Faygo Fireye

**Faygo Fireye**, known as **Faygo** throughout his adventures, was a Human born in 2496 in Thundertree. He was one of the founders of the original Fellowship of the Burning Inn along with Elond Alderleaf, Orsic Rockseeker and Blin. The Fellowship liberated Phandalin and Thundertree, restoring his hometown after the eruption of Mount Hotenow, and Faygo became extremely wealthy when they found the Forge of Spells in 2528. Faygo is one of the most important figures in leading the world into the Age of Adventuring and is widely known for his skill and dedication.

## Appearance and Personality

Faygo was a typical Human of Thundertree with gray eyes and orange hair. During his adventures, he wore regular clothing and leather armor, and continued to wear similar attire even after he got rich enough to afford better. Notably, his sword belt was decorated with gold and had a buckle of pure silver.

Being considered the closest thing to the leader of the original Fellowship, Faygo became a model of the typical adventure for years to come. He swore to protect innocents and enforce the law. He cared for his party members and went out of his way to protect them, often putting himself in danger to do so. Although he desperately wanted to save Thundertree when the Fellowship began to grow powerful, he recognized that stopping the Black Spider was more important and pursued him before finding an opportunity to help his hometown. Faygo was often described as one of the more serious members of the Fellowship of the Burning Inn, although he often joked with them and participated in their insane ideas.

## Magic and Abilities

While working for the Rockseeker brothers, Faygo trained in a variety of weapons, although he excelled in archery. He used a greatsword, a longbow, and a shield during his adventures, but he preferred the greatsword. After he joined the Sword of the Coast, he improved his skills. Faygo possessed no magical abilities, and without many other abilities he is generally considered the weakest founder of the original Fellowship. While he had no magical power himself, he carried the Dwarven axe *Hew*, which he found when he returned to Thundertree.

## History

### Early Life

Faygo was born in Thundertree in the year 2496. When he was two years old, Mount Hotenow erupted, covering his hometown in ash and lava. His family fled first to Hivenfall, but left soon after as the Elven village was too consumed by the ash, finally settling down in Neverwinter. Not much detail is known about his childhood, and even the names of his family members have been lost.

### The Rockseekers

Faygo contributed to his family's efforts to quickly earn money by becoming a porter at the city's docks, loading and offloading cargo for numerous ships. While loading boxes of silk onto the vessel *Ocean's King*, Faygo stopped the captain, Badron Sharidge, from beating Naza Rosk, another porter, after he was caught stealing some of the silk. Sharidge was furious, and reported Faygo to the dockmaster, who had him fired.

The Rockseeker brothers were passing by, and after noticing Faygo's bravery offered to hire him instead. Without anywhere to turn to for a reliable source of money to help his family, he agreed. They offered to have in trained in the sword and bow to protect caravans heading south to Stoneshield, although they wouldn't say what the caravans contained. Faygo continued to spend most of his time in Neverwinter, practicing sword fighting when he wasn't sent on the road. He began to work for the Rockseekers in 2524, and over the course of the next four years three other members were added to his new team: Orsic Rockseeker, a cousin of the Rockseeker brothers; Elond Alderleaf, a Halfling their who had been caught trying to steal from one of the caravans; and Blin, an Elven wizard the three found lying injured in a ditch on the side of the road. Together, they formed a good friendship and often travelled together on the caravans.

### The Rockseeker Job

#### Cragmaw Hideout

In 2528, Faygo, Orsic, Elond and Blin were sent to bring supplies and provisions to the town of Phandalin by Gundren Rockseeker, one of the Rockseeker brothers. They were told the brothers had found "something big" near the town and would head there ahead of the supply wagon with a warrior named Sildar Hallwinter, and they would receive extra payment to keep it secretive. The group agreed, and the next day they set off down the High Road to the Triboar Trail. After three days of travel, they ran into two dead horses on the road with black feathered arrows sticking out of them, which Faygo quickly realized were the ones Gundren and Sildar rode.

They were then attacked by goblins, Faygo, Orsic, and Blin killing most of them and following the single survivor to a cave being used as the goblin's hideout. Working as a team, the four of them snuck into the cave and fought its occupants: members of the Cragmaw Tribe, including goblins and a bugbear. After taking care of Klarg the bugbear, they lured goblins out of one room to kill them one at a time and discovered one of them had captured Sildar Hallwinter. Orsic healed him, and he quickly informed them of Gundren's capture and the stolen map, which he believed was sent to a place called Cragmaw Castle. Sildar offered to pay them if they brought him along to Phandalin, to which they agreed. Before leaving the cave, however, Faygo attempted to tame one of the wolves chained up in the first room. Despite his best efforts, the wolf was still hostile towards him and bit him on the hand. Orsic saved him by putting the wolf to sleep, and Blin insisted on bringing it with them to Phandalin.

