Wanderets: Potential Dukkars

[Dion of the Fraternity]

I don't quite know if this has been discussed here before, but in reading Heroes of Light I chanced on the minute facts that all three Vistani males in the Wanderers have "The Sight" as a special quality. Doesn't this make them all Dukkars by default?

[Joël of the FoS]

It's probably an oversight

Yes, it's an important mistake, they should not have this power. I included a note about it in the errata page.

Joël

[Rotipher of the FoS]

True, having that power as written would make them Dukkers.

OTOH, by the same reasoning, each and every male darkling in the world is also a potential Dukker! Perhaps it'd resolve the issue if it's only those male Vistani who are *born* with precognitive talents, who are genuine Dukkers: those who gain the Sight by other means, later in life, wouldn't qualify. The darklings gain their Sight as a result of their transformation, after being exiled -- in effect, it's an unique "Terror Track" that the DPs apply only to villainous Vistani -- while the Wanderers could've picked up the Sight as a side effect of the bizarre events in the SotBR novel. Maybe a last-ditch curse by Inza, to punish her former fellows by granting them powers that'd make all other Vistani revile them as "Dukkers"?

Of course, that'd mean a considerable number of male Vistani who gained their powers late, and so weren't genuinely a threat, have been killed by their fellows, out of misplaced paranoia that they're Dukkers. But that's hardly news: in a way, injustice and prejudicial fears are as much a part of the Ravenloft tradition as any other Gothic story-element.

[Darkknight]

That is how I see it. The foreboding should be of the male child born with the sight. The wanderers were a collection of misplaced Vistani. As for how they received it... maybe a gift from Magda. She would wish to see her traitorous daughter kept in check, how better that to have those who wopuld hunt her gifted with the sight. The wanderers I could never see leaving Sithicus and thus contact with other Vistani would be limited.