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User talk:CplEthane

2014-02-04T01:27:38Z

CplEthane:

Hi! Apologies for the "spamming" but I'd like to invite all users to comment on [[Mistipedia_talk:Categorization_Guidelines]] if they are so inclined. If not, please ignore this. :) -- [[User:Gonzoron|Gonzoron]] 19:57, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Great pic of Misroi! Can we convince you to draw some more portraits for the wiki? ;) -- [[User:Gonzoron|Gonzoron]] 12:44, 3 February 2014 (MST)

Thanks! And yes, time willing, I'm going to draw some more portraits, Strahd will definitely be the next one. --[[User:CplEthane|CplEthane]] 18:27, 3 February 2014 (MST)

Anton Misroi

2014-02-03T01:37:27Z

CplEthane: Adding Misroi's portrait.

[[File:Misroi.jpg|thumb|alt=Anton Misroi|Anton Misroi]]

[[Anton Misroi]] is the Darklord of [[Souragne]], and is revered as the [[Loa]], [[Lord of the Dead]] by Souragnians. Despite becoming a [[Zombie Lord]] at the moment of his death, and retaining the powers thereof, he is now fully alive. Misroi is by many accounts a pleasant and cordial character, but can be equally ruthless to anyone who spites him.

==Background==

Anton Misroi hails from [[Oerth]], in the region known as [[Sasserine]]<ref>[[Beyond Sasserine]]</ref>. He was a [[spellsinger]]<ref>http://fraternityofshadows.com/TheParlor/3rd_author_notes/AN_Secrets_of_the_Dread_Realms.html ''Secrets of the Dread Realms'' Authors' Notes]</ref> as well as a vicious aristocratic owner of the plantation [[Maison d'Sablet]] who brutalized anyone who crossed him. One day he found his wife in the arms of a neighboring plantation owner, of who was only consoling Misroi's wife -- but Misroi had immediately assumed otherwise. He had them tossed into a patch of quicksand and stayed to watch their slow deaths. When this occurred, the two new corpses of his wife and neighbor sprung out of the quicksand, and to Misroi's horror, grasped their murderer and dragged him into the quicksand. Upon his death, he was transformed into a zombie lord and his plantation and the surrounding area was snatched up by the [[Demiplane of Dread]] and became an [[Island of Terror]] (or a copy of -- Misroi's original disused estate still exists on Oerth<ref>[[Beyond Sasserine]]</ref>) with Misroi as its [[Darklord]].

Misroi existed in this ghastly undead state, until he came across the [[Maiden of the Swamp]], a [[hamadryad]] who personified life in the marshlands. Taking a misguided pity on Misroi, she instructed him on the nature of the swamp, his domain, and even the realm of [[Ravenloft]] itself. He also learned to cast any [[necromancy|necromantic]] spell by employing the [[Dance of the Dead]], and doing so with such control that his mastery of that sphere of magic is rivaled by few in the Demiplane. Misroi was able to reclaim his lost humanity through this arcane knowledge, but there was a tradeoff -- he was bound even further to the land, and cannot venture past the borders of the swamp surrounding his plantation home. Compared to his original curse of his lost humanity, this new restriction doesn't seem to bother him as much.

==Current Sketch==

Unlike many other darklords, Misroi doesn't take an active hand in running his [[domain]], instead allowing his citizens to handle their own affairs; yet the citizenry revere Misroi as the Lord of the Dead. The only laws he has set down -- and which are strictly enforced -- are that the newly dead are not to be buried or cremated until four days after their death, and that only clerical and necromantic magics are allowed to be cast in the borders of Souragne. His control over land that makes up his domain, however, is absolute and in many ways unequaled; for instance he can pass through any tree in his swamp to another. His mastery over the undead is for all practical purposes without limit, and he can instantly slay anyone to serve as one of his [[zombie|zombies]]. Souragne would have been annexed by the [[Core]] years ago had it not been for Misroi resisting such an event. One of his many powers is to scry across the entire Demiplane, and he prefers to set himself and his domain apart from it.

{{ref}}
[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Darklord]]
[[Category:Loa]]
[[Category:Ruler]]
[[Category:State of Souragne]]
[[Category:Plantation Owner]]
[[Category:Misroi Family]]
[[category:Noble of Souragne]]
[[Category:Sorcerer]]
[[Category:Aristocrat]]
[[Category:Zombie Lord]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Lawful Evil]]
[[Category:Souragnien]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of the Maison d'Sablet]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Souragne]]
[[Category:CR 20]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - pp97
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - pp97-98 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p74
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p7 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp172-173 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - pp97-98 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp40,74-75 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p84
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
Lord of the Dead
|-valign="top"
|}

File:Misroi.jpg

2014-02-03T01:33:17Z

CplEthane: Portrait of Anton Misroi, by me (CplEthane). I have released this image to the public domain, you may do whatever you wish with it.

