Strange Aeons New NPCs

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Introduction

In order to tie the players into the narrative better, I introduced two new NPCs. These directly tie multiple player characters to the events prior to the start of the campaign.

ZaphirA Lowls

The younger sister of Count Hasteron Lowls IV, and the result of Namira Lowls affair with Clymes Prett. Despite her family, Zaphira was a beautiful and innocent young woman, albeit easily manipulated.

In 4713, Haserton convinced his sister to take part in a ritual to contact Yog-Sothoth. This went horribly wrong and Zaphira was impregnated by Yog-Sothoth. Three weeks later, she gave birth to twins, though “birth” may not be the correct term, as the infants tore themselves from her womb, killing her in the process.

The twins were a Child of Yog-Sothoth (see Module 5) and a Spawn of Yog-Sothoth. The Spawn features in Module 4, and the Child is an excellent player character option (Blunder).

The players never meet Zaphira, as she died three years before the campaign starts, but she is integral to the events that followed.

Arthur Bennett

Arthur Bennett is a fellow student of the esoteric to Count Lowls. This NPC is inspired by the HPL story “The Thing on the Doorstep”.

Arthur has been seeking immortality for generations, and has partially succeeded. He has learned to how mind-swap with others, and thus can replace his aging and failing body with fresh, youthful ones. However, his process is flawed; unless the subject of the mind-swap is a direct descendant of his own, the body that he inhabits starts to rot within a few weeks. His escaped son is another player character option (William).

Arthur was performing experiments to overcome this limitation. In order to perform these experiments, he needed an ongoing supply of pubescent children. Count Lowls assigned Weiralai to aid him, along with her lackey Klyn Murik (see Module 2). Together they kidnapped dozens of children across the country, often murdering their families.