Blackdagger Bandits

The Blackdagger Bandits were a powerful bandit group operated on the High Road led by the brothers Malus and Traven Blackdagger.

History
Malus and Traven were two penniless brothers from Luskan. In the years just after the Spellplague of 1385 DR, they began their bandit careers with only a handful of men, but their ruthlessness and keen eye for opportunity earned them great success. The Blackdagger Bandits, as they were called, gained some measure of fame, and criminals flocked to join them.

With the rebuilding of Neverwinter and the subsequent increase in trade, the Blackdagger Bandits saw an even greater increase both to their income and to their ranks.

After Neverwinter put a bounty or their heads, the two brothers disappeared for a time and started rumors that they had been killed and someone else led the Blackdagger Bandits. The truth was more nefarious: the Red Wizard necromancer Kallos Tam had transformed them into undead in order to use them and their forces to attack the city of Neverwinter.

The Harpers discovered the plot and recruited an adventurer to destroy the bandits, so the adventurer infiltrated the bandit's stronghold of Cragmire Keep and effectually eliminated the bandit's leadership.