This post contains plotting which may contain spoilers, or ideas that might not actually wind up in the story.  Continue at your own risk ungentle reader...<br/><br/>So, a few plotting ideas that came while chatting that seemed worth tossing out for keeping in one place and where all of us can see them.<br/><br/>At some point Brom is going to talk to Naiobe about Owen.  His intention is to see about getting her to seduce Owen so he can break poor Felicity's heart.  But the idea of Owen and Felicity getting their wedding... only having it occur in the evil altar beneath the keep with the demon... is appealing.  So I was thinking perhaps Owen might prove devoted enough to resist, which could well be what makes the demon interested in him.  But he's also smart enough to (eventually) come to see that he cannot save her by force.  And thus he would end up agreeing to offer up his soul to the demon to save her from the family.  Of course, such a ritual would likely damn her as well.  And in the end, the pair of them would end up undergoing a ritual (possibly requiring a sacrifice such as Felicity's childhood friend) which would most likely be attended by the whole family...<br/><br/>And this might well be the youngest daughter's first ritual with all of the interesting potential ramifications of that.<br/><br/>And it brings to my mind the idea that each of the family members would have to undergo some manner of private ritual to reaffirm the family's pact once they are of age to do so of their own free will.  (Which would certainly mean an eventual scene for the youngest daughter, and perhaps Naiobe hasn't been fully brought into the family yet either...)<br/><br/>