Gaedren expanded?! My players, stay out!!! SPOILERS for HR and COTCT

[Dryder]

I but this in a spoiler tag, as there are spoilers for the Hell's Rebels AP as well... Be warned!!!

Spoiler:

So, my players really started to hate Gaedren Lamm.
He managed to flee during the encounter at the Old Fishery.
As they searched through his belongings, they got the idea, that he might be undead, as everything was dirty and rotten down there in the old fishery, and they figured that nobody wants to live under such circumstances unless... well. They are not sure and also think, there might be more to him than just being an old man.
As I set him up as a huge crime boss in Korvosa, and now got the idea, to make him a bigger enemy in the campaign, as my players seem to have jumped on this idea.
He has connections with Devargo Barvasi (I also plan to use The House on Hook Street).

Now I got the idea, because I love some parts of the Hell's Rebels AP, to use stuff from that AP, especially the part about Barzilai, making Gaedren Lamm the one who wants to become a genius loci, but not to become one with the land, but one with Korvosa itself. I thought about his son, Rolth, being the one, who helped with the ritual.

I even used the Bells of the Tempel already, during the evolving Chaos, after the death of Eodred.

Even the Ruby Masquerade could be used (as a trap from Ileosa), or the Encounter with the bridge in AP #100, I think...

Anyway, I thought about this, and think it will work quite well, but as always, more minds make things better, so I wanted to ask around, what you guys think if this...

[JD Niemand]

I'd be careful about creating too many big threats. Ileosa is supposed to be the main villain - if you set Gaedren Lamm up with what was the plan of the main villain of another AP, you distract from the story. Also, does Gaedren really have the resources to go about something as huge as becoming a genius loci? Would Mephistopheles really give the time of day to some foul old man who never accomplished more than becoming a small-time crime boss?

[zimmerwald1915]

JD Niemand wrote:

Also, does Gaedren really have the resources to go about something as huge as becoming a genius loci? Would Mephistopheles really give the time of day to some foul old man who never accomplished more than becoming a small-time crime boss?

Hell's Rebels:

Never mind Mephistopheles. Korvosa doesn't have the mystic infrastructure to power Barzillai's ritual - namely an intact Soul Anchor.

If it did, Sorshen would surely have been the spirit of the land for the past ten thousand years, and Ileosa's shenanigans in the Sunken Queen wouldn't be necessary.