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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6714916" data-attributes="member: 20323">In adapting Night Below, I'm tying lots of &quot;throw away&quot; places/NPCs/details to the PCs. One of these is a ruined woodland keep run by generic bandits and death cultists. Because you can never have too many death cultists, right? Instead, I'm tying this keep to the paladin PC (soon to be Oath of the Ancients) as his order's former keep. Part of his gaining the Oath of the Ancients sub-class will be facing the villains now occupying the keep. And if the PCs clear it out, it could potentially become their stronghold!What I'd like to have is a fallen paladin of his order - a fallen green/horned knight - who is leading the ruffians. An important detail from the Night Below storyline is that the ruffians are capturing slaves to be sent to the Underdark, ultimately to the aboleths for a grand sacrificial ritual, but using intermediaries like alienists, cultists, derro, ixitxachitl, kuo-toa, merrow (kopru), mind flayers (and their grimlock, ogre, quaggoth, and troglodyte thralls), orcs, skum, and mutant trolls to transport the slaves to the depths of the Underdark.So that leads to my question... just how does a green/horned knight fall into the service of the aboleths? Any and all ideas welcome! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Btw, the easy answer is &quot;aboleth enslavement&quot;, but if that's what you want to reply with, maybe spice it up a bit? How did the paladin encounter the aboleth that enslaved him/her, for example?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6714916, member: 20323"] In adapting [i]Night Below[/i], I'm tying lots of "throw away" places/NPCs/details to the PCs. One of these is a ruined woodland keep run by generic bandits and death cultists. Because you can never have too many death cultists, right? Instead, I'm tying this keep to the paladin PC (soon to be Oath of the Ancients) as his order's former keep. Part of his gaining the Oath of the Ancients sub-class will be facing the villains now occupying the keep. And if the PCs clear it out, it could potentially become their stronghold! What I'd like to have is a fallen paladin of his order - a fallen green/horned knight - who is leading the ruffians. An important detail from the [I]Night Below[/I] storyline is that the ruffians are capturing slaves to be sent to the Underdark, ultimately to the aboleths for a grand sacrificial ritual, but using intermediaries like alienists, cultists, derro, ixitxachitl, kuo-toa, merrow (kopru), mind flayers (and their grimlock, ogre, quaggoth, and troglodyte thralls), orcs, skum, and mutant trolls to transport the slaves to the depths of the Underdark. [B]So that leads to my question...[/B] just how does a green/horned knight fall into the service of the aboleths? Any and all ideas welcome! :) Btw, the easy answer is "aboleth enslavement", but if that's what you want to reply with, maybe spice it up a bit? How did the paladin encounter the aboleth that enslaved him/her, for example? [/QUOTE]

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