So, great minds of the forums, I've prepared like never before for a campaign. CoT will give me the chance to try a more sandbox type of game, with myriad side plots and NPCs. That said, I asked my players to come up with more elaborate motivations for their PCs. One of them threw me a curve ball, in the form that I see only complications, but maybe with your help I can turn it into an asset.
Basically, he's developed a minor nobleman, a swashbuckler type, who is obsessed with gathering lore about how the infernal taint appeared in Cheliax. Basically, trace where the tiefling's are coming from. My mixed feelings come with the fact that I don't want to make it obvious at first that the Drovenge's are the bad guys. Therefore, I need red herring's, which is one of my greatest failings as a GM. hence, me asking for your help with coming up with ideas about more noble family's with fiendish skeleton's in their closets.
As a side note, I'm playing up the noble houses IMC, making a lot of the public figures a member of one family or another. Thesing will be a nobel, as well as Shanwen, some of the Dottari officers, judges etc... any ideas here are welcome as well.