Hi everyone,
I read the forum often, but don't really take time to post. But this time, I need help.
After reading the books and the forum many time, I know the problem about the foreshadowing of the ''Big boss''. Looking into the problem, I remembered the ''classic horror revisited'' story about the hag.
To sum up : Three good beautiful faerie princesses became vain, bitter and evil. The fey court cursed and banished them to Golarion. After that, the fey courts razed their castle to the ground.
My idea :
- First change : There was five sisters, not three. The older ones had their fey kingdom at each cardinal point : West, North, East, South. The fifth one, the youngest, lived in the middle.
- Second change : Four sisters became vain, bitter and evil. They picked on their youngest sister.
- Third change : The youngest, tried to stop the blight and the conflict between the sisters. She was a good girl helping the other faeries when they tried to flee the blight.
- Fourth Change : When the fey courts saw the corruption of their kingdom, they cursed all the sisters, banished the four kingdom from the first world. The sisters were imprisonned in their own planar kingdom.
- Fifth change : Nyrissa became the green hag (south), Rhoswen became the annis (west), Neithrope became the winter hag (north), Caillea became the blood hag (east).
- Sixth change : Seeing everyhting being cursed, Jurissa, the youngest, ripped appart her eye and tongue, becoming the Mute Hag.
So I modified the tale to fit those details (I won't post it on the forum, since I just copied the text from the book and changed it to fit those change).
Now the original background of the campaign :
Nyrissa want to steal the land to give it to the eternal in hope to be pardon. That's it.
So here my idea :
The four sisters want their beauty back, they want their freedom back, they want their servant back and they want to kill each other.
Beauty :
Caillea : She plan to bath in mortal's blood, a lot of beautiful mortal woman's blood.
Nyrissa : She removed the curse by transfering it to another person: Her youngest sister Jurissa.
Neithrope : Stealing true love. She want to melt her cold heart.
Rhoswen : Before being cursed, she captured her own image through a mirror. She plan to switch her old reflexion with her cursed form.
Kingdom :
Caillea : Taking the place of the queen. By doing that, she hope to be acknowledge by the genius loci, and after that she plan to replace it with her own genius loci.
Nyrissa : She will create dimensional breach slowly transfering her kingdom to the material realm.
Neithrope : Activating the elfgate of Candlemere, she will create an opening to her world, creating a pocket of eternal winter to extend and transfert her kindgom. ( I know about reign of winter)
Rhoswen : Her little gnome helper need to retrieve the mirror of shadow to create a focus. She will blur the limit of her kingdom to the material world with fog.
Now about foreshadowing those events :
Jurissa was cursed by her sister, not by the fey court. She was the one giving refuge to the fleeing fey. She tried to stop her sister peacefuly. She was a good princess. After being curse and becoming the first mute hag, she decided to keep helping the fey. She created the Witchmarket with her own banished plane. The witchmarket can manifest once per year.
Jurissa will be the one to foreshadow each event. By creating the witchmarket, she created a powerful way to gain information or to give information. Each year, she will give a hint to the pc. In the form of fairytale or strange object. The first one I thought was a bottle containing a small light, a glimmer of hope.
Do you have any idea to add? I need more meat around the bone.
* and again, sorry for my english. My main language is french.
