Ramus

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Ramus is a minor character from the Ravenloft product line novel To Sleep With Evil. In universe, he is a mysterious Vistani woodsman who resides within the forests of Donskoy's land. apparently unable to leave. He appears several times and makes sexual advances on and attempts to help Marguerite de Boche, though she rejects both of them most of the time. She finally accepts his help when she seeks the web of the white spider, a substance Zosia says she needs for a potion to make Marguerite pregnant.

Marguerite ultimately comes to wish to be with Ramus, though he rejects her request. He claims not to be a creature of "flesh and blood" but "blood and mist". His chest bears the curse mark of the Vistani, and the nail of his index finger can extend into a talon. He cut his chest to prove he was not of the same nature as normal people. Red snakes came out of his chest instead of blood. At the end of the novel, Marguerite spots a mysterious figure in the woods as she leaves Donskoy's former domain. This is most likely Ramus.

By his own reckoning, Ramus has some kind of bond with both Lord Milos Donskoy and Zosia. The exact conditions of their bond is never stated, though Ramus tells Marguerite he cannot leave the domain.