Jorrvaskr is the home of the Companions and is located on the eastern side of Whiterun in the Wind District. Jorrvaskr, headquarters and Mead Hall of the Companions. Shooting at the giant from afar with a bow and scoring some hits will still register as assistance, and the Companions will stay until Aela speaks with the Dragonborn.ДЄfter joining the Companions, if the law is broken in Whiterun and the guards react negatively, members of the Companions will leap to the Dragonborn's defense. If Whiterun is approached using a different route, it is possible to completely miss this fight.Д«ecause the Companions can kill the giant very quickly, it may be tough to get to the fight in time to assist. Whether they are assisted or not, Aela extends an invitation to Jorrvaskr. They may be assisted, and if this is done, Aela and the others react positively, while not helping causes her to deliver chastisement. They first appear at Pelagia Farm outside of Whiterun fighting a giant. First interactionsДЄela the Huntress, Farkas, and RiaВ can be the first factionВ members to be encounteredВ in Skyrim. He began the tradition of trusted advisors called the Circle (named after Ysgramor's council of captains) who would serve as examples to the younger, newer Companions. After the dark periods in the late Second Era, when a string of false and dishonorable Harbingers laid claim to Jorrvaskr, it was Kyrnil Long-Nose who gathered the true hearts of the Companions in the wilds and stormed Jorrvaskr itself, killing the usurpers and returning honor through blood, in the old ways. Because of his steady hand, the Companions today are known as impartial arbiters of honor, in addition to their glories on the field of battle.Д«y the end of the First Era, the Companions have begun to do away with rigid rules of Atmoran racial purity and recruited people of different races and walks of life to fill their ranks. Since the conflict of interests between its members was jeopardizing their bonds of honor, Harbinger Mryfwiil, in his wisdom, decreed that they would no longer be party to any war or political conflict of any kind.

Their services could be purchased for the fighting of wars, but the commitment to individual honor meant that often Shield-Brothers would be forced to face each other on the field of battle. Several hundred years after the death of Ysgramor, the Companions had converted into soldiers for hire. This period of exploration and colonization is known as The Return. After defeating the snow elves in the Nordic-Falmer War, the remnants of the Five Hundred Companions went their separate ways to inhabit the unexplored lands of Tamriel.

The Companions can trace their origins from the Five Hundred Companions which the legendary army Ysgramor raised to wage war against the snow elves and avenge the Night of Tears.

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