The Bronze Ravens

I know we adventuring types can often seem larger than life, so let me be the first to assure you that the Bronze Ravens are simply a small, local adventuring guild. I would be surprised if a single one of us has been more than 100 miles from Silmere.

— Jasper Cameron, Leader of The Bronze Ravens

Look, I know what you all are thinking, so let's just put the rumors to rest. The Bronze Ravens barely have 20 active members on a good year. I mean, if we were some global organization with the power to topple an empire and the wealth to buy our own kingdom, do you really think any of our members would need to rent out rooms at the local inns? Or that I would have this old short sword over some gleaming magical bastard sword. I have to get CLOSE to use this thing, which means it's WAY easier for stuff to hit me back.
I mean you have seen our guild hall, right? Six bedrooms, as long as one isn't being used as a storage closet for equipment that we need to get repaired, no bath chamber to speak of, and there isn't even glass in the windows. Speaking of that storage room, that is the reason our equipment is so well maintained, we pay for that out of pocket unlike the Anklebreakers or the Golden Lions where the guild pays for equipment upkeep. If I had to rely on Jasper to keep my armor in good condition I would never make it out again.
Not that the Old Crow is a bad leader, nothing could be farther from the truth. We get hurt less than other adventurers because he picks our jobs carefully and has back-up plans to his backup plans. Heck, remember the rats in the warehouses last year, yea, the giant ones. We had 2 days of drills and a 4-hour brief before we cleared them out. Every job is like that, something about "chance favoring the prepared."
He always has a saying like that. Probably why he got the nickname, Old Crow. He isn't actually all that much older than me. Served time in the city watch together. He does have some elf blood in him, according to rumors, so he may be a bit older than he looks, but other than that I think he is just a smart guy.
Honestly, where everyone gets these wild ideas that we are some sort of monolithic organization helping keep the evils of the world in check is beyond me. Not that I have aspirations to go anywhere else, but the work Jasper finds keeps us well-fed with a roof over our heads and lets us do our part in making this corner of the world a little bit better, and at the end of the day, can we really ask for more?

I dont care what they says, I'm tellin ya, 2 years back in Doceancot I saws a guy with that same pin goin' blade ta blade with three slaver toughs. Put 'em all down and not a single scratch on 'im. Cut right through one o' their swords with his dagger on my honor. But here's the thing, didn't kill a one of em. They was all still breathin when the constabuly showed up. Oh, don go givin me that look, I aint th' only one, go on Jac, tell 'em what you was saying about last time you was in Thunder Dunes, you was sayin Old Ishmael hisself mentioned them in a speech.