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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6978203" data-attributes="member: 12388">A description follows for one of the thirty entries in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?473088-Adventuring-Company-Names-and-What-They-Are-Up-To&p=6852902&viewfull=1#post6852902" target="_blank">in this post</a> from earlier in the thread.NOTE: Like some of the other entries in this thread, the entry below has found its way into <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/277678/Eye-on-Cormyr-1-Coastal-Adventuring-Parties" target="_blank">Eye on Cormyr, Issue #1</a> on the DMs Guild. The entry that follows remains here to give you an idea of what kind of content can be found in Issue #1.****The Men of the HorngateFifteen in number, this band of unchartered novice adventurers are not the first group of would-be sword swingers to take the name of Suzail's northwest gate and make use of it in an adventuring moniker.The Men of the Horngate operate in the lands west of Suzail. They wander the Merewash Trail exploring coastal ruins along the Dragonmere, and up into the castle and cottage-filled woodland hills where the King's Forest and the Stormhorns overlap.The Men have made friends of the monks that inhabit the Vault of Restful Dead, from which one novice cleric has departed to join the Men on their adventures. Aside from the cleric, the ranks of the Men have not changed during their first season of adventure. They've yet to lose a member, despite fighting skirmishes against overwhelming odds in the Wormpits, and while escaping from death by drowning while exploring the rotting interior of one of the many abandoned vessels that fill the ship graveyard of Margrath's Rest.The majority of the Men are experienced day laborers and dockworkers. A few are the third and fourth sons of dung carters and lesser servant families. Collectively they know all of Suzail south of the Promenade, and most of the Men make side coins by loitering in the vicinity of the Horngate and waiting for merchants that appear new to Cormyr's capital city, who are likely to need help finding buyers for their wares as well as instructions on how best to abide by Cormyr's tax codes and laws.The Men of the Horngate have returned home to Suzail for the winter.  As soon as the snows thaw they plan to head north on the Way of the Dragon for the bustling town of Waymoot, in the King's Forest, to see a task done on behalf of the monks of the Vault. Upon their return to Suzail the Men plan to resupply and then march west to Mage Keep, there to breach the wretched castle's high walls and plunder the treasures rumored to fill its vaults.****The roster of adventurers that follows borrows some first names from my <a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/189026/Cormyr-In-The-Year-Of-The-Ageless-One?term=ageless&test_epoch=0" target="_blank">Cormyr Sourcebook</a> (page 34, "For the Player"), and follows its advice on naming conventions common to the Realms. For example, it's not uncommon for someone to make use of their current or last place of employment as a surname, e.g. Kelgantor of the Wheel: Kelgantor finds work as a doorjack (a kind of all-purpose errand runner) at the Wailing Wheel Inn, near Horngate.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Talonar of Horngate, Fighter 2, Leader</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Markuld, Fighter 1, Second in Command</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Welwyn Feathershot, Cleric 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Bellowing" Belnar Hornshulder, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Corleth of Seven Suns, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Danthalus "the Bold" Stoutbold, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Foril Belarshout, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kelgantor of The Wheel, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Naskbryn of Westgate, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Neld Allaghar, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Orkrash, Fighter 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arbrace of Rowanmantle, Rogue 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Skult, Rogue 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Traevyn of Six Candles, Rogue 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Corlador Castlehaunt, Sorcerer 1</li> </ul>The map slice included in this post is taken from a larger regional map of Cormyr (page 58 of my Sourcebook) and it shows some of the areas listed in the adventuring party description above.[ATTACH]79380[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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