0th Law
The Promethean Rose
- Location
- 5 Minutes into the Future
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Hello, I'm DMing for a D&D 5e campaign, and I want advice on how to portray the interactions with peasants in an hostile empire.
Little backstory: The adventurers have been hired by an island nation, Spyra, to essentially wreak havoc in an empire encompassing the "Daggerthorn Isles," appropriately named the "Daggerthorn Empire," in order to soften them up for invasion. As for why Spyra is preparing to invade... well, at one point in time, the Spyrans tried to expand beyond just a single island, and founded a colony on a neighboring island that was somewhat closer to Daggerthorn, leading to Daggerthorn pretty much razing said colony, which just happened to have the equivalent of the Crown Princess living there at the time. Simple enough, right?
Here's the thing: Daggerthorn is A) Very Xenophobic, and B) A Theocracy, and I want to portray how the average Peasant/Commoner will interact with the party (which consists of a Halfling, a Tiefling, an Anthropomorphic Turtle with multiple personality disorder, and an elf that looks like a humanoid mass of hands), who are pretending to be members of a Cult of a Hand God on a crusade (because Spyra doesn't want to be officially affiliated with them, as that would give Daggerthorn an excuse to attack Spyra before they're fully prepared. Also, the adventurers may or may not want to conquer the world for their Hand God, it's weird)
TL;DR: How do you think indoctrinated, xenophobic peasants will react to an inhuman party that may or may not be trying to convert them?
Little backstory: The adventurers have been hired by an island nation, Spyra, to essentially wreak havoc in an empire encompassing the "Daggerthorn Isles," appropriately named the "Daggerthorn Empire," in order to soften them up for invasion. As for why Spyra is preparing to invade... well, at one point in time, the Spyrans tried to expand beyond just a single island, and founded a colony on a neighboring island that was somewhat closer to Daggerthorn, leading to Daggerthorn pretty much razing said colony, which just happened to have the equivalent of the Crown Princess living there at the time. Simple enough, right?
Here's the thing: Daggerthorn is A) Very Xenophobic, and B) A Theocracy, and I want to portray how the average Peasant/Commoner will interact with the party (which consists of a Halfling, a Tiefling, an Anthropomorphic Turtle with multiple personality disorder, and an elf that looks like a humanoid mass of hands), who are pretending to be members of a Cult of a Hand God on a crusade (because Spyra doesn't want to be officially affiliated with them, as that would give Daggerthorn an excuse to attack Spyra before they're fully prepared. Also, the adventurers may or may not want to conquer the world for their Hand God, it's weird)
TL;DR: How do you think indoctrinated, xenophobic peasants will react to an inhuman party that may or may not be trying to convert them?
