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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 3292630" data-attributes="member: 35678">The Harpers angle might work; you could encourage the party to start off as a 'hyrib' group between a church faction and the harpers. Say, an elven god and the harpers are into patrolling the western heartlands to keep them safe. When news is heard of Thayan slaver activity in the area, the party is sent to investigate.You could also work it that they are from Candlekeep (in a motley assortment of scribes, priests, visistors, guards, etc), and they could come uon a set of previously undiscovered catacombs under Candlekeep itself. The party discovers a set of scrolls which desrcibes a group of sturdy folk who will rise to a new challenge intertwined with the end of Hartos' Calender. The party then is equipped and heds west, where they come across Thayan Slavers and a variety of other adventures, which eventually lead them into the inky back depths of the Abyss itself. Personally, I like this approach *yoinked for future game*To further explain that "hybrid" organization, in my FR games, there is a group known as the Dirgesingers, who are harper agents working in conjunction with the church of Kelemvror. They sing at funerals and help with those preceedings and ensure that no tomb shall be defiled or the like - basicaly each half of the faction helps the other out in some way.cheers,--N</blockquote>