Portrait of Anton Misroi, by me (CplEthane). I have released this image to the public domain, you may do whatever you wish with it.

Anton Misroi

2014-02-02T05:51:01Z

CplEthane: Surprised that this hasn't been added yet. I removed the stats because there's already a link to them.

[[Anton Misroi]] is the Darklord of [[Souragne]], and is revered as the [[Loa]], [[Lord of the Dead]] by Souragnians. Despite becoming a [[Zombie Lord]] at the moment of his death, and retaining the powers thereof, he is now fully alive. Misroi is by many accounts a pleasant and cordial character, but can be equally ruthless to anyone who spites him.

==Background==

Anton Misroi hails from [[Oerth]], in the region known as [[Sasserine]]<ref>[[Beyond Sasserine]]</ref>. He was a [[spellsinger]]<ref>http://fraternityofshadows.com/TheParlor/3rd_author_notes/AN_Secrets_of_the_Dread_Realms.html ''Secrets of the Dread Realms'' Authors' Notes]</ref> as well as a vicious aristocratic owner of the plantation [[Maison d'Sablet]] who brutalized anyone who crossed him. One day he found his wife in the arms of a neighboring plantation owner, of who was only consoling Misroi's wife -- but Misroi had immediately assumed otherwise. He had them tossed into a patch of quicksand and stayed to watch their slow deaths. When this occurred, the two new corpses of his wife and neighbor sprung out of the quicksand, and to Misroi's horror, grasped their murderer and dragged him into the quicksand. Upon his death, he was transformed into a zombie lord and his plantation and the surrounding area was snatched up by the [[Demiplane of Dread]] and became an [[Island of Terror]] (or a copy of -- Misroi's original disused estate still exists on Oerth<ref>[[Beyond Sasserine]]</ref>) with Misroi as its [[Darklord]].

Misroi existed in this ghastly undead state, until he came across the [[Maiden of the Swamp]], a [[hamadryad]] who personified life in the marshlands. Taking a misguided pity on Misroi, she instructed him on the nature of the swamp, his domain, and even the realm of [[Ravenloft]] itself. He also learned to cast any [[necromancy|necromantic]] spell by employing the [[Dance of the Dead]], and doing so with such control that his mastery of that sphere of magic is rivaled by few in the Demiplane. Misroi was able to reclaim his lost humanity through this arcane knowledge, but there was a tradeoff -- he was bound even further to the land, and cannot venture past the borders of the swamp surrounding his plantation home. Compared to his original curse of his lost humanity, this new restriction doesn't seem to bother him as much.

==Current Sketch==

Unlike many other darklords, Misroi doesn't take an active hand in running his [[domain]], instead allowing his citizens to handle their own affairs; yet the citizenry revere Misroi as the Lord of the Dead. The only laws he has set down -- and which are strictly enforced -- are that the newly dead are not to be buried or cremated until four days after their death, and that only clerical and necromantic magics are allowed to be cast in the borders of Souragne. His control over land that makes up his domain, however, is absolute and in many ways unequaled; for instance he can pass through any tree in his swamp to another. His mastery over the undead is for all practical purposes without limit, and he can instantly slay anyone to serve as one of his [[zombie|zombies]]. Souragne would have been annexed by the [[Core]] years ago had it not been for Misroi resisting such an event. One of his many powers is to scry across the entire Demiplane, and he prefers to set himself and his domain apart from it.

{{ref}}
[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Darklord]]
[[Category:Loa]]
[[Category:Ruler]]
[[Category:State of Souragne]]
[[Category:Plantation Owner]]
[[Category:Misroi Family]]
[[category:Noble of Souragne]]
[[Category:Sorcerer]]
[[Category:Aristocrat]]
[[Category:Zombie Lord]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Lawful Evil]]
[[Category:Souragnien]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of the Maison d'Sablet]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Souragne]]
[[Category:CR 20]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - pp97
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - pp97-98 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p74
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p7 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp172-173 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - pp97-98 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp40,74-75 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p84
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
Lord of the Dead
|-valign="top"
|}

Talk:Guardian Balor

2014-01-22T18:47:09Z

CplEthane:

What's the source on this, if any? --CplEthane

citation added -- [[User:Gonzoron|Gonzoron]] 18:48, 21 January 2014 (MST)

Thanks!

