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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarellion" data-source="post: 1393590" data-attributes="member: 6254">I am looking for some interesting NPCs with some dark secrets to populate an air ship the party is on to interact with.My party is currently on a long voyage through a magically advanced and decadent empire. The empire was very expansionist earlier but has fallen on hard times. Corruption runs rampant, intrigues and conspiracies are found everywhere and the emperor is a wimp. There are noble houses who are now on the rise and scheming against each other.There are passenger airships available for the wealthy and powerful and they will probably use up a favor and take one to get out of this place.In the mddle of the journey some friends will send them a message that there is an assassin on board who is charged to kill the exiled sister of the emperor (who seems to be a better alternative to the current one). The PCs are asked to take a closer look at the passengers. Now I need some ideas to flesh out some of them.There are about 15 to 20 passengers with their retinue on ship. So far I thought about:1. An older widow with a young lover. 2. An high ranking official who is even more corrupt than the rest. He is wealthy because he diverted money for the military into his own pockets.3.The assassin of course  4. A man who likes his retainer´s kids a little bit too much.5. Some bored noble who likes to beat up his servants regularly6. Someone who earned his money the honest way as a change <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> 7. Someone who will kill one of the above mentioned guys for vengeanceDo you have any further ideas for other NPCs or some ideas for the NPCs mentioned? Give me your most corrupt officials, most despisable villains and scheming nobles.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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