Profile: Knights of Mist Valley

The Knights of Mist Valley are an adventuring group popularized in several songs of recent years. Originally a military squad during the Treyvan War (335 SV) designated Badger group, they served under Lt. Gen. Karl during the assault on the Dark Necromancer’s Tower.

While many deeds are recorded in song and tale, only the military records filed in Boarlanding are used as reference here.

The forces of mercenaries and Beastmen gathered by the Dark Necromancer to send in aid to Mario Treyvan’s armies were camped in two valleys when Lt. Gen. Karl, supported by a column out of the Dragon Wastes led by court mage Trevor, divided his forces and attacked. The Dark Necromancer took the field in return, and blanketed the eastern valley in a thick mist, and then summoned a mighty storm that threw lightning into the now obscured melee. The larger group of Karl’s forces was in the western valley.  After heavy fighting they secured the western valley and moved into the eastern valley. Upon arriving the mist began clearing (the Dark Necromancer having returned to his tower) and found the results of a massive slaughter with hundreds dead on both sides. The only individuals left standing was Badger group, which the rest of the army named the Knights of Mist Valley in awe.

Later during the actual assault of the tower, the field was heavily contested due to the large number of undead the Dark Necromancer brought into play. The Knights of Mist Valley along with the adventurers called the Company of the Bright Spear alone fought their way into the Dark Necromancer’s Tower and confronted the Necromancer. The details are not clear on what exactly happened in the tower in the military report; a highly descriptive but questionable account is presented in the song Fall of the Tower of Darkness. What is known is that at one point the tower suffered from an initial explosion, and then a second explosion during its collapse. The second explosion blew the top balcony off of the tower and through that the Knights were able to survive.

The Knights were largely inactive in the years following the Treyvan War, but have recently been spotted – reportedly  confronting the Marquis Daedalus of Avonhollow in his keep and fighting bandits and Tainted Ones.

The original Knights of Mist Valley (per military records) were:

Feydor Riverman

Bajol Risus

Fyn Sosyl

Frumious Hawthorne

Grigor Dragomir

Thomas of Boarlanding

Bruce of Greymoors

Nolan of Halvenspring

Justarius of Halvenstomb (deceased)