--[[User:CplEthane|CplEthane]] 11:47, 22 January 2014 (MST)

Talk:The Headless Horseman

2014-01-21T04:33:08Z

CplEthane:

<strike>I'm going to state this because it's always annoyed me -- I've always considered the Headless Horseman's accepted origin story to be utter rubbish. If a [[Ivana Boritsi|noblewoman]] cut off my head to use my vital fluids as improvised bath salts, my following strategy for a tormented afterlife wouldn't be to go and terrify totally unrelated, unsuspecting people on a road throughout eternity and nothing else.

At the very least, I'd challenge [[Jacqueline Montarri]] to a staring contest. But seriously, if I was given free rein to fix or rewrite any part of Ravenloft lore, the Headless Horseman would be my first choice. There's a lot of potential for a solid and powerful backstory to such a character other than "crazy woman cut off my head for a bath, time to go carve people up on a road throughout eternity."</strike>

--[[User:CplEthane|CplEthane]] 08:54, 20 January 2014 (MST)

...and this is what, the third time I've complained about something on a talk page that's already long been fixed? In my defense, I've never been a reader of the ''Dungeon'' or ''Dragon'' periodicals. So disregard everything I said above here.

Except for the staring contest with [[Jacqueline Montarri]]. I stand behind that one.

--[[User:CplEthane|CplEthane]] 21:33, 20 January 2014 (MST)

Talk:The Headless Horseman

2014-01-20T15:54:13Z

CplEthane: Created page with "I'm going to state this because it's always annoyed me -- I've always considered the Headless Horseman's accepted origin story to be utter rubbish. If a [[Ivana Boritsi|noblew..."

I'm going to state this because it's always annoyed me -- I've always considered the Headless Horseman's accepted origin story to be utter rubbish. If a [[Ivana Boritsi|noblewoman]] cut off my head to use my vital fluids as improvised bath salts, my following strategy for a tormented afterlife wouldn't be to go and terrify totally unrelated, unsuspecting people on a road throughout eternity and nothing else.

At the very least, I'd challenge [[Jacqueline Montarri]] to a staring contest. But seriously, if I was given free rein to fix or rewrite any part of Ravenloft lore, the Headless Horseman would be my first choice. There's a lot of potential for a solid and powerful backstory to such a character other than "crazy woman cut off my head for a bath, time to go carve people up on a road throughout eternity."

--[[User:CplEthane|CplEthane]] 08:54, 20 January 2014 (MST)

Category:Shadow Fiend

2014-01-20T05:19:39Z

CplEthane:

A denizen of the [[Abyss]], the chaotic Shadow Fiends can (in most cases, that is) thank their presence in [[Ravenloft]] by a ''gate'' spell or some other form of summoning. They are pitch black, vaguely humanoid winged creatures who are single-minded in their goal to spread evil wherever they go.

While Shadow Fiends are true fiends given their Abyssal origin, they are unique among all outsiders in that they do not have a [[reality wrinkle]]. Also unique to themselves is their association with the [[Dark Powers]] where they are said to work with them instead of against or around them. Whether this is by mutual agreement or by force is unknown, but this presents a grave risk to even the most experienced of demon hunters.

==Errata==
DDa Pg. 137/DDr Pg. 185
:The middle of the first paragraph should read, "They require no sustenance, existing only to spread evil, fear and destruction wherever they go. Fortunately, however, they have lost their reality wrinkles over time"

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Demon]][[Category:Fiend]][[Category:Outsider]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[House of Strahd]]'' - p48 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p138
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[House of Strahd]]'' - p48 
''[[Ravenloft I6]]'' - p24 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp137-138
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[House of Strahd]]'' - p48 
''[[Ravenloft I6]]'' - p24 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp137-138
|-valign="top"
|}

Category:Shadow Fiend

2014-01-20T03:24:59Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

A denizen of the [[Abyss]], the chaotic Shadow Fiends can (in most cases, that is) thank their presence in [[Ravenloft]] by a ''gate'' spell or some other form of summoning. They are pitch black, vaguely humanoid winged creatures who are single-minded in their goal to spread evil wherever they go.

While Shadow Fiends are true fiends, given their Abyssal origin, they are unique among all outsiders in that they do not have a [[reality wrinkle]]. Also unique to themselves is their association with the [[Dark Powers]] where they are said to work with them instead of against or around them. Whether this is by mutual agreement or by force is unknown, but this presents a grave risk to even the most experienced of demon hunters.

