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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schmoe" data-source="post: 7290391" data-attributes="member: 913">So, I ran a campaign using a somewhat similar premise, with an evil god banished by the sacrifice of a legendary band of heroes, although in my case those heroes became gods.  At any rate, for the vast majority of the campaign the players thought that they were acting to thwart the plans of the evil god, but in actuality they were unwittingly carrying out the plans of one of the patron gods who had become corrupted and was trying to ascend to greater power by eliminating the hero gods and finally destroying the evil god.For reasons tied to the mythology of my campaign world, it made a lot of sense in my campaign, and it might not make as much sense in yours, but you could do something similar.  Perhaps one of the other gods in your pantheon, normally seen as a force for good, has secretly turned power-hungry and evil.  Maybe the Quora Tal actually serve a different purpose.  Instead of their blood needing to be spilled to release Morvek, all of the living descendants need to come together and willingly partake of some ritual to free Morvek.  If, instead, the last of the descendants were to die, then Morvek would be utterly and forever destroyed.  Furthermore, when Morvek is destroyed, his divine power would then transfer  to the corrupted god, elevating his power above all of the others and making him nigh all-powerful.  When the party saved the first descendant of the Quora Tal, they were actually thwarting the plans of this corrupted god.  However, the corrupted god has the benefit of duplicity on his side, and instead can step in to guide the party to "save" the rest of the Quora Tal and bring them under his protection. There can be a big "reveal" to the whole party about Morvek's supposed plans, led by an oracle of the corrupted god who has been given these false visions.  Once the party has tracked all of the Quora Tal down, then this other god plans to slay them all in one fell swoop and ascend.Along the way, the party may get some clues that something is off.  If at some point they show that they no longer believe the lies, then the corrupted god immediately acts to slay all of the Quora Tal that were placed under his protection, and the race is on to find the last of them.  But in this case the decision is more difficult!  Do they preserve the last of the Quora Tal and thus maintain the possibility that Morvek can still be released from his banishment, or do they allow the corrupted god to reach the last of the Quora Tal and ascend to what unknown heights his fevered mind has imagined?As for the prince, you might consider making having his father instead call in the priests of this corrupt god, whereby the priests can perform divinations that then reveal the lies that the god wants the party to believe.You might ask, why doesn't the corrupt god just have his priesthood declare the Quora Tal as heretics to be destroyed?  That would first be messy, as some may be in positions of where it leads to wars, etc., and there's no guarantee his priesthood could carry out the orders.  But second it could tip his hand to the rest of the gods that something is up, and that is the last thing the god would want.Without knowing more about the mythology of your world it's hard to come up with anything better, but maybe that gives you some ideas you can take and make your own.</blockquote>

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