>>2720966A personal goal. Personal steaks.
But that can be hard to work into a globe trotting JRPG campaign. When a Dark Lord casts a shadow on the land it will most directly affect the King or some Royal Family. Because it's their domain he's messing with.
Moving away from that, there's more and more degrees of separation.
How does a peasant get involved? Maybe the Dark Lord commands undead, or goblins. The goblins raid and rape a village. Kidnapping the peasant's sister, cousin, wife what have you.
Maybe the peasant's father is among the ranks of the undead. His reanimated corpse holds the answer to a burning question.
That's something to go after.
The furthest degree of separation might involve a foreigner from a distant land, or other world. Maybe a time traveler. All they want is to avoid attention - but for the sake of the story you know that's not going happen. They'll be seen as a threat, or the next target. A catalyst for change. Some savior mentioned in a prophesy, legend, scripture.
They could be exiled from their old home, hopeful this could be their new one. They could have a chip on their shoulder about people rejecting or accepting him.
In their darkest hour, maybe they learn they aren't "the chosen one" after all. They get what they wanted from the start - be be ignored and dismissed. But now too much has happened, they can't just walk away. Now they're going to do something they shouldn't. Build a nuke, fuck the timeline, fuck the "order of the universe" because it fucked with them.
