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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7521954" data-attributes="member: 12388">More fleshed out adventuring company names:4. The Dragon ChasersA favorite activity of elder Buckfast Lords is to tell stories to Thunderstone children of their adventures in the Thunder Peaks and Hullack Forest. These tales are embroidered by the imaginations of the Buckfast storytellers, so old Lord Ravance might claim to have jumped from one mountaintop to another without so much as stopping his brave steed Thunderlance while charging headlong into the mouth of a fire breathing dragon, during which the lord lost his arm in battle with the horrible beast. There is always an element of truth to the stories, which is to say Lord Ravance Buckfast did lose his arm to a dragon of modest size after falling head over horse down a mountainside when the beast awakened inside its cave lair and gave a mighty roar. Lord Buckfast landed hard on his backside, the dragon darted out of its lair and greeted the unfortunate lordling by snatching him up in its jaws by his sword arm, and then Thunderlance came crashing down into the dragon, thereby releasing the now one-armed Buckfast. Horse and wounded rider did not wait to see how quickly dragons recover after being crashed into by horses half their size. A band of youthful adventurers that all grew up in Thunderstone on the stories of wyverns and dragons and the lurking perils that devour the unwary traveler in the Thunder Peaks, the Dragon Chasers hunt that same red dragon today.5. The Oak ShieldsAll victims of a Teleport spell gone awry. The Oak Shields adventured in Damara and Vaasa, and traded a hefty bag of coins to a hiremage to be magically transported from Heliogabalus to within sight of the Pillar of Fire within the Galena Mountains. Hiremage and adventurers arrived in the Thunder Peaks, realized they had no idea where they were, then fell to arguing. The hiremage stomped his foot to make a point, the snow-covered ground gave way, and the hiremage discovered too late that he'd been standing on snow-covered ice. The Oak Shields spread out with all the haste of ripples running from a rock freshly landed in water as the lake ice beneath them groaned, cracked and split apart. The hiremage sank quickly in the freezing water, but not fast enough to avoid the wyvern that crashed half in the water, slapped its wings against ice and water to regain the air, then stabbed the poor mage repeatedly with its stinging tail as it flew off with its meal. The Oak Shields made it as far as the Hullack Forest, thanked the gods for the cover the trees provided against the hungry wyverns plaguing their journey out of the mountains, and have decided to wait out the winter before traveling any further.  6. Thiraphel’s BandThiraphel has yet to tire of the majestic sight of Cormyr from his prison high up in the sky. His adventuring companions have plenty of food, plenty of water, and enough gold to build a small keep out of the stuff--if only they could find a way back down. Their jailer lay dead, the giant's corpse measuring fifty feet from head to toe, the body resting atop cloud as hard as rock. The giant's killer lay equally dead, a short sword as long as a wagon buried to the hilt in its enormous chest. Thiraphel's Band were meant to be a meal for the giant, but mealtime was cut short when the second giant sprang its trap. The secret of whatever magic the giant used to make its way into the clouds disappeared when the mind keeping it passed away. The view of Cormyr, however, remains incredible.</blockquote>

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