Oquen inspired me for an idea.
On your travels down the road to save villagers, you notice a moving Necropolis, a swarm of ghouls and acolytes around it. It is lead by a lich who wears the royal cloaks of Quel'Thalas.
Your men are insufficient to kill them, but it will soon arrive to a large town. Bandits stand in it's way, unknowing of it's passing.
You stand with around three choices.
- Stand with the bandits and the city men at the entrance of the city, hoping for your ability to defeat them.
- Lay in ambush, hoping to kill as many as you can before it reaches the city where the rest of your forces will finish them off.
- Leave the men to die, thus proving yourself an unkind and dark leader.
I'd have two branches of each of the choices, going like this. If you stand with them at the city, one of three things can happen.
- You defeat the enemy, your men dying and the bandits pissed. You must try to either make a deal with them, kill them, or attempt to calm them down through a different means. Depending on how you do it, you can get either a Farmer Hero or a Bandit Hero.
If you lay in ambush, one of two things can happen.
- The necropolis is shattered, and the lich scared for his unlife. You may torture him for information, or attempt to get him to join your side for the time being.
And if you leave the men to die, I'd say you can find some gold cache or something, guarded by Sylvanas' Apprentice.
Idea: Perhaps her mother was best friends with Sylvanas and one day, a group of enemies (maybe Bandits for instance) raided Quel'Thalas. They pillaged the villagers' homes and injured many of the townspeople, only to steal from them and raid their homes.
Eventually, the guards of Quel'Thalas run off the Bandits, and everyone remains outside, in despair about everything that they have lost. Meanwhile, the apprentice is but a child, standing next to her mother, who was mercilessly slaughtered by the Bandits. And the only valuable thing that remains her that the Bandits did not get a chance to steal is the apprentice's mother's pendant.
The apprentice takes the pendant and becomes Sylvanas' apprentice, who has sworn to avenge the child of her mother's death by teaching the apprentice everything her knows to allow the apprentice to go to the Bandit Lord and kill him herself.
Quote is from the project leader.
It's the campaign file. I'm sure you saw it on the 'Campaign Checkup Time' topic, but just in case...
