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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 6353783" data-attributes="member: 6688277">I used B3 as a backstory and premise for a much larger story arc, where Elwyn the Ardent had already been incarcerated for two years (PCs had dealt with her in a down-timed backstory) and she was now bargaining for her life in Penhaligon. There was a political reason why she was still alive and not executed - the Bell of Chardastes had yet to be recovered and the Church of Traladara was insisting for a stay of execution. When the Duke could no longer wait for justice to be met, and the execution was imminent, she revealed that she was part of a bigger cult of Leptar operating in TToEE, an area outside Stallanford, and that the Bell of Chardastes was there.Elwyn knew some of the details of the TToEE, so the PCs agreed to bring her along for that mission. TToEE was being reinforced with humanoids from the Caves of Chaos in the Altan Tepès which led to the Keep on the Borderlands module. So Elwyn, and the Cultists of the Caves of Chaos were of the same organisation of the evil clerics of TToEE - which then led to a greater conspiracy with B11 (Kings Festival) and B12 (Queen's Harvest) - with the illegitimate daughter of Lord Penhaligon making alliances with those above in a desperate need to reclaim what was "rightfully" hers - The Estate of Penhaligon.There was also a backstory as to why TToEE was in the Duchy. Years before Stephan arrived, some clerics of the Church of Traladara defected seeing that Halav, Petra and Zirchev where not assisting them against the Thyatians - so they offered themselves to a new deity, Leptar. Leptar together with Zuggtmoy and their followers erected the TToEE. When the Patriarch of the Church of Traladara found out, he and others of the faith marched against them and bound Zuggtmoy within with the four seals and the place was shrouded from mortal eyes. This entire affair and the clerical defection was covered up by the church.  And as we know, nothing remains hidden for very long...being both the TToEE and the Church's scandal. This had major repercussion as it allowed for the Church of Halav to gain more traction with the locals.</blockquote>

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