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My PCs have taken their time on the plot-line where someone is framing a medusa. I got recommendations from this forum that perhaps Brelish agents were to blame but now I am wondering if it would work to have the Boromar clan be responsible. They would see increasing acceptance of Droamm citizens as a threat because they want to keep the heat on the Daask. Thoughts?

I am still working on the plot around the Medusa student at Morgrave that is being framed. I'd like her to eventually be able to be a party member played by an intermittent player. But being a Medusa is OP. I was thinking of maybe making her unable to petrify. Or just really weak at it like she would need to hold your gaze for like a half hour. I have seen mention that some Medusa are more powerful so it would stand to reason that some are less powerful. Maybe the reason her parents sent her to MU was that she was an embarrassment or was being picked on. Thoughts?

So I have a Medusa student (N) at Morgrave who is there to study poly-sci because her mother wants her to work in the embassy district to improve relations with Cazhaak Draal in Droaam. (Haven't decided yet whether her mother is actually Queen Sheshka)

I decided that N would be framed and had an incident in the library where a gnome librarian was petrified and a "witness" claimed that they saw it happen. (I was planning on having the witness be the actual culprit -perhaps a changeling assassin type) Before she could be brought to the Garrison, N jumped off the skybridge and told a PC that she would be hiding in Malleon's gate. (which I think is too obvious and Gasslak will tell her to hide among the refugees in High Walls)

I figure there is an organization that wants to ruin or prevent relations with Droaam. Perhaps one of the daughters of Sora Kell is not pleased with Sheshka's independence. But I'm not sure about that because one of them is linked to the Daask and they don't want to upset the applecart. One of the dragonmarked houses could be responsible because they are losing business to independent Droaamish mercenaries. Could be the Boromar clan but I don't want to go that route for other plot reasons. The Daask is contaminating the Dreamlily supply with Dragonsblood but the Boromars don't know that yet. It could be members of the Pure Flame leveraging The Argentum. The Dreaming Dark? Emerald Claw? Lords of Dust?

I'm not sure what to choose there, but more problematic is the mechanism by which N was framed. I suppose it could be another medusa, but a hooded figure walking through campus probably would have been noticed. I was OG thinking about something I read in City of Towers where Lei hypothesizes that someone had a basilisk eye embedded in their hand. But when i asked the Google machine it said that the characters had only been hypothesizing that scenario. I skimmed ahead in the book but don't see an answer to that.

So how would you do it?

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I've been trying to wrap my head around the Eberron cosmology. On the wiki I see that there is the Material Plane and then there is the Astral Plane, Ethereal Plane, and the Shadow Plane. Then it says, "In turn, thirteen other planes of existence lie within the Astral Plane and orbit the Material Plane." One of these planes is Mabar, the endless night which other sources say is in the Shadow Plane, not the Astral Plane. Are there Planes within Planes? It's all rather confusing to me.

I imagine a student at Morgrave puts a coded flyer up on the Skybridge. Maybe using Race of the 8 winds mounts and other clues as to location. It’s in the middle or lower levels -some place with minimal watch but not too much criminal activity. Or maybe a warehouse in cliffside. Maybe some kids with wealthy parents payed of the watch or hired private security. What kind of music would they listen to? What other things would go on besides the obvious Dreamlily?

I know there are threads where people ask about shopping and the answer is a variation on “you can find anything.” I’m a fan of the very flavorful shops like the ones in Critical Role (Eg Pumot Sol’s). Had anyone made or found shops that have that kind of depth?

TLDR: a forged PC from before they were warforged that protected princess Cyre was disillusioned and left. They ended up losing their memory and were taken in by the Druids and the Fey. Now the Lord of Blades wants them to remember in hopes of rekindling that loss of faith.

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My camping I just started has a warforged PC and we came up with this back story riffing off of Anthony Hopkins’s character in Rebel Moon:

“You are as old as the kingdom. Two years after the military genius King Galifar united the nations of Khorvaire under his rule he appointed his children as governors of the provinces of the new kingdom. To his eldest daughter Cyre, he gave the kingdom of Metrol which was renamed to Cyre and as a coronation gift he had his royal artificers forge you out of golden hued adamantine, wood, and leather. Cyre's vision was grand: the previously warring nations working together as a single family: Karrnathi might, Daskari faith, and the wisdom of Thaliost working together for the greater good. Cyre's motto was “What our dreams imagine, our hands create.” With this vision, Cyre became the jewel in the kingdom of Galifar's crown.
You loved Cyre for her vision, her fairness, and her beauty and you vowed to protect her and her heirs as they governed from the Vermishard Palace in the former city of Metrol, the "City of Making". After King Galifar stepped down, Cyre ascended to the throne setting the precedent that whoever ruled Cyre was next in the line of succession, and you formed and captained the Queensguard which was a small group of 'Forged meant to serve and protect.
For hundreds of years you served the royal family in this capacity while tensions among the nations of Galifar slowly grew. Seeing a war on the horizon, the artificers of House Cannith began to produce the "warforged." They had your likeness but were clearly created for war. You were not OK with this. Your kind was not meant to create violence you were made to prevent it, and one night you slipped away into the dark leaving your legacy behind.
Your plan was to travel to the Demon Wastes to fight alongside the Ghaash'kala Orcs preventing evil from leaving the cursed lands and making its way into Khorvaire. Shortly before your destination you passed through the forests of the Eldeen Reaches and entered the manifest zone for the Fey plane of Thelanis reaching Shae Loralyndar, also known as the City of Rose and Thorn. Struck by the beauty of Thelanis and its isolation from the tensions between the peoples of Khorvaire, you remained there for many years eventually serving as an advisor to the Queen of Rose and Thorn in the Feyspire of Shan Loralyndar. You became her liaison to the Greensinger Druids who had a close relation with the Fey.
One day, something happened (The day of Mourning) and you were cut off from Thelanis. Because time is different in Thelanis, you instantly aged almost a hundred years. The shock to your organic components was too great, the wood and leather deteriorating instantly and you fell into a deep catatonic state until you were found a few years later by the Greenspire Druids.
Because of your service to them, the druids brought you back using their magics to grow new wood and organic fibers to give you life. Unlike your previous body, this one had living components and it was not uncommon for leaves, etc to sprout from your body. You were a creature of both construction and nature. You began to study with the Druids”.

Now the PC has lost their memory and is in Morgrave U in Sharn trying to find a way to remember. I am thinking two significant plot arcs here:

1. the PC has a docent they are unaware of. They will first get a clue when someone brings them to a Kalashtar to try to do a mind meld type deal like the one done in Keith Baker’s City of Towers.

2. In thinking that the person that is helping the PC is believed by the university to be a warforged staff member but is actually serving the lord of blades. They want the PC to remember their disillusionment so they can turn them against the biologicals.

Thoughts?

Second attempt at sharing this.

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