My players will start a task in the campaign which is: gather ingredients for BBEG to build a powerful artifact for Zariel.An orb, called "Purgatory" that will be able to contain countless souls.Zariel intends to use this artifact as a nuclear bomb in the blood war.
BBEG has the vile book of darkness, which supposedly contains instructions for building such an artifact.
Players will help BBEG, but with the sole purpose of taking control of the situation and gaining BBEG's trust so they can then destroy the orb and even BBEG.After all, if the PCs aren't looking for the ingredients, BBEG will send other people. (yes they don't need to do any of this, they can just sit and wait and destroy everything later, I will think about a more plausible cause for them to help later)
Okay, each ingredient of the artifact can work as a "side-quest" and can even be linked with the players' backgrounds.
I wanted help thinking of possible ingredients.What I thought so far:
Essense from Avernus (can be a rock or anything like that)
Your ingredients so far are fairly trivial, I would target things that actually need a high level party to accomplish. For example, a lich's phylactery.
Your ingredients so far are fairly trivial, I would target things that actually need a high level party to accomplish. For example, a lich's phylactery.
lich's phylactery is a good idea, but the party is currently level 4, maybe 6 when they start this
This is going to depend on the structure of your world. I like the idea of a "well of souls", where the souls of dead mortals are collected, then either sent along to their final reward or reborn. Some soul-substance form such a well would be appropriate. A tear of a god of death, or a dead god could work.
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My players will start a task in the campaign which is: gather ingredients for BBEG to build a powerful artifact for Zariel. An orb, called "Purgatory" that will be able to contain countless souls. Zariel intends to use this artifact as a nuclear bomb in the blood war.
BBEG has the vile book of darkness, which supposedly contains instructions for building such an artifact.
Players will help BBEG, but with the sole purpose of taking control of the situation and gaining BBEG's trust so they can then destroy the orb and even BBEG. After all, if the PCs aren't looking for the ingredients, BBEG will send other people. (yes they don't need to do any of this, they can just sit and wait and destroy everything later, I will think about a more plausible cause for them to help later)
Okay, each ingredient of the artifact can work as a "side-quest" and can even be linked with the players' backgrounds.
I wanted help thinking of possible ingredients. What I thought so far:
Your ingredients so far are fairly trivial, I would target things that actually need a high level party to accomplish. For example, a lich's phylactery.
lich's phylactery is a good idea, but the party is currently level 4, maybe 6 when they start this
The blood of an immortal's always a good one.
This is going to depend on the structure of your world. I like the idea of a "well of souls", where the souls of dead mortals are collected, then either sent along to their final reward or reborn. Some soul-substance form such a well would be appropriate. A tear of a god of death, or a dead god could work.