Crimson Eye

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Crimson Eye is a corporation founded by a band of adventurers named the Crimson Eyes, former prison gang of Penal Battalion 321. Proving themselves decisive in a dozen military engagements, they came to the attention of Monty the Mad. Moved to special operations, they were assigned tasks more fitting their skills. As a protective umbrella, they formed a corporation on 11 War March 1788; by the incorporation laws of the Orchish Empire, board members cannot be charged for the failings of its workers.

In 1790, they raided the Mound of Bone Pounder. One of the pieces of loot, unbeknownst to them, was the Seed of Tarfilerquar.

In 1799, they explored Outpost Prime. In the ruins of this old hideout of the Sanguine Whispers, they found a trove of books, scrolls, and other loot. One of most surprising finds was a lost Giff Platform named the Juggernaut.

In 1801, after retaking Fort Hellstorm, Crimson Eye explored the bastion's secret labyrinth. Then home to a powerful necromancer named Drog'paagol, Crimon Eye explored a secret research facility named Nir-Madyin. After finding a mystical fort named Phaze Keep, they were taken far north in search of buyers with very deep pockets. Fixed to special teleporation points, Phaze Keep appeared where Igas and Anubeth meet. Surrounded by battle, Crimson Eye fought past armies of fire and ice engaged in their never-ending Thrones War.

After the heroes felled the legendary Tree God of Igas, Junkel, a Councilor of Crimson Eye wrote:

... the giants of fire and ice, and all their minions, were plain and simple, terrified of us. When word got out of us killing something that was beyond the might of their petty gods, we had an uncontested passage north to our future buyers.

They reached their final objective three months later, on a tip from Drog'paagol they found willing Zenduram buyers for anything that would give their soldiers an edge. Two years later, the Juggernaut was making runs north with its decks filled with the Crimsonware - thousands of vials of Ragnorak, oil, bars of platinum from the hills of Branchard, and other trade goods.

In Witchrite 1801, still living in Collossapolos, the heroes were tasked with finding a powerful weapon. Named Tiamat Spur, lost in the battle between Monty the Mad and Defilnus, it had been missing for nearly two centuries. The search begin in The Twelve Tiers of Collossapolos. With the help of their arch-mage friend at Fort Hellstorm, they found Monty's weapon in three months. In return for not taking it and running, Monty awarded them contested lands in eastern Grashakh. A one-hundred lease, it includes the Branchard hills and their rich mines, then north into the spires of Inghild. The Branchard part of this claim, with its rich mines, was a long contested claim between the region's Toomrur and the Orchish Empire. After taking claim of the area, the company began building its headquarters, a nearly impregnable bastion named Ragongrak.

In 1802, near where their headquarters was being built, workers found a passage into a labyrinth named Spirit Crypt. Once the lair of a powerful lich, inside they destroyed a blutium golem, killed an old lover of the lich named Vargonivus, and made-off with great riches.

In 1804, the start of the Crimson Offensive (1804 - 1810), the company went to war with the Toomrur Hegemony. A victory for the company, they gained ownership of Norgtrum and part of Gudrall.

Crimson Eye is a major distributor of the drug Ragnorak. Although not nearly as widely consumed as Ragnorak, the company is also the inventor of a potent alcohol called Ogre-Skin Anvil.