==Errata==
DDa Pg. 137/DDr Pg. 185
:The middle of the first paragraph should read, "They require no sustenance, existing only to spread evil, fear and destruction wherever they go. Fortunately, however, they have lost their reality wrinkles over time"

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Demon]][[Category:Fiend]][[Category:Outsider]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[House of Strahd]]'' - p48 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p138
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[House of Strahd]]'' - p48 
''[[Ravenloft I6]]'' - p24 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp137-138
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp47 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Shadow Fiend" 
''[[House of Strahd]]'' - p48 
''[[Ravenloft I6]]'' - p24 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp137-138
|-valign="top"
|}

Category:Defiler Lich

2014-01-19T21:43:59Z

CplEthane:

A [[Defiler Lich]], also known as a ''kaisharga'', is a [[lich]] native to [[Athas]] who found its way to the [[Demiplane of Dread]].

Defiler Liches have the same repertoire of magic that a typical lich has access to, and require a [[phylactery]] to house their spirit. However, like all [[defiler|defilers]], and unlike typical spellcasters, the Defiler Lich draws its magical power from the living essence of the land, which lays waste to the surrounding flora and fauna, reducing the most of the former to ash and causing suffering and death to the latter. It goes without saying that any form of sentient plant life such as [[dread treant|Evil Treants]] and even [[Undead Treant|Undead Treants]] loathe the Defiler Lich above all else. The Defiler Lich also has powerful psionic capabilities, and if that weren't enough, their exceptional hand-to-hand melee combat skills are also another danger.

As was the case in their original homeworld of Athas, the source of their incredible magical power is also their greatest weakness -- but for a completely different reason. Athas was laid waste by their brand of magic, and it would seem at a glance that Ravenloft an untapped, endless resource just waiting to be taken. Unfortunately for the defiler, every [[Darklord]] is intimately tied to their [[domain]] and the usage of such magic would immediately be detected by the master of that land. Defiler Liches have been reported to be chased from the [[Core]] worlds of [[Falkovnia]] and [[Barovia]] and some of these creatures could have possibly taken up residence with the [[illithid]] in [[Bluetspur]].

==Demilich status==

The [[demilich]] phase of the Defiler Lich's existence is much the same as its other brethren, but it is able to afflict a curse of entropy on anyone who disturbs its remains.

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p69
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 69-70
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 69-70
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|

Lich, Defiler
|-valign="top"
|}





[[category:lich]][[category:undead]]
[[category:defiler]]

Category:Defiler Lich

2014-01-19T16:06:32Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

A [[Defiler Lich]], also known as a ''kaisharga'', is a [[lich]] native to [[Athas]] who found its way to the [[Demiplane of Dread]].

Defiler Liches have the same repertoire of magic that a typical lich has access to, and require a [[phylactery]] to house their spirit. However, like all [[defiler|defilers]], and unlike typical spellcasters, the Defiler Lich draws its magical power from the living essence of the land, which lays waste to the surrounding flora and fauna, reducing the most of the former to ash and causing suffering and death to the latter. It goes without saying that any form of sentient plant life such as [[dread treant|Evil Treants]] and even [[Undead Treant|Undead Treants]] loathe the Defiler Lich above all else. The Defiler Lich also has powerful psionic capabilities, and if that weren't enough, their exceptional hand-to-hand melee combat skills are also another danger.

As was the case in their original homeworld of Athas, the source of their incredible magical power is also their greatest weakness -- but for a completely different reasons. Athas was laid waste by their brand of magic, and it would seem at a glance that Ravenloft an untapped, endless resource just waiting to be taken. Unfortunately for the defiler, every [[Darklord]] is intimately tied to their [[domain]] and the usage of such magic would immediately be detected by the master of that land. Defiler Liches have been reported to be chased from the [[Core]] worlds of [[Falkovnia]] and [[Barovia]] and some of these creatures could have possibly taken up residence with the [[illithid]] in [[Bluetspur]].

==Demilich status==

The [[demilich]] phase of the Defiler Lich's existence is much the same as its other brethren, but it is able to afflict a curse of entropy on anyone who disturbs its remains.

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p69
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 69-70
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 69-70
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|

Lich, Defiler
|-valign="top"
|}





[[category:lich]][[category:undead]]
[[category:defiler]]

Category:Death's Heads (Detached)

2014-01-18T02:29:37Z

CplEthane: expanded entry.

Death's Heads are the released fruit from the [[Death's Head Tree]]. After dropping from their tree, they now assume an [[undead]] state and float off of the ground due to gasses built up inside. They slowly float around the countryside, and always in the direction of spilled blood (which they can smell from over a mile away.) If they find a victim, they attack it by shooting its deadly seeds and by biting and then dying soon after. They can travel up to 20 miles to find a victim before the gases buoying them give out, where they collapse and perish.

