Estovar's Free Company

## Members

Though nonconcurrent, the following are the members of the singular group that came to be known as Estovar's Free Company:

### Current

* Alan Wheat
* Astraea Öberg
* Bowg
* Estovar
* Gadja Andonian
* Hafthor Bjornsson
* Jeremiah the Griffin
* Snow the Direwolf
* Thomas Anderson
* Tyrion Slavesh

### Previous

* Merida
* Dancing Ragdoll
* Finan of Kelenor
* Takvor Demirdjian

## Story

### At Hilden

The group was founded in Kelenor by the initial adventures of the humans Alan Wheat, Finan, and Takvor Demirdjian, as well as the Tabaxi, Dancing Ragdoll and her half-elven companion Merida. Their experiences before the Bleeding Stone of Mount Dorman would inexorably change them and alter the course of their collective lives.

Before too long, the group would find the itinerant bard Tyrion Slavesh, who fascinated by their entry to the strange, liminal spaces of the Dungeons, would continue to travel with them.

### In Kotesh Ubulii

Within Kotesh the party would note the mysterious disappearance of Dancing Ragdoll as they had previously seen Merida leave. They would, however, press on to Melchiar, having met Bowg and freed him from likely incarceration due to the lizardman's lack of human sensibilities and idiosyncrasies. In Melchiar a series of visions of the goddess Khat envisioned by Takvor would see the party heading southward into the deserts of central Kotesh, where they would walk to a dungeon as directed by the divine vision.

### Transported to Belore

After traveling through the Dungeon, filled with skeletal foes, they would find themselves exiting in Belore. There he and his traveling companions would quickly find Gadja Andonian and her war band of sworn warriors. They would take the party back to the village Mada, a religious center, in the shadow of Mount Param. Takvor and Gadja, through some religious observance would be led up the mountain where they would find an additional Gate, whereupon they would speak with Khat.

### Having Seen the Goddess

Upon their return, Gadja would impose herself into their party. They in turn would head east, to get a ship and pass from Belore. Taking up a mission from the coastal people of the city of Surge, they would chase a horrid creature into the swamps to the south. During this time, the enigmatic "owl," Tywin would join them briefly, cheerleading and supplying trouble to his young student, Tyrion. In the swamps they would face a horrid hag and its slouching, giant, frog-like servant. After the battle, the weakened Finan would finally agree to the demands of his talkative bow, Camisado's Ruinous Omen and would be overcome by it. The party would return to Surge, somewhat downcast, only to meet Hafthor Bjornsson, while reentering Surge. Curious at these follow outlanders, the mercenary would join them.

### In the Lands of Hargravia

They would cross the sea aboard a ship landing in Broward, where Tyrion would purchase a gate stone to a dungeon, and after some trouble with a local Inquiry, Takvor and Gadja would join them to enter the Dungeon Subaqueous. They would subsequently bury the gate stone, build a cabin over it and head east to Thoshaddn, where they would release the town from some manner of uplifted cabbage and worm-beast humanoids. While doing so they would discover a new dungeon gate stone.

As they rested in Thoshaddn, Tyrion would come to name group Estovar's Free Company, after the spirit-beast Estovar that came forth from Takvor and Gadja's chalcedony wolf figurine.

After their work aiding the town they would buy much land and make an additional cabin. While in Thoshaddn the would enter the Dungeon Scuttle uncovering its mysteries. Afterwards Tyrion would take a group of elves caught by fleeing dwarves into custody and with the rest of his band would travel to Broward to give them fare back to the Velnors. Tyrion would also book travel for himself back to Maag Ca'Shaan via ship from Broward in Hargravia, and thus he too would leave the Company.

### The World of Light

Passing through a Dungeon gate the party would find itself in a seeming other world. Here they would meet the peculiar huntress-woman, Shamshi, and would bring the curious, passionate woman back to their own world. She, upon arrival, would fly across the sky to the north.

### Return to the Underworld

Tyrion's return, followed by the death of Takvor in Dungeon: Swipe would both occur in Hargravia. In the same said Dungeon that took Takvor's life the party would meet the strange shapeshifter known as Astraea Öberg.

### Seeking the Lord of Chaos - The Journey South

The party would then push south to Ahesblittr, meet the odd Galla Branche de Plancy and sail the Mithrlochr southward to Dabuul, Kotesh.

### Ubulii: At Dabuul

In Kotesh they would once again be visited by the strange creatures known as the Creatures of Nim. As the party prepared to head eastward into Hilden, Alan is told by Tyrion that he is "wanted" in Kelenor by Finan. Breo, a strange, and unique man, would be met with, and left with the Citrine Magi of at Dabuul.

### Within Hilden Occupied

In mid to late Ghetn, 4751, the party would arrive at the gates of Kelenor, and would see the dreaded true form of Shamshi-Adad, as she, a rosegold dragon of massive size, crossed the skies and challenged the rulers of the city to battle in seven days. At the gates the party would be accosted by a knight, one Sir Grackle of the Militant Order of Dwoemerbana, who would immediately identify Astraea Öberg as a witch. Öberg, and then eventually the party would leave Kelenor, skirting the capital to avoid the fight.

They would in turn find themselves meeting the Rosegold Empress' army amassing outside of the city. The Creatures of Nim, the fear dearg, the cultists of Brego the Supplanter, and others would be included in the motley band.

Estovar's would proceed to perform a daring nighttime entry of the eastern reaches of the capital. Tyrion, pushed by Astraea's insistence would lead the party into the castle walls to meet with the strange woman, Gretchen. Finding only smoldering remains, and the sense of a portal of unknown origins buried beneath, the party would flee the town the following morning.

Pushing hard to northeast, and aiming for docks to flee Kelenorian waters, the party would head to Adderit. There they would find the town beneath the thumb of the merciless knights of the Order of St. Helena. Hagiolaters of Saint Valefrain, these women-knights would tax the party's crossing of the Dethus Bridge. One of the dames, when brutalized by a peppering of arrows from Hafthor, would intone a prayer to her saints, "By the saints, it would please me to serve. I will be they vessel!" Thus, would the woman transfigure before them into a large, winged horned beast.

Bleeding, tattered and overwhelmed the party would find itself on the eastern edge of the Dethus, over the Daron River, and meeting up with the soldiers of Kelenor in Adderit.