I really enjoyed reading Spire of Long Saguaros (arizona joke)-great atmosphere. Unfortunately, our group is still working on SCAP so I won't be running AoW for a while.(anyone make it through Spire yet? i haven't seen much discussion). The visions were a nice change up for getting background info instead of the standard ask Mr. Wizard. I was kind of bummed to learn Kyuss' patron was Nerull though. C'mon now, whatever happened to Incabulos?? you know- God of pestilence, disaster, and nightmares. you'd think he be up to his green eyeballs in green worms... I think of Nerull as more the jack-the-ripper type. Incabulos is more the black plague type.
Aside from a cameo in The Stink, Incabulos gets very little love. He's been a favorite of mine since the original Deities of Greyhawk articles in Dragon Magazine.
In short, Incabulos is Fabulos. My question is, does it really matter to the plot of AoW who Kyuss served or is that just flavor?
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In the end, it doesn't really matter who Kyuss served 2,000 years ago, since none of that really plays into the Age of Worms outside of "Spire of Long Shadows." He probably shouldn't be a one-time cleric of Hextor or Erythnul (since his links to them via the Ebon Triad would complicate things) and likwise not Vecna (for the same reasons, plus Vecna wasn't a deity 2,000 years ago anyway).
We chose Nerull mostly because of Nerull's connection with undeath, and because by using a deity from the PHB we didn't have to use up precious space with a big sidebar describing a non-core deity.
Wasn't Nerull Kyuss's patron in the Living Greyhawk Journal writeup (#3, I think)?
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