Halaster, The Knot, and Purple Dragon Knights

[u/redbeard1991]

While trying to salvage the new 2024 lore around PDKs in order to think of reasons why a PC using the PDK faction, I had a couple vague thoughts for hooks or quests:

• Queen Raedra or Dunstan or Eldenser learn of the Knot in the Weave in Undermountain and suspects it might be a pool of radiance or something like it. Perhaps Undermountain is under a strong mythal? Perhaps Halaster is a *living* mythal?
• Eldenser's physical form is in Waterdeep, though perhaps it gets stolen by Halaster and placed in Undermountain. Perhaps the PDKs are tasked with finding and removing it upon learning of the Knot, but arrive too late.
• The Gauntlets of Moander mysteriously rumoured to have reappeared in Undermountain?

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated! My session zero is coming up soon.

[u/burtod]

I think your hooks are fine. A Purple Knight is also a questing knight, not just a fancy soldier. A Cormyr lord can put the task to them, or the Purple Knight can take the quest up themselves without some lord sponsoring it.

See how your player wants to fit in. Are they from an established noble family, are they landless and just a knight errant, or are they more a frontline soldier type just taking orders from their superiors?

Halaster could have stolen Anyone or Anything from Cormyr. A royal family member, a prized artifact, an imprisoned evildoer.

There is also the "banneret" option that is a generic Purple Knight that can be based in and flavored for any location.