Truthspeaker KIA? (Spoilers)


Curse of the Crimson Throne


Hey guys! So my party is going to be finishing up part of their quest chain in book 4 where Akram joins them for their trek to the wurm. I've been playing up the Cinderlander a bunch and making sure that the players continually find evidence of him and hear other Shoanti talk about how much of a jerk he is. In general they seem to be pretty unimpressed with him, thinking that the Cinderlander only attacks the people of the steppe.

With that, I'm wondering if it would be a bad decision (or if anyone has tried this) to have the party encounter him while with Akram after finishing their deal with Cindermaw. I won't just straight-up kill the truthspeaker, that'd be dumb, but I do want to sort of put the fear of gods into them that their efforts to bring the Shoanti onto their side to retake Korvosa really could go bottoms-up. I have contingency plans and all of that in place in case he does die to a lucky roll or bad tactics on the part of the PCs, but I don't want to throw them a lame softball threat where they can just think "Oh. He won't die. This is just a flavor encounter!"

There is a sidebar that talks about what could happen if Akram fails his diplomacy checks later on to convince the Sun Shaman, and I guess what I'm really after is if this or anything like it has happened in someone's game to where the PCs don't get to become Sklar-Quah? How did it/could it change your game? What did your PCs think about it, or what would you think about it as a PC?

Thanks!

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