Vlad's Plan

Structure

Exposition

Vlad is Searching for the 6 Portal Stones, and plans on opening a portal to the nine hells. In doing this he allows Asmodios a Demon Lord of the underworld to travel freely to the mortal plain. Vlad hopes this will allow him to ally himself with the Demon lord in hopes to gain the secret of immortality. He plans to propose a beneficial deal. The demon lord is free to corrupt as many souls as he sees fit, and Vlad will be free to kill, and absorb the life essence of the slain creature into his phylactery sending the souls to the nine hells, making Asmodios even stronger. 
Vlad has reasons to believe that at least 2 of the stones are in Waterdeep and has tasked Athan with retrieve them. He suspects that another one is located somewhere far north of Iesk.

Components

Goals

Vlad's plan is to gather all the portal stones and components for the ritual, that must be preformed in order to unlock their power. He plans on using these stones to open a permanent portal the Nine Hells, and allow Asmodeus into the mortal plane.

Hooks

The Ring Clocerion's ring, a blood red stone in an iron band, is one of the portal stones. Vlad found the stone almost a century ago, fashioned a ring around it, and put a curse on it. Through this curs he is able to know the location of this stone within a mile radius. The cures is tied to the family name of Clocerion and cant be undone(exception for the wish spell), and forces the wearer to keep it on. If removed, the owner begins to bleed out of the mouth, ears, eyes, and nose until they die of blood loss. Ownership can be transferd willingly to anyone of the same bloodline. When the owner dies the ring picks a random person with in the same bloodline and causes the creature to have conic debilitating migraines and flashes of the ring until its equipped.

In the Vault of Dragons The Party enters the vault of Dragons, and reach the treasure. After talking or fighting with the vault protector a small green stone catches the attention of the group. If identify is cast on the stone the players learn that it is part of a set of 6. All 6 are needed to use the power. 500 gp worth of diamond dust, 3 emeralds, 5 rubies, 300 gp worth of crushed black pearl, and 5 Lbs of silver are needed for the ritual to be cast and activate the stones. Once activated it opens a portal to anywhere the caster chooses, even if it's on another plain of existence, until one of the stones gets 500 ft away from the portal.

Relations

Allies

Vlad Darkala is the main villain. Working under his command is a necromancer named Thorin. Thorin has an army of undead to do his bidding. Working under Thorin is Athan, a loyal assassin flower who believer of Vlad's cultish promise of a better world of "peace". Athan had a young apprentice named Zeke, who was the brother of Justin (the lord of Iesk). Zeak has fallen in battler to the PCs over a year ago in an empty UN-nammed ruin east of Chusin.