The Living Brain

Rudolph von Aubrecker, the 18 year old son of Baron Vilhelm von Aubrecker, was nearly killed in the wreck of the Haifisch in 712 BC, a disaster for which he was significantly responsible. He was found upon death's door by Alexis Wilhaven who was a young medical student studying under Dr. Mordenheim and to whom the dying man was brought. Conventional treatment failed to stablise the patient so the doctor determined to at least put the brain of the condemn man to some use, removing it and placing it alive in a bubbling vat for study. The process and conditions in which the brain was kept gradually unlocked its latent psionic powers. When Mordenheim had gotten all the data that he could from the experiment, he determined to end it and the existence of the brain only to find that he couldn't. The brain forced its will upon his and obliged him to create for it a self-contained life support system.

The principle function of the life support system is to aerate the solution in which the brain floats. This is achieved with a pump, almost certainly a smaller, lighter, more efficient and more reliable version of the laboratory pump that Mordenheim invented. It would be powered by electricity. The brain is described as having grown from its severed stem a strucutre that resembles an eel and in particular an electric eel. That is the power source of the pump.

Now known as the Living Brain, the abmoniation resides in Port-a-Lucine in Dementlieu and commands a psionically-dominated organized crime ring. Its goal is to usurp control of Dementlieu from its enemy, Dominic d'Honaire.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp72-75 Monsterous Compendium II - "Brain, Living (Rudolph Von Aubrecker)"
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp72 Monsterous Compendium II - "Brain, Living (Rudolph Von Aubrecker), front cover"
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp72-75 Monsterous Compendium II - "Brain, Living (Rudolph Von Aubrecker)"
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - p37 Ravenloft Third Edition - p17 Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp72-75 Monsterous Compendium II - "Brain, Living (Rudolph Von Aubrecker)" The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - p15 The Forgotten Children - pp32-35 Download Now!
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