Connection to Main Quest

Artifact

Key Interactions

• when talking to leader he will be near impossible to porsuate of anything (GAME DESIGN)
  
• other NPCs in merchant faction talk about how good leader is in sweat talking and avoiding confrontation
• while traviling with leader some answers start to get highlighted
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• obtain knowledge of leaders location by completing one or two merchant quests
• at the leader either buy artifact, if you helped with merchants requests
• or take it away from him and than need to fight some mercenaries before being able to adventure on 

What kind of artifact does the faction posses?

• beautiful amulet worn as a kneckless
• teal coloured
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• spawns thorns continuously, becomes worse if longer at one place
• therefore, merchant camp location not always known
• once artifact obtained, reduces prices of shop items

What are they doing with the artifact?

• ability to read people body language
  • tell lies
  • tell mood
  • tell interest level
• easier time talking to people, as most efficient answers may appear highlighted
• faction members like how easy there life seems to get around leader
• primarily used to enable comfortable life
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  • Are dialogues planned?
  • how could powers function?
  • Faction has minimal influence on the main quest
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When and how did the artifact get to the faction?

• during his life before becoming a merchant leader saved life of a cloaked person who gifted him the amulet

When did the faction discover the artifact?

• nobody in the faction knows of any powers being granted to the leader and them

How much does the faction know about the artifact?

• faction doesn't know
• they just follow the leader, as it makes their lives better

Ideas

• Amulet travels with leader
  • need to find his location
• Amulet is at camp with leader
  • shown on map with neutral merchant marker
• Brambles are left behind by artifact. 
• merchants may disclose leaders location
• merchants may disclose information from other factions