So, I ahd a huge battle in which the PCs took a big hit but survived. This gave Yarzoth enough time to escape to the Inner sanctum where she lies hidden. If the PCs figure she's up there with her notes, she'll vanish and try to impersonate one of the NPCs.
The question becomes, what will she do from now onwards?
Ideas are greatly apreciatted.
As far as I can tell, Yarzoth and Vyr-Azul either don't know about each other or else are rivals. Yarzoth will pay for some sendings in Eleder to try to recruit a group to get to Tazion only to find out that someone has stolen her thunder. I think she'll infiltrate one of the five caravans and try to beat Vyr-Azul to the eponymous skull.
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She survived in my campaign as well.
I am having her become the BBEG in the final adventure (replacing the current BBEG), as there are lots of places along the way for the PCs to develop a hate for her.
Example: The PCs had just finished building a boat when they had the final encounter with her. When she fled the fight with the PCs, she stole their boat.
Example: When the PCs arrived in Eleder, they had to hire a sage to put the texts into context (yes, some were fluent in Azlanti, but without a context, it is often hard to understand old texts). The Sage hired a new assistant after taking the PC's contract - Jeneviere. Once the translations were complete, she tried to kill him with a fire trap (got his housekeeper instead), which also set the sage's shop on fire. It took weeks for the sage to recreate what he had done before, and even then he didn't get all of it.
Example: She had one of Coil agents suggest to Umagro that the sage's death would help his people because if the colonials got ahold of the treasure from a lost Azlanti city, there was no way that their choke hold would be loosened. This Coil agent also planted a picture book on one of the dead freemen that had a picture of Dargan Etters (that was the last picture, the other pictures were scenes of wildlife or village life), to make it look like Etters had put the freemen up to "revolt".
She was hoping that the death of the sage would require them to go back to the Shiv, recopy everything, find a new sage and get a new translation (with the potential to plant a "coil" sage or kill the new sage when they were almost finished). This would take time, lots of time.
By planting the image of Etters, she was hoping to cause active conflict between two of the faction, the two strongest factions.
Example: In Tazion, Issilar will be one of her companions, who was left behind to figure a way to destroy the pillars of light, or to stop the PCs and other expeditions from using them.
I Like that. Anything to build paranoia is a good thing.