They can be turned as [[zombie|zombies]].

[[Category:Fruit]][[Category:Dread Plant]][[Category:plant]][[category:undead]]
==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p118
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp113, 117-118
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp117-118
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|

Plant, Death's Heads (Detached)
Death's Heads Plant (Detached)
|-valign="top"
|}

Category:Death's Head Tree

2014-01-18T02:22:04Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

A [[Death's Head Tree]] is a species of [[Dread Plant]]. Its seeds germinate on soil where copious amounts of blood have been spilled into the soil. Battlefields and temples where sacrifice of living creatures were performed are fertile soil for the Death's Head Tree. On average, it takes around fifty-five years for a Death's Head tree to germinate and grow into a size where it can bear its fruit, the eponymous Death's Heads. These heads are unquestionably humanoid, with functioning eyes, ears, noses, and a head of hair and they are able to vocalize cries of "help" to lure in prey. Other than this convincing display, they are not sapient creatures. The tree, which is obviously magical in nature, is immune to fire and fire-based magic which will create a nasty surprise to those who first encounter it.

The tree can move its branches to attack and defend, and in this effect it can use its Deaths Head fruit to attack, by biting. These bites are capable of inserting seeds of the Death's Head Tree into the flesh of the victim, which if left untreated will quickly germinate into another Death's Head Tree in hours, and killing the host.

When the heads of the tree fully ripen, they detach and become [[Death's Heads (Detached)|Detached Death's Heads]] and are now considered [[undead]] creatures.

The existence of the Death's Head Tree was first recorded by adventurers in the domain of [[Forlorn]], but they have been found elsewhere around the [[Core]] and among the [[Clusters]] and [[Islands of Terror]].

{{Canon}}

==Descriptive Text==

{{Homebrew non-canon}}

''“So my pretty little [[elf|elf-thing]], yea would look upon the face of your long-lost father, kiss his cheek once more, let him whisper little nonsenses in your ear? T'is a far sweeter thing than to have yea for tea. We be off then to the [[The Willow's Grove|Willow’s Grove]].”

- [[The Three Hags]] of [[Tepest]]

Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure | cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum | John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).

==Details==

Cataloged by [[Professor Abelhous Nicholsi]].

[[Category:tree]][[Category:Dread Plant]][[Category:plant]]
==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp28-29 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p94 
Castles Forlorn: Melancholy Meetings - Cover 
''[[Bleak House:Homecoming]]'' - p25 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p118
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp28-29 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp94-95 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Melancholy Meetings]]'' - p31 
''[[Bleak House: Homecoming]]'' - p26 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp113, 117-118
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp28-29 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p94 
''[[Bleak House: Homecoming]]'' - p26 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp117-118
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Plant, Death's Head Tree
Death's Head Tree Plant
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Category:Rushlight

2014-01-17T23:12:13Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

Rushlights are evil [[undead]] spirits composed of ethereal flame, and look like a flaming ball of a person's agonized face and hands. They are formed when an evil person is immolated alive on a [[funeral pyre]].

For the most part, Rushlights are invisible when viewed directly; but they can be detected using peripheral vision. The spell ''[[detect invisible]]'' will make them fully visible to the naked eye.

During the day, they bury themselves into the ground where they met their terrible death and arise at night to seek living victims.

[[Category:undead]][[category:incorporeal]][[Category:Fire Creature]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p95 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p132
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p95 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp131-132
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p95 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp131-132
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Category:Shadow Unicorn

2014-01-17T23:00:18Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

[[Shadow Unicorn]]s are an evil type of [[magical beast]] native to [[Ravenloft (Setting)|Ravenloft]], and the legend is that they were sired by [[Addar]], a true [[unicorn]] and a female [[nightmare]]. They are endemic to the forests of [[Darkon]] and [[Falkovnia]]. When Shadow Unicorns mate, the resulting offspring are always twin foals with a tiny chance that one of the foals may grow to become a true unicorn. The [[Vistani]] know enough about the creature to pacify them when they journey through the shadow unicorn's territory. They are known to enjoy the taste of [[Dread Treants]].

[[Category:Unicorn]][[Category:Magical Beast]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p105 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p147
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 105-106 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 105-106 
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Unicorn, Shadow
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Category:Jolly Roger

2014-01-17T03:17:37Z

CplEthane:

The Jolly Roger is an [[undead]], spectral remnant of a pirate officer or ship's captain. As such, they can be seen leading the [[walking dead]], usually [[aquatic zombie|aquatic zombies]], whenever encountered. Other than their ability to command, they are characterized by their skeletal, smiling visage and disturbing laughter. The exist only in the [[Sea of Sorrows]].

