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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyclops" data-source="post: 143103" data-attributes="member: 2774">Epic? OK...That floating Netheese city is not the last of its kind. they have been busy breeding. There are HUNDREDS of cities in the Demiplane of Shadow, and hundreds more floating fortresses. It takes a lot of magic to bring floating mountains across, but the Nethereese are intent on invasion. The shades are organizing another orc horde in the extreem north, as the Silver Marches and Waterdeep form the only real people able to resist them. A flight of dragons would be a great way to open the campaign. All the low level PC's could do is flee in terror, as dragons swarm over the town they are staying in. (the shades are of course behind it all). Let the City of Shade overfly a PC city. drop a little fear early into the campaign. but let plenty of mystery enter as well. A dragon ring worth maybe, 20 gold, is taken by PC's from a bandit. It sells to a nervous shopkeeper for 200 gold-he really wants it! Hurriedly he closes up shop. But is murdered later that night.  Thugs come later to kill the PCs (they no nothing, they were hired by intermediaries). the ring is a symbol of agents of the shades. Later, when the PCs are aware of shade involvement, let them have something like a few Ioun stones. Suddenly the shades are after all ioun stones. other adventurers are murdered for their stones! this leads to the Shades sacrificing stones to bring several flying mountain fortresses into faerun! (witnessed by the PVs-let them deny the shades some measure of victory here-like another city comming thru. But the floating fortresses are a good indication that the shades are A) not alone, and B) looking for invasion.</blockquote>

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