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Group Background

The company was founded late last summer by the last surviving hero of the Giant wars of a generation ago the many storied Erened Varnia as he felt that a threat was coming to the northlands as it had had when the giants and their allies or as the now liberated half giants would have it slave soldiers had come down from the ice and mountains in the utmost north scattering the Kethian tribes and invading civilized lands, with much slaughter. They had only been stopped when after many tribulations and great deeds and his companions who amongst other things had started a revolt amongst the Half Giants, rallied at least some of the intensely superstitious and often xenophobic Kethians tribes and clans to the cause and finally located and bested the Jalakirr king of the giants in his iron halls.  After that the small band of heroes that survived largely settled down and with all of them being human and with time taking its inevitable toll they are reduced to the crippled Erened Varnia in Torn hold.

The company has known each other since then and have trained together under the tuition of Erened Varnia since and are familiar with each others strengths and weaknesses and favoured approaches to problems. The Company are aware that Erened Varnia had some fairly strict recruitment criteria and that more than they came to Torn hold and attempted to join and some of these would be members still linger about the town.

Now with the coming of spring he deems them ready and has sent them all to Angrad, a couple of days ride north and west of Torn hold where the master smith Khonnir will craft them an item of equipment or weapon as a reward for reaching this level of acquirement in the demanding old mans eyes. The plan then is for them to return for further training, before commencing on whatever task he has in mind, what this task might be is something he has so far kept secret. That those of the company given to such nonsense are speculating about it has not elicited any answers.