Andra's Idea Emporium

A mustering ground for early ideas that don't quite fit in any other category yet. Sketches are kept in physical form and will be uploaded to the appropriate pages when they are more than a few squiggly lines on a piece of paper.

People and Intruigue

 * Head of town hires and outside party to attack the town, making it look like a barbarian attack or something, so that he can raise 'defence taxes'.  Perhaps his real reason for raising taxes isn't simple greed; someone he knows is ill or some other thing that needs lots of money.
 * Someone important (Evil Ash Legion Guy...Ranaghast?) fakes their death in a way that lays blame on an enemy/opponent of theirs.  Miraculously, the 'assasination' plot fails and the not-dead person now has their opponent out of the way.
 * There is a reasonable civilazation on the southern continent, however, they are being overrun by kraken cultists (or otherwise too occupied to really make forrays to the other contitnents).
 * An inn keeper or some other individual is hiding a non-human/magical being from the locals.  This person/thing is hiding from the locals' persecutive attentions but is simply trying to live or is trying to make it's way onto something greater i.e. it has a quest of its own.  This is similar to the changeling baby Dungeon Mistress outcome (changeling is not inherently evil).
 * Powerful man or woman in a position of power.  They are terminally ill, or fatally cursed, and use their position to enact a plan to trade their citizens/town to the Necromancer for an escape from their nearing death. -or- This person has kidnapped or captured a powerful person to act as a potent sacrifice.  The kidnapper person is dying and so they have nothing to loose and are mad with power and fear and are liable to hap-hazardly summon evil forces.

Places

 * Concerning the Forge Master: the Forge Master is known to inhabit the mountain known as Cloudhenge, the most mighty of mountains in the Gloam (or Golem, or something) Range.  Cloudhenges forge is located at the top of the mountain in its caldera.  With his knowledge of materials and engineering, and with powerful and clever magic (perhaps provided by a High Enchanter?), the Forge of Cloudhenge is heated by the molten blood of Morana.  The caldera is mostly covered with a dome shaped stone roof with a hole in the center of the dome to let out heat and smoke, and to let the occasional lightning bolt in (forging powerful items sometimes requires powerful forces).  There are springs that supply cool fresh water for drinking and for metalworking i.e. quenching.   While not truly immortal, the Forge Master has lived much longer than any normal man would expect to (blood of Numenor sort of thing) and has dedicated his life to mastring his craft.
 * The Magehold stands vigilant atop a plateu, overlooking the Bay of Threfall, and houses the greatest magical minds of Arnast.  The Magehold of Threfall is the center of magical lore, power, and research in the kingdom and is home to the High Enchanter (does he haff a name?).  All manner of magical research and education occurs within the stone halls of the hold: there are numerous laboratories, libraries, living quarters, and storage rooms throughout the tower to accomodate visitors and residents alike, though visitors don't typically stay in the tower, preferring instead to enjoy the many taverns and inns of Threfall.  The tower is constructed of granite brought from the surrounding mountains and an extensive basement system has been hewn out of the stone beneath the tower.  The hold is supported financially by the resident mages; inventions (simple plumbing and heating?) and meeting the magical needs of the residents of Threfall and other cities throughout the kingdom.

Happenings

 * People are having visions (visions of what?).  This might preclude a large move by Modegeir...or the Librarian. The Librarian is immortal and also is going crazy. Perhaps he wants to become a god (like Elenor in Bioshock 2 i.e. gain all the knowlegde and become omnicient, beneficent diety).
 * Southern Kingdoms.  They are doing something.  Marriage/alliance thing between Silver King and
 * You have mentioned the New Continent (the Splinter Isles?) A Souther Kingdom prince (king to be) is in love with a native of the new continent.  Perhaps another prince (merchant princes of the southern trading kingdoms?) is after trading alliances or something.  They both can have very good reasons for wanting to obtain the native person as a spouse (perhaps the native is a male and they are merchant princesses?<--might be a good character for the delicate, but not-acutally-that delicate female character).

Secrets

 * Not a secret, but, who was the Kings wife? Could she have been a barbarian outcast or some other thing exotic?

Enemies/monsters

 * Grackle
 * Wat/watt/woht