So... my crew has just finished the glassworks. I've got a few side stories going alongside the main plot... (Such as: A contingent of physicians is in town from the Magnimar Physicians Collective due to a recent epidemic scare. Essentially, someone has tampered with Blackscour and turned it viral. Ties into a PC's backstory.) ...and my creative twitch alerted me to a possibility I haven't seen explored before. I'm hesitant to make such a grand stroke to the plot, but it seems so... perfect. I also realize that it could even be put in as a minor thing, coming to fruition around book 5 or 6.
But I'm tempted to simply make Big K an antagonist to the greater threat, fighting over territory with a foe that he himself has trouble locating and tracking.
But anyway, my idea is this:
Kendra Deverin was murdered some years ago, possibly around the time of the Chopper murders and before the great fire, and her likeness was stolen by the recently awakened Runelord Azlanist. Azlanist herself now masquerades as Mayor Deverin of Sandpoint, pulling strings from behind scenes and even pushing the PC's to foil Big K while she builds power undetected. She, rather than him, may in fact be responsible for all the Wrath killings in the region stoking the runewells. She may have just as large a plot to reclaim all the lands she held prior to the cataclysm.
Or she might just be a little deeper than that. I've yet to really plot it all out. Which is why I'm here.
If anyone on this forum can aid me with advice or criticism or wild speculation, I would be grateful. It seems like an idea with legs, but in the end it may simply be too convoluted to really pull off.
Thank you in advance. I've already gotten such great ideas for this game from this forum, and my players seem just as entertained and excited by them.