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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7205667" data-attributes="member: 97077">I had a guardian naga and a unicorn as antagonists in my last campaign. The naga was tasked with guarding a doorway to the last level of the dungeon which ultimately led to the lair of a shadow dragon trapped on another plane. The short version is the dragon was essentially despoiling the land around the dungeon as it tried to push its way back into the world. The best solution was to confront the dragon before things got worse.Well, the guardian naga disagreed. It had a mandate to prevent that door from opening and it wasn't budging, even if it could understand the PCs' point of view. It had also established a fey pact with the unicorn, once the guardian of the despoiled forest around the dungeon. If the naga was attacked, the unicorn was required by the Seelie Court to intervene. The unicorn warned them of such when they met him outside the dungeon. It agreed with the PCs that all the problems in the forest and surrounding lands were due to the trapped dragon, but it was bound by the fey pact to protect the naga if necessary.So while they were both good-aligned creatures, they were effectively opposed to the PCs' goals. Ultimately, the characters ended up attacking the naga as time was running out. The unicorn was summoned to help, however reluctantly. The cleric banished the unicorn with a spell and they piled on the naga. When the spell ended and the unicorn returned, the naga was dead and its pact essentially resolved so there were no further hostilities - good thinking on the part of the PCs.</blockquote>

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