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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 5191193" data-attributes="member: 547">Is the boy his actual son or is he some kind of weird clone of the necromancer?  If he's the latter, well, then you could put some things traditionally associated with young children (a crib, a rattle, toys, etc) in the lair, presumably where the child was "made" and raised until he was old enough to be seen outside. Maybe a few "prototypes" of the child?If the boy is an actual child produced by normal means, well, the first question I would ask is where is the mother? Is she alive and well and still with the family? Has she separated from the necromancer? Or has some terrible fate befallen her?  Perhaps some remnant of her still "lives" in the lair (is his brain in a jar boss really her?).  Or perhaps he might have a sort of stalker-ish shrine to the woman he might once have loved? Another idea for the lair is to have some prototypes of some kind of "playmate" he's been working on for his child.  Perhaps there’s an intelligent flesh golem (made from the missing kids?) that is too naive to know its own strength?  It rushes up and crushes you (via normal combat mechanics) thinking it's only playing a game or giving its victims a hug?  Under the right circumstances, a creature may represent a bit of a different sort of horror and a moral quandary.  A force to be reckoned with but not intentionally malicious- so what does one do with it?</blockquote>