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I was planning on retrofitting and running “Headless” from (Dungeon #89) in conjunction with “Heart of Hellfire Mountain” (Dungeon #140) in an ongoing campaign set in Sterich with Mephistopheles cult of hellfire playing an important role. My question is this: could Mephistopheles be used instead of Orcus as the influence and ultimate beneficiary of the souls harvested from the deadgate? Or would his lawful aspect as a devil prohibit this? I mean as DM I could do this if I wanted to, but dose it violate the way devils operate in the Nine Hells?
Hmm...with a bit of tinkering, you could alter "Headless" suitably. You might want to de-emphasize undead and replace them with various creatures that Mephistopheles might have under his thumb and ones he would "lend" to Diirinka (devils, fiendish swarms, that sort o' thing). You could change the name of the Deadgate to Hellgate, or the Infernal Pyre, or something like that to keep Orcus' undeady influence out of the adventure flavor.
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Hmm...with a bit of tinkering, you could alter "Headless" suitably. You might want to de-emphasize undead and replace them with various creatures that Mephistopheles might have under his thumb and ones he would "lend" to Diirinka (devils, fiendish swarms, that sort o' thing). You could change the name of the Deadgate to Hellgate, or the Infernal Pyre, or something like that to keep Orcus' undeady influence out of the adventure flavor.
Yeah, I like that.....Hellgate!I was considering tonning down the undead and having the frost giants working with Eldrua and making them even more outcast by the other frost giants for worshipping the god of hellfire. This might not be as far fetched as it sounds since Mephistopheles realm of Cania is an icy wasteland.