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SENATE OF TALDOR
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display cases present countless artifacts belonging to
great heroes and soldiers. A score of Taldan Phalanx
troops stand at attention, acting as both ceremonial
honor guards for the senate and guides to some of the
military assets on display.
NPCs Present: High Strategos Maxillar Pythareus.
Influence Skills: Appraise DC 11, Knowledge (history
or nobility) DC 12, Perception DC 14, Spellcraft DC 14, or
Use Magic Device DC 11.
Threshold 1 (10 points): At this threshold, a guest
comments on the history of the crossbow resting in
one case. She states that the crossbow Dignity’s Barb
(see page  33), a famed weapon of the Seventh Army of
Exploration, was displayed in the case centuries ago, but
it was lost and replaced with a reproduction. The guest
goes on to detail the crossbow’s history as a weapon that
gloriously slew a raving Kellid warlord.
Threshold 2 (20 points): The senate’s curator of
antiquities, Copernia Vau (LN female middle-aged
human expert 6), takes a shine to the PCs’ obvious
interest in history and offers them a brief tour of the
adjoining restoration room, where artifacts are cleaned
and preserved. As part of the tour, she offers the PC one
bottle each of universal solvent and unguent of timelessness
so they can practice the skills she describes. As long
as a PC displays interest in Copernia’s work, she is
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distracted, and the PC with the Theft mission gains a +5
circumstance bonus on Sleight of Hand checks to steal
valuables from the arcade.
Special Notes: A PC with the Theft mission must
steal at least three of the five items donated by Earl
Calhadion Vernisant for the night’s ball. The elaborate
silk fan and spyglass are both mundane objects with
historical significance, worth 300 gp and 1,200 gp,
respectively. The journal belonged to Earl Vernisant’s
great grandfather and details his extensive genealogical
work to connect their family line to the heroic Arnisant
legacy. While the journal is worth only 100 gp, the
details and handwriting samples within grant any
character with the Fraud mission a +2 circumstance
bonus on Bluff and Linguistics checks to start and
confirm rumors. The buckler is of masterwork quality,
and the dagger is an ornate +1 silver dagger that the
earl claims one of General Arnisant’s lieutenants used
to slay the vampire Malageur (the dagger has in fact
never been used as anything but a letter opener by his
outrageously wealthy family).
A PC with the Spy mission should endeavor to stay
close to the high strategos in this area.
Story Award: If the PCs reach the first threshold for
influencing this area, award them 400 XP. Award the PCs
an additional 200 XP if they reach the second threshold.
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1 SQUARE = 5 FEET
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C23
CROWNFALL

C17 C20 C21 Foreword

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C18 Part 1:
All the King’s
Men
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Part 2:
Lost in
History
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Part 3:
The Silent
C7 C5 C6 C8 Blade

NPC
C12 Gallery

Oppara
Gazetteer
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Faces of the
Senate
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C13 Bestiary

Campaign
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C2b C2e
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Foreword
D3
Part 1:
All the King’s
Men

