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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dei" data-source="post: 2824497" data-attributes="member: 40300">You can't go wrong with the classic:"You are banished for your evil magics."Perhaps the sorcerer was once a member of the King's court, perhaps he was simply visiting and something caught his eye leading to a ritual which the King saw as Evil. The Sorcerer, overcome with anger at having his experiment interrupted/destroyed fought the King but the two were evenly matched and each killed the other. With his last breath he then cursed the Kingdom as you described. As the monsters began to overrun the city the King's wizard, though he was not strong enough to break the curse himself was able to twist the magic so that if ever the King's crown could be placed upon his throne the curse will end. To explain why no-one could do this at the time perhaps the curse took the form of a rift opening to a vermin plane in the throne-room itself so at the time no-one could get to the throne with the King's crown (possibly locked in the wizard's tower). However since so much time has past the concentraton of monsters has diseminated throughout the city and so now only a few guardians remain in place (read: boss fight). When the PC's enter perhaps they encounter the weeping spirit of the King's Wizard who is trapped here until his failure is vindicated. He will explain, though cryptically (he's naturally insane at this point, don't want to make it easy) what they must do. This will mean going to his tower which he conveniently forgot to mention was trapped to the hilt, retrieving the crown and then sneaking to and storming the throne-room until they can place the crown (make a special receptical so that the PCs must actually be next to it and have the guardians use trip attacks so they can't simply run to it and bypass them, or have one as some type of spell-caster who spends the whole fight sitting on the throne so that he must be killed and removed before the crown can be placed. Once it is the rift seals and without the unnatural sustenance that it provided the monsters begin dying in a suitably dramatic fashion. Then the wizard's spirit can do the whole "Now I can rest in peace." bit and voila, one broken curse.</blockquote>

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