The Admiral wrote:I looked this up after the reference in the Gargoyle thread. Very impressive. I've been looking for a quest for my Barbarian and his team that brings in Halfling henchmen, and this starts close enough to the moot to tie it into our storyline. I especially like the oblique reference to Balur as he is the basis of the Wizard Quest Pack I'm designing which will be the next quest for my Wizard and his group.
I have a couple of questions. One technical, the other just curiosity. Are the Chaos Fury mind attacks ranged or do they need to be adjacent to make them? And what is the name of the city that the ill fated evil sorcerer takes over (Quests 7-9)? I quite like the fact that he is the heroes focus for three quests. They never meet him and then find him dead at the end. Nice storyline.
Haha, thanks! Did you notice anything
familiar about the layout of The Crags of Black Fire? I copied the layout of Balur's original Quest for the first half of the Quest, right up until you get to the room with the armored Fimir, and the room with the Fire Spell scrolls is implied to contain all the furniture from his Escape destination, hastily shoved out of the way to make room for the Orcs' forge.
Hm, it seems I never named the city that the ill-fated sorcerer takes over. I may have to fix that at some point. I suppose there's no reason why it can't be the city of Kurst itself, with the Acropolis being relatively close by, which would also explain why the sorcerer keeps the gates barred (i.e. to keep out Bane's Death Knights). I'm not 100% sold on that explanation yet, but it will do for now.
The Chaos Furies have to be adjacent to initiate their Mind attacks.
I actually always intended for the character of Bane, the aspiring necromancer-turned-lich, to be the theme bridging together these otherwise unconnected storylines. I don't explain it in the lore as such, but the correct implication of his appearances in Quests 3, 5 and 9 is that he's looking for the arcane ingredients required to finish the lich relic you destroy in #12. The sorcerer had the dark sphere, so Bane killed him to get it: Chaos at its finest.