After reading through the first 3 books of the ap, I'm thinking about adding an npc to the campaign. Let's call him frank from now. Frank is an assassin from minkai, through unknown circumstances(I haven't thought that far ahead) he finds himself wearing a cursed amulet, forcing him to obay the orders of the five winds and their servants.
After the pcs defeat the frozen shadows in Karlsgard, Frank is sendt north with the remaining rozen shadows, to tell the five winds that the pcs are comming. He does not get far, as his party is attacked, and he is left for dead.
The pcs catch up to him, and being the kind souls they are (with some gentle nudging) save him and offer him a ride home to minkai. They (hopefully) bond, and by the time they pass the wall of heaven, there should be at least some surprise in eing betrayed by him.
As Frank is ordered to warn about the pcs (but noone said anything about hindering them), he leaves the caravan near an arbitrary tian town, and warns the five winds. They are somewhat unhappy to hear he has let the pcs arrive in tian xia, and a few nights later, he dies in a failed assassination of the players.
Frank is a monk(5)/ninja(3)/shadowdancer(3) who fights from the shadows with thrown weapons, uses hit and run tactics, or comes flying in from the shadows to put a full sneak attack flurry on targets flanked by his trusty shade.
Is this a terrible idea? Are there storylines from the last 3 books that do the same? Or have I missed something obvious?
