Northern Gale Trading Company

The Northern Gale Trading Company (or NGTC for short) is one of the largest merchant guilds on the western shore of the Old Continent. Originally founded in Rubia centuries ago, now they have guild halls in all major trade hubs. While other guilds try to monopolize a single luxury (e.g. Silk Guild) the NGTC trades in a wide range of more common goods (e.g. foodstuffs, leather).

The NGTC and the Outsiders
The Outsiders first encountered the NGTC in Ebonrock where they accepted a commission to find their people who went missing after Cleaver orcs attacked one of their southbound caravans.

The NGTC and the Avalanche
The Avalanche has helped and had several encounters with the NGTC in the last year.
 * Their first journey to the Golden League, and the events of A Perilous Journey, happened as the party members were all passing through the mountains from the Duchy of Davalon as part of an NGTC caravan. As fate had it, most of the caravan died buried under an avalanche.
 * In the Eldran Valley, during the events of The Eternal Winter, the party has saved two NGTC merchants from their certain death, by offering them passage on Jubilost's airship.
 * The Avanche accompanied an NGTC expedition to The Jungle of Daggers. The expedition's goal was to establish a trading route from the Airwood Valley, and transport the light and sturdy airwood to the western shore cities of Aegeron. The party has helped the NGTC uncover the mystery of their missing first expedition (they were taken and killed by a local tribe), but never collected their reward.

Known members
The Avalanche met and established good relations with the two leaders of the expedition into The Jungle of Daggers, both are Stoneharbor locals:
 * Balda Karolus. A high-ranking member of the NGTC, the leader of this second expedition into the Jungle of Daggers. He put on a proud and confident facade, but the party noticed that as soon as any real problems came up he was useless. He is more of a city man than one of action, and he got to lead the expedition as part of a promotion, but he never considered the consequences.
 * Elros. Second-in-command to Balda Karolus. He is a plain-looking wood-elf, and the party didn't even noticed his presence for the first few weeks. That is, until a problem came up. The Avalanche found him to be a confident, natural leader, as he quickly took charge in the jungle at the face of adversity.