

The area has been wrecked, and every living thing in the area, from the farmhands to plow horses, has become husks with crystal-like growths and parts of their skeletons showing. Power? He had enough influence in the town that nobody was able to stop him when they realized what he was getting up to.When players travel to the Farmstead, it is covered in eerie, glowing crystals giving off a blue light. Treasure? He was a bored rich guy and only did stuff for money when he cleaned himself out digging for the portal in the first place. What did the Ancestor hope to find on the other side of the portal.

What did bringing people back from the dead, using pigflesh to bring over demons to this world, and developing poisons have anything to do with opening the gate itself? It lends itself to the idea that he's being influenced or told stuff, maybe these things are somehow necessary to open the portal. I find a lot of his behaviors really suspicious. He acts like the whole disaster was due to hubris, curiosity and obsession leading to insanity. I don't think many of the Ancestor's memiors are entirely truthful. Isn't it awfully convenient that of everybody that reached the portal, the Ancestor was the only one that made it out of there alive, just long enough to write a letter calling for help before putting a bullet to his head? Sounds suspicious! Perhaps the Ancestor feared reprisal, either mortal or supernatural, and went into disguise, hoping to rally his family and adventurers into reclaiming his home? The Caretaker is also pretty crazy, but hanging out in a place like that for a long time will probably do that. My other thought is that the Caretaker might be the Ancestor in disguise his outfit is very similar looking, albeit tattered. I seriously wonder if maybe at some point he had gotten possessed or at least influenced by supernatural forces living on top of some Eldritch portal certainly would have tentacle monsters 'scratching at the door' from the other side. We don't know how much time as passed by 'ancestor' he could just be our Crazy Uncle that lives by the moor. Even though he says "I was already dead", do you think he's still alive? Maybe by 'dead' he meant "Screwed".

Everybody that helped him he ended up betraying, also. The guy gradually descended into becoming a total meglomaniac that opressed the townspeople with hired thugs. Aside from being able to review memiors for the player, why did the Hamlet build a statue for this guy? You'd think everybody would hate his guts.
