Free Brothers
The Free Brothers are an organisation of runaway male drow in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. Their aim is liberation, but their methods are violence and terror; not every male drow belongs to them.1
Rumoured alliance
In Gromkar, a dwarven captain told Sarah and Ephorus that the drow prisoner Hançer was an important member of the Free Brothers, and that the brothers were rumoured to be working with the great drow houses. He sent the two into prison in disguise to win Hançer's trust and learn whether the alliance was real, and whether an attack on Gromkar was planned.1 2
Whether the brothers truly made common cause with the houses is not known. The two returned with word that the forces of a drow house were advancing through the tunnels and that its matron would come with the attack, and that Hançer meant to strike at her.3
Hançer's account
In the prison Hançer said that he would go on fighting the drow women once free, and that his true aim was to free as many drow as he could.4 5
He spoke of an escape from below that had begun together with others, after which roads and bargains could part, and claimed that people were waiting outside to help a breakout, with places to hide.6 7
He wanted to free Sarah from the man he took for her master, and made it his condition that she be free to choose her own road. Ephorus, for his part, reflected that the drow lead their slaves to war beside them, so that broken chains could give their enemies an army.8 9 10
Drow and slavery
Imperial histories record that the prisoners of war brought to the surface after the Empire's campaign into the Underdark were sold as slaves. Imperial law forbids slavery only for imperial citizens, and slavery is most common among the drow.11
Notes
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Sürgün Günlükleri #32), 44:43
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Sürgün Günlükleri #32), 45:14
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 2:05:48
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 1:02:54
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 1:41:31
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 1:03:59
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 1:27:00
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 37:15
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 1:38:09
- ↑At the tableGromkar'ın Kaderi | DnD 5E Oynanış #32 (Part 2) (Sürgün Günlükleri #32 part 2), 1:45:11
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 15
Sources
This article draws on:
Books
- SSGLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide(Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 15
Related articles
ArtifactHellfire cannonThe great magical cannons of the Empire as they appear in the Sürgün Günlükleri and Mürekkep ve Çelik campaigns, where the palace's chief engineer claims their design and a new cannon, Gloria, is unveiled outside Gromkar.
DeityVolkanThe god of artisans, the Hammerhand, First Blacksmith and Shaper of Stones, who taught mortals smithing, forged the weapons of the gods and is held by the dwarves to have shaped them from stone.PlaceAbandoned tax office of OsterhnThe tax office of the Harbour Quarter of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, empty for some twenty years, which served in turn as a goblin spy's lair, a cell for a goblin prisoner and a hiding place for the innkeeper Exalon.CharacterAdeline PorvisThe armoured only daughter of Baron Vermont Porvis in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, raised like a knight, whose absence from home Kemp Corvus's company looks into while a rebellion spreads through the Porvis country.CharacterAlistarA one-eyed officer of Jasper's armed squad in the town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, the keeper and trainer of the squad's war hounds and, by Exalon's account, a veteran of the drow wars.CharacterBalgur DemirkapıThe old dwarf thane of the house of Demirkapı in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, mentor to the barons of Gromkar and keeper of the city's defence, whose mines yield most of the black amethyst.CharacterBaltazarAn armoured warrior and man of faith of the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign who, at Karak's suggestion, joined Kemp Corvus, Sarah and Ephorus for the ambush of a drow priestess in the tunnels below Gromkar, and later stood with them at Osterhn.CharacterBardvin DemiryürekA dwarven sellsword of the Demiryürek in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, the apparent leader of the three dwarves who travel north with Kemp Corvus and Sarah and fight beside the company beneath Gromkar.CharacterBarutThe great black dog of the warrior Hermes in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, big enough to carry his master, who bears the company's loads beneath the dwarven mountains and later stands with the defenders at Osterhn.CharacterBenedict Von BarringtonThe only doctor of the town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, a well-dressed, white-haired man of the Market Quarter whose remedies were effective but costly and whose locked cellar kept its own secrets.