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Is he based on the Sewer King from the Batman Animated Series episode "The Underdwellers"? I always thought so, as he seems really similar other than not living in a sewer (namely, he has a bunch of runaway kids as his slaves and even has a pet alligator.) Between this and Jolistina, I suspect one of the writers is a pretty big Batman fan.
It might also simply be the fact that Gotham is a big "rich eat the poor" kinda city and Korvosa is that way too.
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Feels more like Fagin to me, leaning into the darker aspects of the character...
Doesn't help that Blackjack is basically Bruce Wayne.
My players back when I ran this was losing their mind and kept expecting Rolth Lamm to come back as the Joker after falling in a vat of disease in the last stretch of Book 2 (I forgot the exact circumstances).
My players back when I ran this was losing their mind and kept expecting Rolth Lamm to come back as the Joker after falling in a vat of disease in the last stretch of Book 2 (I forgot the exact circumstances).
It turns out that falling into a pool of necromancy juice is the exact instructions for becoming a Lich, and he comes back after Scarwall has been cleared of Mithrodar to claim the castle as his own.
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I think he's mostly inspired by the character The Thiefmaker, from the novel The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch. I HIGHLY recommend the book, it's excellent, and a really good primer for GM'ing CotCT - the AP as many elements in it inspired by that book.
I think he's mostly inspired by the character The Thiefmaker, from the novel The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch. I HIGHLY recommend the book, it's excellent, and a really good primer for GM'ing CotCT - the AP as many elements in it inspired by that book.
Two of my players separately said the same thing!
I can't find the quote, but one sent me a line out of the book that talked about a drug that was essentially the same as Shiver.
I think he's mostly inspired by the character The Thiefmaker, from the novel The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch. I HIGHLY recommend the book, it's excellent, and a really good primer for GM'ing CotCT - the AP as many elements in it inspired by that book.Two of my players separately said the same thing!
I can't find the quote, but one sent me a line out of the book that talked about a drug that was essentially the same as Shiver.
The Thiefmaker takes in orphans and trains them to be thieves (which is Oliver Twist - Dickens).
The parallels are all over. For example there's a character in the book called Vencarlo Barsavi!
They also cut the bridges to part of the city that has a plague outbreak, to quarantine it. The area is called 'The Narrows'.