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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 7205114" data-attributes="member: 63">Hi all. I've got a Pathfinder campaign and could use some help. This coming weekend my party will likely head to Oppara, the capital of Taldor, an empire in decline. In my campaign the Grand Prince has forced the Pathfinder Society to open up all its records of possible lost treasure or ancient magic, and various nobles are sponsoring different adventurers to check out all these sites in a hurry.The Grand Prince wants to refill his coffers because he fears a coup, and the nobles want to get his favor by sponsoring the most profitable expeditions. (And some nobles want to get valuable wealth and funnel it to the contender to the throne.)I've got one prospective patron in mind that I'm hoping the party will want to work with, but I'd like to come up with more options. In particular, the PCs are all paladins of different gods, and they just got evidence of a band of antipaladins gathering forces in the wilderness. I suspect they'll try to get the nobles to help them out but, well, Taldor's a big country, and nobles have their own intrigues they need to fund. So if the PCs want help with their quest, the nobles will want a quid pro quo.Any ideas for potential noble sponsors?So far I have:Lady Farron Eunive - married into wealth, and is trying to establish her own power base independent of her husband; jockeying to get her son betrothed to the contender to the throne, Eutropia.Bronzeman Piccolo - did you know that canonically in Taldor, bronze dragons are allowed to run banks without paying taxes? Well, this guy is a polymorphed bronze dragon who sees money, debt, and investments as a way to keep society stable and nobles from fighting each other. He's a scholar of old dragons because he worries over the destabilizing effects of bringing in a dragon hoard.Senator Karthis - a firebrand (and red herring) who wants war with a nation to the south and whom I want to come across as villainous though he's unrelated to the campaign's main plot. He'd primarily want people to go questing into southern lands that once belonged to Taldor.Kul Kodranson - head of the Ulfen Guard (i.e., vikings who guard the king), he's a foreigner but loyal to the crown. He has spies watching nobles he thinks are colluding against the king, and will send adventurers to follow and disrupt other adventurers who are sent by disloyal nobles.Lady Gloriana Morilla - new head of the Pathfinder Society lodge in Taldor, she wants to restore Taldor to its glory, and has brought in representatives from the Hellknight Order of the Gate, whose records of extraplanar portals are excellent. She'll send people scouting for potential sealed portals, most of which should be left alone, but some of which might be valuable if opened up for a short period of time.Got any other ideas?</blockquote>

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