Kingdom Building in Drezen

[laraqua]

So I've been rolling two random events a week to represent how quickly things change in Drezen and one of the things I rolled up is the following:

New Subjects: A small group of indigenous intelligent creatures joins your kingdom and submits to your rule. Society and Stability increase by 1, Unrest decreases by 1, and your Treasury increases by 1d6 BP (each time you roll a 6, add the result to the total and roll again).

I'm not sure where to go from here. I don't want to introduce new tieflings (as they have enough) and having read The Worldwound Gambit it's highly unlikely most cultists would have the wherewithal to defect.

I've considered having them be ifrits from a nearby settlement (as there's so much lava and thus the possibility of elementals), exhausted crusaders who didn't even realise the Worldwound collapsed and have made it east from somewhere west, exhausted tribesmen who've done the same, or even a bunch of refugees who were held in the slave pits before the main demonic forces from Drezen fled and who were locked up in the caverns, necessitating all kinds of terrible choices.

What do you reckon? Any ideas?

[Thrandr]

I don't know how much time has passed in your campaign. In my campaign the PCs' fame is spreading and so they inspire "fanclubs" to form. Basically teenagers, young folks, former adventurers, city guards and such taking up arms, training and either setting out for Drezen or asking the PCs for funding/means of transport (of course, some con artists in amongst the monetary requests). Some of those fans could be from Mendev, if you count Mendev as being close enough by Drezen for inhabitants there to be "indigenous" (I'd say it is).

Other than that, lots of refugees from Kenabres. Drezen is the one safe place really with The Sword of Valor. The refugees know this.

[Mortagon]

I suggest you tie the newcomers to the pc's. If there is a paladin, fighter, cavalier or similar martial character, perhaps a group of knights come and offer their aid to the pc's. If there is a cleric or oracle maybe pilgrims and other religious people come to see the miracles the pc performs for themselves etc.

When I rolled this event I had a group of Green faith devotees come to help restore Sarkoris. They had heard about a legendary druid performing miracles in the Worldwound (one of the player characters). The next time I roll it I have plans to have cloud giants (lead by a giant the characters met in a random encounter)come to offer their aid in the crusades.

[laraqua]

I'm running it solo with a gestalt monk-bard tiefling who worships Shelyn. There are other main characters but they're Dragon Age style. In other words, helper NPCs who I control in roleplay but he controls in combat.

I did consider a bunch of tiefling and human deserters from CE armies legitimately decide to try and join his kingdom, but they don't understand being good and get it wrong.

Like bringing hostages as a tithe, or having chopped off prisoner hands, or torturing their commanders and burning them as effigies to show their change in devotion.