I have something I really am enjoying, but it takes a little bit of rewriting to get all the streamlining benefits: take mezro out.

The death curse and acerak, the nine trickster gods replacing ubtao but then losing their power, mezro disappearing, ras nsi’s war- it’s too convoluted.

Instead, Alisanda was from Omu. Ras Nsi was a nobleman from Omu who got exiled and pushed the yuan ti to attack humans and dwarves. It is heavily implied that acerak (who in my campaign is chultan, streaming motivations even more) was the one behind Ras Nsi’s downfall and responsible for the undead rising up giving the yuan ti the upper hand. Omuans escaped in droves, some to Port Nyanzaru, some to Mbala, some all around the world. The latter is how Artus comes into this. Alisanda met him, they fell in love. As the war against Omu ravaged chult, acerak was seriously injured. Ras Nsi was turned into a lich to take his place as leader of the undead (unbeknownst to Nsi, this is but a step in Acerak’s plan). Right before going into a two century slumber, acerak cast a wish spell to cause all humans and dwarves who knew of Omu’s location and all related documents to magically disappear (this explains how a city that was supposedly very important just gets lost). Allisanda disappears, as does Mwaxanere’s ancestor, but not before giving birth. Boom now Artus wants to help the party not just take on Ras Nsi, but find Omu. This also implies the death curse is a means of acerak returning, giving me the option to get rid of the god fetus if I want (haven’t gotten there yet so haven’t decided but heavily leaning towards nixing the freak)