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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 8195472" data-attributes="member: 12388">Continuing with the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/adventuring-company-names-and-what-they-are-up-to.473088/page-3#post-7989637" target="_blank">newest list of ten adventuring company names</a>, here is #9 on the list:9. The Tempest Maidens of the Thunder PeaksActive over the last decade among the storm-ravaged tors of the Thunder Peaks, this unchartered adventuring band has been sighted only a handful of times. Wizards of War no longer attempt to eavesdrop on the Maidens as unpredictable lightning storms sometimes erupt overhead, damaging and even destroying whatever structure the war wizard was occupying. What is known of the Maidens’ activities comes from the accounts of Crown foresters, prospectors and stone carvers, and adventurers who’ve encountered the Maidens or spied them from a distance.One unfortunate stone carver—Ondaver Sarlarth of Thunderstone--claims to have been taken captive by the Maidens and held long enough to observe them work a storm calling ritual that obliterated a tall tower perched on a sharp mountain rise, and left the stone carver deaf for day and night. According to Ondaver only one Maiden spoke to the him during his captivity. Identifying herself as “Lady Devastator,” she warned him to only take stone blocks from the hills and peaks and to leave behind any treasures he happened upon. She further claimed that everything above and below the slopes belonged to Talos, then cast a spell that whisked him to within sight of Thunderstone. Ondaver further revealed the Maidens had amassed at least two strongchests filled with coins and valuables plundered from the tower before its destruction, each chest easily hefted and carried off by a Maiden “tall as a Purple Dragon’s warhorse and just as strong.”A handful of rumors claim the Tempest Maidens count members of another adventuring band, the Stormchasers, among their ranks. These rumors run counter to an agreement said to have been made between the Stormchasers and the Queen’s Lord of Arabel that saw the Stormchasers disbanded peacefully and each member departing Arabel alone, never to return to Cormyr.While the truth remains elusive, travelers navigating the Thunder Peaks have begun constructing miniature shelters out of whatever building materials are at hand at least once a tenday, over which a prayer to Talos the Storm Lord is spoken. It is considered a good omen if the traveler encounters the lightning-blasted remains of their creation on the return journey home.</blockquote>

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