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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 912499" data-attributes="member: 4036">*bows down to Sepulchrave and takes notes*"Yes Master!  I will obey!"<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Seriously!  I'm definately going to run with you guy's ideas.  Of course, the game is Saturday so a set of revelations is hard to come up with in that time.He serves Equitas.  Equitas was a mortal human king on par with King Arthur for the fond (and possibly fictional) memories of it.  But he was nearing the end of his life and still felt there was much he could do.  Encouraged by a sword imbued with the soul of a saint of a very goodly god, he had ruled for some 50+ years.  The sword revealed to him the existance of an artifact so powerful, the gods themselves intervened and shattered it.They shattered it because it had the power to raise a mortal to godhood.But it was not destroyed because the more chaotic of the gods who felt change was necessary for growth, felt that if a mortal could undo the work of the old gods, then perhaps, he should be one of the new gods.  And thus it's fragments were always watched carefully by the gods, but each was pledged not to interfere as each was secure in his station.Equitas, rather than assemble the pieces himself, called a great hunt from kingdoms across the world.  He cooked up a story of what the artifact really was and offered a kingdom to the one who could assemble it for him (later to be found out, it was his kindgom he was offering).  The quest took up the latter years of King Equitas's life but Divine Right was assembled and gifted to Equitas who through divine counsel knew of it's true purpose and used it.He was sponsored by the goodly god who's saint had councilled him for years, and became a lesser god of Optimen, his champion of Justice.As for the cat and mouse summoning competition, I like it too.   And they've got a foe with just such a disposition ironically enough that they put into power (indirectly by eliminating his superior and his competition in the same gambit).  But I don't know if he will work because it's hard to switch back and forth between cat and mouse if you fear the entity that is summoning the creatures.  It's got more tension if the party knows if they could locate their foe they could destroy him.  So maybe I'll invent someone different and leave Gnaag in his tower mired in contests to keep control over his minions.Damn!  Lots of wonderful broad strokes and so little time to make them into details!  31 hours and counting and I still haven't got a game to run...  *ponders ponders ponders*</blockquote>

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