Jolly Rogers are able to raise and command from the sea floor ships that sunk long ago, regardless of their physical condition. They accompany the [[mists]] at times when they roll in from the ocean onto a coastal town or settlement.

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p64 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p64 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p64 
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[[Category:undead]]

Category:Jolly Roger

2014-01-17T00:12:36Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

The Jolly Roger is an [[undead]], spectral remnant of a pirate officer or ship's captain. As such, they can be seen leading the [[walking dead]], usually [[sea zombie|sea zombies]], whenever encountered. Other than their ability to command, they are characterized by their skeletal, smiling visage and disturbing laughter. The exist only in the [[Sea of Sorrows]].

Jolly Rogers are able to raise and command from the sea floor ships that sunk long ago, regardless of their physical condition. They accompany the [[mists]] at times when they roll in from the ocean onto a coastal town or settlement.

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p64 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p64 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p64 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp86-87
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[[Category:undead]]

Category:Ansasshia

2014-01-16T23:55:07Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

Native to [[Rokushima Táiyoo]], Ansasshias are [[Akikage|Akikages]] that have been captured and controlled by a living master. This is made possible by either an evil cleric taking control of the creature, or by slaying its quarry before it can do so itself. Either way, due to its code of honor and discipline, the Akikage must now serve its new master. Unlike other forms of controlled or enslaved undead, Akikage will not flee or betray their new masters.

{{Spec|Note that the Ansasshia were never updated to 3.x Edition, so the creature types assigned below are speculative.}}

[[Category:Incorporeal Undead]]
[[Category:Undead]]
[[Category:Native Monster of Rokushima Táiyoo]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p9
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p9
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Category:Akikage

2014-01-16T23:51:04Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

Akikage, also so-called ''shadow ninja'', are the [[ghost|ghosts]] of ninja assassins who perished before completing a mission during their lifetime. Their commitment to completing their task has carried them over into the unlife. So consumed with are they with this that they interact with the living only when necessary and never choose to communicate. Once they complete this mission, they disappear forever.

Akikage are native to [[Rokushima Táiyoo]], but will trail their quarry to anywhere on the [[Demiplane]]. It is unknown if they are able to pursue their quarry outside of [[Ravenloft]].

Evil clerics have found a way to exploit the Akikage's strict devotion, subverting it to their own ends and enslaving the spirit. When this occurs, the Akikage becomes an [[Ansasshia]].

[[Category:Incorporeal Undead]]
[[Category:Undead]]
[[Category:Native Monster of Rokushima Táiyoo]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p9 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p9 
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p9 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp10-11
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Azalin Rex

2014-01-16T18:25:50Z

CplEthane: More of the same.

[[File:Azalin.jpg|thumb|alt=Alt Azalin's Illusionary Living Face|Azalin's Illusionary Living Face]]
[[File:Azalin rex.jpg|thumb|alt=Azalin's True Undead Face|Azalin's True Undead Face]]

In the World of [[Greyhawk]] and [[Ravenloft]] campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Azalin Rex or "The Rex" is a wizard-king. He is the [[Darklord]] of the domain of Darkon. He is known by his subjects for his draconian rule.

== Description ==
As a [[lich]], an undead wizard, Azalin's true appearance resembles a skeleton or mummy. In his everyday appearance, however, Azalin maintains the illusion of a living king, closely mimicking his late-life persona: an elderly man with aquiline features and a piercing gaze, with unkempt dark hair topped by a heavy [[Iron Crown|iron crown]]. However, he can alter his appearance to resemble many humanoid individuals, even that of a different race or gender. Perhaps as a result of this in-game flexibility, official portrayals of Azalin differs greatly from artist to artist, much more so than portrayals of characters such as [[Lord Soth]] or [[Strahd von Zarovich]].

== History ==

=== Early life ===
Firan Zal'honan was born in the earldom of Knurl, a city-state in the eastern Flanaess. As the second of three sons of [[Lord Turalitan Zal'honan]], his political future was decidedly dim from his birth, and he spent much of his childhood overlooked by his parents. From an early age, Firan demonstrated a keen intelligence, marked with a distaste for his fellow men and their deviation from discipline and order, a revulsion that manifested itself in self-loathing several times for his own perceived weaknesses. Firan respected his father's strict rulership, as well as the prior claim to succession exercised by his older brother Ranald, but disliked his father's superstitions and his bans against magic. Perhaps in a display of rebellion, Firan entered the underworld of Knurl's mages, studying under the wizard [[Quantarius]].

