I'm getting set to GM a RL RotRL (AE version).
One of my players wants to be a weaponsmith and enchanter. He has a background of coming from a (noble) family who have made powerful, even legendary, weapons for generations. he also to the Merchant Family campaign trait, and so is related to one of the Sandpoint founders, so I'm suspecting he's a cousin...sister of one of the founders married into his family.
I'd like to use an established Golarion family if possible.
Any recommendations?
Hrm... no actual families leap to mind. I think it might be somewhat irregular for a noble family to do anything so... common... as blacksmith work. I could see crafting magic items if they were members of one of the more magic minded societies like Nex perhaps...
There's a family with lineage full of arcane casters, where creating magical weapons could fit, but they're founders of Magnimar (and are living there), not Sandpoint.
@DM: In most cases, yes. Still, all of the Sandpoint families still work at their mercantile business. So it's not that far off a possibility. Also, the weaponsmith family doesn't have to be nobility, just to have married into one of the Sandpoint founding families.
@Ashkar: Hm. See, the backstory is that the PC is under a curse, possibly linked to the awakening of the runewells, but also due to a member of his family making a deal with an outsider (selling him to it). I thought about using House Darvengian, but he'll want to confront the family at some point, rather than have them pre-wiped out, as it were.
Of course, there's no need for his family to be tied to Magnimar, they just need to be able to be linked to Sandpoint. I can always come up with options and names, but I'd prefer using a name already tied to Golarion.
Maybe a branch of Darvengian family that lives outside, but near Sandpoint? Or maybe you could just modify Foxglow family. Vorel could easily sell the soul of a future kin, for another piece for his phylactery. He even may try to posses the wounded PC, when Aldern will be killed.
Play it as a battle of two great souls, with some speech from Vorel about his evil plans to become immortal.
Maybe a branch of Darvengian family that lives outside, but near Sandpoint? Or maybe you could just modify Foxglow family. Vorel could easily sell the soul of a future kin, for another piece for his phylactery. He even may try to posses the wounded PC, when Aldern will be killed.
Play it as a battle of two great souls, with some speech from Vorel about his evil plans to become immortal.
I like this. I'd already considered adding to the Founding Families to include the Foxgloves...after all, they're already located out there, so this could work. :)