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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackdaw McGraw" data-source="post: 8087876" data-attributes="member: 7021534">The inheritance angle doesn't make sense without a way for Keltos to prove that the orphan is his granddaughter. If family members are pressing their claim they're not going to accept some random urchin delivered by a bunch a mercenaries - especially after years of Keltos having no knowledge of his daughter's whereabouts (or if she was alive or dead). It would look like a desperate gambit to any magistrate or guild official. I guess it depends on how record keeping works in this realm and well Keltos' daughter covered her tracks.A crazy alternate idea:Keltos is his wife's servant. She's a magical being who has reproduced herself through parthenogenesis for centuries. When old age nears she births a daughter and, through raising her, becomes her at around 17.  It's been a slow simmer horror movie for a daughter growing up in the Keltos household every 60 years or so. The being's death during childbirth was a fluke. So, as the daughter grew, Keltos basically kept her prisoner, making her wear her deceased mother's clothing and jewelry, and eating her favorite foods, in hopes that the spiritual aspect of the parthenogenesis would still take. The scoundrel the girl ran away with was actually a peasant boy that rescued her. Over the years Keltos employed different mercenaries to find the couple. The first few came back empty handed but the next didn't come back at all, except for one who was mauled. The merc said they found the couple at a small cottage with a small child, a girl. When they tried to apprehend them the woman transformed into a terrifying creature and ripped most of the mercs limb from limb. The husband seemed as terrified by the transformation as the mercs and fled with the child.Cut to present day. Keltos suspects that his "daughter" has become lost and savage without the help of her "mother" guide her through parthenogenesis . It's his responsibility to save his "granddaugher" from the same fate. He would have retrieved the girl from the orphanage himself but he fears the beast daughter is still out there and wants her child back. He's hoping the party can slay her in the process of bringing him his granddaughter, so they're pretty much bait. Something like that, just brainstorming.Another, simpler, idea is that Keltos is desperate to have his wife back. He truly loved her. When his daughter was young he visited a witch who said the cost for his wife's resurrection was the life of his descendant. He almost went through with it but balked at the last moment. It destroyed his relationship with his daughter and she ran away soon after. His guilt prevented him from searching for her. It was only years later, when the scoundrel contacted him and asked for coin in exchange for his granddaughter's whereabouts that he sought the witch out again. Keltos is a deeply messed up man: he thinks he may be able to follow through with it this time as long as he doesn't have to lay eyes on his granddaughter.</blockquote>

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