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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 410844" data-attributes="member: 2673">Here's an idea I've thought of using, maybe it'll fit your game.The characters all get word that the town is in uproar over witchcraft again.  There have been several hunting groups go into the woods and never return.  Hunting parties discover the bodies hacked apart around a tree with one person hanging by his neck, face badly cut.  After the second group turned up like this, a wandering priest of the Lawgiver (assuming you are somewhere near Nova Vaasa?  Otherwise substitute as appropriate) has set up shop and told the townspeople that witches inhabit the woods and sacrificed the men to demons.  Already three townspeople have been found guilty of witchcraft and burned at the stake.  When the heroes arrive back in town, they discover a couple of things.  First, there is no witch.  There is a fey in the woods that are possessing the people, making him kill his friends, and then killing himself.  The spirit watched with glee as the townsflok started burning each other.  He became aware of them when the hunters moved too far back into his woods.The priest wants to turn the village to control of the church and is using the witch scare to get rid of some local townsfolk.  When the heroes uncover the fey, he'll make a run for it.  You can then use him as a recurring villian or use it to introduce problems with his church.</blockquote>