The Vapir

The Vapir is a secondary antagonist from the Ravenloft product line novel, Shadowborn. In universe, she was a cleric and one of the Dark Triad, three of the last Ahltrian following the Heretical Wars. Following the end of that war and the banishment of Ebonbane from the mortal world, the Vapir and the others of the Triad attempted to summon Ebonbane back to the mortal world and place his essence into a sword prison. Ebonbane demonstrated that they were only successful in binding him to the sword. Ebonbane killed and reanimated the Triad as special ghouls in his service.

Following their transformations, Ebonbane ordered his minions into Forenoon Abbey. The Dark Triad massacred the monastics in Forenoon Abbey and reanimated them as ghouls in the service of Ebonbane. Forenoon Abbey was eventually drawn into the Mists as part of the Phantasmal Forest surrounding Shadowborn Manor.

In 626 BC, Alexi Shadowborn, Lysander Greylocks, Dasmaria Eveningstar, and Ferran Shadowborn ventured into the Demiplane of Dread and confronted the ghouls there. The Vapir demonstrated powerful abilities of domination and managed to control both Lysander and Ferran for a time, but her mind control was eventually broken. Her ability to rapidly jump from one point or the next prevented her from sharing the Ghoul Lord's fate: destruction by Corona's magic light. The Vapir escaped the Ghoul Lord's doom, only to be trampled to death by Pitch, Alexi's mount.