Dale Steel Legion Outpost ===
[converted former gambling den]
* 350GP
* 1 vial with 6 doses of cure gorgon petrification
* 2 spare shields
*Mace of a blind priest we murdered
*2 scrolls [lairs 1 15-5]
*2 potions [lairs 1 15-5]
*27 arrows
*Chain Mail ? [a2 16-a]
*Mystery chest [a2 16-a]
=== Transport ===
The Courage
* Small Warship
* 90 miles/day
* No oars
* Catapult w/ 5 shots
* 2 home-made rafts
* Docked in Specularum, covering costs/small profit from renting out
2 Draft Horses & Wagon (currently at Specularum)
10 riding horses (in Middenmark)
=== Bank Accounts ===
==== Castellan's Keep ====
* Closed
== Friendly NPCs ==
=== Grand Duchy of Karameikos ===
==== Specularum ====
* Duke Karameikos - cares about Cathlar/Isle of Dread/Castellan's Keep
* Auction house chum - gossip
*Adith - freed from caves of chaos - fighter 1, morale 12, working in our guard
*Arley - former man-at-arms hireling - working in our guard
==== Island of Dread: ====
* Zeka (acted as guide)
* Chieftain
* Other tribespeople
* Rakaster truce
==== Castellan's Keep ====
* Landor Laws - merchant guild chieftain - cares if make trade easier
* Captain Garmon
*Boswell & Chaunsey - freed merchants
*Scafflock, nearby wildman (freed)
*Kettle & Rollo, freed fishermen
*Crimson Legion/Crimson Bannermen/Order of the Crimson Cross
*Castellan Karameikos - I forgot the name - second cousin of the lord of the land or some shit
*Princess Neufmarche: Long term torchbearer, now living back in the house
=== Prelacy of Middenmark ===
==== Caverns of Archaia ====
==== East Dale ====
* His Venerable Mercy, Prelate Mordikar Justhands - rules the area, letter of introduction from the Castellan
*Muron the Magician has a mansion/estate
*Krabos Blackburn, inkeeper at Saucy Tart - Skye and Ivana nieces, Sultra the third waitress
*Mandell Oliver - merchant's guild
*Retep Garnetstone, owner of Retep's Relics (antiques, thieves guild)
*Keldar of the Seven Stars
*Luig of Crimson Cross
*Cute little chameleon wyvern thing, found in the forest just south west of the village, now sleeps at the foot of Falco's bed (Falco has nicknamed him Sparky)
==== West Keep ====
* Kelton, the guard
*Sincress, the person who serves soup
==== Kirkliston ====
* Peter of St Igg, the vicar.
==== ? ====
* Dude who runs the Master's Apron
==== Threshold ====
* Dude who runs the Spade Stables
*Sir Haldrick du Luisignon, Earl of Cloves and High Paladin of the Order of the Crimson Cross
==== Citadel Silver (dwarven citadel) ====
* Cragg
*Dervot
*Angus
*Stannison of Stannison Arms (weapon shop)
*Thirizurugrum Strongthor (Duri) (owner of Mithril Hart tavern)
*Chestra (barmaid at Mithril Hart)
=== Unknown ===
*Esurzhich - Gorgon
*Centaurs somewhere far North-East of Archaia
== Rumours, Knowledge & Quests ==
=== Calendar: ===
https://mystara-campaign-the-journey.obsidianportal.com/wikis/known-world-calendar
=== Forbidden Caverns of Archaia ===
* Raids are more frequent than ever along caravan routes. The creatures in the caverns must be becoming bolder.
* Muron the Magician will pay gold for books scrolls and ancient arcane lore. Something strange about the workings of magic out there. Pays in Archinian pieces - purple metal worth 25GP.
*In the time between the fall of Archaia and now, locals interred their dead in the walls of the canyon, although this has not been done for a long time.
*Anoo Aia is either a very powerful being or a god, associations with magic (esp. powerful elemental magic - thunder and earthquakes and shit).
*Peyton found a map of maybe Archaia? with a note underneath saying "Archaia - nothing remains"
*Peyton suspects that Anoo earthquaked the city.
*Sir Haldrick (leader of crimson cross, allegedly giant-slayer) swore allegiance to Prelate Justhands
*A group of adventurers came back from a trip to the caverns last year - and a mage who tried to cast a spell on the forbidden zone said that nothing happened
*Suns of Archos adventuring group (from Aerich?) went out to the henge frequently last summer - led by Sumera the Strong
*Symbol - rotting hand, skull with arrow through it
==== Darkwood Forest ====
*The route through woods is called "The Gauntlet" - merchants will pay triple fees. Trolls and manticores?
*After the fall of Archaia (500-600 years ago), many creatures fled to the Darkwood Forest - and the dwarves left it to found Citadel Silver.
*Recent travellers through the woods came across a merchant caravan that had been smashed to bits by a group of orcs led by a hill giant
*The centaurs fleeing the forest said that trolls, giants, orcs, goblins, etc. all live in the woods.
*Raids have been increasing over time.
=== Keep on the Borderlands ===
==== Verified ====
* Lizardmen on the marshes - we've seen these on the far side of the river
*1 Felmont: Beast’s Day. This is the traditional date of the last battle between King Halav and the Beast-Men, and is a big, lavish Traladaran holiday all over Karameikos. Participants dress up as Beast-Men and wander the streets in parades, and there are mock battles between Beast-Men and Men, dances, and other events commemorating the battle. Religious observations are held by clerics of the Church of Traladara.
*Three month truce with hobgoblins started 26th Klarmont - ends 26th Ambyrmont expired
*There was a minotaur
*Knights training in the Castellan keep to aid the Crimson Legion in the Prelacy of Minmar
==== Unverified ====
* Dogmen in the lower caves
* Bugbears terrified of dwarves
* Halfling betrayed his party - took what gold he could and left them to die - according to an elf
*Tribes of different creatures live in different caves
*Fair Maiden lives within the caves
*Altars within the caves are very dangerous
*There is more than one tribe of orcs in the caves
*Mad Old Hermit 
**lives in the forest to the North - ignore the road, dead north, the hermit never travels along roads
**used to be a cleric
**Pet mountain lion
**May never return
*Elf left wine behind bar and headed south over the marshes
*Caves may be a training ground/gathering place not just coincidence that all these races that hate each other accidentally moved in next door to each other. Rumour delivered by the Castellan directly.
*Order of the rotting hand/Putrusculate
**Fanged Legion? West of hobgoblin cave
*Western frontier beset by plague
*Blue dragoons
**Some hobgoblin might want to join
**who will lead to the destruction of our civilisation and the rise of Skillarg. Nothing to do with their God, Meglubiyet. 
**Might be Western frontier
*Drabak and the disciples of Impurax are raising an army of the dead, as well as gathering strongest creatures from caves of chaos and sending them waves to the caverns of Archaia, while the great plague weakens their enemies
==== Pretty wrong ====
* All of the cave entrances are trapped (NB some are)
== Maps ==
*Isle of Dread
*Specularum
*Castellan Keep & Surroundings
*Prelacy of Middenmark
**Overworld
**Forbidden Caverns of Archaia
**East Dale
== History ==
* Incandescent Grottoes completed
* Some of X1 Island of Dread - gave Duke a copy of the map.
* B2 Keep on the Borderlands