Last night I finally got around to run the Gyronna's Cult event from KM2. We are currently between KM3 and KM4, just didn't have the chance to run it before.
The event started two month after the first son was born to the Ruler of the Kingdom. A cult member was identified in their newest town, but being paranoid they told the Spymaster (NPC) to look into things in the larger towns beginning with their Capital. Of course, the Spymaster unearthed the local Cult and they had a showdown, with the leader teleporting away.
I took the stats for the Black Sisters and gave them to Goody raising her to level 11 so that she will have Word of Recall, once things got south she teleported away and they will face her again in Armag's Tomb... or maybe somewhere else?
Now, Goody was the main Midwife for the Capital these past 2 years or so. She delivered many babies, among them the Ruler's fresh heir and the Councilors baby as well. From their investigations into the cult, the party knows that the cult switches babies from time to time, but currently believes they only switch females Changelings... but of course, anything can happen.
So... what about the babies? do i leave it at that? have them discover a baby among the Tigerlords (give to them for safe keeping by the Black Sisters) which is clearly not a Tigerlord?
What mischief and torments can i bring upon my "parent" PCs (even if it's all dark images they conjure-up thinking of what might happen)?
Cheers,
-arnon
Well, the obvious motivation would be to steal the ruler's heir and replace it with some peasant's son. And allowing the cult's puppet to claim the throne of the PC's kingdom. Not really original but, still, a lot of drama potential, if the enemy is in fact the PC's own stolen brain-washed child.
Depends on how much in-game time you want to use for it.
After say 16 years ingame, you could indeed go "I am the true heir of the realm!", backed up by proof and a sister in black. Would be interesting to see it play out :)
This is a bit outside of the scope of what you're asking for, but in my game I had a character's sister impregnated by the Horned Hunter (secretly, she didn't exactly remember who it was). Said sister then fell in with the cult of Gyronna, and would have given birth there but the sister (PC) intervened and... uh... killed her sister, along with the rest of the cultists. Kind of a psychotic PC.
Anyways, the child survived, and will come for his son at some point (in addition to the sword)