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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 1291399" data-attributes="member: 4938">I like the idea that the kindly, nice historian is being manipulated by an evil patron.  The patron has not been able to penetrate the town due to the magical protections, but desires the object of power that was hidden beneath it.  Indeed, hiding this object is why the antipathy was place there. Perhaps other, less obvious auras like perhaps a nondetection or two making blank spots versus diviniation type spells.The evil patron has given the historians funding and a few clues, presenting them as interesting notes that the patron ran across.  "My dear Andreas, I know you are interested in the antiquities of the now-faded satyrs of the silken veil.  I ran across these notes in an old book of mine.  Please do let me know if they prove useful."The fey are indeed fading away, perhaps having lost their own historical memory of the object due to the very magical protects that defends it (or because they use oral histories instead of written histories).The PCs won't want to fight the historian.  He is a nice guy, if single-minded.  They may even want to help him bypass the secret traps and guardians of the object(s) of power.  What heroes don't like buried dungeons?Perhaps the historian will gladly hire them, recover the item, pay the PCs and tromp off to his patron.  The PCs think they've finished the scenario and are ready to move on to your next plot.  Then in a year or so you can slam them with the badguy who has used the object they recovered to dominate the kingdom...john</blockquote>

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