Part 2:
Lost in
History

Part 3:
D2 The Silent
D1 Blade

NPC
Gallery

Oppara
Gazetteer

status and whereabouts of any specific noble is a jumble
of conflicting rumors. The PCs need an expert spy to
unravel the tangled political knot left in Stavian’s wake,
so they need to save Martella Lotheed—even if only to be
paid for their earlier work.
If the PCs failed to recover the assassins’ orders, a few
clues still point toward their employer. Martella’s final
communication cut off at the name “Dignif—”; a PC
who succeeds at a DC 18 Knowledge (local) check recalls
only a handful of locations in Oppara with “Dignify” or
“Dignified” in their names, and checking on each takes
only a few hours. If all else fails, Martella may briefly
secure her master senator badge while her captors sleep
and send a more specific call for help.
FRIENDS IN NEED
If the PCs successfully influenced Lady Gloriana Morilla
in Part 1 of this adventure, she approaches them shortly
after they depart the senate building. Morilla learned
of the PCs’ location from one of her Pathfinder Society
agents and immediately set out to find them, worried
about the status of her ally, Martella Lotheed.
If the PCs share the information they have about
Martella’s whereabouts, Lady Morilla offers her support.
She deploys the remaining Pathfinder agents she has in
Oppara (many of them having already been smuggled out
Faces of the
Senate
of the country) to perform a hit-and-run strike against
Bestiary
the Brotherhood of Silence guarding the warehouse.
These inexperienced agents don’t have the numbers or Campaign
training to overwhelm the guards entirely, however, and Outline
retreat after dealing several severe injuries, leaving the
PCs to finish the job.
D. THE DIGNIFIED REPOSITORY
The Dignified Repository is a large, glorified warehouse
on a section of open grass in Oppara’s Crownsgate
district. The Deristov family from Porthmos prefecture
officially owns the building, but any investigation into
the family reveals they never existed. Princess Eutropia
acquired the Dignified Repository, as well as a few other
buildings in Oppara, through the use of pseudonyms
and allied proxies. The warehouse serves as a massive
storehouse for the princess’s various projects, as well as
a safe place to hide or employ down-on-their-luck allies,
while ostensibly having an official purpose of catering to
nobles with long-term storage needs.
Beyond its role as a storage site, the Dignified
Repository also serves to disguise Martella Lotheed’s
primary safe house in Oppara. The safe house (area E)
lies under the building in the ruins of a villa buried
long ago, connected by a secret shaft leading down into
the depths of the earth. Lotheed picked the location
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E1 CROWNFALL

E4 Foreword
E2
E5 Part 1:
All the King’s
Men

Part 2:
E8 Lost in
E10 History
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Part 3:
The Silent
Blade
E3
NPC
Gallery

Oppara
Gazetteer

(countersong, distraction, fascinate [DC 16], inspire
competence +2, inspire courage +1)
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 4th; concentration +8)
1/day—disguise self
Bard Spells Known (CL 4th; concentration +8)
2nd (2/day)—mirror image, scare (DC 16)
1st (4/day)—lesser confusion (DC 15), grease, hideous
laughter (DC 15), silent image (DC 15)
0 (at will)—dancing lights, daze (DC 14), ghost sound
(DC 14), message, prestidigitation, resistance
TACTICS
Before Combat Mr. Smiles prepares for combat by casting
mirror image on himself.
During Combat Mr. Smiles knows his best role in combat is
to use his bardic performances to inspire courage in his
allies. He alternates melee attacks with spells such as
hideous laughter, lesser confusion, and scare to sow chaos
among his victims.
Morale Knowing his reputation is all that keeps him
employed in Oppara, Mr. Smiles III fights until reduced to
7 hit points or fewer, at which point he attempts to flee
out the office window and use his disguise self spell-like
ability to blend in among the bodies of silent initiatives
the PCs have already bested.
STATISTICS
Str 12, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 8, Wis 8, Cha 18
Faces of the
Senate
Base Atk +3; CMB +4; CMD 17
Bestiary
Feats Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse
Skills Acrobatics +8, Diplomacy +9, Disguise +9, Escape Campaign
Artist +6, Perception +4, Perform (comedy) +11, Perform Outline
(dance) +9, Stealth +8; Racial Modifiers +2 Stealth
Languages Common
SQ bardic knowledge +2, versatile performance (comedy)
Combat Gear thunderstone (2); Other Gear studded leather,
buckler, +1 sickle, entertainer’s outfit
Treasure: The desk is locked (Disable Device DC 25) but
contains several valuables belonging to Mr. Smiles  III.
The stash contains two shadow hand smoke pelletsUI, a silver
cameo containing a portrait of Grand Prince Stavian I
(worth 100 gp), a teak snuffbox (worth 20 gp), 1,207 sp, and
144 gp.
Development: Even if the PCs defeat the office
guardians, Wyssilka does not leave this area unattended
for long. If the PCs retreat to heal after defeating Mr.
Smiles and the recruits, Wyssilka recruits three local
toughs to guard the office. Use statistics for a wiseguy on
page 239 of the Pathfinder RPG Villain Codex).
E. MARTELLA’S SAFE HOUSE
When Martella Lotheed assumed the role of Princess
Eutropia’s spymaster, she established several safe houses
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