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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arken" data-source="post: 1171333" data-attributes="member: 3469">You could build upon the idea of a the self constructed trees of addictive fruit and have the first part of the adventure in a swampy jungle in Carceri but have the actual inner sanctum of the fallen celestial as his own twisted rendition of paradise where every need is catered to in excess. If you were being particularly cruel you could have this inner sanctum only available through a portal which means the PCs can't be sure if they are still in Carceri or have actually discovered a portal out of there to a decadant part of the heavens. After a while they will probably realise the darkness that lies at the heart of the place.I would most likely make the celestial fallen to gluttony come from Arborea originally and has taken the consumptive (like the sensates) ideal too far at some point to the harm and detriment of a duty they should have kept to. Maybe they even ate fruit off of a forbidden tree...As to characterising the sin more fully I would go with the sembelance of a good life with the good things being more important than the truth of those things. How about making the celestial a master of illusion, he(or she) even kids themselves that the most important thing is living life to the fullest. Therefore they have a paradisal demiplane but they know that in reality they are trapped in Carceri and that all of the luxury and feasts they have are sprung from a curse that means all the gluttanous pleasures that surround them are illusions. The food across the tabels looks divine yet is rotting to any that can pierce the veil, the fruits on the verdant trees look alluring but in reality the trees are withered and though the fruits grant power the power fades but addiction remains. Carry it through to the celestial itself, in truth it is a corpulent, oderous, massively fat and ugly creature but it builds a glamer around itself of the Eladrin Lord it once was.Just free fall thinking, sorry if that's a bit over the top <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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