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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3447355" data-attributes="member: 41321">Going in a different direction... Princess Haydith is essentially a hostage of the Brelish crown, and Karrnath holds a similar hostage against Breland.  These "child exchanges" happened often in historical medieval times, and while on the surface they are done in good will - to help the children learn more of their former enemy's culture or somesuch - in reality they are there so that if one nation makes aggressive moves against the other, the defending nation can kill the hostage in retaliation.  Honestly, I don't know why King Boranel would let her visit her homeland unless he's innocently overlooking the whole "hostage" thing or it is a huge gesture of good faith towards Karrnath, but you've already worked it into the plot so we'll have to roll with it.So on that note, why would the Order of the Emerald Claw, or any other organization for that matter, want to attack her in transit?  IMO, the best thing to do is to take the airship down and make it look like an accident.  If Breland cannot protect its own hostage, the crown looks bad in the eyes of its people and Karrnath gets very very angry.  An "accident" like this could start the war anew.In order for this to happen right the airship has to be attacked discreetly, perhaps at night, or sabatoged from within.  Perhaps strange things are happening on the airship and the party has to find out why before the sabateur is able to complete his work.  If you want to have a twist, you could say that the sabateur is meant to be found out, but has evidence that incriminates antoher group.  Say, for example, that Breland is trying to sabatoge its own ship because it wants to throw suspicion on another group, like the Blood of Vol or the Order of the Emerald Claw.  Or the Order of the Emerald Claw wants to blame Breland for some reason.</blockquote>

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