Inspire Azure

Given that the party isn't primarily formed of performance artists I'd imagine that they'd be more interested in teaming up to expand their skills, experiment with different mediums, possibly travel together to various conservatories across the planes to learn or to different markets to sell their wares.

There may be some 'survival' elements to this campaign that Azure could play up. We're not a party of warriors by any stretch so some street thugs could be a major threat, we're not rich so food and shelter could become an issue if houses are re-possessed. What if , heaven forbid, the iron shadow or something similar starts to appear again, how would the players make a living?

I see this campaign as a great way for Azure to play with cool, well developed, character ideas (and lets face it that's one of the greatest strengths of BoGR) we can be introduced to artists from across the planes, either as competitors, partners, students or mentors. All those ideas that we were throwing around before the game started but were unworkable as PC's would make fine NPC's - Halfling life shapers competing with Gnome elemental grafters, a Kyton chain musician on the run from the Baatorian department for legitimate arts, a shadow demon swapping trade secrets with a light shaping Quasar, a soul shaping angel in disguise who gives quests to refine and 'purify' spirits, a demonic nerve artist undergoing trial for torture - will the PC's speak in his defence as fellow artists despite their personal objection to his medium or will they support the censors? A Pit fiend wishes to be trained to create items of beauty and tries to hire one of the PC's (inspired by the commander of the Relentless in hellbound).

Speaking of the Quasars before opens another line - what if some of the PC's start creating sentient objects? How should they be treated? Can they ethically be sold? What if they rebel?

I know that Darad performs his art as an expression of his philosophy, I'd be interested to explore in character why other characters use their style and how that style might change as their characters grow.

Sorry for any crappy grammar or spelling, I pretty much wrote this as a free flow so it may not make a lot of sense. Hopefully there's a few nuggets among the scree.