Editing Drake's Company (section)

===Sacred Stone Monastery===
After stopping at Red Oak Village to resupply and gather information, the party headed east to the [[Sacred Stone Monastery]]. After bluffing their way past the guards, they were led into the central shrine where the one of the priests dropped them through a trap door to a chamber with a caged umber hulk. After slaying the umber hulk, they climbed back out and killed the earth priests. Acting on a sudden impulse, Gnarls carved the symbol of the Cult of the Eternal Flame into one of the pillars. They then retreated back outside and made camp. The next morning, they snuck back in through a side door and killed the abbess. After leaving yet another Eternal Flame symbol to be found, they breached a magically sealed door and encountered a lich who politely asked them to depart. Drake noticed the lich's interest in his holy symbol, however, and after some conversation learned that he was actually [[Rennard Carras]], a paladin who had helped found the monastery where Drake trained. Though long thought dead, he had actually gone into seclusion as a lich. Rennard explained that he was not part of the Cult; he had taken a room in the old monastery for himself, and when the cultists moved in they mutually agreed to leave each other alone. Rennard granted Drake and his companions permission to rest in his chambers, but declined to aid them directly.

Unbeknownst to them, the Cult of the Eternal Flame had not simply let them escape and had sent a pack of hell hounds to track them. While they rested in Rennard's study, the hell hounds entered the Sacred Stone Monastery. The cultists, now on high alert and suspicious of the Cult of the Eternal Flame, presumed it was an attack and defended themselves. Now thoroughly convinced that the Eternal Flame was targeting them, after dispatching the hell hounds they gathered most of their forces and marched west. The heroes emerged to find a scene of devastation just outside the door, and ultimately caused even more damage to the monastery fighting the minotaurs left behind to guard it. They eventually located the cult's prisoners; among them was the dwarven sage [[Bruldenthar]], who had been part of the delegation from [[Korthaz]]. He confirmed that their caravan had been attacked by earth cultists, and that they were ambushed by knights riding giant vultures on their way back to the monastery. His books had been sold to a band of pirates, and his surviving companions had been taken away to an unknown fate.  With the monastery cleared of cultists, they decided to escort the freed prisoners south to [[Westford]].

On their way to Westford, they came across a burning farm that had been attacked by orcs. Tracking the orcs, they found them escorting prisoners and rescued them. The rescued farmers led them to the nearby Dellmon Ranch, which had already begun fortifying themselves against the recent orcish attacks. After Ru Bae Ya's owl familiar confirmed that the orcs were massing for an attack, the adventurers sent a message to Westford for assistance and helped bolster the ranch's defenses. The orcs were relentless in their attack, first sending up a smoke screen to hinder the defenders and then sneaking close enough to set part of the ranch ablaze, but Drake and his companions held them off until dawn, when reinforcements arrived from Westford and drove off the few surviving orcs. In the aftermath, Westford's commander asked for the name of the group of adventurers that helped save the ranchers; Lafiel shrugged and once again said, "We're Drake's company," and the name soon spread across Orodeth.