The home of the Rogues, Mercenaries, and the Magicians of Water, the New Camp is very different from all of the others. For one thing, no guards are there to break up fights or uphold the law, so feel free to do what you want, but if you really get in trouble, nobody will be there to help you out either.
Important people
Here's a run-down of people in the camp who matter:
The Rogues
- Lares: Head of the Rogues, will train your strength and dexterity.
- Mordrag: Takes you to the New Camp (if you didn't kill him in the Old Camp), report to him.
- Wolf: Another Rogue, makes armor, teaches you how to use a bow, a merchant. Sell him your furs and skins.
- Sharky: Another Merchant, pawn your unwanted junk here.
- Buster: A friendly Rogue, teaches you the art of Acrobatics (a rather useful skill).
- Wedge: Teaches you the arts of Thievery (Sneaking, Opening Locks, and Pickpocketing).
- Shrike: An annoying guy. Beat him up and take his hut, so you have somewhere to rest, and store important items if you want.
The Mercenaries
- Lee: Head of the Mercenaries, Trains your stats, can teach you to use two-handed weapons.
- Gorn: A mercenary, becomes a major player later in the game, and definitely someone you don't want to mess with.
- Cord: Teaches you how to use one handed weapons. (Advice: Definitely learn 1-h weapon skills from Cord instead of Scatty, as he is much cheaper.)
The Magicians of Water
- Saturas: Head of the Water Mages, teaches you magic (Circles 1-5).
- Cronos: Keeper of the Ore, and second in command of Saturas. Can teach you to increase your mana, and will sell you runes and spell scrolls.
- Riordian: The Potion Maker. You can buy several nice potions off of him, including ones which permanently boost your stats.
Requirements for joining the new camp
Start the Test of Faith and deliver the list to Lares. After this, deliver the list to Diego. Do The Weed Merchant. Even though Lares says he doesn't care how you obtain Isidro's weed, just buying it or beating Isidro up and taking it won't suffice. He must give it to you. Once he has, you don't have to sell it. You just have to give Lares the 400 ore he wants, he doesn't care how you obtained that. In addition, you must have reached at least level 5. Now Lares will make you a rogue and tell you to talk to Mordrag. If you didn't come to the new camp with Mordrag, he just so happens to have just returned! Talk to Mordrag and he'll send you to Lester where the second chapter will be triggered.
If you joined the new camp, you can enter the castle in the old camp by delivering a letter as a courier of the magicians of water.
Note: it appears to be possible to join the new camp with a different combination of (side)quests for the new camp. At least, after delivering the list to Lares, bringing it back to Diego isn't always needed to join the new camp. However, it's currently unclear exactly which (side)quests for the new camp count towards you being able to join and how many need to be completed. You will at least have to do (part of) Thorus' Quest or the Test of Faith because you need either Mordrag's ring or the list from the old mine to be allowed to see Lares at all.