#### Phandalin

The party arrived in Phandalin the next day. Faygo and Orsic brought Sildar to the Stonehill Inn, where he paid the group for bringing him to town. They waited for for Elond and Blin to return from their shopping trip, Elond now carrying the sword Nightblood, before delivering the supplies to the trading post, Barthen's Provisions. Elmar Barthen took the supplies and the cart, which disappointed the party and led to Faygo having to stop Blin from attacking him. They still had the unconscious wolf, whom Blin had named Wolfie, which they decided had to stay with them in the inn. Faygo and Orsic returned to the inn to ask about trouble in the area, being fearful of more goblin attacks, and learned about the Redbrands, a band of thugs who took over the town. Deciding to deal with them later, the party turned in for the night.

##### The Burning Inn

Once they got to their room, Blin and Elond killed Sildar, seeing no use to have him around now that they had his money. Faygo tried to argue with them, but they ignored him. Remembering they had left Wolfie, who was still asleep, outside, they snuck out and tied a rope to him and threw the other end through their room's window. As they all began to pull the wolf up, the owner of the inn, Toblen Stonehill, rounded the corner, patrolling the area. He saw Wolfie being brought up through the window, and promptly slew the wolf with his sword. Faygo and the others were shocked, but Blin was the first to act. The Elf cast *burning hands* on the room's wooden floor and jumped out the window, drawing their sword in the air and stabbing Toblen when they hit the ground. Faygo and the rest of the party followed suit, jumping out the window to avoid being burned by the rapidly spreading flames. Trilena and Pip Stonehill, Toblen's wife and son, rushed out of the building, and seeing Toblen's body, ran to him in distress. Without giving them time to mourn, Blin killed them both as well. The fire had spread far enough that most of the occupants had started to run for safety, and all of them could see Blin, Faygo, and the others standing over the innkeeper and his family. Blin rushed towards them, into the burning building, killing all of them to keep them from being blamed for the crime. Shocked, Faygo watched Blin return after a few minutes wiping blood from their blade. They fled from the scene of the crime.

##### The Alderleafs

Believing they were running from the law, Faygo and the others ran from the inn. Elond quickly led them to the home of his aunt, Qelline Alderleaf, where he said they could lay low for a while. They entered before Qelline and her son Carp realized they were there, much to Faygo's discomfort. Now safe, Faygo yelled at Blin for starting the fire until Qelline and Cap came to investigate. They recognized Elond and reluctantly agreed to let the party stay at their house, as long as they tried to get rid of the Redbrands.

##### The Redbrands

The next day, the newly christened Fellowship of the Burning Inn was led by Carp to the base of the Tresendar Manor, where the boy claimed there was a secret tunnel that led to the Redbrand's secret lair. He showed them a large crack in the wall that they could easily fight through, and Faygo saw light inside. The Fellowship walked inside, but Carp stayed behind. Faygo got a suspicion that Carp had led them into a trap and was working with the Redbrands, but didn't think too much of it.

The tunnel was 100 feet long, and they eventually emerged into a large cavern with a crevasse running through the middle. Two bridges crossed over the northern and southern ends of the crevasse, and Faygo noticed that the southern one looked like it might collapse under their weight. As the Fellowship studied the room, a nothic pulled itself out of the crevasse and offered to help them navigate the lair. None of them trusted it, and after asking for a moment to consider, Faygo told Blin to cast *charm person* on it. They cast it, and it barely worked. Faygo had Blin make the nothic walk across the broken bridge, and it fell into the crevasse, the spell breaking when it hit the ground. Realising it had been tricked, it attacked, but Orsic killed it.

Faygo and the rest of the Fellowship continued into the lair across the northern bridge into a storage room where they found Redbrand cloaks and put them on to hide the fact that they didn't belong to the band of ruffians if they ran across any guards. They entered the next room, a crypt containing three coffins for the bodies of members of the Tresendar family. Elond opened one of the coffins before Faygo could tell him not to, and the skeletons became animated and attacked. The Fellowship quickly defeated the skeletons, and took from them three colourful rings, which were split between Elond, Blin, and Faygo. In the next room they found a prison cell with Jorra, Enre, and Osnek Glavren inside, who they quickly released.

