All in all, over the next few hours, they manage to wring some little information from the bandits - they were recruited by a man named Ameon Trask. He didn't exactly share his plans or goals, but he promised them an easy fight against a bunch of rich, stupid townsfolk, who'd never see the attack coming. Amvarean succeeds at the DC 30 Know: Local check to identify the name, and says that he's the right-hand man of a small-time Baron, who's set up on the western side of the Narlmarches, on the far side of Lake Hooktongue - though she cautions that her information is somewhat out of date, as they had just established around the time she'd been killed.