Plot Hook Help - tying in players backstory.

[LogantheBard]

Hi Community! I’m converting RoW to 5e, and we’re having our first session later this week. I have 2 players with backstories in mind, but I don’t know to give them specific RoW tie-ins, so they can hopefully resolve those personal story arcs.

The first is a Vengeance Paladin or Arodel. He was abandoned by his mother at a monastery devoted to Aroden, and raised by the scholars there. As he approached young adulthood, some powerful noble man razed the monastery, and the PC was one of the few that survived. I need the the person who razed the temple to have some tie-ins with RoW. Would it make sense that a White Witch would have travelled to Taldorn for that? Maybe there was some book with information about Baba Yaga that needed to be destroyed or kept secret?

The second is a Hexblade warlock. He happened upon a book that taught him to summon his blade. But since there is no Shadowfell equivalent in Golarian, perhaps he the sword was summoned from one of the locations the players will soon visit. Or was even used in one of the rebellions against Baba Yaga in the past.

Let me know your thoughts!

[Ectar]

go away PCs!:

Unlike most winter witches in Irrisen, Radosek Pavril claims no direct bloodline linking him to the Jadwiga descended from Baba Yaga. Instead, he was stolen from his family in Taldor at the age of 4 by a White Witch of Irrisen, and magically transported to the icy north as tribute for a service rendered to his late father— a foolish Taldan noble whose ambitions in Oppara ended in bloody disgrace
despite the deal he cut with the White Witch.

You could easily slightly tweak Radosek's backkstory to include a temple razing. Perhaps, depending on relative ages between Radosek and the PC, they could be from the same monastery (If the PC is younger)