SamuraiY said:
The Monk whose bones these are was not an BBEG who was somehow reformed. He was a member of the Peacful Palm who helped maintain the order in the last hundred years of the age of gods. When he died he instructed the other monks to scatter his bones throughout the temples, for one day another monk would rise and collect these bones and help lead the lands of Aerde out of great darkness. Most of the bones have been lost over time. That's the major change I guess.
Each of the bones was entrusted by the monks to a lay member of the Order, for transport to its final resting place.
The PCs are each descendants of one of those couriers, and are contacted by either the spirits of their Peaceful Palm ancestor, or by a scribe who has been researching the old records and discovered who those descendants are.
Warning - this sort of setup makes it harder to introduce new characters if one of the original party dies. You end up with a situation like in
Charmed, where when one of the three magic sisters leaves the cast, they discovered that there was in fact a
fourth magic sister that nobody knew about, leaving the "Power of Three" intact. Awfully convenient, and makes one wonder what the "Power of Four" might have been able to accomplish...
Or worse, a situation like in
Kickboxer 2. In
Kickboxer, Eric Sloane and Kurt Sloane were brothers, who had been separated at an early age... one living with their mother, one living with their father.
And then, when they made the sequel with Sasha Mitchell, we find out that there was
another brother who nobody knew about, David Sloane. Who was
he living with?
Gah.
-Hyp.
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