Sahnd Krulek
Leader of the Gray PatriotsMale Human Bandit
Background
Location: Grass Sea west of Phlan
Knight Sahnd Krulek was a low-ranking officer in the Black Fists, the order charged with maintaining law and order in Phlan. After arresting a rather influential local noble, he was framed and subsequently sentenced to death for reportedly plotting to assassinate Lord Regent Ector Brahms. Knowing Krulek to be innocent, a group of other Knights of the Black Fist helped him escape from Stojanow Gate and spirited him away across the Grass Sea.
To strike back against the nobles of Phlan, the renegade knights began robbing caravans bound for the city. At first, the so-called “Gray Patriots” earned a reputation for criminal decency; they stole only from merchants in the employ of the nobles of Phlan, and never killed unnecessarily. However, as Krulek’s plot to punish the nobles gathered momentum, he and his fellow outcast knights became ever more barbaric. Over time, they became little more than the bandits and criminals they once swore to pursue.
Later, a dragonborn sorcerer named Jeralla led a force of crazed kobolds from Thar to the east and unleashed them upon the summer caravans.
The emergence of these new outlaws on the Iron Route hindered Krulek’s plans for rebellion. For months, the two groups waged bloody war against one another, until at last the foundations for a shaky truce were laid. Rather than continue attacking one another, they agreed to meet in parley and discuss terms for dividing the Iron Route between them. This meeting took place at King’s Pyre, a ruined statue on the rocky coast of the Moonsea.
During the parley, the heroes attacked the Jeralla's forces and decimated her kobold legion. Soon thereafter, a orc war band named "The Burning Banner" swept through the camps, slaying the remains of the draconic forces and then attacking the Gray Patriots. Drathe convinced Krulek to let the heroes join forces to try to hold off the orcs, but it was soon apparent that the orog war chief Narle Shieldbiter was too strong to defeat. Drathe tried to get Krulek to abandon the hopeless fight, but Krulek proved unwilling to abandon his embattled men.
The last the heroes saw of Krulek as they escaped in a longboat, was the smoke-covered burning encampment high on the cliffside.
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