I am definitely thinking of running Carrion Hill before Wake of the Watcher and am looking to help foreshadow some of the plots and themes found within these two module. My group is currently halfway through Broken Moon, and as soon as I finalize some details about the journey through Ardis, we plan to continue. Some of these details will involve the Outer Gods, leylines, and aspects of the ancient Kellid rituals, which will invariably tie in with the two, title-mentioned beings. With two cults dedicated to super-evil, other-worldly entities, I'm curious about overlap between the two. Questions for anyone:
1)Are the two cults aware of each other?
2)Does one cult have any goals that would help or overlap with the other? It seems like Yog-Sothoth cultists want to unleash all of the Old Ones, which I think includes SN.
3)How would these goals interact with those of the Whispering Way? I already came up with something about Leylines,, but if anyone has come up with anything else, I'd be curious to hear about it.
Thanks!
one thing I am doing is after book 2, i'm running the module carrion hill. One of the key people in the module is from the area that book 4 is located at. carrion Hill is an old cult type module and just having the one guy from the same area as the book 4 area, i'm using that person as a springboard to foreshadow the events in book 4.
but to answer ur questions.
1. I'm pretty sure they are aware of each other, but they are secret cults. As long as they stay away from each other and don't interact, they imo would ignore each other.
2. That's a good question. They both do harm to areas but for different reasons. WW will do harm to an area to strengthen the undead population or to lesser the living population for more undead. OC will do harm to an area either bc of the influence of an entity, or simply to cause enough mental harm for either information or to get attention for a blessing.
3. I'm sure they would clash. IMO the WW is about transcending life to live on thru death, so their focus would be ending life so that it can continue in the undead. OC are basically doom days cults, which basically just want to see the world and everything to end completely.
So while the OC and WW would fine with causing trouble, the reasons behind said actions is where they would problemly clash.