Redbrands

Overview
The Redbrands were a short-lived gang based in Phandalin. Under the leadership of a mage who called himself "Glasstaff," the Redbrands engaged in blackmail, racketeering, abduction, slaving, and other criminal activity.

The Redbrands met their end as an organization as a result of the Raid on Tresendar Manor.

The Raid on Tresendar Manor
The Heroes of Phandalin, newly arrived in town, soon discovered that the village was being plagued by a gang of brutish thugs known as the Redbrands. After an armed confrontation with a small party of Redbrands in the streets, the Heroes of Phandalin resolved to cure the village of this blight upon the peace.

In the course of their investigation, they met the half-orc barbarian, Ragnar, who agreed to accompany the party on their quest. The Heroes also met Carp Alderleaf, who told them of a hidden entrance into the Redbrands' hideout. Carp led the Heroes into the woods near Alderleaf Farm, right up to a tunnel in the base of the cliff below Tresendar Manor. Thus gaining access to the Redbrands' hideout, the Heroes bade Carp to return home, and entered the subterranean lair.

The Heroes fought man and monster alike in the dark chambers below Tresendar Manor, including a nothic and several bugbears who were revealed to be working with the Redbrands under the orders of the Black Spider. The Heroes also found new friends in that dark place: they rescued Sally Strongbark, whose husband the Redbrands had murdered, and her two children, Nars and Nilsa, from a future of slavery. They also met Droop the Goblin in the hideout, rescuing him from three bullying bugbears and emboldening him to seek out his own fate in the wilds. After the Raid on Tresendar Manor concluded, Ragnar and Droop left together to wander the wilds.

At the conclusion of the raid, the Heroes managed to corner the mage Glasstaff, who proved to be an agent of the Lords' Alliance named Iarno Albrek. Albrek had turned traitor, abandoning the goals of the Lords' Alliance and shunning his duty, doing service instead for the Black Spider, under whose instructions Albrek had been acting. Th jesusully detained him, and delivered him into the custody of Townmaster Harbin and Sildar Hallwinter.