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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7505305" data-attributes="member: 40176">Maybe make it more than a coincidence that this woman is being framed. Instead of being a local priest, the man is a highly zealous member of a religion dedicated to opposing the evil god. He followed the same clues the PCs did but got here early, and immediately denounced the woman in front of the whole town, assuming that they would share his view that her bloodline made her inherently evil. When people didn't go along with that, he realised that if he then took any overt action against her, everyone would know he was responsible and he was liable to be branded a criminal.So instead, he's been causing the local troubles and working to frame her. In his mind he's merely exposing her inherent evil to the world in order to make them realise what a threat she represents - the fact that she's innocent of the specific deeds he's pinning on her is an irrelevant detail.This way, the character can let the players see what an overly-pragmatic approach to the problem looks like from the outside - and if this guy is a member of a similarly-absolutist religious order, his brethren can become an effective opposition on future occasions if the players decide they want to help these people rather than killing them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7505305, member: 40176"] Maybe make it more than a coincidence that this woman is being framed. Instead of being a local priest, the man is a highly zealous member of a religion dedicated to opposing the evil god. He followed the same clues the PCs did but got here early, and immediately denounced the woman in front of the whole town, assuming that they would share his view that her bloodline made her inherently evil. When people didn't go along with that, he realised that if he then took any overt action against her, everyone would know he was responsible and he was liable to be branded a criminal. So instead, he's been causing the local troubles and working to frame her. In his mind he's merely exposing her inherent evil to the world in order to make them realise what a threat she represents - the fact that she's innocent of the specific deeds he's pinning on her is an irrelevant detail. This way, the character can let the players see what an overly-pragmatic approach to the problem looks like from the outside - and if this guy is a member of a similarly-absolutist religious order, his brethren can become an effective opposition on future occasions if the players decide they want to help these people rather than killing them. [/QUOTE]

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