Plot twists needed - The Naga Queen

[transcendation]

The Naga Queen of Goodland is escalating her power. Countries are starting to fall like dominoes. The funny thing, none of her forces kill each other, whether they be human, humanoid, or demihuman. She even has dragons mingling in the populace without eating them! So why is everyone outside her borders so resistant to her annexations? She brings Peace to all! "So what if she eats the occasional baby. She's a God after all, she's our Queen, and it's a small sacrifice to pay in comparison to what she has done for us!"

Her forces have expanded their powers of charm, with all those charmed directed toward serving their beloved Queen. Somehow all charms worked by them work as if victims looked directly into her eyes - that is, the effect is permanent! (As originally intended, via the 1st-edition Monster Manual - though this naga only).

(Plot twists needed).

 

[Land Outcast]

A mirror of life trapping would trap teh individual looking at it, and if it has been charmed by the naga, it also takes some of her essence with him into the prison.

 

[transcendation]

Life trapping?

What effect would that have?

transcendation

 

[Land Outcast]

It's in the Surgeon Master's Guide, it traps the individual inside an extradimensional space

 

[Silmarillius]

Um...I think you need some more plot if you want to get some "twists" into there. So far it's falling dominions and "eating the occasional baby."

 

[DreadArchon]

1) She's not a naga. There's not even any nagas in the kingdom. Imagine the party's suprise when they gear up to fight a naga and find out that she's just an Erinyes with Beguiler levels...

2) She's not evil and she's not charming people. There is a very thorough effort by neighboring kingdoms to bring down this benevolent naga queen with lies and deception and waves of adventuring do-gooders.

3) She's Acererak. Guess where six of her soul gems are.

4) She's controlled by an intelligent item.

5) She's not a naga (again). This time, she's not even real. The "charmed" citizens are actually drones in a creative and deceptive hive mind and they've just made up the part about the naga.

6) She's the last in a line of ancient guardians who have sealed away an unstoppable force of epic darkness (the sexy evil kind of darkness, not the kind where nobody can see anything and the price of torches skyrockets). She, like her ancestors, is devoted to holding back this ancient evil, and should she fall the destruction of the world would be nearly guaranteed. Unfortunately, she herself is a wantonly evil megalomaniac. Yay for hard decisions.

7) She kidnapped the president. Are you a bad enough dude to get him back?

8) She's comatose and entombed deep underground, projecting an image of herself as needed, and she can only be defeated in the plane of Dream.

9) She's not a naga (again). She's a Genius Loci.

 

[Nifft]

She's a Lawful Good Paladin Naga. The babies she eats are all very, very evil. They are all (choose one):
- Incarnations of Khaliron, the lost Dragon King of Darkness;
- Spawn of Bhaal;
- Half-Fiend children of Asmodeus, each one born to lead a race into war and ruin;
- Orcus. Yes, all of them.

One of the PCs is the setting's Harry Potter: "The Boy Who Lived" ... the one who got away. His people think this is a good thing... mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

Cheers, -- N

 

[DreadArchon]

She's a Lawful Good Paladin Naga. The babies she eats are all very, very evil. They are all (choose one):

Oh, good one! There's a template for that in Heroes of Horror (Unholy Scion).