Proteans seek to unmake reality, twisting the laws of physics to their errant whims. Fortunately, proteans exist in a distant plane of impossible changes called the Maelstrom, through which they wind their serpentine forms and weave and unweave space and time as they see fit. When powerful proteans come to the Material Plane, they cause problems—often serious problems—where matter and causality break down and reform in unusual ways.
The keketars are priests and leaders among the proteans, commanding their followers with confidence and impulsiveness. When keketars leave the Maelstrom of their own accord, they tend to cause trouble. When drawn to the Material Plane by a warp in reality or a ritual gone wrong, they tend to cause a lot of trouble. The keketar Rippling-Sapphire-Crown—whose real name even they cannot pronounce, to their great pride—was pulled into Golarion two years ago by a desperate spellcaster seeking otherworldly aid. Unfortunately, for the spellcaster, the impetuous and peevish Rippling-Sapphire-Crown responded to their call, along with a cadre of subservient azuretzi proteans.
Rippling-Sapphire-Crown twisted knots in history to ensconce themselves on the Material Plane, erecting alternate histories to guarantee they couldn't be thrown back into the Maelstrom. These alternate histories inadvertently tied Rippling-Sapphire-Crown to several groups of heroes who were present at the protean’s emergence and who went on to make a name for themselves over the years. Jumbling up the stories and memories of heroes to tie themselves to reality might be the ancient keketar’s greatest prank. Will the heroes survive a storm of chaos and right the timeline, or will they be lost to the protean’s schemes?