As a youth, Firan seems to desire control over others and of himself above all else, although he also is given to angry outbursts and quick decisions which he later comes to regret. Even into his later lichhood and rulership status, these attributes recur, painting the portrait of a ruler demanding fealty and promising order, but secretly and constantly frustrated by the failings of his fellow men and of himself.

The only family member he loved without reservation was his younger brother, [[Irik]]. Where Firan was quick to anger and slow to forgive, Irik was the opposite. Firan pursued his studies and thirsted after[[knowledge]], but occasionally displayed an inability or ignorance of the potential repercussions. The death of Irik would prove a telling example: At 15, Firan called a [[demon]] that broke loose from his power and killed Irik. Firan's actions caused his father to expel [[Quantarius]] from the city, and Firan chose to follow him into exile, continuing his studies. In time, he would learn magics that few other mages could master (and which are actually largely beyond reach of normal D&D characters): he could permanently heal himself by stealing others' life forces, he could read minds and steal magical information, completely learning new spells with a thought, he could extend his own life by draining the vitality of enemies.

=== Rulership of [[Knurl]] ===
[[Ranald Zal'honan]] died as a result of a dissipate and gluttonous lifestyle, and Firan returned to his home, assuming the seat of power and ruling as "Azal'Lan," or wizard-king. His credits include reversing the decline that Knurl suffered under Ranald's reign, and returning it to economic and military significance. Also, under his reign, magic once again became an important part of Knurl's daily life.

Firan swore allegiance to the distant Malachite Throne of the [[Great Kingdom]], but conducted many unsanctioned military campaigns against the surrounding tribes, adding handsomely to Knurl's holdings. His reign was marked by prosperity and growth, but also by violence and dissent from the conquered tribes.

Firan was 60 when he married, as his life-extending spells started to fail and he needed an heir. His loveless marriage took 18 years to produce a son, with some saying his wife even sought magical wards against bearing his child. [[Olessa]] died in childbirth, cursing him. Firan named his son Irik, after his brother, but the name would carry greater resonance. His son inherited the kindness and generosity of Firan's brother, and would not follow his father's harsh footsteps, a trait Firan saw as weakness. When Irik was caught freeing political prisoners, Firan was faced with a choice: to pardon his son, or to kill him. In accordance with his own laws and as a symbol of his strict devotion to them, Firan not only permitted the [[execution]] but wielded the headsman's blade himself.

Although this act impressed upon his citizens the strictness of his rule, Firan himself was plagued with doubts over his own actions. He became obsessed alternately with finding a means to live forever, or finding a means to bring his son back from the dead to try to train him anew. As he lamented his failure as a father, a dark and nameless force presented him with the secret of lichdom.

Firan shed his mortality and changed his official title to Azal'Lan, ruling for 60 more years. During this time, [[Knurl]] became a major power in the Flanaess, even daring to renounce fealty to the Malachite Throne. Azal'Lan's military and trade power began to infringe on the territories of surrounding kingdoms, who sought ways to eliminate Azal'Lan. Assassins and armies alike seemed unable to topple him, but the course of his downfall would come from the minor tribes he had defeated early in his reign.

Azal'Lan was finally lured out of his defenses by the promise of a new magical spell that could allow a mage to restore true life to a corpse. Blinded by his hopes for restoring his son, Azal'Lan went forth with a small retinue of guards, and was then ambushed by a group of mercenaries. Fleeing their pursuit, he entered a dense fog to lose them. He was never to see Knurl again.

=== Arrival in Ravenloft ===
He appeared in [[Barovia]], whose inhabitants called him "Azalin" upon hearing his name. Continuing in his insatiable quest for knowledge, he terrorized several local boyars searching for magical texts. During this time, he apparently discovered something similar to the life restoration spell he sought, but whether he could learn it at all is unclear (see Memory anomalies below).

It was not long before he drew the attention, and grudging respect, of the domain's dark lord. Trapped in Barovia and suffering from a strange malady that prevented him from learning new spells Azalin entered into an uneasy alliance with Strahd. Azalin, who was a more powerful spell caster than the vampire, would instruct Strahd in the magic arts in exchange for his help in Azalin's [[experiments]] which were aimed at returning the lich lord to his own [[plane]]. This collaboration led to the first concerted attempt to break through the [[Misty Border]] surrounding Barovia and escape using an apparatus of Azalin's design.

This attempt resulted in the pair arriving in the outworld realm of [[Mordent]], which bore striking similarities to the town of Whitby in Britain, also a setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. There, [[the Apparatus]] split Strahd's personality into good and evil manifestations: Alchemist and Creature respectively. Azalin's role in this adventure ([[I10:The House on Gryphon Hill]]) appears to be largely observational. The Alchemist and Creature's attempts to destroy each other caused the escape attempt to fail, and forced Mordent into joining the Demiplane of Ravenloft.

