Fiction to Darklordom

[Rock of the Fraternity]

You should read the final volume of the Dark Tower series for the explanation for those skeletal remains, that's all I'm going to say. I don't want to give you a huge spoiler. ^^

[BigBadQDaddy]

Ah! The sad thing is I did read that but don't remember. Man, I will have to dig that out now.

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

I just remembered The Lost Angel from the comic book Freex. He disguised himself as an angel to trick people into entering his inter-dimensional sanctuary when in reality they become drooling slaves under his command. It's later revealed that he's just a broken mutant trapped in a machine at a lab and uses his mental powers to create the realm out of envy of those that have the freedom he doesn't.

[Manofevil]

Hokay, here's one for you all: Razor.
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/r/razor.htm
This is as close to a bio as I can find.
I collected most of this series in the nineties. It's an experience. It seemed to marry every brand of horror a person could name and layer them on top of one another. Gothic horror, splatterhouse horror, street violence, rape, torture, madness. This is a serious atrocity story.
Young Nicole Mitchell is playing hide and seen with her sister Jackie when a group of killers led by local crimelord Roman Von Drake burst into the house to murder her father and kidnap her sister. Mr. Mitchell is murdered by Von Drake himself using a razor fingered glove that sends blood spurting everywhere. When the crooked cops arrive, young Nicole is found covered in her fathers blood and in the midst of a complete breakdown. She is institutionalized and subsequently sexually misused by every man, and some women, that she is brought into contact with. She is kept on a strict drug regiment including birth control after she is found to be pregnant twice. The state releases her when she turns eighteen and she finds herself on the city streets, addicted to morphine and irretrievably psychotic.
The streets of Queen city, where she finds herself, are different from other city streets in one very important way: in addition to the cultures of crime, rape, drugs, and guns prevalent in all high crime areas, there is also a culture of knives. So in addition to the bodies of gunshot victims, overdoses and rape victims, there are also bodies dismembered, beheaded, disemboweled, or otherwise mutilated to be found.
Nicole is finally taken in by a prostitute who attempts to teach her the trade. She gives Nicole a straight razor to defend herself and the first of the scanty black outfits that would later become her uniform. Nicole is sent out with her first customer to predictable disaster. The man's advances trigger memories of her childhood traumas which manifest themselves in the violent murder of the man of which Nicole can only remember standing over his corpse with his blood drenching her hand which is holding the razor. Nichole flees to the streets again but this time, killing anyone who attempts to attack her rather than running or hiding. She is taken in this time by an underground weapons designer named Kat who has hust finished designing what will become Razor's signature arm blades. The first time Nicole puts these on, she dares to plan something she's only been dreaming about since her father's murder: killing Roman Von Drake. Several years of self training and many street fights later, Nicole talkes the name Razor and launches a long and bloody campaign to topple Von Drake's empire.
As she works her way up the food chain, she runs afowl of Von Drake's chief killer and lover, a woman named Stryke, who is even better trained than she in the art of killing. During their first confrontation, Stryke strangles Razor into unconsciousness and brings her to Von Drake's corporate headquarters. Von Drake intends to offer Razor a place in his organization but one of the guerds makes the mistake of trying to to rape the unconscious Razor before another has taken her wrist blades from the room. The thug's touch awakens Razor and she quickly cuts the men to pieces. She then proceeds to hack, slash, and shoot her way out of the building. She is badly wounded and nearly recaptured before she is rescued by Detective Alex London, A cop who had previously vowed to bring her in.
The police are decidedly ambivalent to Von Drake's troubles. For while Von Drake has paid them well and murdered any who tried to stand against him, he has never paid them enough to act as his soldiers. Von Drake does own the upper ranks however, and swiftly orders Det. Londons death. London is gunned down by a sniper though his bedroom window in front of his wife.
Meanwhile, Stryke has been having strange dreams about Razor and Von Drake. She suspects that Von Drake has been lying to her. She confronts Von Drake and demands he tell her the truth at gunpoint. In another visceral confrontation that mark this series, Von Drake batters her brutally then informs her that she is, in fact, Razors sister and that he'd had her brainwashed and trained to be the perfect killer. Razor bursts into Von Drake's office just in time to see her long lost sister disemboweled before her eyes.
As they fight, Von Drake proves to be much stronger than Razor. He batters her almost senseless then sees Stryke reaching for her lost gun and turns on her instead. He steps on Stryke's hand before she reaches the gun and yanks her up by the hair so that she may see her unconscious sister. 'The last thing she will ever see' he says. He then places the gun to her temple and demands that she look at him as he shoots her only to have Razor's blade erupt from his chest. He drops the gun and kicks Razor off of him but does not fall when the blade is withdrawn. Von Drake angrily informs Razor that he had once had a torrid one night stand with her mother and that Razor is in fact his daughter not Frank Mitchell's. To her horror, Razor flashes back to her father's murder and remembers Von Drake commenting on how his daughter must have escaped. In a rage, Razor attacks Von Drake in a rage saying that she doesn't care who he is or who she is, her life was a hell because of HIM! Infuriated, Von Drake kicks her onto her back with one kick, lands on top of her and begins to strangle her. Suddenly, his forehead explodes all over her. Stryke has managed to crawl to the gun and blow his brains out from where she's lying... right before she collapses. Razor races to her sister's side and begs her not to die, even as she feels the warmth draining from her sister's body. When the cops arrive, Von Drake is ready for a body bag, Stryke is still barely alive, and Razor has vanished.
This is the end of the first major storyline. Stryke survives, escapes, and blames Razor for leaving her for dead. Von Drake proves to be a demon lord from Hell who has escaped from hell and is very difficult to kill. Hence his enhanced strength and shrugging off of otherwise fatal injuries. Razor is later killed and rises from the dead as a demonic entity.
I think Von Drake would be the best Darklord and Razor would function as his curse.

