Stronghold random events

After securing the Caed Nua stronghold, there is a chance for unexpected events to take place at the stronghold. The events are partially dictated by the Prestige and Security of the house, its purchased upgrades, and hirelings in the player's employ. When a random event occurs, you will be told regardless of whether or not you are physically there. Sometimes, you will need to deal with the event immediately, but usually you are given some time to decide what to do.

Visitors

The most common event at your stronghold is having a visitor arrive. There are all kinds of visitors, but they all share one thing. They can adjust your prestige and/or security just by being at your stronghold.

• Some visitors give good bonuses and some of these visitors can even be employed as hirelings and will stay on as long as you pay them.
• Others are not so great, and you can pay them to leave, or get one of your unassigned companions to act as an escort to their next location (making the companion unavailable for a time).
• Some visitors will offer rare items for sale, and some might even offer a very rare item in exchange for one of the prisoners in your dungeon. Items acquired this way can be found in the treasure chest in the Main Keep.

If Visitors die during their stay, the stronghold suffers a Prestige penalty for a while.

Visitor	Requirements	Effect	Resolution
Unique Items Merchants
Azzuro			Insure the delivery of goods: -5,000 -> 200 XP Aggressive [2] -> 200XP and ? Send Edér, Pallegina, Sagani to guard caravans: companion busy for 10 days -> 200XP
Prestigious Visitors
Berolt		+3 +2	Give him suggestion. Make him safe passage: 2000 , or Twin Elms positive 2 → +1 Make him safe passage: Aggressive 2 → +1 , Twin Elms: Moderate Negative Have someone escort him: Hiravias, Sagani busy for 6 days
Lord Sidroc		+3	Encourage him to make a stand: Survival 5 Encourage him to make a stand: Knights of the Crucible 2 Offer to send letters to rivals: → +3 for 7 days, 11 hours Have the rivals dealt with: Aloth busy for 7 days Send Devil of Caroc to "help" → Get 1000 , but Sidroc and his guards die. Acquire "help" from House Doemenel 2 → Get 1000
Odeyna Fyrgest		+5 +5	Let her stay → Odeyna Fyrgest stays at keep longer. Pay 5000 gold → +1 Ask Dozens to back off (Requires Dozen positive 2) → +1 You shouldn't hide from your past → nothing or -1 . Have Eder or Mahena help → +1 .
Bad Visitors
Gafol the Drunkard		-2	Any resolution will yield 200xp. Choose from the following: Simply send him away. Pay his debt (1200 ) → Dyrford Village: Minor Positive. Send him to Bellasege to help in research. (Animancer in lower level of the Sanitarium.) Have Zahua help → Gafol quits drinking, discovers drugs and starts a new life. Pallegina can help him become an assistant in the Vailian Republics. She will be removed from the party for 5 days. (Act 3 or later required.) Hang him → -2 . Send him off with the Dozens to the Living Lands (Positive Rep 2 required).
Lord Byrnwigar		-3 -2	Send Aloth to Byrnwigar's keep to warn people, lie to him → +2 , Aloth busy for 6 days. Send Devil of Caroc to "take care" of him quietly → +1 , +1 . Ask what the peasants have been saying, then recommend benevolence. Option 1 or 3 → Nothing. Ask what the peasants have been saying, then recommend benevolence. Option 2 → +1 . Ask what the peasants have been saying, then recommend diplomacy (Diplomatic 2 required) → +1 . Pay him to hire security (700 ) → +1 . Hang him → -3 .
Nyry the Deft Hand		-1 -3	Help escape (1000 ) → Cape of the Cheat and Potion of Power. Help escape with Doemenel (requires Rank 3 positive reputation) → Cape of the Cheat and Potion of Power. Tell her to turn herself in → +1 . Tell her to turn herself in then trick her into being caught by the Knights of the Crucible (need rank 2 positive reputation) → +2 . Hang her → +1 . Kick out.
Solmar the Shackler			Suggest he continue down the coast. Suggest he dock at New Heomar (need Lore 4). Buy his slaves, then free them → -5000 , +1 Benevolent reputation Buy his slaves, then sell them yourself → +1000 Help him sell slaves to The Dozens, or House Doemenel(need positive reputation). Put in a good word with the Knights of the Crucible, allowing him to dock at Fleetbreaker Castle(need positive reputation). Send Hiravias to free slave, lie to him → Hiravias busy for 5 days Send Hiravias to free slave, seize Solmar and order him hanged → Hiravias busy for 5 days, temporary Prestige penalty(?)
Supplicants
Supplicant (Gilded Vale)			Pay Off: 270 Send Escort: Companion gone for 3 days If Ignored: -1 , + 0 for 3 Days; Minor Reputation with Gilded Vale (Negative)
Supplicant (Defiance Bay)			Pay Off: 500 Send Escort: Companion gone for ? days If Ignored: -2 , + 0 for 3 Days; Minor Reputation with Defiance Bay (Negative)
Supplicant (Dyrford Village)			Pay Off: 850 Send Escort: Companion gone for ? days If Ignored: -3 , + 0 for 3 Days; Minor Reputation with Dyrford Village (Negative)
Supplicant (Twin Elms)			Pay Off: 1000 Send Escort: Companion gone for 4 days If Ignored: -4 , + 0 for 3 Days; Minor Reputation with Twin Elms (Negative)

Adventures

After the Great Hall is restored, an adventure becomes available though the stronghold management interface on every turn with a number divisible by 8. Unlike quests, you cannot resolve these yourself - you must assign one of your idle companions to complete the adventure, making them unavailable for the specified number of turns.