Coming to a dead end, Faygo and the rest of the Fellowship turned back and crossed back over the crevasse. Elond stopped them outside of the first doorway, from which they could hear voices issuing out of. The Halfling quickly formulated with a plan to sneak into the guard barracks and tie up its occupants, three bugbears, so they could interrogate them. Faygo waited for Elond to tie the bugbears up without them noticing before entering the room, pretending to be one of the Redbrands and asking where their leader was. He, Orsic, and Blin pretended they needed to deliver a message to him, but they were a little suspicious and asked to see the letter, just to know that it existed and they weren't being lied to. Faygo began to think up a plan to trick them, but before he could get far Elond jumped out from under one of the beds and rammed two metal spikes, which he had bought in Phandalin, into the arms of the bugbear sitting on it. Blin cast *shocking grasp* on the spikes before anyone else could react, electrifying the monster instantly. Taking over the interrogation, Blin demanded the other two tell them where the leader was, and successfully figured out that he was usually in a laboratory nearby with a wizard who had recently joined the Redbrands called Glasstaff. Not taking any chances, Elond and Blin killed the other two in a similar manner. Faygo was stunned by the gruesome deaths, but pushed past it and began to lead the others in the direction of the laboratory. A goblin, the bugbear's slave, followed them, and when Faygo asked why, he said that Blin was now his master, as they had killed his old ones. The goblin, Droop, led them through a common room to the lab, and Faygo had to drag Elond away from jumping into a card game some Redbrands were playing.

They eventually reached Glasstaff's laboratory, only finding a rat scurrying across the floor which Orsic killed with his warhammer. Faygo and the others inspected the room and the alchemical equipment until they heard a door close behind them. Pushing their way into the next room, they found it empty of any living things. This was the wizard's quarters, but it appeared to have been evacuated with nothing of importance left, save for a letter from the Black Spider. Faygo and Orsic read it, deducing that someone was orchestrating everything that had happened and was working against them. Unsettled, the Fellowship elected to leave the hideout.

#### Thundertree

Meeting up with Carp, the Fellowship left the lair and returned to Phandalin. They went back to the Alderleaf's house and asked Qelline about a black spider, and although she didn't know, she told them to go to a druid living in the ruins of Thundertree who might. Excited to have a reason to return and liberate his home city from monsters, Faygo got the others to leave for Thundertree the next day. They travelled down the Triboar Trail and up the High Road to the ruined city, encountering an owlbear and a group of stirges. The attack by the stirges separated Carp and Droop from the rest of the Fellowship, driving them back down the road out of sight from Faygo and the others as they fought. Killing the strikes, they chased after Carp and Droop, finding the goblin dead as well as the last two stirges, the latter of which were killed by Carp. They buried Droop on the side of the road before continuing on to Thundertree. It was here on the road that Blin suggested they take the name "The Fellowship of the Burning Inn".

##### Reidoth the Druid

Upon reaching the ruins of Thundertree, Faygo led the rest of the Fellowship around the outskirts, searching for the druid Qelline told them about. They eventually stumbled across Reidoth the druid after spotting chimney smoke rising from one of the ruined houses. Surprised by the Fellowship bursting into the building, Reidoth questioned who they were and what they were doing in monster infested ruins. Faygo told him they were sent to find him to ask about the Black Spider. Reidoth knew very little, but knew he was working with the Cragmaw Tribe and they could find out more at Cragmaw Castle. He also told them he knew where Wave Echo Cave was, which was believed to be the Black Spider's target a while back, but wouldn't tell them where it was until they got rid of the dragon residing in the ruins. They agreed, and slept the night in Reidoth's house after the druid Wildshaped into a squirrel and left.

##### The Dragon Masters

The next morning, the Fellowship of the Burning Inn set out into the ruins of Thundertree to search for the dragon Reidoth had told them about, although Carp remained behind in Reidoth's house. They fought a few monsters, including some giant spiders that Faygo killed after they webbed Orsic and Blin up. Continuing through the ruins, they also encountered the Dragon Masters and were thrown out of their hideout by Favric Caso. During this meeting, Favric inadvertently informed Faygo and the Fellowship that the dragon was still very young, and the Dragon Masters were caring for it. The Fellowship later encountered a group of ash zombies who had been trapped in a building and were trying to break out, and came up with a strategy of luring them to the door so Faygo could stab through it in and attempt to kill them. In the meantime, Elond made his own plan to attack the zombies from above by standing on the crumbling roof and shooting into the house with his bow. He fell in and locked himself in a side room to hide, leaving no way for him to escape. Faygo tried to think up a plan to save him without being trapped as well, but before he could do so Blin ran back to the Dragon Masters and tricked them into fighting the ash zombies for them, claiming they were a threat to the dragon. The cult members disposed of the monsters, and rushed to aid Elond when he called for them to defeat a mimic he found in the room he was in. After the remaining two Dragon Masters ran in, Elond and Blin locked the door. While they did that, Faygo convinced a distrustful Favric Caso that they meant no harm and nothing bad was going to happen to his minions.

