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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 2503250" data-attributes="member: 7177">Here is my take on things:Don't bother too much with specific motivations. If it's going to be a proper cthonic entity in the vein of the Cthulhu Mythos, it won't have many motivations that humans will be understand apart from a desire to escape its prison and perhaps gain more powerful.Instead, focus on the Really Bad Things that will happen if it is released - or even if the mystic wards that imprison it weaken. Natural and unnatural disasters. Reshaping of the landscape into something more alien. Horrible dreams that plague everyone on the same continent, and so on.Just being close to the prison should have some negative effects on people, especially if they stay there for longer time periods. Most of the cultists, apart from recent arrivals, should be pretty much insane. The entity speaks to them in their dreams in inhuman languages, but in their insanity they hear what they want to hear...As for the guild, maybe the creature extrudes some sort of substance from its prison with unique magical properties... and some unfortunate long-term side effects. The cultists use this substance for their rites, but they also sell some of it to the guild to make some money.Eventually, the guild will decide to take control of that power source from the cult for themselves, but in their arrogance and power will damage the prison even more than the cult managed (just think of the "Arrogant Authority Figure" in just any disaster movie you can think of). The PCs have learned the truth, and must try to stop them. And just when it seems that things cannot possibly get any worse, the cult leader comes out of hiding for a last stab at freeing his master...How does all that sound?</blockquote>

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