D&D 5E Help me populate the nobles of an imperial capital in decline

[RangerWickett]

You're familiar with Golarion? Well, the key quest giver is an antipaladin of Lamashtu with a ton of 'damnation' feats to make her immune to detect evil and the like. She blackmailed her way into high society, gave birth to a son who's beautiful on the outside but monstrous on the inside, and is trying to find the good and decent people on all sides of the political conflict, then mislead their good intentions so they end up distrusting each other and causing a civil war. She's trying to get her son to marry Stavian's daughter, to get her to bear a physically repulsive heir and turn Taldor into the throne of Lamashtu.

It probably won't work. Chaotic Evil gods tend to be bad at long-term planning.

 

[Celebrim]

I like that your villain is all about judging people by their appearances. It's a cool concept, and it works well in an RPG because one of the tricks to making a good NPC is that they have exaggerated easily recognizable traits.