D&D General Vecna and Kas and the Book of Vile Darkness. WotC lore you should know.

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I definitely would love to see an adventure book revolving around Vecna. Especially if it discusses how there are multiple versions of him in the Multiverse. Maybe he existed in the First World, and that's why so many different versions of him exist?

I mean, once you establish Platonic World of Ideals "evhoes" for some characters, it's hard not to spread that speculation a bit further. The idea also allows a path to allow for all the different versions of characters running around in 10 million home games...

Every Final Fantasy XIV Player: "Across ten and three were we then divided..."

 

[Parmandur]

And it could have something to do with those Obelisks that he has scattered everywhere (most prominently featured in Rime of the Frostmaide, but also present in Curse of Strahd, Tomb of Annihilation, Storm King's Thunder, and a few others).

Yeah, lots of potential hooks at work.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yeah, lots of potential hooks at work.

Yeah, there's endless possibilities for a Vecna-centric adventure, IMO. You could find the Sword of Kas, face enemies that have the Eye and/or Hand of Vecna (and prevent Vecna from getting his hands on them), keep Vecna from achieving Apotheosis, go to the Shadowfell and get the Raven Queen to help you, maybe make a deal with Orcus (or Acererak), and fight cultists of Vecna (including Nothics).

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I mean, mayhe it has to do with the movie, or a video game property. Vecna is a pretty key piece of OG IP for Wizards.

Imagine if Hugh Grant is actually playing Vecna...

 

[Parmandur]

Imagine if Hugh Grant is actually playing Vecna...

That would be astounding, but probably not. However, dollars to donuts Paramount and Hasbro want an MCU sort of thing out of D&D, and Vecna is a very probable "Long con" BBEG for Avengers-esque hijinks.

 

[Seramus]

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Hey now, that's poor branding. Vecna has the hand and eye, Larloch gets a dozen ioun stones, and Acererak gets the pointy hat!

 

[pukunui]

That's a cool new design for Vecna. Reminds me a lot of the creepy as magisters-turned-darkspawn (e.g. the Architect) from the Dragon Age series.

 

[JEB]

Interesting that they acknowledge his tenure as a Darklord (which tallies with an Easter egg in Klorr). Though not his brief conquest of Sigil (which was implied to be why 2E's Great Wheel-centered cosmology became the multi-cosmology of 3E), and their default assumption seems to be that he never actually achieved full godhood (which even arguably contradicts the 2014 PHB, where he's "god of secrets").

And it could have something to do with those Obelisks that he has scattered everywhere (most prominently featured in Rime of the Frostmaide, but also present in Curse of Strahd, Tomb of Annihilation, Storm King's Thunder, and a few others).

Includes Icewind Dale spoilers: Perhaps the obelisks were his next step, after trying to conquer Sigil failed. It wasn't enough to rule the present - he had to rule eternity, from the beginning, the First World. Of course, the failure of this effort is what gave us the current canon...

 

[Parmandur]

Interesting that they acknowledge his tenure as a Darklord (which does show up as an Easter egg in Klorr). Though not his brief conquest of Sigil (which was implied to be why 2E's Great Wheel-centered cosmology became the multi-cosmology of 3E), and their default assumption seems to be that he never actually achieved full godhood (which even arguably contradicts the 2014 PHB, where he's "god of secrets").


Includes Icewind Dale spoilers: Perhaps the obelisks were his next step, after trying to conquer Sigil failed. It wasn't enough to rule the present - he had to rule eternity, from the beginning, the First World. Of course, the failure of this effort is what gave us the current canon...

Not just the 2014 PHB, Descent into Avernus actually references Vecna's apotheosis on Exandria explicitly.

 

[JEB]

Not just the 2014 PHB, Descent into Avernus actually references Vecna's apotheosis on Exandria explicitly.

Hmm, it does? I don't see that offhand... have a page reference?