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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erratic K" data-source="post: 1787252" data-attributes="member: 14360">If you go with this, and I would.  I would set up the following:1) the warden is a red herring.  There is plenty of circumstantial evidence for him being the dark lord (vicous nature, he won't let anyone leave the island, appears to wield lots of power).2) the real dark lord is the janitor of the prison.  He is a lonely cast off who was marrooned on this island thousands of years ago.   He won't let any one leave (he doesn't want to be left alone again).  He secretly powers the jail and can close the borders.  He has imprisoned people on the island and had them build the jail and staff it and be prisoners.I would consider some other NPC's that can help the PC's figure out what is happening.  All of them can help indirectly but if anyone names the janitor or aids directly, they will never be able to leave the island (even if the dark lord is defeated).   You may need some plot macguffin to back this up (anyone with a prison tattoo or prison mark that says the janitor's name is trapped or begins wasting away powering the domain).The prison mark might be a good clue (especially if the jailor's also have prison tattoo or the mark of the prisoner).-E</blockquote>