And meanwhile, in an alternate reality, an NPC in my campaign named Dranko Coaltongue finally met the party. Or rather, the party found him. They've been looking for him for the past few months, because Dranko Coaltongue was the emperor of the world, and despite being immortal, apparently he was assassinated, leading to the largest power vaccum the world has ever seen.
When they found Dranko, he was decapitated, because his assassins didn't want to deal with him coming back from the dead, and it takes him a while to regrow his head. They managed to get him back with them, and once he was whole again, they started planning to help him get back into power. And to my dismay, they kept calling him Draco Coaltongue.