Spoilers! Look out!
Currently running Kingmaker and the players are sinking their teeth into Rivers Run Red. I've spent a good amount of time researching problems with the AP, including the lack of foreshadowing (or at least enough) for The Big Bad.
I saw the Abandoned Elven Keep and saw a good opportunity to throw the players some clues. The idea I have brewing is taking out the Dancing Lady and replacing her with a long dead corpse of some creature from the First World (preferably fey).
Her defaced and partially destroyed journal provides some clues to her death.
- This creature had a lover and the two flaunted their relationship. They were well-known within the First World because of this, and as a result, there were many who were jealous of their love for one another.
- There are fearful accounts of an estranged but powerful being who tormented her by killing her soulmate and promised to eventually end her as well. She escaped to the material plane and hid within the keep.
Essentially, Nyrissa became jealous and took out her frustrations of being unable to love on this creature who had an exemplary soulmate. She killed her man and chased her into the material plane, finally ending her with a slay living spell. The idea here is to hint to the PC's that there is a powerful being from the First World, that for reasons of jealousy, pursued this creature into the Material Plane and likely killed her.
My biggest issue however, is deciding what Nyrissa's victim is creature-wise. Nymph seems like an obvious option, but I wanted something with more flair. Any recommendations? Also, does this sound like a good idea in general?
It's starting to look like a Lilend Azata, at the moment.
Seems like a workable method to me. Like the playing up of Nyrissa's inability to love driving her to more and more depraved actions to lash out.