[Big Bad Jack]

..al lthis talk of Clive Barker, and no mention of Coldheart Canyon? It's two darklords for one!

Katya is easy enough.. she has ultimate power over the dead of Hollywood who gave into her debauched revels in life, but is left tied to the Devil's Country mural for her eternal life and youth, thus while she can revel in the decadent splendor of her past, her fame is forgotten outside of her domain...

And the Devil's Country itself.....

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Haven't read that one yet, tell me more about Devil's Canyon?

[Drinnik Shoehorn]

Jane Hudson would make a good Ravenloft character, if not a full Darklord. A recluse in Mordentshire or Chateauxfaux, a faded star with her maimed sister, desperately trying to regain her glory...

[Big Bad Jack]

Its.. complciated, but is in essence a twisted mural of a nightmarish sexual atrocity fantasyland, that has powers, when not tapped too heavily, to grant youth eternally... it's.. well, been a while, and as I said, complicated.

[ewancummins]

How does he see anything?

Where we're going....we won't need EYES to see!

[Manofevil]

I Finally finished my synopsis of Razor. There were a LOT of underground comics in the 90's which would have been just great for Ravenloft. I.E. Evil Ernie, Lady Death, Chastity, Purgatori, Sade, Luxura from Vampirotica, Areala-Warrior Nun. Admittedly, many of these push the boundries of porn. Vampirotica, perhaps more than others, but they do have enough background material to feed a Ravenloft junkie. Great stuff if you can find them and afford to buy them.

[DocBeard]

Evil Ernie? Really?

I dunno man that always read as more of a shameless revenge fantasy than anything else.

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Evil Ernie definately has the tragety factor as well as his need to be loved, I think if you kept that aspect him and toned some stuff down, EE could work as an undead pact mage whose being used by his favorite contact, Lady Death, who foolishly believes if she were to escpae her state, she could take over Ravenloft (ignorant over the concepts of darklords and the dark power refusing to let her.)

[Manofevil]

From Wikipedia:
The setting for the original Lady Death comic was medieval Sweden. The woman who would become Lady Death was born as a mortal named Hope. Her father was a local nobleman named Matthias who was forcibly conscripting peasants into military service as feudal levies. The exact nature of the war that Matthias was prosecuting is not specified, although evidence from the recent revision of the character by Avatar Press suggests that it may have been one of the Northern Crusades (also known as the Baltic Crusades).

Unknown to his innocent daughter, Matthias had a dark secret. Although congratulated by the Church for his work against the pagans, he was despised by the common folk as a cruel tyrant. Matthias was outwardly pious, but secretly dabbled in black magic and demonology. He was actually a descendant of the fallen angels who had led the rebellion against God. By contrast, Hope's mother was a woman so pure and innocent that her bloodline reached Heaven. Hope's mother died when Hope was still in her late teens, and she was left to live with her father.

Eventually, Matthias' cruelty triggered a peasant uprising. Matthias narrowly escaped death at the hands of the rebels by summoning a demon, but Hope was captured by the rebels and accused of witchcraft. Faced with the prospect of execution by burning at the stake, Hope uttered an incantation that she had overheard her father use. This incantation summoned a demon who offered her a bargain -- he would rescue her from death if she would renounce her humanity and serve the powers of Hell. Hope accepted the bargain and was transported into the infernal realms.

Once in Hell, Hope became entangled in a civil war that was raging between Lucifer and an army of renegade devils led by a powerful sorcerer. Hope was devastated when she learned that the ambitious sorcerer challenging Lucifer for the control of Hell was her own father.

Gradually corrupted by the nature of her surrounding, Hope was tainted with evil. She allied herself with an exiled craftsman who forged weapons for the infernal armies. While speaking to him, she declared that the innocent woman she had once been was dead and that she would henceforth only be known as Lady Death.

In her new persona, Lady Death led an uprising against the Lords of Hell. During the final battle, Lucifer cursed her never to return to Earth while the living walked. Lady Death swore an oath that she would circumvent Lucifer's curse by exterminating all life on Earth.

Lady Death finally ended Lucifer's control over her by casting him through Heaven's Gate (a place where evil cannot go), and in doing so became the new ruler of Hell. Many of the beings living in hell believe that the ascension of Lady Death signaled the beginning of the age of judgment - the final battle between good and evil for the fate of the Earth.

[Baron Zamedi]

There is this old animated movie I used to watch when I was a kid called "The Last Unicorn" the BBEG in it is pretty fiting for a darklord I think. Of course it would have to be worked a little to get rid of the cheesy stuff but he's even got his own domain.

Also Prince Prospero from "The Masque Of The Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe would work really well in my opinion, although it's kind of done with Ladislav Mircea and Sanguinia.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Also Prince Prospero from "The Masque Of The Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe would work really well in my opinion, although it's kind of done with Ladislav Mircea and Sanguinia.

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Oh, man. I loved that movie! "Why are you so afraid of death, Prospero? Your soul died a long time ago."