Favric then came to the conclusion that the Fellowship must have come to serve the cult after they issued a request for more members. Faygo initially tried to dissuade him, but Orsic wanted to see what the Dragon Masters were up to and see if they could learn anything more. Blin and Elond emerged from the house and joined with the others, and soon all of them were being shuttled towards the tower in the center of the town. Elond snuck away from the others and pickpocketed a letter off of Favric that revealed that the volunteers would be fed as sacrifices to the dragon, Venomfang. Elond quickly informed the rest of the Fellowship what the cultist was planning, and they decided it would be a better idea to get rid of him than see his plan through further. Faygo started the attack by turning and drawing his greatsword, and after a few strikes from each of the Fellowship, Favric ran back to the building that had been infested with ash zombies and shut himself in the room opposite of the room with the mimic, hoping to escape from the fighting. Elond and Blin then shut by sticking a bar between that door and one across the hallway, not allowing for either door to be pushed open.

##### Venomfang

With the Dragon Masters taken care of, Faygo and the Fellowship headed off to find Venomfang, the young green dragon the cultists were protecting. Searching through the ruins, they eventually realized the dragon must be in the tower in the center of town. Faygo led the rest of the party into the cottage attached to the side of the tower, discovering Venomfang's small treasure hoard. While Blin and Elond split the gold and spell scrolls, Faygo found *Hew*, an axe created in the Forge of Spells. Ready for battle, the Fellowship moved into the tower to face Venomfang. The dragon surprised them, dropping from above and slamming the door shut behind it with its tail. Venomfang spoke to them as if they were guests, inviting them in and asking why they were there. Elond and Orsic managed to distract the dragon with a gift of belts Elond had stolen in Phandalin, claiming they were symbols of honor in most cities, while Faygo realized Venomfang was blocking the way out. The dragon, having successfully trapped the Fellowship, breathed acid over all of them as Orsic broke down the door and pulled the party through. Venomfang quickly flew out of the tower and dove down as the Fellowship burst out of the cottage below, grabbing Blin and dragging them up to the top of the tower. Frightened, the Fellowship fled back to Reidoth's house to plan how to rescue Blin and kill the dragon.

After waiting for Venomfang to fall asleep, Faygo, Orsic, and Elond went back to the tower. Elond tried to sneak his way up the old staircase on the inside of the tower in an attempt to rescue Blin but a stair broke beneath him, leading Faygo and Orsic to try to climb up the side of the tower. Faygo fell off halfway up, leaving Orsic the only one to save Blin. Finding the Elf unconscious next to the dragon and no clear way to carry them down safely, Orsic picked Blin up and tossed them off the side of the tower. Faygo jumped to catch them, but they slipped through his fingers and hit the ground. Orsic quickly returned to the ground and healed Blin, although they weren't yet conscious. The Fellowship formulated a plan to take out Venomfang while it was still sleeping, resulting in the three conscious members climbing the side of the tower and carefully positioning themselves to attack the dragon at its most vulnerable points. Faygo used *Hew* to slice at the base of the creature's wing, not severing it completely but doing enough damage to break most of its tendons. Taking the blow and being blinded by Elond, Venomfang glided off the tower into Neverwinter Wood, leaving Thundertree for good. Successfully liberating the ruins from the dragon's influence, the Fellowship of the Burning Inn returned to Reidoth where they joined up with Carp. Thankful, the druid told them to look for Cragmaw Castle in the southern Neverwinter Wood. The Fellowship remained in Thundertree for a day, but soon headed off to find Cragmaw Castle.

#### Cragmaw Castle

Faygo and the Fellowship of the Burning Inn spent a few days searching Neverwinter Wood for Cragmaw Castle, eager to finally rescue Gundren and be done with their mission. When they eventually found the castle, Blin lead the others straight to the front door, where they were spotted by the goblin guards. The Fellowship easily defended themselves from the goblins and broke through the gates into the broken-down structure. Faygo and the others investigated the first few rooms of supplies the Cragmaw Tribe managed to get their hands on, and found the armor and equipment of Sildar Hallwinter.