Interesting Encounters in Hades' Realm

[RPGPundit]

In the Underworld, a PC could, in theory, meet the spirit of any mortal who's ever died from anywhere in the multiverse; this is obviously an enormous source for plot points.  Of course, 99% of these will have had their memories wiped away by drinking from the river Lethe, but the remainder will be the most important, interesting, or heroic mortals who once lived.

Who would you have as interesting encounters there? And why?

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[Sigmund]

In the Underworld, a PC could, in theory, meet the spirit of any mortal who's ever died from anywhere in the multiverse; this is obviously an enormous source for plot points.  Of course, 99% of these will have had their memories wiped away by drinking from the river Lethe, but the remainder will be the most important, interesting, or heroic mortals who once lived.

Who would you have as interesting encounters there? And why?

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I think I'd have to have the PCs encounter Elvis. Just cuz. Otehrwise, I'll have to think on it... would greatly depend on why they are there in the first place I think. One name that pops into my head is Da Vinci. Maybe he has some knowledge or the idea/plans to a device of some kind the PCs would need.

[RPGPundit]

Clever players could really do a lot with this; since even fictional characters, for example, could be real (and thus die) on other worlds.  The whole trick would be to try to get ahold of them once in the underworld, which isn't easy (and for the GM to judge the likelihood that they'd have been given access to elysium rather than just being made to drink the waters of forgetting).

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[Sigmund]

I could totally see Da Vinci getting a pass on the forgetting thing just cuz of his brilliance and potential usefulness. It'd also be totally cool to use Einstein, and very very cool to meet Merlin. Heck, I could see a whole campaign run around the PCs helping to bring about the prophecy of King Arthur and his knights (and Merlin) returning in the time of Britain's greatest need. They could travel to the Underworld and escort his Majesty back to the living world, and maybe quest to restore the folk's memory and power. The English legend/Greek myth mash-up would be pretty dang cool.

[RPGPundit]

I could totally see Da Vinci getting a pass on the forgetting thing just cuz of his brilliance and potential usefulness. It'd also be totally cool to use Einstein, and very very cool to meet Merlin. Heck, I could see a whole campaign run around the PCs helping to bring about the prophecy of King Arthur and his knights (and Merlin) returning in the time of Britain's greatest need. They could travel to the Underworld and escort his Majesty back to the living world, and maybe quest to restore the folk's memory and power. The English legend/Greek myth mash-up would be pretty dang cool.

That wasn't one I'd considered until now; but yes, it could work, particularly if you played up the recent notion of Arthur as a pagan king.

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