Thank you.



Oh I know, there has been some good stuff to come out those sources, but I also think it's one of those ideas almost every GM has had at one point and I'm sure 99% of them don't work out so well.



The campaign was a fairly dark fantasy sort of setting, with a very slight sort of steampunk/technomancy edge, and a lot of espionage and political intrigue. Lady Tevny was one of a trio of undead knights who were sometimes antagonists, sometimes allies of the players. One of the nations in the setting was ruled by a coven of six necromancers, who were the apprentices of a necromancer called Mornech who was my take on trying to make a more interesting, convention-defying 'dark lord' character; the players were supposed to make the assumption he was your classic evil tyrant, but discovered that actually he had been very popular among the people after he seized power, because he overthrew a hated monarchy, abolished serfdom and limited the power of the nobles, drawing up his followers from among the common people. Tevny and her companions were all once peasants who had joined Mornech's armies, and, after proving their bravery and being mortally wounded had taken an oath to serve Mornech forever and been resurrected (Necromancy I imagined in this setting as being very much a 'Frankenstein' sort of process). However, after Mornech suffered a military reversal in his war against a neighbouring state his most senior apprentices overthrew him in a coup and sued for peace, purged Mornech loyalists who wouldn't submit and got back into cahoots with the old aristocracy. Tevny and her companions were ostensibly working for this government on a plot to assassinate a rival head of state (which the players were trying to thwart), but were actually secretly working on locating Mornech's geist and finding it a new suitable body out of genuine loyalty to their master.



Not sure how much of that would make it into any novel idea, at least the first one; I've been reading a lot of classic sword and sorcery adventure stuff lately and I've sort of got an inkling to try and write something in that vein, but with that dark weird edge a lot of that stuff has.