Need Help! *Spoilers*


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Okay, so recently my group had a session. This doesn't happen too often, we only get to play about once every other month. Mainly because my players come from over a 200 mile radius.

Anyway...
During our last session, we had two things happen. Both of which I had created to add a little intrigue and get the players more involved in their characters.
A short background, you can see my group at this link.
Here is what happened/what I added...
I created two NPC's, a son of King Ivoretti and a nephew to Varn. I had both men court Selena (the sorceress). Unbeknown to the players, Prince Ivoretti is courting Selena in order to gain the help of the players nation, which he would then later use to usurp King Ivoretti. But he needs a noble, and the only noble in my group is an Urban Ranger, who is a Bastard and can't prove his nobility. In order to prove his nobility, Prince Ivoretti sent an Apple of Eternal Slumber to Brianna, since Brianna and Allard are courting. In the hopes of getting Allard to kiss Brianna in her slumber, thus proving that he is a noble. However, Brianna was extremely cautious, and didn't trust a basket full of apples, and eventually figured out that one of them was a special apple. They then proceeded to scry on the owner of the apple. From there things kinda took a life of their own. Longer story shorter. One of the townsfolk is a transplant from Pitax, who is supplying Prince Ivoretti with information about the players kingdom. During the scrying, Brianna saw Prince Ivoretti talking to a cloaked figure, he said something about an assassination and a noble. The players assumed he was talking about the upcoming wedding between Esmound (the Paladin) and Lily. However he was talking about his father. Where I need help here, is that while I plan on having Prince Ivoretti killed before War of the River Kings, I'm not sure how to continue involving him with the players. Snaring them deeper into a subplot to kill King Ivoretti and then springing WotRK on them right after a failed coup.
Ideas for proving Allard is a noble? What else can Prince Ivoretti do to try to get the players to help him? Especially if he isn't the one courting Selena.
The second thing I'm having difficulty with is the courting of Young Varn with Selena. Right now, he is the one she has picked. Do I have Varn disappear with the rest at the beginning of VV right before a wedding? Or do I have him be the only survivor because he was visiting Selena during the raid?

Maybe I just needed to write this out so I could think more clearly on the subject. Anyway, thanks for reading.


On the latter case my thoughts are go with the 'sole survivor', as you can play up (if events time right) the wondering why the in-laws don't make it to the ceremony, round one session off with the event anyway, and then open up the next session with a 'why the heck didn't they turn up or even send a note to explain their delay?'
I'm a bit unclear on some of the elements of the tangle you outline for the first case, but if the Prince NPC is from Pitax, and you haven't run the Grigori kingdom event yet, could you involve him with that? It seems to me that if he comes from Pitax he might have heard some word of what's going on there...

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