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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8504660" data-attributes="member: 63">This is a challenge for me. I wrote the ZEITGEIST setting that EN Publishing has published, and we made an effort to make a world reminiscent of the 19th century, with a fantasy world going through an industrial revolution. Conflicts are motivated by philosophy and nationalism, and not so much matters of &quot;good and evil.&quot; Even the 'villain' of our adventure path, like, players have mentioned wondering briefly if they ought to switch sides and work with him, because he had goals they could appreciate; he was just ruthless and manipulative.But if I'm going to go for the 'worst' being in the setting, it's Egal the Shimmering. Imagine King Midas was immortal, and had the additional magical ability to make infernal binding contracts trading people gold for their servitude. And not just any gold - golden chains. The mantra of his legion is that 'Loyalty is prosperity, and prosperity is freedom.'Do that for three thousand years, and you end up with a legion draped in golden chains, enslaved to you, conquering and enslaving more, convinced that because they're adorned with gold, they're actually in charge of their lives. They think that all matters is to be rich, and they look down on the people they're terrorizing. Egal doesn't directly chain everyone as part of his legion, but he and his minions create social systems of poverty and desperation so they can force people to toil with no hope but the barest scraping margin of survival.And when people feel like they have nothing, gold is quite the temptation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 8504660, member: 63"] This is a challenge for me. I wrote the ZEITGEIST setting that EN Publishing has published, and we made an effort to make a world reminiscent of the 19th century, with a fantasy world going through an industrial revolution. Conflicts are motivated by philosophy and nationalism, and not so much matters of "good and evil." Even the 'villain' of our adventure path, like, players have mentioned wondering briefly if they ought to switch sides and work with him, because he had goals they could appreciate; he was just ruthless and manipulative. But if I'm going to go for the 'worst' being in the setting, it's [B]Egal the Shimmering[/B]. Imagine King Midas was immortal, and had the additional magical ability to make infernal binding contracts trading people gold for their servitude. And not just any gold - golden chains. The mantra of his legion is that 'Loyalty is prosperity, and prosperity is freedom.' Do that for three thousand years, and you end up with a legion draped in golden chains, enslaved to you, conquering and enslaving more, convinced that because they're adorned with gold, they're actually in charge of their lives. They think that all matters is to be rich, and they look down on the people they're terrorizing. Egal doesn't directly chain everyone as part of his legion, but he and his minions create social systems of poverty and desperation so they can force people to toil with no hope but the barest scraping margin of survival. And when people feel like they have nothing, gold is quite the temptation. [/QUOTE]

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