Hi all, I'm hoping someone might have some ideas/advice for tying Chapter 9 to the rest of the campaign. My group explored the upper part of Candlemere early in the game during hexploration, and have been super curious about it ever since, so I don't want to cut it. But I just feel like they're going to be disappointed by how completely disconnected it is from the rest of the campaign. In earlier chapters I managed to fit the Varnhold Vanishing and the Lamashtu cult a little more neatly into the rest of the adventure by tying threads back to Nyrissa, but I'm stumped on Candlemere. I feel like there's got to be a way, maybe tying it to the Lantern King since Candlemere is full of will-o-wisps, but I'm just completely coming up blank.
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Maybe the Lantern King feels Nyrissa has it going too easy and wants to spice things up by letting the PCs get a better fighting chance thanks to what they can find below Candlemere.
He might stir the will-o-wisps in a frenzy such that they start attacking people beyond their usual territory.
Or maybe he spreads rumors about this, maybe even in person.
Or both actually.