Emerald Brotherhood

The Emerald Brotherhood was a mercenary company around 1358 DR.

Activities
This group has pledged itself to fighting mindflayers and neogi whenever possible. They were generally found patrolling the areas between Anadia and Toril, though sometimes they were hired for jobs within other crystal spheres.

Base of Operations
The Emerald Brotherhood's base of operations was a temple dedicated to the Faerûnian god Tyr, located on an isolated planetoid in the Tears of Selûne.

History
The Emerald Brotherhood was a Torilian adventuring party that first formed to protect the forest of Thornwood and its druids from an invading tribe of gnolls. They went on to become famed as vicious lycanthrope hunters in the lands east and south of Amn and Tethyr.

In 1359 DR, they were exploring the Snowflake Mountains as part of a quest they had received from some king in the Vilhon Reach. He had tasked them hunting down and killing three evil dragons that lurked along the Deepwash. However, while on those mountains they were accosted by mindflayer slavers and taken into Wildspace on their ship the Mind Ripper.

The Emerald Brotherhood eventually managed to defeat their captors, escaping alongside a captive arcane. In the meantime they destroyed a major neogi slavery operation. They then went on to purchase the viper ship Tyr's Strike from that same arcane.

The Emerald Brotherhood set their sights on destroying both the mind flayers and the neogi. After only fourteen months neogi and other slaves in Realmspace came to fear them, with the former putting a bounty of 50,000 gold pieces on them. The leader of the Emerald Brotherhood went to use many of the treasures they seized from slavers to fund the construction of the Tyr temple that they used as their base of operations.

Allegiances
The group partnered with Elestam's Crusaders, with whom they fought against both dragons and vampires in the new kingdom of Erlkazar.

The Brotherhood were also friends with the mage Gamalon Idogyr, and they would visit him from time to time at his shop on the Rock of Bral.