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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4127619" data-attributes="member: 62992">Its strange Delgar, but as soon as I read your post, I felt that the secret of your world and your PoL should be this;that the PCs actually died long ago and their souls were sucked into the Shadowfell. But they were captured by a powerful creature (the BBEG) who consumes the souls of the dead to stave off death. Recently, the Raven Queen discovered this monsterous act and sent her minions to destroy him and his chattels (the PCs,whom she assumes know what is going on). So the BBEG captured some recently dead souls (the PCs), wiped their memories of their death away and used his powers to bring them back to life. It seems, to the PCs, like something terrible has happened to their world, but in fact this is just a dark mirror of the real world.So the undead assaulting the PCs world are actually just trying to restore the balance, and prevent the PCs and their master from consuming more of the souls of the dead. All the food and drink made by the city is infused with harvested souls. So at the beginning of the campaign, the PCs are unwittingly doing evil.Later, the BBEG could travel back the real world, with the PCs honour bound to follow and destroy him. If you really want to twist the PCs heart strings, a second revelation could be that the BBEG actually has some mission of great importance in the real world that is required for its survival and he is actually doing evil solely for the greater good.I suppose I always like the "secret" of the campaign to be something that turns the PCs conception of reality completely on its head.If you want something different to make the PoL seem special in the early campaign, have it the only place in the whole world where the sun shines; the positive energy harvested from the dead souls has been used to open a permanent gateway to the real world. So the only sunlit lands in the Shadowfell are around the PoL.</blockquote>

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