After watching The Picture of Dorian Gray I had an idea for a scenario. A wandering paladin foils the plot of an evil Cleric and is then cursed (either by the Clerics God or the Cleric him/herself).
The curse takes the form of a portrait which is drawn for him (the Paladin is young, brash and quite vain) by a "travelling stranger" and coerces him into witchhunts and the persecution of innocent victims he thinks are guilty, the more he kills innocent people in the name of his faith, the more the portrait echoes his own crimes by becoming covered in blood and gaining deformities and disfigurements.
The only problem I have is how to go about fooling the PCs long enough to actually make it work, and hopefully this is where you guys come in.
How can I stop the PCs from realising the Paladins victims are anything other than what the Paladin thinks they are?
The setting btw is The Scarred Lands, and the Goddess in question is Belsameth
Thanks in advance for your help.
The curse takes the form of a portrait which is drawn for him (the Paladin is young, brash and quite vain) by a "travelling stranger" and coerces him into witchhunts and the persecution of innocent victims he thinks are guilty, the more he kills innocent people in the name of his faith, the more the portrait echoes his own crimes by becoming covered in blood and gaining deformities and disfigurements.
The only problem I have is how to go about fooling the PCs long enough to actually make it work, and hopefully this is where you guys come in.
How can I stop the PCs from realising the Paladins victims are anything other than what the Paladin thinks they are?
The setting btw is The Scarred Lands, and the Goddess in question is Belsameth
Thanks in advance for your help.