Additional Ideas for Willehad-im-Wald

A merchant arrives ill or injured and needs to stay a bit to recuperate. In the meantime his goods are stored in a warehouse. This gives any saboteurs ample opportunity to steal or wreck the wares, while supporters try to prevent this. Apart from the monetary loss from theft or sabotage, the ill reputation among merchants would be a setback for the Soterists.

A pagan holiday approaches on which local myth says that a faerie mound rises from the ground and sends out faerie owls. The Wächter have made sure this story is told in the village in advance, along with tips for traditional wards. On the night they try to bring forth the aforementioned faeries. The faeries gain vitality from the wards and precautions taken against them. The Soterists try to stop this or just limit the damage.

A group of outlaws have been using this wild area as a hideout between their raids. Suddenly the place is crawling with people, both merchants and peasants ripe for the picking but also added numbers of soldiers and officials wanting to capture them. Either faction could benefit from recruiting their help. The bandits need not be bad to the bone; they could perhaps be pardoned and integrated into the village, or they could become guardians of the wild.

Soterists' plans to a halt, because they do not have the resources to repeatedly build villages to be destroyed. As this response involves the murder of dozens of villagers, including their children, most magi should treat it as a last resort, meaning that the story has a chance to play out first. In any case, destroying the village does not end the characters' problems with the Soterists. First, Relisius and his allies invested magical resources in the project, which have been destroyed, so they try to bring a prosecution against the player characters for depriving them of magical power. Legally, they are on shaky ground, as their project would have deprived the characters of power, through the loss of a vis source, so a counter-suit is possible, but the characters need to defend themselves. Second, the village had the bishop's permission, and he investigates its complete destruction. If he is not convinced that the cause was natural, the Church could bring more trouble. See Legal Repercussions in the Aftermath section for more suggestions.