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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9605998" data-attributes="member: 54629">I’ve been thinking about this as I get into the final chapters of the book.I think it’s more than just a “good twist”. The relationship drama and the name recognition are a big part of it.I am realizing that if I replace Vecna with Vol, I lose that. Vol is a decent substitute for Vecna, but as far as I can tell, she’s got no Kas equivalent. I’d have to make someone up to take his place.I’m beginning to think that replacing Kas with Mordakhesh and Miska with Rak Tulkhesh may not work so well. In this instance, it may be easier for me to simply add Miska as a new fiendish overlord. That way I can use that chapter’s material more or less as written instead of having to cut most of it.Perhaps I can make Kaius the Kas stand-in after all and say that he is Vol’s former protege and now enemy. (That seems to be implied already.) Then I can have someone who wants to take her place rather than just use her power.Kaius even sounds a bit like Kas (just like how Mordakhesh is similar to Mordenkainen).Perhaps the twist can be Kaius masquerading as Mordakhesh!I think I’m still going to have to do some work in the final chapter, since getting to Vecna involves turning off three of his reality rewrites in the making. These instead would have to be “things Vol is planning to do once she becomes a god”. I suppose one could still be “punish Kaius” but I’m not sure about the other two. (Just going by her backstory, they would probably be something along the lines of punishing Aerenal and the dragons for what they did to her. Or maybe not because Keith has implied that the mysterious Raven Queenish Queen of the Dead who rules over Dolurrh might be an ascended Vol already in a timey-wimey sort of thing, which implies that she isn’t all that interested in getting revenge on the living.)</blockquote>

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