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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy757" data-source="post: 3350075" data-attributes="member: 13146">You don't need to bind an outsider to get them to help guard a location, nor does an army of troops need to know the real reason they are guarding an area.  You can create a layer of interdiction without the interdictors knowing of the gates existence or having to guard the gate directly.My first thought would be to invite a group of LN, CN, or TN creatures to make their layer in the area.  Maybe a pack of territorial wolves, lead by an awakend Dire Wolf druid, studiously guard the countryside around the gate from all intruders.  They don't need to know about the gate or even where it is to want to guard the territory.A single undead Kobold constantly setting and resetting traps for all eternity would be interesting.  He is bound to the site and can't leave the area, but can't enter the area where the gate is either.  He is already corrupted but because of his Lawful nature fears what’s on the other side of the gate so would never try to approach it or open it.Superstition and fear are also your best allies.  If you have ways of haunting the area or making it seam haunted would help.Placing some kind of non intelligent guardian, like a golem, at the gate site that kills anyone who gets near the gate would help with that "all who go their never return" bit.On the flipside you could place the gate in a region that is so peaceful and boring that no adventurer would ever go there.And I think the laws of storytelling demand that there must be a secret society that knows the truth of the gate and the paladin in plotlines like these (i.e. The Mummy, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)</blockquote>

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