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An in-game scene[edit]
The game is likely using instances once in a while, not only for missions but also for smaller things (inside buildings, maybe?). In those smaller instances, add a few NPCs, that at first would appear to be there only for flavor; for example, a young novice at the Temple of Dwayna who tells the character how she dreams of becoming the head priestess one day, but asks them to not tell anyone about it.
Later in the game, have the characters looking for information about the dragons, being told that they would find help accross part of the Crystal Desert. The characters would advance through progressively alien terrain, with the sky becoming purple, the ground becoming green and massive black tentacles erupting out of nowhere.
Eventually, the characters would reach a large field of flowers, in which lies a single, common looking house. Inside, they would find a very old grandmotherly-looking woman, who would cheerfully greet the visitors and offer them some tea. She would mention how her husband was outside tending the garden, and very soon he would arrive: a stern looking old man with a long white beard. He would agressively question the characters, until he's calmed down (a bit) by his still cheerful wife (who gives him a cup of tea, everybody likes good tea ^_^). Then the following dialogue would happen (only, you know, written by someone who actually knows how to write):
Old man: "Why would I help you?"
Characters: "Uh...We could give you money, if you want...?"
Old man: "Hah! Children, I have had more power than your small minds could understand. There is nothing you could offer me beyond what I had, and I don't want any of it back."
Old woman: "Well, dear, I guess Primordius and the others would like to destroy this world in the end. We could move somewhere else, but in my home we couldn't have a garden as pretty as yours."
Old man: "Yes, yes, you're right. However, I won't help you for free. I want you to give me a secret."
Characters: "A secret? To tell you a secret, you mean?"
Old man: "No, not just 'tell me'. I want you to give me a secret so I can destroy it. Call it payback to an old friend, if you want. Be warned: once it's destroyed, it won't be a secret anymore."
The characters would then have the option of which secret they would tell the old man, among those they have heard (for example, the secret about how the young novice would like to become the head priestess of her temple). After they told it, energy would coalesce at the old man's hand, creating a translucid, glowing crystal. He would hold it with a smile for a second, and then shatter it into dust. He would then tell the characters what they need to hear.
If the characters chose to destroy the secret of the novice, the next time they go to the temple, she wouldn't be there, and no one would talk about her. They would find her at the city's slums, dirty and homeless, and the former novice would tell them how suddenly the others found out how she wanted to be the head priestess, and began first laughing at her back, then publicly mocking her. Eventually, she was expelled from the temple by disrespecting the position of head priestess, and left alone at the streets of Divinty's Reach.
Bringing Abaddon back[edit]
At the end of Nightfall, Abaddon is said to be broken and powerless, but it's not stated with all the letters that he has died. Thanks to Dhuum, we know a former god can survive losing its powers, and even keep some kind of special ability after such loss. In my proposed scenario, after losing his powers, Abaddon would be left on Tyria with the madness caused by his imprisonment at the Realm of Torment finally cured. Realizing how much his old power had cost him, and still with all knowledge from being the God of Secrets, he would choose to just settle down and be left in peace while tending his garden.
(After the characters leave the old couple's house, the woman would turn to her husband, and ask:
Old woman: "Dear, do you think I should have offered to infuse their armor?"
Old man: "That didn't work the last time, my love. Don't worry about it. Now, where's my tea?")
