Category:Bowlyn
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The Bowlyn is an invisible, ghost-like creature who haunts ships. It is the angry spirit of a sailor who has returned for vengeance.[1]
The Bowlyn acts like a poltergeist, staging accidents and wreaking havoc on the ship. It can stay invisible or manifest itself visibly as it so chooses. They do not manifest immediately, their spirits reappear around the anniversary of their death. A ship that is haunted by a bowlyn can permanently rid itself of the haunting via the desperate measure of running itself aground.[1]
Bowllyn can be found in the following domains: Dementlieu[2], Mordent[3], the Nocturnal Sea[4], and the Sea of Sorrows[5]
Appearances
Descriptive Text
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Old Capp was singing in his whining voice in the galley, the same song he always sang, just as I had heard it every night on that long, miserable voyage to Rokushima Taiyoo. It was so familiar a sound that it was several minutes before I remembered we had buried him at sea--truth be told, that we had "buried" him alive, to keep the plague that had made him a living skeleton from taking hold in the ship and killing us all.
I heard his footsteps in the passageway, and his imbecile laugh; he stopped at the door of my cabin, and I could feel his gaze on me. "Like a bad penny, ain't I?" he asked, his voice high and querulous. "I always come back, matie."
-The Voyage of the Bon-Chance, from Twelve Tales of the Macabre, Jean Lafolie[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II p. 13
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.13
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.44
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.79
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.73
- ↑ Descriptive text from John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (contributed by Nathan Okerlund), from posts on the Fraternity of Shadows message board.
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp13 |
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Pages in category "Bowlyn"
The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
