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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
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Originally posted by Link:
Is anyone actually reading my post or are you just all ignoring it altogether?
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We read it, it's simply that the Harpers are going to be a major headache. A plot where the Harpers ask you to eradicate the slavers in the Copper Coronet, the Slaver Ship, and the Guarded Compound is simple enough, but the complications that arise as soon as the Jaheira possibilities are considered just throw a massive monkeywrench into the works. As we all know this, any idea that mentions two rival factions of Harpers sparks an automatic 'pain!' reaction. It might actually be easier if we ripped up Jaheira's quest and romance by the roots and re-wrote them in their entirety (so that they actually worked this time), and in such a way that left room for using the Harpers as a path to Spellhold, whether Jaheira was in the party or not. [/QUOTE]I hereby support the idea of A) Writing a new Jaheira romance and implementing it, and B) Creating a Harper way of getting to Spellhold. I think that this community could do a good job creating such a mod, or at least dialogues and storylines.
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Hm... Nobody's brought up the fact that, to have the Harpers as a valid group, they need more of an endgame. Gold and missions and whatever aside, they'd need some sort of hidden agenda for this to work.
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[img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] I thought I already gave such a reason in my post on page 3 or 4 (the long one). Although I will post a summary [of the reason for the involvement of the Harpers] below, I would like it if you would read it, Illumina. I know you know a great deal about Forgotten Realms lore, and any feedback for that matter is interesting (feel free to PM or email me, anyone!).
In short though, my idea was that the Harpers know about who you are (through Gorion, Elminster) and keep an eye on you. After all, they are all for balance, as we know, so it's not a crazy thought altogether to assume they would want to watch CHARNAME (being a godchild whose involved in a prophecy) closely. They have Jaheira in your ranks (which might come in handy in the romance: Jaheira loving you, but at the same time having a responsibility of checking on you. IIRC this is the main theme in the original romance as well, but it wasn't implemented that well), they want to find out about Irenicus as well (I think it's safe to assume that the Harpers are aware of what happened to Irenicus and Bodhi the first time they tried to leech the Tree of Life). Combining the two wouldn't be too weird, now wouldn't it?