| pennywit |
My players recently visited a library in Pitax, where they learned that Briar is in Whiterose Abbey as well as some of the story behind it. I'm going to have to rebuild the Whiterose Abbey dungeon for my campaign. As I do, I want to share some of what I do here.
Some things to note here:
1) My players are mythic and higher level than the vanilla KM Whiterose Abbey. I'm going to adjust encounters to compensate.
2) My players have joined forces with Irovetti against Nyrissa and other fey. The new Whiterose Abbey will reflect this change.
3) Pitax's capital and some outlying areas have been taken over by forces of D'Kara, an Erlking who guards the Castle of Knives with a fey army and his court. D'Kara works for Nyrissa because his consort, a hamadryad, is a prisoner within the Fable.
4) D'Kara's regent in Pitax is a powerful [seilenos](http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/fey/seilenos/). My players have met him once and they know he's powerful, but not how powerful.
5) I'm looking to incorporate some of the social challenges from Ultimate Intrigue alongside the library rules. In the former, I plan to set up things so Briar could be awarded in a social challenge or in a combat challenge.
I envision Whiterose Abbey as something of a race between three factions:
Nyrissa's faction does not know where Briar is, but it's reasonable they have spies gathering information about both D'Kara's people and the PCs. Faeries are very tricksy that way. They're going to cotton to Whiterose Abbey because the PCs or D'Kara's people are closing in on it. I think I'm going to have Phomandala leading this faction. I kind of like remaking her as an oracle with the dragon mystery (perhaps tying in with Ituliak!) I think she'd be accompanied by some suitably horrifying dragon crossbreeds.
This faction's agenda:
* Retrieve Briar.
* Destroy any relevant information about Nyrissa that it can find.
D'Kara's faction would be represented by the seilenos and some minions -- satyrs, treants, and maybe a drake or a zomok to round things out.
This faction's agenda:
* Retrieve Briar
* Prevent Nyrissa's faction from gaining Briar without seeming to prevent it.