From the introduction: Our story begins shortly before dawn on a chilly autumn morning, as the adventurers disembark from their ship or ships in the Quayside district. The adventurers may already be companions, or perhaps they are strangers to each other, in which case the events to follow will bind them together as companions in adversity. Perhaps they have known each other only for the length of time it took their ship to sail to Old Hrolmar.