If you don't assign anyone to it, the adventure disappears after a limited time. Once you've assigned a companion to it, recalling them prematurely cancels the adventure and forfeits any rewards that would have been earned. If the adventure is completed, money and item rewards from the adventure are placed in the treasury chest of the Great Hall, and the companion who was assigned gets additional XP (not shared with the party).

The adventures you can get are:

Adventure	Unique item	Additional rewards
Minor (1 turn) 2d50+Prestige > 25
A Court of Spirits	Belt of Chimes	15% XP, 150-300
A Forgotten Hollow	Wyrwood Ring	15% XP
Black Waters, Broken Tombs	ycg Br Tomb Fragment	15% XP
Clerical Errors	St. Borragia's Tears	15% XP, 150-350
Sacred Skin	Greenstained Boots	15% XP, minor item
The Ivory Horn	The Nautilus of Or-Grammon	15% XP, 150-300
The Night Mirror	Night Mirror Fragment	15% XP
The Sky Breaker	Rod of Wind and Thunder	15% XP, minor item
Witch's Walk	The Witch's Hat	15% XP
Minor Adventure	-	one of: 5% XP, minor item, 150-300 , minor reputation bonus
Average (2 turns) 2d50+Prestige > 50
A Wreath of Ashes	Remembrance Ashes	15% XP, minor item, 150-300
Bound and Buried	Binding Rope	15% XP, minor item, 150-300
Skulls for Mother	Father's Teeth	15% XP, 150-300
Still as Stones	Mossy Rock × 5	15% XP, minor item, 150-300
The Mourning Circle	Mourning Gloves	15% XP, 150-300
The Page Unturned	The Blind Monk's Venom	15% XP, minor item
The Weaver's Song	Cloak of Comfort	15% XP, 2 minor items, 150-300
To the Waterline	Iverra's Diving Helmet	15% XP, 150-300
Average Adventure	-	two of: 10% XP, average item, 150-300 , average reputation bonus
Major (3 turns) 2d50+Prestige > 75
A Curse of Cold Clay	Remembrance of Life's Warmth	25% XP, average item, 500-1000
A Whistling in the Reeds	Red Reed Wand	25% XP, average item, 500-1000
Ring Finger	Nîdhen's Finger	25% XP, 500-1000
St. Ifen's Knot	Ifen's Cradle	25% XP, minor item, 500-1000
The Celebrant's Dirge	Celebrant's Gloves	25% XP, average item, 500-1000
The Unworn Path	Patchwork Boots	25% XP, average item
What the Well Holds	Swaddling Sheet	25% XP, 300-750
Major Adventure	-	two of: 15% XP, average item, 500-1000 , average reputation bonus
Grand (4 turns) 2d50+Prestige > 100
A Place of Great Silence	The Looking-Inward Chime	35% XP, major item, 750-2000
Lavender and Lye	Lavender Wreath	35% XP, major item, 1-2 average items
Lovers' Light	Copper Lover's Ring, Silver Lover's Ring	35% XP
The Crossed Eye	Crossed Patch	35% XP, major item, average item, 750-2000
The Wax Maker	The Helwax Mold	35% XP, major item, 750-2000
They Who Woke the Stars	Constellated Cloak	35% XP, major item
Grand Adventure	-	two of: 20% XP, major item, 2 average items, 750-2000 , major reputation bonus
Legendary (5 turns) 2d50+Prestige > 125
A Solitary Mark	Marked Amulet	50% XP, grand item, major item, 1000-3000
At the Edge of All Known Things	Amaia's Codex	50% XP, grand item, major item, 1000-3000
Liminal Spaces	Ethereal Helm	50% XP, grand item, 1-2 major items, 1000-3000
The Coal Eater	Blighted Coals	50% XP, grand item, major item, 1000-3000
The Glass Tree	Glittering Gauntlets	50% XP, grand item, major item, 1000-3000
Legendary Adventure	-	three of: 25% XP, grand item, 2 major items, 3 average items, 1000-3000 , grand reputation bonus

Which adventures you get is determined as follows:

1. Each turn, the game rolls for an event.
2. If that event is Adventure (and you don't already have an active adventure), then the game rolls two random numbers between between 1 and 50, adds them to the stronghold's current Prestige number, and uses this sum to determine the adventure category:

   2d50 + prestige	Adventure category
   1-25	Tough luck, no adventure!
   26-50	Minor
   51-75	Average
   76-100	Major
   101-125	Grand
   126+	Legendary

3. From the selected category, a random adventure is picked that hasn't been picked already. (You need to exhaust all unique adventures in one category to get a generic adventure.)

Attacks

Attacks are the most potentially dangerous of all stronghold events. Attack losses and frequency decrease with higher security. The threat of attacks is the most important reason to keep your security level as high as you can afford.

You will be warned ahead of time of any such attack, and are presented with three choices:

1. Manual Resolve: Your party and hirelings battle the invaders. If you are not at your stronghold, you must return before you can select this option. This option usually results in the best outcome, although some of your hirelings may be killed.
2. Auto-Resolve: Your hirelings battle the invaders without you. This usually results in the destruction of parts of your stronghold, which you will then have to rebuild, expending time and money. In the meantime, you lose their benefits.
3. You can ignore the warning. If you continue to ignore it until the time runs out, an auto-resolve will happen.

Attackers
Skeletons
Wood Beetles and Spear Spiders
Xaurips and Wurms
Bleakhollow Bandits
Trolls and Oozes
Leaden Key Agents
Cutthroat Bandits
Shades and Forest Lurkers
Vicious Mercenaries
Raedric's Undead Army
Drakes
Cean Gŵla and Spectres
Vithrack