Erebusian Bastards

The Erebusian Bastards were a group of tiefling bandits with a fairly exhaustive and well defended hidout in a ruined part of north Westcrown, beyond the Wall. They preyed primarily on themerchants and craftsmen residents of north Westcrown, returning back to the other side of the wall after their raids.

The Adventuring Party attacked the Erebusian Bastards at the behest of Arael, when one of his followers, a weaponsmith, had been the victim of one of their raids and had ultimately been killed along with his entire family. From the start, the Adventuring Party had no illusions as to their end goal - total annhiliation of the Bastards.

A fair bloodbath ensured, with the Adventuring Party entering the underground lair and fending off multiple attacks and ambushes from all sides. The room was quickly transformed into an abbattoir, but eventually the Bastards fell back to try and take the party by ambush as they hunted the tieflings.

Ultimately the party was able to find and kill the Bastard leader Palaveen, his lieutenant Dravano, and the remaining bandits (save for two, more on this in a moment), but not before Dravano was able to kill Treila Briarcursed.

The party left the hideout and crossed back into Westcrown to find themselves the guests of honor at an impromptu street party celebrating their victory over the tiefling victimizers. The crowd had captured two tieflings who had tried to make their escape, and were now badly beaten. The crowd offerred these to the Adventuring Party, who declined to kill them, and they subsequently disappeared into the crowd to fates unknown (but surely bad).

The party was then confronted by Paralictor Gonville Chard and several Hellknights, who declared their intention to place the party under arrest. Just at that moment, however, Watch Sergeant Varis Gondriu arrived with several members of the City Watch, who refuted the Paralictor's claims on the party and, with some veiled threats, forced them to depart.