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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7887303" 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:THE GHOST KNIGHTSThere are no true knights among the Ghost Knights, but each member considers themselves a knight anointed by the Ghost Knight of Galardoun, the purpose bequeathed to them by that far-traveled haunting to find the many restless spirits in the Heartlands of the Forgotten Realms and see each laid to permanent rest. It would be easy to assume the Ghost Knights are slayers of apparitions, and so there must be clerics and paladins among them, but this is not true. No, the Ghost Knights are a monk, a druid, a sorcerer, a fighter, and a bard, each motivated to learn the stories behind the hauntings they seek in order to discover the means to end them. This quintet of adventurers have not always met with success in their endeavors: the Grinning Ghost of Taverton Hall drove them off before they could make their way by night onto the grounds of the ancestral home of House Paertrover of Cormyr, while the Mirror Ghost (a haunting native to Marsember) proved too nimble, and too costly, a foe to find and capture.[1] The Ghost Knights make decisions by vote and have, after their failure in the City of Spices, chosen to travel to Suzail to find a wealthy patron to sponsor their adventures.[1] As its name suggests, the Mirror Ghost appears within mirrors of all sorts (and rarely within glass of fine make). The Ghost Knights broke several mirrors while trying to apprehend the Mirror Ghost, and ran out of coins to buy more.(Tip of the hat to Ed Greenwood's &quot;Eye on the Realms&quot; article &quot;The Ghost Knight of Galardoun&quot; in Dungeon #196.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy E Grenemyer, post: 7887303, 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: [B]THE GHOST KNIGHTS[/B] There are no true knights among the Ghost Knights, but each member considers themselves a knight anointed by the Ghost Knight of Galardoun, the purpose bequeathed to them by that far-traveled haunting to find the many restless spirits in the Heartlands of the Forgotten Realms and see each laid to permanent rest. It would be easy to assume the Ghost Knights are slayers of apparitions, and so there must be clerics and paladins among them, but this is not true. No, the Ghost Knights are a monk, a druid, a sorcerer, a fighter, and a bard, each motivated to learn the stories behind the hauntings they seek in order to discover the means to end them. This quintet of adventurers have not always met with success in their endeavors: the Grinning Ghost of Taverton Hall drove them off before they could make their way by night onto the grounds of the ancestral home of House Paertrover of Cormyr, while the Mirror Ghost (a haunting native to Marsember) proved too nimble, and too costly, a foe to find and capture.[1] The Ghost Knights make decisions by vote and have, after their failure in the City of Spices, chosen to travel to Suzail to find a wealthy patron to sponsor their adventures. [1] As its name suggests, the Mirror Ghost appears within mirrors of all sorts (and rarely within glass of fine make). The Ghost Knights broke several mirrors while trying to apprehend the Mirror Ghost, and ran out of coins to buy more. (Tip of the hat to Ed Greenwood's "Eye on the Realms" article "The Ghost Knight of Galardoun" in Dungeon #196.) [/QUOTE]

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