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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4878143" data-attributes="member: 63">Well, in the original 3.5 version at least, I wrote adventure 1, and Jacob Driscoll wrote adventure 2 based on an outline I gave him, which I think just said "Ragesian pursue the party." He came up with Kazyk, and made him a great sort of sleazy enemy who acts like he respects you and wants to be your friend. (When I sent in the art call to Claudio Pozas, I asked him to make the devil look like a particular international political figure.)I never thought of connecting the two devils. I wanted to set up Guthwulf as a recurring antagonist who keeps sending devils after the PCs. A low-level one in the 1st adventure, more powerful in the 2nd, and yet another in the 3rd, and so on until eventually the PCs finally encounter him in adventure 8. The idea was, at first he doesn't care about the PCs, and he's just sending an imp to perform an easy mission. Then that falls through, so he contacts an infernal tracker to send after the PCs to complete the mission where the imp failed. When that devil screws up, he decides to go for subtlety when he tries to get the case one more time in adventure three.After those three failures (assuming the PCs do actually manage to thwart the devils), the PCs officially show up on the Ragesians' radar as a minor annoyance. A few Ragesians would know who they are, but since the case has already fallen into resistance hands by that point, it's not worth sending more devils after them, so Guthwulf gets reassigned.In the 3.5 version, adventure 6 has a scene where Kazyk might return if he survived his previous encounter with the PCs, but it wasn't actually my intention to have the devils be recurring characters, but rather to have foreshadowing for Guthwulf later on.</blockquote>

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