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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ciaran" data-source="post: 539703" data-attributes="member: 756">Mulmaster's a great place for politics.  IIRC, there are forty-nine Blades (major nobles) in the city, all of them jockeying for the post of High Blade.  This means lots of backstabbing and other political skullduggery; it's kind of like Thay without quite so much magic.  And the local mage's guild (the Cloaks?) is pretty shady, not to mention being very hard on non-member mages.I'd recommend coming up with a few important Blades and their agendas.  Maybe one wants the city to regain prominence over the Moonsea area and wants to restart the old war with Zhentil Keep, another wants majority control over the city's navy and is building up his family's fleet while sabotaging other families' ships, another has cut a deal with the Zhentarim to have them assassinate his rivals in exchange for certain privileges, yet another is a secret Moander cultist, etc.  Mix everything up, give the PCs some vested interest in the struggle (maybe they are Blades or other important citizens, maybe they're here to rescue enslaved friends and family, etc), and watch the sparks fly.- Eric</blockquote>