Ry
Explorer
OK, so my E6 world is just starting to come together, but I need a plot for Wednesday's session. I've got backstory, but no idea what happened next. You can probably guess the basics of the scenario without the background, so I sblocked it.
[sblock=Background]The PCs are all connected somehow to House Aagen (retainers, family members, former guards, and so forth) who have moved from the Kingdom of Muir after their land was given away to another country (Koaria).
That was ten years ago, and House Aagen took what wealth it had - and those unwilling to dwell under the new lords - southward, out of Muir, to the city of Plen. They have entered business quite successfully, purchasing, co-ordinating, and profiting from caravan, riverboat, and ship trade based in Plen.
Northwest of Plen lies the city of Sorvane, a gnomish enclave shrouded in mystery and danger. Reaching Sorvane at all requires a guide through the Gnens, a dangerous marsh that borders the calmest part of the mighty Blackwater (wide river).
In the years since, the noble members of House Aagen have faced a few assassination attempts, probably from the new lords of their traditional stead who are paranoid that they will return. Recently, a gnomish family in Sorvane offered to protect House Aagen against such dangers. An elven messenger, whose loyalty to House Aagen stretched back six generations, was sent to Sorvane to meet these gnomes.[/sblock]
Weeks later, House Aagen receives a note indicating that the messenger never arrived. The PCs are sent to discover what happened to him.
I want to introduce a long-running plot centred around a doomsday cult, but I'd also like to introduce a schism between elves living among other races and the elves that want to take over the other lands. There is also a theatre of human nations that should be teetering towards war. What should I include in this introductory storyline to introduce the beginning of those later problems?
[sblock=Background]The PCs are all connected somehow to House Aagen (retainers, family members, former guards, and so forth) who have moved from the Kingdom of Muir after their land was given away to another country (Koaria).
That was ten years ago, and House Aagen took what wealth it had - and those unwilling to dwell under the new lords - southward, out of Muir, to the city of Plen. They have entered business quite successfully, purchasing, co-ordinating, and profiting from caravan, riverboat, and ship trade based in Plen.
Northwest of Plen lies the city of Sorvane, a gnomish enclave shrouded in mystery and danger. Reaching Sorvane at all requires a guide through the Gnens, a dangerous marsh that borders the calmest part of the mighty Blackwater (wide river).
In the years since, the noble members of House Aagen have faced a few assassination attempts, probably from the new lords of their traditional stead who are paranoid that they will return. Recently, a gnomish family in Sorvane offered to protect House Aagen against such dangers. An elven messenger, whose loyalty to House Aagen stretched back six generations, was sent to Sorvane to meet these gnomes.[/sblock]
Weeks later, House Aagen receives a note indicating that the messenger never arrived. The PCs are sent to discover what happened to him.
I want to introduce a long-running plot centred around a doomsday cult, but I'd also like to introduce a schism between elves living among other races and the elves that want to take over the other lands. There is also a theatre of human nations that should be teetering towards war. What should I include in this introductory storyline to introduce the beginning of those later problems?
