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<blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 5404283" data-attributes="member: 67"><p>I really like this idea!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here are some ideas:</p><p></p><p><strong>The NPC is a charlatan.</strong> He wants something out of the PC and he thinks this is a good way to get it.</p><p></p><p><strong>The NPC is mistaken.</strong> He desperately <em>wants</em> the PC to be his father, because he has searched all his life for the man, but the PC is not.</p><p></p><p><strong>The NPC is the son.</strong> He has sought out the PC to establish a relationship.</p><p></p><p><strong>The NPC is the son.</strong> He has sought out the PC to avenge some wrong done to his mother (abandonment or worse!).</p><p></p><p>As for the mother, if the NPC is, indeed the son...</p><p></p><p><strong>She is (was), as you suggest, a Kalashtar princess.</strong> When the PC disappeared (or was taken away), she wasted away with grief and, because she is Kalashtar, fed this grief to her loved ones (son included) through their dreams, eventually creating a sort of waking nightmare.</p><p></p><p><strong>She was never a Kalashtar princess, but led the PC to believe she was.</strong> When he found out otherwise, he left, feeling so betrayed that he sought out a powerful ritualist to remove his memories of having ever met her. Now an evil has befallen the mother, and she sends her son to find the PC, not knowing that he has removed all memory of her.</p><p></p><p><strong>There never was a mother.</strong> The PC was a part of vile arcane experiments that produced the NPC. The PC's memory was wiped during this process (either intentionally, or as a result of the trauma endured), but the NPC has remembered fragments of the experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rune, post: 5404283, member: 67"] I really like this idea! Here are some ideas: [b]The NPC is a charlatan.[/b] He wants something out of the PC and he thinks this is a good way to get it. [b]The NPC is mistaken.[/b] He desperately [i]wants[/i] the PC to be his father, because he has searched all his life for the man, but the PC is not. [b]The NPC is the son.[/b] He has sought out the PC to establish a relationship. [b]The NPC is the son.[/b] He has sought out the PC to avenge some wrong done to his mother (abandonment or worse!). As for the mother, if the NPC is, indeed the son... [b]She is (was), as you suggest, a Kalashtar princess.[/b] When the PC disappeared (or was taken away), she wasted away with grief and, because she is Kalashtar, fed this grief to her loved ones (son included) through their dreams, eventually creating a sort of waking nightmare. [b]She was never a Kalashtar princess, but led the PC to believe she was.[/b] When he found out otherwise, he left, feeling so betrayed that he sought out a powerful ritualist to remove his memories of having ever met her. Now an evil has befallen the mother, and she sends her son to find the PC, not knowing that he has removed all memory of her. [b]There never was a mother.[/b] The PC was a part of vile arcane experiments that produced the NPC. The PC's memory was wiped during this process (either intentionally, or as a result of the trauma endured), but the NPC has remembered fragments of the experience. [/QUOTE]
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