zoroaster100
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One of my players is going to play a male half-elf paladin and another is going to play a female half-elf warlock. I'm thinking they might be the son and daughter of elven paladin of Bahamut, Sir Keegan Redleaf, who was an elven knight who was appointed by the elven nation to guard the gate that the human empire had so carelessly allowed to be opened. I think I'll have Keegan's story be as follows:
After some years of taking up his post to guard the Shadowfell gate, with a small batallion of troops (human and elven), the Keep was attacked by a cult of Orcus. That is when the influence of the rift acted upon Keegan's mind. Keegan became convinced that his wife was an undead vampire seductress, and that his own troops were all vampire spawn created by his wife in treacherous lustful trysts. He conceived a murderous rage to kill them all before they consipired to open the Rift.
Even as the troops tried to defend against the assault of the Orcus cult, Keegan went mad, hurling accusations against his wife and killing many of his troops, and even trying to kill his own wife and children. His wife lived in the Keep with him. She fled with her children to Winterhaven while the troops fought Keegan, and she was not killed at Keegan's hands. But she went mad at the deaths her husband's insane betrayal caused, and at his ultimate fate (she was told he had been sealed away in a chamber where he would die of thirst and starvation). She took her own life and orphaned her half-elf children.
The human king ignored Keegan's insanity and betrayal, to avoid complications with the elven tribes, and to avoid fostering the fear caused by the Rift and the death cultists with further stories of how the Rift could drive a worthy knight to commit atrocities. Instead the King decreed Keegan a hero who died defending against the cultists. The official story, which is the one recorded in the fallen empire's official history books, report Brave Sir Keegan as a hero. Bards sing of his legendary deeds. Some in Winterhaven don't know anything but the official version, but some are decendants of the dead soldiers or Keegan's wife's relatives, and they remember the uglier truth.
The children were raised by relatives among the father's elven tribe. The daughter's thoughts turned dark because of her troubled childhood, and she made a pact with the powers of the Feywild and became a warlock, swearing one day she would find any remaining death cultists and avenge herself upon them. The son never accepted the version of the story told to him by some of his relatives, instead choosing to believe the official histories about his father's honorable end. He would love some day to find proof of his father's honor and squelch the rumors he views as defamation of his father.
Hopefully this will set up some interesting roleplaying at least for those two player characters. Now I want to go through each NPC to figure out what they know about Keegan's story.
After some years of taking up his post to guard the Shadowfell gate, with a small batallion of troops (human and elven), the Keep was attacked by a cult of Orcus. That is when the influence of the rift acted upon Keegan's mind. Keegan became convinced that his wife was an undead vampire seductress, and that his own troops were all vampire spawn created by his wife in treacherous lustful trysts. He conceived a murderous rage to kill them all before they consipired to open the Rift.
Even as the troops tried to defend against the assault of the Orcus cult, Keegan went mad, hurling accusations against his wife and killing many of his troops, and even trying to kill his own wife and children. His wife lived in the Keep with him. She fled with her children to Winterhaven while the troops fought Keegan, and she was not killed at Keegan's hands. But she went mad at the deaths her husband's insane betrayal caused, and at his ultimate fate (she was told he had been sealed away in a chamber where he would die of thirst and starvation). She took her own life and orphaned her half-elf children.
The human king ignored Keegan's insanity and betrayal, to avoid complications with the elven tribes, and to avoid fostering the fear caused by the Rift and the death cultists with further stories of how the Rift could drive a worthy knight to commit atrocities. Instead the King decreed Keegan a hero who died defending against the cultists. The official story, which is the one recorded in the fallen empire's official history books, report Brave Sir Keegan as a hero. Bards sing of his legendary deeds. Some in Winterhaven don't know anything but the official version, but some are decendants of the dead soldiers or Keegan's wife's relatives, and they remember the uglier truth.
The children were raised by relatives among the father's elven tribe. The daughter's thoughts turned dark because of her troubled childhood, and she made a pact with the powers of the Feywild and became a warlock, swearing one day she would find any remaining death cultists and avenge herself upon them. The son never accepted the version of the story told to him by some of his relatives, instead choosing to believe the official histories about his father's honorable end. He would love some day to find proof of his father's honor and squelch the rumors he views as defamation of his father.
Hopefully this will set up some interesting roleplaying at least for those two player characters. Now I want to go through each NPC to figure out what they know about Keegan's story.
