The Axe of Truth

A group of adventurers who ranged the land between fifteen and ten years ago. Best known for stopping the high priest of the Dark One from turning the town of Millerscroft into a giant offering to the Demon Prince. Also known for later slaughtering a militia sent to force them to leave Millerscroft afterward, when they overstayed their welcome and began treating the town like their own private fiefdom.

The Axe used to be: numerous times. His focus on undeath and necromancy did not always show respect to the innocent living, though he never killed wantonly. The Axe did not survive his fate at the hands of Furst Fleshhewer, an ogre  war captain.
 * Sly (Stervan) Strongarm, halfling fighter. Used to judge his success in battle by the weight of the corpses he left behind. Lives by a code.
 * Oighur,Nemall's Chosen. human cleric. Motivated by knowledge, secrets, magical and divine lore. Prone to valuing data more than bystander lives; nevertheless a loyal companion.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aileel of Star's Glade, elven druid. Spent her youth with an elven <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">corps of druids, rangers and mages safeguarding their sylvan home. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After exhausting themselves against an gnoll threat, they accepted <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the aid of human and eladrin communities in a mutual defense pact. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They were betrayed and the forest stripped. Aileel has an eco-terrorist ethic and is in part responsible for most of the atrocities committed by the Axe.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Haemon Drohnson, dwarf warlock. Binder of demons, exile from beneath <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the mountain. Possibly the most ethical of the bunch, but only in a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Constantine way. Only drinks when it can't possibly lead to a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">demonic invasion. Frequently willing to resist his friends' desires <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and whims, but not above a little vengeance-oriented mayhem.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Felix Arethellion, human paladin of the Raven Queen, deceased. Former <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"leader" inasmuch as his will was as strong as any of the others and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">his desire to serve his deity was a frequent point of agreement among <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the Axe. Led them against the undead and against death cultists
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Elanna Bayberry, human thief. The first member of the group <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to walk the hell away from the rest of them. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wanted in the Regency for murder and treason. Close with <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Felix and Stervan, friend to the others, but possessed of a basic <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">moral identity that would not allow her to stay and see her friends  <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ruin themselves with evil deeds.