: I think that the Baron and his keep simply served as a
: base where dead bodies pillaged from surrounding
: burial grounds by his brigands could be pooled and
: readied for Soulblighter. Soulbighter probably simply
: created that huge mass of thrall (50 thrall across and
: 100 deep was it?) when he visited and created the
: Stygs. After all, does the Baron... and helpless fat
: man with not a single evasive, offensive, or defensive
: spell of any kind, really seem like a necromancer who
: could created a legion of 500 thrall?
Well, yeah. Soulblighter showed him how to make Thrall, not how to shoot fireballs and cast poison clouds. He has a private army and some Stygian Knights--next to that, his own powers would be negligible until he'd progressed to Warlock level or so. And he's a coward.
: As for the reason behind the assassination of the Baron,
: he was the ring leader, the rich guy who was running
: the grave-robbing operation, without him I very much
: doubt the Brigands would continue their risky
: business. He was killed for the same reason the CIA
: strives to assassinate drug-lords and such.
Yes, but--unlike drug-trafficking--the most important figure in raising the undead is the guy who knows how to do it. The Baron would be powerless if he escaped without any necromantic knowledge.
--SiliconDream
