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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7886607" data-attributes="member: 12388">From this list of <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/adventuring-company-names-and-what-they-are-up-to.473088/#post-6771762" target="_blank">40 adventuring company names</a> on page 1, I present:HORNSHULDER’S LOYAL BLADESSix dwarves—all from House Helmhorn, a clan barely 50 years old—comprise Hornshulder's Loyal Blades. They do not hold to the old ways: of the males some wear beards shorn short, two are wizards trained in Scornubel, four are of mixed blood (dwarf-halfling and dwarf-human parings), and all have spent more time above ground than below. Hornshulder and his companions take no umbrage when called “thaelwi” (lit. “non-dwarf”) by the tradition-minded dwarves they cross paths with, the latest insults coming from dwarves that live and trade in the vicinity of Thunderstone on Cormyr’s eastern border. Hornshulder formed his band at the encouragement of his elder brother, Tathgurd, and chose to strike eastward from their shared home in (and under) Secomber. Finding and exploring the abandoned holds of extinct Cormyrean noble families in the Stormhorns is their first priority, observing how the dwarf and gnome clans of Thunderstone that do so much of the fine smithing, sewer digging, plumbing and wire making manage to live and trade among humans without causing alarm (that is, alarm at the true numbers of each race) is the second, and the third is finding husbands and wives to bring home to House Helmhorn.(Tip of the hat to <a href="https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/outcast-house" target="_blank">&quot;Forging the Realms: Outcast House&quot;</a> by Ed Greenwood.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy E Grenemyer, post: 7886607, member: 12388"] From this list of [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/adventuring-company-names-and-what-they-are-up-to.473088/#post-6771762']40 adventuring company names[/URL] on page 1, I present: HORNSHULDER’S LOYAL BLADES Six dwarves—all from House Helmhorn, a clan barely 50 years old—comprise Hornshulder's Loyal Blades. They do not hold to the old ways: of the males some wear beards shorn short, two are wizards trained in Scornubel, four are of mixed blood (dwarf-halfling and dwarf-human parings), and all have spent more time above ground than below. Hornshulder and his companions take no umbrage when called “thaelwi” (lit. “non-dwarf”) by the tradition-minded dwarves they cross paths with, the latest insults coming from dwarves that live and trade in the vicinity of Thunderstone on Cormyr’s eastern border. Hornshulder formed his band at the encouragement of his elder brother, Tathgurd, and chose to strike eastward from their shared home in (and under) Secomber. Finding and exploring the abandoned holds of extinct Cormyrean noble families in the Stormhorns is their first priority, observing how the dwarf and gnome clans of Thunderstone that do so much of the fine smithing, sewer digging, plumbing and wire making manage to live and trade among humans without causing alarm (that is, alarm at the true numbers of each race) is the second, and the third is finding husbands and wives to bring home to House Helmhorn. (Tip of the hat to [URL='https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/outcast-house']"Forging the Realms: Outcast House"[/URL] by Ed Greenwood.) [/QUOTE]

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