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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6259254" data-attributes="member: 79141">DM MusingsAs it has developed into a meditation on the future of my campaign, I thought I would link to another thread I started where I first began to think about some of the ideas I'm about to toy with here:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?352634-Cauldron-Born-Naval-Battle-Question" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?352634-Cauldron-Born-Naval-Battle-Question</a>I have never been 100% sure about the identity of Lavanya, and when I first wove her into Leon's backstory I had no idea she was involved with the Ob, let alone that she would show up at the climax of Cauldron Born.  Now that she has, I'm still not sure exactly what to do with her and for that reason was prepared to allow her to quietly slip away before the unit reached her, having failed to control Borne.  (Her involvement with Borne was as a replacement for Kasvarina in the vain hope that she could rouse him from his torpor.)But the chance to have a fight on the head/shoulders of a 300 foot Colossus is one that I can't pass up, so she's still going to be clinging on trying desperately to affect Borne with her mind controlling powers. She hasn't got a chance of controlling the golem but neither she nor the players know that.  What I don't yet know is who she really is, what her motivations are, what she was doing on Axis Island when she rescued Leon, and whether I want her to try and escape, negotiate a surrender, fight to the bitter end, or perhaps even kill herself.As I mentioned in the other thread, I think I might like to link her to the subplot I'm developing to tie our buffer adventures together, which means she might be a servant of, or even a key member of a coven of hags that are trying to find out what the Ob is up to and hijack it (possibly on behalf of the Voice of Rot).  Still don't know whether Lavanya should actually be a hag.  But how would she have hidden that fact from the Obscurati?  (Or maybe, given that she was fairly low down the pecking order, with no knowledge or links beyond the Bronze Cell, or above Quital, they wouldn't much have cared if she was useful.)Hags have shown up in two of my buffer adventures now, and it's easy to link them: one was harassing a colony of lizard men with an enormous fey crocodile; the other was trying to provoke a fey incursion of Risur and turned out to have supported Duchess Ethelyn of Shale - and now I've decided that was because she wanted to find out what was happening on Axis Island.But I still haven't decided exactly what to do with Lavanya, and how far to link her up to all this, or whether I want her story arc to end here.  How many recurring villains can a campaign take, after all?Hope I can come to a decision in the next couple of days!</blockquote>

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