Trying to fit PC background related twist for last chapter [SPOILERS]


Rise of the Runelords


Back again to pick your brain for ideas! This time with a PC that was introduced late (in Runeforge) to the campaign. The player of this PC is also new to our campaign, but as the hobby is all about having fun, I figured we could make it work.

His character is a Dimensional Occultist Witch, whom Patron (via Ratling familiar Mr. Jenkins) is whispering to her ear about a Great Tome of Mysteries, lost in history, that she should find for reasons unknown to her (or known to me either at this point). She is in manic search of that book and is trusting her Patron to guide her teleporting as she is trying to imagine places where such book could be hidden. A lot of mishaps happen and she ends up places, like Runeforge, but she has now gained enough knowledge to be certain that whatever she is searching, should be hidden in Xin-Shalast.

Now first thought of mine was to have her patron be Mhar, who is guiding her to release him from his slumber.. But as a first time GM I don't know how I would go about awakening a slumbering mountain.. And what that would require and how should I let the players know what is about to happen before the PC reads a verse in a book and unleashes the beast. Another version I have in my head, is that there is no book but Mhar is using her to guide rest of the group to destroy the "Occlusion Field" and have her accidentally do this when they defeat Karzoug.

I also know that the player himself is big on all that Lovecraft, and so I was looking if any of the other Great Old ones would make sense as a Patron, but as myself have very limited knowledge of Lovecraftian twists, I wouldn't know where to go with that either..

Last idea is to have her find a book that grants Mythic Powers (other PCs have those, didn't want to confuse new player with them and gave her bigger PB instead), but that feels like a veeeeery cheap twist. But then I keep wondering if I should keep it simple as we are closing in to finish the campaign.

But I'm open for any cool ideas!


Perhaps the power he seeks to unleash is the Oliphaunt of Janderlay, easily ties into Rise of the Runelords (It's in the continuing the campaign at the end of the AE).


Weeeeell.. Not like the answer was already in the book! :D

That is most likely where I even subconsciously got the idea for that Mhar scenario in the first place. Reading those pages 1,5 yaers ago.

Thanks for pointing it out! :)


Maybe make the book the Codex of the Infinite Planes (Artifacts and Legends pg. 18)?


Now that book is just brutal.. And exactly the kind of silliness the player might be expecting. I might want to tone down it a bit so that his campaign doesn't end right before the end, but certainly keeping some of it and maybe even combine the insanity with visions of the Oliphaunt.

Thanks for that! Exactly the kind of minor detail that I wasn't aware of and couldn't think to find.

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