Braininthejar2
2016-10-12, 02:45 PM
My Baldur's Gate 2 saga continues.
The player is about to meet Nyalee, and I wanted to shift things around a bit.
Original game version: Nyalee was Yaga Shura's foster mother - she taught him a spell that now makes him immortal, putting his heart out of his chest and setting it on magical fire that keeps revitalising him. He stole her own heart, to nerf her powers and prevent her from undoing the ritual. She sends the party to recover both hearts, giving her back her power, and rendering Yaga Shura mortal, then predictably turns on them when recovering her heart makes her emotionally unstable.
My version: the mechanism of Yaga Shura's immortality is a bit different - he has a power to feed on fire as his bhaalspawn ability, and the spell displaces his heart into a nearby volcano, making him an absurdly advanced version of trouserfang dwarf. Nyalee knows exactly where it is - in return for her heart she'll share her knowledge of how to disrupt the ritual. When the party assaults the volcanic temple, Yaga Shura will be informed - he'll telepot with his retinue, facing the party in a climactic battle over a lake of lava.
What my plan needs is some place to put Nyalee's heart in - it can't be on Yaga Shura's person, because then he'd know right away it was gone. And it shouldn't be in the same temple as his heart, because it wouldn't be interesting to raid the same place twice.
Do you have any interesting ideas?
The player is about to meet Nyalee, and I wanted to shift things around a bit.
Original game version: Nyalee was Yaga Shura's foster mother - she taught him a spell that now makes him immortal, putting his heart out of his chest and setting it on magical fire that keeps revitalising him. He stole her own heart, to nerf her powers and prevent her from undoing the ritual. She sends the party to recover both hearts, giving her back her power, and rendering Yaga Shura mortal, then predictably turns on them when recovering her heart makes her emotionally unstable.
My version: the mechanism of Yaga Shura's immortality is a bit different - he has a power to feed on fire as his bhaalspawn ability, and the spell displaces his heart into a nearby volcano, making him an absurdly advanced version of trouserfang dwarf. Nyalee knows exactly where it is - in return for her heart she'll share her knowledge of how to disrupt the ritual. When the party assaults the volcanic temple, Yaga Shura will be informed - he'll telepot with his retinue, facing the party in a climactic battle over a lake of lava.
What my plan needs is some place to put Nyalee's heart in - it can't be on Yaga Shura's person, because then he'd know right away it was gone. And it shouldn't be in the same temple as his heart, because it wouldn't be interesting to raid the same place twice.
Do you have any interesting ideas?