The Faust and the Furious

The **Faust and the Furious** are an adventuring party based in Anundiel, and were founded in 68 AT and served as the protagonists for the second streamed campaign of the founding cast members of the channel, but the third overall with the cast. They're not known for much right now by the general public of the continent, as they've been mostly doing small little adventuring contracts on the side, but have developed a good bond and repetoire with the Geralden Empire of Anundiel after having been embroiled in a plot with a powerful entity named Ubeliek who was somehow destroyed after plane-shifting away from the party.

## Founding

The five individuals who would become the Faust and the Furious met in Anundiel City in 68 AT during the Harvest's Cull festival to celebrate a year of peace, and a successful harvest for the continent. Up to that point, they had arrived at the festival for their own reasons or another, and were soon thrown into an investigation involving a conspiracy surrounding a poisoning at the festival which resulted in the deaths of a noble family (Embers of Autumn: Harvest's Cull).

Agreeing to take part in the investigation to search for clues, it brought them to the Trask Meadery just outside of the capital where they discovered the pumpkin mead that had poisoned with the nobles was contaminated with strange spores, and during this investigation they destroyed a handful of meadery employees infected by these spores and found a secret tunnel under the meadery that connected to the Shimmering Trout Meadery in Canlaith (Embers of Autumn: The Meadery Conspiracy).

While at the Shimmering Trout Meadery, they discovered that Ildar Trask's cousin, Morgo Thune had ordered the mead poisoned but didn't intend for anyone to die in the sabotage. They apprehended Morgo, his employees and a myconid that was chained up in the basement and proceeded with their long trek to the capital to turn Morgo in, but were attacked by a pack of giant bats along the way which flew off with Morgo's employees to devour elsewhere (Embers of Autumn: Downpour).

After dealing with a pack of wolves, they arrived at the settlement of Giant's Cradle with their captive. While there, they met an envoy of Crownsguard along with the hobgoblin wizard that questioned them at the festival. They agreed to take Morgo Thune back to the capital and paid the party for their efforts. Looking for work during this downtime, the party were offered a contract to destroy the wolf responsible for the attacks on Giant's Cradle, a fire-breathing wolf known as a Summer Wolf (Embers of Autumn: Wolves at the Gates).

While on this contract, they discovered the Summer Wolf named Koza was harmless to the town and was being framed by the hunter, Fezzek who gave the party their contract. It was revealed that Fezzek was a werewolf and with Koza's aid, the party killed Fezzek and in turn stopped the wolf attacks on Giant's Cradle. Unfortunately, the hunting guild the party tried getting close with were friends with Fezzek and felt a little sour towards them for killing their friend, but would eventually come to terms with it (Embers of Autumn: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing).

Eventually, after completing a series of contracts for the Wayfarer's Guild they found themselves in a platinum mine, having destroyed a corrupted xorn made of platinum and discovering a secret, abandoned laboratory under the mine the party and for the first time labelled themselves the Faust and the Furious (Embers of Autumn: Faust and the Furious).