Proceed at your own risk! They are world renowned heroes, most notable for rescuing the Tal'Dorei Royal Family from demonic possession, overthrowing the Briarwoods' rule of Whitestone , slaying the dragons of the Chroma Conclave , and banishing the newly deified Vecna beyond the Divine Gate. The team, originally comprised of Grog Strongjaw , Tiberius Stormwind , Scanlan Shorthalt , Keyleth , Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia , met in the swamp town of Stilben as a ragtag group of mercenaries in search of work.
They found a job board posting from Fendril Vas , the elven head of a small merchant empire, who hired the group to investigate a new competition in town known as the Myriad. Their mission lead them to a chamber containing a planar rift that pulled the group into the plane of the undead fetal-formed deity Crysa-Thul , who revealed that their contract with the elven merchant was merely a ruse to lure here so the god could feed on them.
The party fought back, destroying the creature, and returned to Stilben and to kill Vas in revenge. After their original mission in Stilben, the group stayed in town to do some odd jobs. Grog left to return to his hometown of Westruun , but after a few weeks, the party began to worry and went to look for him.
In Westruun, they met his childhood friend Pike Trickfoot , who said that Grog had been acting strangely and went off on his own towards the looming Gatshadow Mountain.
Joined by Pike, they discovered a crypt in the mountain where they found Grog and the reanimated corpse of his father Stonejaw Strongjaw , controled by a dying mage attempting a ritual to lichdom. He managed to complete the ritual and embed his phylactery into Grog's chest before the party killed him. While looking for help, the party was approached by Drez Vina , who offered to pay them well to infiltrate the tower of an Archmage and retrieve a box for him.
