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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4652823" data-attributes="member: 62992">The aunt's reaction will depend upon a number of variables; 1) What was her relationship with her sister? if you feel she loved her then this will make any reunion with the Rogue PC warmer. If she and her sister were not close or quarreled or were even rivals, she may view the PCs appearance as "yet another consequence of my dear Sister's ineptitude!". 2) The major variable is this one; how secure is the Aunt's position in society? She may be a consort, but if there is a legitimate wife, then a faction within the Kingdom may be seeking to discredit and ruin the Aunt to strengthen the wife's position. This could make for a very nice intrigue driven set of stories; the type I love but YMMV. In this case, the arrival of a lowbred Rogue will be a danger to the Aunt and, though she may strongly desire to help him, it will not be so easy. I think the most interesting position (and useful from a DMing point of view) is to have the Aunt initially very worried for herself because of her precarious position (after all she doesn't know or have any feelings for the PC) but later tries to help him, albeit with lots of cloak and dagger stuff. Then the relationship could evolve into playing cat and mouse with the true Queen's people and perhaps even helping the aunt and the King behind the scenes. If you are tempted to say "but wait............there is no Queen!" then think about introducing one. Maybe the King becomes ill, realises his mortality and is pressured to beget a legitimate heir. Since this requires a marriage then you can play this all out as background flavour in the campaign.  It would also be wonderful if the ailing King does not realise what a poisonous viper his new and young wife is and it becomes the Aunt's mission in life to protect the new Kingdom from the Queen's excesses (perhaps she worships a secret and unpleasent deity who at first looks much less threatening than it actually is; her mission is to convert the whole Kingdom to this new faith). Then you have TONs of material for a political campaign and a nice convenient way of embroiling the PCs in it, without them gaining too much power in return. On the other hand, it might just make a nice story and your players might just want to kill things and take their stuff (sigh). Only you can know this.</blockquote>

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