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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8316833" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>That is the point about setting the book post-Kalak, I suppose. The pebbles have started moving, but the avalanche isn't in full cascade yet - that's something the PCs are going to have to deal with.</p><p></p><p>Tyr is trying to work out how it'll be governed now Kalak is gone. Lots of people disagree violently about this.</p><p></p><p>The anti-slavery message championed in Tyr (at least, publicly, and by the killers of Kalak, not everyone agrees...) will probably spread to other city-states.</p><p></p><p>Hamanu (or possibly Urikite templars and nobles acting without his formal knowledge or approval) wants Tyr's iron mines for Urik. Slavers are probably raiding Tyr's outlying villages already, now they know that Kalak's templars can't oppose them.</p><p></p><p>Borys doesn't care about slavery or about Kalak, he only wants his tithe of sacrifices every year so he can burn up their life-force in renewing the spells that keep Kalak imprisoned - and Tyr isn't going to avoid paying up just cos Kalak is gone. </p><p></p><p>Maybe Oronis might carefully start to reveal himself, or even establish communication with the new rulers of Tyr.</p><p></p><p>Sascha and Wyan, the disembodied heads of sorcerer-kings who sided with Rajaat, are now free of the enchantments Kalak placed on them and can now pursue their (or Rajaat's) agendas again</p><p></p><p>Dregoth is starting to send emissaries (even Templars) to Tyr and into the wilds, seeking followers as he prepares to seek revenge on his killers, or maybe seeking to install himself as Kalak's inheritor.</p><p></p><p>There's an entire palaceful of mind-numbingly dangerous and awful magic, prisoners, bound entities, artifacts etc sitting in the middle of Tyr, and nobody except Kalak knew what it all did, what it all was, what precautions needed to be taken to keep it safe, and what it might do if it got out.</p><p></p><p>Every elf tribe, trading house, spy ring, Veiled Alliance cell, escaped slave village etc that had dealings with Tyr has now had them turned upside down. No slaves any more, no templars any more, and long-established contracts, arrangements, bribes etc from Kalak's era aren't worth the clay tablet they're enscribed upon.</p><p></p><p>And that's just things that are DIRECT results of the fall of Kalak. If you want to bring in the Mind Lords, the Order, the psurlons, undead nastiness from the Obsidian lands, or living nastiness in the form of raiders, slavers, defilers, noble houses, or anything at all that might be happening in the internal politics of any of the other cities. Athas ain't short of a plot hook. There's LOTS happening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8316833, member: 5948"] That is the point about setting the book post-Kalak, I suppose. The pebbles have started moving, but the avalanche isn't in full cascade yet - that's something the PCs are going to have to deal with. Tyr is trying to work out how it'll be governed now Kalak is gone. Lots of people disagree violently about this. The anti-slavery message championed in Tyr (at least, publicly, and by the killers of Kalak, not everyone agrees...) will probably spread to other city-states. Hamanu (or possibly Urikite templars and nobles acting without his formal knowledge or approval) wants Tyr's iron mines for Urik. Slavers are probably raiding Tyr's outlying villages already, now they know that Kalak's templars can't oppose them. Borys doesn't care about slavery or about Kalak, he only wants his tithe of sacrifices every year so he can burn up their life-force in renewing the spells that keep Kalak imprisoned - and Tyr isn't going to avoid paying up just cos Kalak is gone. Maybe Oronis might carefully start to reveal himself, or even establish communication with the new rulers of Tyr. Sascha and Wyan, the disembodied heads of sorcerer-kings who sided with Rajaat, are now free of the enchantments Kalak placed on them and can now pursue their (or Rajaat's) agendas again Dregoth is starting to send emissaries (even Templars) to Tyr and into the wilds, seeking followers as he prepares to seek revenge on his killers, or maybe seeking to install himself as Kalak's inheritor. There's an entire palaceful of mind-numbingly dangerous and awful magic, prisoners, bound entities, artifacts etc sitting in the middle of Tyr, and nobody except Kalak knew what it all did, what it all was, what precautions needed to be taken to keep it safe, and what it might do if it got out. Every elf tribe, trading house, spy ring, Veiled Alliance cell, escaped slave village etc that had dealings with Tyr has now had them turned upside down. No slaves any more, no templars any more, and long-established contracts, arrangements, bribes etc from Kalak's era aren't worth the clay tablet they're enscribed upon. And that's just things that are DIRECT results of the fall of Kalak. If you want to bring in the Mind Lords, the Order, the psurlons, undead nastiness from the Obsidian lands, or living nastiness in the form of raiders, slavers, defilers, noble houses, or anything at all that might be happening in the internal politics of any of the other cities. Athas ain't short of a plot hook. There's LOTS happening. [/QUOTE]
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