I saw in the new campaign book that there is a new lord-mayor of Magnimar. How did that come about?
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I saw in the new campaign book that there is a new lord-mayor of Magnimar. How did that come about?
The previous one died under mysterious circumstances.
One of the things that makes sense as we update the game by 10 years is that leadership positions, particularly elected ones, should change. It's unrealistic for the same elected person to stay in position for too long. And in this case, I felt it was time for Magnimar to get a new lord-mayor.
There IS more to the story, otherwise I wouldn't have noted in print that he died under mysterious circumstances, and having the new person in place is also part of some plots I have bubbling under the cauldron's lid for potential future stories involving Magnimar, Sandpoint, the Lost Coast, and Varisia as a whole, but until we get to a place where we're doing another adventure or world guide or other product that has the time to explore another storyline there... I'm not ready to say more.
There MIGHT be another hint in an upcoming book...
This is great to know. I had thought I had missed something in a module or AP. I'm now excited to learn how that story is told.
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I love the way there are always more bits and pieces of depth to the world that's been built here. James, I think you mentioned it over in your Ask James Jacobs thread, the rule of thumb of adding a couple of dangling hooks of unresolved interesting things every time a lore book resolves one thing really pays off.