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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knightofround" data-source="post: 4478680" data-attributes="member: 27884">The cool thing about choosing Pelor is that light can banish shadows...however if light is not used properly, it can also strengthen them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> So how about this.The seal is unperfect. The priests of Pelor periodically perform this ritual to cleanse the world of the shadows that leak out of the shadow god's prison.  However, if there is an eclipse in the middle of the ceremony, the ritual has the opposite effect and the flow of magic reverses; stuff from the shadow plane is vacuumed into the primary plane, rather than blown out. Even worse, if the ritual isn't ended properly the flow doesn't cease.  The clerics don't leave the vortex open all the time because if its left open too long it will suck out more than just shadows.Since the party is so low level they probably can't arrange an eclipse =P However, this eclipse thing only works if the priests of Pelor can't immediately cast the ritual again when the eclipse passes. This is where the PCs come in. It could be the PCs to interrupt the ritual before the clerics of Pelor can hit the "off" switch.The next part of the campaign could be delaying the casting of this ritual for as long as possible; the longer they can delay it, the more influence their God can have upon the world. You could even say that after X days the vacuum effect gets to the point where the God is forcibly sucked from his plane and shoved into the primary plane.Another take on it that you could do is that every religion has a ritual that somehow effects the shadow god's prison, and the PCs have to disrupt enough of them that the shadow god can muscle through the rest.Another take is that the PCs could somehow dismantle the off-switch, and by protecting the portal for long enough they can ensure that the entire world is sucked into the shadow plane. Why bring a God to a world when you can bring a world to a God? =)</blockquote>

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