• Powerful mage
• Holds control over a large area using his minions and the army of the undead
• Wants to further expand his domain and achieve immortality
• (Elise) Is demolishing the natural environment to fuel his war engine

Grim Portents:

• The CW's minions scour the countryside, looking for anything that can extend his life
• The CW begins his search for the Nexus, the mythical source of all magical power
• The CW discovers the location of the Nexus and begins his march to it

Impending Doom: Tyranny

• All powerful warriors in their own right
• Have been invested with power by the Cat Wizard to carry out his will

Grim Portents:

• The CW's forces are assembled
• The CW's army starts marching on the nearest large city
• The CW's army besieges the city
• The city is taken; the CW's army starts spreading out across the countryside

Impending Doom: Destruction

• The rumored seat of all magical energy
• Said to bring fortune or ruin to anyone who finds it

Grim Portents:

• The Cat Wizard gains possession of the Nexus
• Magic starts to act strangely as the CW prods at the Nexus
• Reality starts coming apart at the seams

Impending Doom: Rampant Chaos

• The Cat Wizard sends out scouts to look for clues to the location of the Nexus
• The Cat Wizard gains forbidden knowledge
• The Cat Wizard's generals start to move, war is likely
• The Cat Wizard sets off to find the Nexus
• The Cat Wizard finds the Nexus, and channels it to enhance his own power (Impending Doom: Tyranny)
• The Nexus destabilizes, wreaking havoc on the world (Impending Doom: Rampant Chaos)

• One of the scouts sent out by the CW to look for items of power that can enhance his innate magical talent
  • Now that he's expanded his empire he's looking to make himself immortal
• Scout checked every dungeon he could find but didn't find anything
  • Realized that he didn't have anything to report and didn't want to admit his failure
  • Disguised his undead to look like the dungeon's constructs; holed up in the dungeon while he decides what to do next
  • Eventually his food ran out and he had to start sending his undead out to raid for supplies

• The dungeon's denizens are mostly gone and replaced with glamoured undead, but there are still plenty of traps that haven't been activated (or that have, and present a special challenge to the players)

• Baldo's haphazard experiments creating undead are causing issues for the surrounding areas

• Baldo, the acolyte that the party captured and turned over to the villagers
  • Managed to escape, now wants to track down the party and return the favor
• Can track the party through the amulet they took from him