AD&D 1E Greyhawk: Who kidnapped Prince Thrommel?

[haakon1]

Wow, I don’t even remember the Pholtus part! My eyes must’ve blown right past it. There was definitely a lot to that module that was questionable whether it was intentional or an editorial mistake at times but we tried to make it all work!

There is a lot that’s odd, but I treat as reality that’s mysterious.

One thing I discovered that struck me as odd is a room full of Shadows. Given that Shadows have caused more PC deaths in my campaigns than any other monster, and are incorporeal, why are they just in one place? How were they contained?

In that room was a shield with its heraldry described. I think it belonged to Serten and was a Greyhawk Easter Egg, but I wasn’t 100% sure.

 

[Starslayer]

A good video on this topic from Greyhawk Grognard here, advancing the Scarlet Brotherhood scenario which was originally expressed by Gary Gygax:

 

[haakon1]

The Scarlet Brotherhood hired by Nyrond could fit in with this Living Greyhawk Gazetteer story about Nyrond's post CY 576 history:

In the fall of 585 CY, King Archbold appeared to suffer a stroke. Clerics from around the land convened in Rel Mord, finally determining that he had been poisoned. Within hours of the discovery, Prince Sewarndt and a group of military officers attempted to seize the throne. Only the intervention of the capital's entire Heironean clergy saved the crown and the king. By the time Archbold's older son, Crown Prince Lynwerd, could lead an army to his father's side, Sewarndt and a handful of his cohorts had vanished into the Nyrondal countryside.