Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Br. Lukatus The Eurdite scholar and Director of the Museum of Antiquities was a much used NPC in an earlier campaign of mine.
He was moreorless a Loremaster who would organise annual expeditions to explore various ruins and ancient sites and recover holy items.
At one point an earthquake had exposed a bell from a lost pirate ship so he went to invesigate witht he PCs in tow. The Bell summoned a Ghost Ship whose captain was a Fiendish Lich who began terrorising the coastal settlements searching for other members of his crew.
The PCs then began a race to recover various other items before the Dread Pirate Vulgus got them and use them to plunge the world into eternal darkness!
There of course there are ethical tests you could throw in - like a lost civilisation who derive their power from a Unique artifact which the PCs have been sent to recover. - Do they take the artifact and destroy a civilisation or do they leave it and return empty handed...
He was moreorless a Loremaster who would organise annual expeditions to explore various ruins and ancient sites and recover holy items.
At one point an earthquake had exposed a bell from a lost pirate ship so he went to invesigate witht he PCs in tow. The Bell summoned a Ghost Ship whose captain was a Fiendish Lich who began terrorising the coastal settlements searching for other members of his crew.
The PCs then began a race to recover various other items before the Dread Pirate Vulgus got them and use them to plunge the world into eternal darkness!
There of course there are ethical tests you could throw in - like a lost civilisation who derive their power from a Unique artifact which the PCs have been sent to recover. - Do they take the artifact and destroy a civilisation or do they leave it and return empty handed...