Morivarg's Quintet
Morivarg's Quintet was a Vundkragi adventuring party active in the 980s and 90s. It was initially comprised of six dwarves who met through a traveler's guild in Sim Rina. They began as wanderers and quickly took up adventuring to fund that wandering. In 984, they became involved in the defense of the large hill dwarf village of Gzedrud from a kruthik infestation. They spent three days searching for the point through which they were accessing the surface from the Underdark, putting down small groups of kruthiks where they encountered them. When they discovered the cave they had been seeking, kruthiks began to pour out. The group's wizard, Zedwig the Highcaster, began to prepare to cast a powerful spell that would destroy the cave entirely, and Morivarg, one of the group's rogues, leaped into the fray to keep the kruthik hive lord from escaping while Zedwig wove his spell, and called for him to cast it even though there was no time for him to remove himself from the blast radius. Zedwig complied, crushing the kruthiks and the exit from their lair under tons of stone, along with Morivarg.
The five remaining members had a hexagonal symbol commissioned after their companion's sacrifice, with the sixth side representing Morivarg. This was when they took up the name by which they eventually became widely known, although for the next several years they undertook a string of unrelated quests around southern Vundkrag and Bhren, working with and for a variety of nobles and guilds.
They gained their focus upon becoming involved in the War of the Storm in early 989, having been requested by name by the lord of Hallas. Together with a small squadron of royal escorts and soldiers, they traveled to a variety of cities to assess for signs of the influence of the Creed Under the Coming and Eternal Storm. They became well-versed in the Creed's most typical tricks but Zedwig began to suffer from increasing paranoia that any little inconvenience or grievance they suffered could be the Creed's doing. He semi-retired to try to restore his peace of mind, but the Creed was there with him, constantly poking and prodding at their presence in a way only he ever saw and could never prove. Meanwhile the four still-active members continued on, now actively championing truth and transparency as vital to order and peace. Two of them died and a third was crippled in the Battle of Giantstride Forest in 993. The final surviving active member disappeared two months later.
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