✘ Previously unknown, Lady Messalina and her faction of undead and high-level magicians ask the Senate of Ephes to hand over the armies of the Hand so that she might free enslaved undead elsewhere. In exchange, she offers Ephes all the territories she conquers from the undead Brotherhood and its ally, Matthias.
✘ Messalina advocates for peaceful distance between the living and the undead. She owns territories farther south where the undead may retreat, if they cannot coexist with the living.
✘ The Lady's forces are minimally hierarchic and reside outside of Ephes, occupying — with the Senate's blessing — some of the summer villas held by senators, while the Senate considers her proposal. Characters may reside here.
✘ Accustoming to local habits, Messalina holds regular dinners and parties that are less attended because of general hesitations about sharing spaces with the dead. Her living and living-passing emissaries are accepted in Ephes' high society.
✘ Party members infiltrate Messalina's couterie by passing for the advisors and political experts she recruited from abroad to help with her lawful campaign to gain the Senate's support. She is open — and tasks her supporters — to coax, bribe and even blackmail as due to gain the necessary votes to secure her army.
✘ All characters in Messalina's service may optionally have an escort of up to two sentient and speaking hell hounds while carrying out the Lady's objectives.
MESSALINA
MESSALINA
✘ Previously unknown, Lady Messalina and her faction of undead and high-level magicians ask the Senate of Ephes to hand over the armies of the Hand so that she might free enslaved undead elsewhere. In exchange, she offers Ephes all the territories she conquers from the undead Brotherhood and its ally, Matthias.
✘ Messalina advocates for peaceful distance between the living and the undead. She owns territories farther south where the undead may retreat, if they cannot coexist with the living.
✘ The Lady's forces are minimally hierarchic and reside outside of Ephes, occupying — with the Senate's blessing — some of the summer villas held by senators, while the Senate considers her proposal. Characters may reside here.
✘ Accustoming to local habits, Messalina holds regular dinners and parties that are less attended because of general hesitations about sharing spaces with the dead. Her living and living-passing emissaries are accepted in Ephes' high society.
✘ Party members infiltrate Messalina's couterie by passing for the advisors and political experts she recruited from abroad to help with her lawful campaign to gain the Senate's support. She is open — and tasks her supporters — to coax, bribe and even blackmail as due to gain the necessary votes to secure her army.
✘ All characters in Messalina's service may optionally have an escort of up to two sentient and speaking hell hounds while carrying out the Lady's objectives.