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Ideas - Nine Celestials

The Nine Celestials make a great slot-in solution for a campaign in Maldor in that they’re very simple to bring in: one or more of the group just need to get involved with a player character. This can happen when a character stumbles upon one of their artifacts they are trying to regain, or when they want to initiate a player character into the Nine, or simply when a familiar secondary character is revealed to be a member.

A player character can also be a member of the Nine himself, no problem. The big issue for them in that case is genuineness: do they really believe in the Sun King theology, or are they just in it because the conspiracy can help them wield power themselves? If the latter, how do they react to co-conspirators who genuinely believe, not only in the Sun King, but in him? If the former, what about co-conspirators who obviously have other interests?

Also, let’s say that Gwangju has witnessed a player character do something that makes him think that we have a Sun King here. Do you really think that the next thing to happen isn’t a series of murders, as either the prospective Sun King and his supporters, his opponents or ingenuine conspirators, or everybody for that matter, get killed? They have done it before, and they will do it again.