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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4781509" data-attributes="member: 54846">Oracle of Shadows? Is that from H3? I haven't really read the third half of that module. I plan on having Kalarel come back (using the Possessed Spirit template in Open Grave), so having him dragged out via the Thing int he Portal is pertinent to my needs.HA! I just got my idea.I have a Feypact Gnome warlock in the party (the ex-slave). The hook that brought him into the adventure: a vassal to his patron was trapped somewhere beneath the Keep (in the water cave room, to be specific); the gnome's task was to free the vassal. The party needed to save the town from the undead assault AND get a tortured Douval back to town, so the gnome asked a favor of the vassal: return Douval to town, and protect the townsfolk from the undead, and I will owe you a favor.Here's where it gets interesting: Kalarel has a connection to the Fey Court in Thunderspire. He wanted a spike of power, as Orcus had not given him everything. Or possibly he wanted a powerful guardian unrelated to undead, just in case. So he beseeched a fey for this. In exchange, the Fey wanted Kalarel to siphon power from the trapped Vassal, and send it back to the Court Fey for power.Kalarel did. The Vassal, however, is aware of this siphoning. It wants revenge, but does not know who Kalarel was working for, and it has other work to do. So it calls its favor, and makes the Gnome pursue the parasite that had supped from the Vassal's power.How does this go back to Ninaran? The same Fey has her (Something) improsned or ensnared, and Kalarel has the means to get back at this fey. Of course, Kalarel never intended to free Ninaran's (Something).A twisted web, indeed. <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" /> Now, I just need to think of an appropriate fey guardian to drop into the final battle as the Court Fey's servant.Douval was integral to something. I had decided the Mirror was an artifact; The Raven Queen had looked into it, and thus her reflection is trapped inside. The mirror shows the reflection of the Shadowfell (rather than what it should show you). Kalarel wanted it, to use it after the ritual, in order to find the Raven Queen (via her reflection). He was having Douval interrogated in the torture room, to find out more about the mirror. I had done a few things, to work Kalarel into the story. Instead of letters, Kalarel used skulls with Magic Mouths attached to them. So the PCs heard his voice giving directions to Irontooth. Also, at the Grave site, Kalarel had a skeleton that he was sending messages through/observing with. It wasn't an apparition, but it - again- spoke in his voice, as he was seeing/hearing through it. The PCs also rescued a local girl who had been swayed by the cult to join (another plot hook), and so she has mentioned Kalarel a few times.</blockquote>

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