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So what if Ydersius was actually a Lawful god before he got his head chopped? And all the Big Chaos he's associated with was just from afterwards?
It always seemed odd to me that the god of the very organized, intelligent serpentfolk was a ravening beast. I could definitely see the degenerate worship of the god, like the degenerate serpentfolk themselves, being a reversal of his initial nature.
Maybe they could be trying to rejoin the god's parts:
- Because they want order (maybe Nazi style take us over order, but anyway)/removal of degeneracy to return to the serpentfolk?
- Because Vyr-Azul is a deluded Chaotic heretic - he dates from after the beheading, remember.
He allegedly is working with thawed out serpentguys from before the beheading but really he's keeping them on ice - maybe because once he thawed one out he realized they disagreed with his doctrine? I am not sure which serpentfolk in the AP are supposed to be these ancient ones, it's not clear that the major serpentfolk NPCs in the final two chapters are at all. Heck, the ancient serpentfolk might end up being allies of the party in the short term.
Anyway, in my mind this is a more interesting hook and outcome. Maybe Ydersius isn't really even all that LE, more LN but, you know, serpents are the master race... (Like Wastri the Hopping Prophet in Greyhawk.)