Editing Drake's Company (section)

===The Feathergale Society===
While asking about the stamped bars the next day, they learned that a caravan from Korthaz that Gnarls had seen recently had not arrived in Red Oak, though it should have done so a few weeks ago. When a shepherd mentioned having seen some freshly-dug graves in the hills, the party asked him to lead them there. Excavating the graves, they found two bodies wearing surcoats with the symbol of Korthaz, a body wearing stone armor, and a body in a white robe adorned with black feathers. It was clear that they had been engaged in a battle of some sort, and when the shepherd identified the feathered robes as belonging to the knights of nearby [[Feathergale Spire]], they decided that was a good place to start their search. Sensing that their hunt for Bastian Thermandar was liable to result in a good deal of treasure, Lafiel purchased a wagon before they set out, Bran flying ahead to scout.

The shepherd's directions led them into a wide canyon, in the middle of which a tall tower rose up atop a spire of rock. Though Bran had not yet rejoined them, they rang the bell and were greeted by a knight named [[Savra Belabrante]]. Lafiel introduced them as "Drake's company," and when they told her of the body they had found she lowered the drawbridge and brought them to the [[Feathergale Society]]'s lord commander, [[Thurl Merosska]]. Thurl thanked them for telling them of the body of their comrade, explaining that the man in the stone armor, as well as the earth priest below Red Oak Village, belonged to an evil group called the [[Cult of the Black Earth]] whom they had frequently clashed with. While they spoke a sentry announced that they had spotted a manticore, and Merosska invited the hunters to fly upon their giant vulture mounts to help kill it. After a successful hunt, Merosska asked them to join them for a feast and stay the night in the tower. They told him of their friend Bran, and hoped he would find his own way to the spire to join them.

During the feast Thurl Merosska asked for their tale, and Drake explained that while they had found new enemies in the Cult of the Black Earth, his true target was Bastian Thermander. Merosska said he had not seen any sign of him, however. That night, the knights awakened the hunters from their beds at swordpoint and marched them to the top of the tower. There, Thurl Merosska sorrowfully explained that their opposition to the elementals' servants made them a threat, and that they would be thrown from the tower in sacrifice to the primordial [[Yan-C-Bin]]. Realizing that the knights were in fact cultists of elemental air, they fought back. Though initially at a disadvantage without their armor, they were soon bolstered by the arrival of Bran and a flock of [[aarakocra]]. Many of the knights were killed in the ensuing battle, and though Thurl Merosska tried to escape Lafiel chased him back down into the tower to finish him off. Quickly grabbing their gear from their rooms, they departed with the aarakocra before the knights could regroup. Bran explained that he had been attacked by a knight riding a vulture while scouting and nearly killed, but that the local aarakocra had saved him and told him the truth of the Feathergale Society. Recognizing that his companions would be in danger, he led the aarakocra to help them.