===Memory anomalies===
After the failed Mordent incident, the already-tense relation between Azalin and Strahd frayed further. When the domain of Mordent actually appeared beyond Barovia's borders, Azalin deduced that the [[Misty Border]] of Ravenloft might hold other lands, free from Strahd's authority. He entered the mists alone, and emerged in a realm of his own: Darkon.

Here, the exact nature of Azalin's existence is unclear, on two counts. The first count is the issue of a personality split: one source ([[King of the Dead]], a canonical novel) maintains that a traveling wizard named Firan appeared at the border, while an undead lich-like creature named Darcalus materialized in Darkon's central castle, [[Avernus]]. Firan, a just and good [[adventurer]], eventually sought out the depraved tyrant Darcalus and confronted him, rather as the Alchemist Strahd and the Creature Strahd did in Mordent. However, few other Ravenloft products refer to this (although they do not explicitly contradict it). According to King of the Dead, Firan stumbled about Darkon with no memory, and did not regain his memory until he defeated Darcalus, whereupon the undead essence merged with his own and made him Azalin once again. The novel also depicts his rage at realizing he had come so close to escaping his despicable undead state as well as the burdens of rulership.

The second count is the question of Azalin's memory. As with many Darklords, Azalin suffers a curse tailored to his personality, granted by the [[The Dark Powers]] of Ravenloft. In this case, one dimension of his curse is the inability to learn any new magic at all, a crippling blow to any wizard, and downright unbearable for a lich, especially one who has knowingly sacrificed his living self so he can pursue new magics for all eternity. All sources cite this handicap, but they disagree on the time it manifested. Some sources, including [[King of the Dead]], imply that he could not learn new magic from the moment he arrived in Barovia (such as the resurrection spell he found); others, such as the [[Gazetteers]] and campaign setting books, imply he must have been able to learn new magic while helping Strahd penetrate the Demiplane's magical secrets. The fact that he invented [[Bone Golems]] and [[Zombie Golems]] during his time with Strahd suggests that he had some ability to innovate after arriving in Ravenloft. [[I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin]] maintains that the curse struck Azalin immediately upon entering Barovia, and that the lich tutored Strahd in the arcane arts. Azalin had the [[vampire]] lord learn and cast any spells that Azalin devised but could not personally master.

What is certain is that by the time he assumed lordship of Darkon, his curse was firmly in place. Also, a similar curse strikes all travelers to [[Darkon]], who eventually lose their memories and gain false memories, a magical tome that records these true memories as they are lost, Âand it is implied that Azalin himself only rediscovered his true past after reading the book.

=== Rulership of Darkon ===
After a few years spent assembling the [[Kargat]] secret police, Azalin prepared for a massive [[invasion]] of Barovia to unseat his nemesis. The invasion was thwarted by [[Strahd]]'s minions, who struck at the Kargat leadership and disrupted Azalin's chain of command. Afterwards, the effort of rebuilding the Kargat, and the appearance of intervening domains such as [[Falkovnia]], put an end to Azalin's military interest in Barovia.

Azalin's rule over [[Darkon]] was absolute: all political, military, and Kargat matters ultimately reported to him. His rule was strictly lawful to the point of ruthlessness, but based in large part on deception, both in terms of Azalin's illusion of being a mortal king, and also in the artificial docility that his civilians displayed, thanks to their false memories. However, this concentration of power has its weaknesses, especially when Azalin has demonstrated several times his willingness to abandon his people and realm at a moment's notice if it means a chance of escape from Ravenloft.

Militarily, Azalin recognizes the futility of attempting to extend his borders through conquest. In defense, too, he has little to fear. On no fewer than four occasions, the neighboring country of Falkovnia to the south has declared [[war]], and Azalin's mastery of undead has easily repulsed their soldiers.

=== Escape Attempts ===
In the last 30 years, Azalin has tried to escape Ravenloft twice more.

The first attempt was in manipulating the [[Grand Conjunction]], wherein he sent powerful heroes back in time to steal key artifacts from the formation of Ravenloft. Azalin's actions split the Demiplane open, freeing all the Darklords to terrorize other worlds. However, his hatred for Strahd proved to be his undoing: Azalin returned to face his nemesis, giving the heroes their chance to reverse the Grand Conjunction and reform the prison of Ravenloft once more. Some Darklords escaped permanently; Azalin and Strahd were not among their number.

(The actual history of the Grand Conjunction involves six tenuously-related adventures, tied together by a poetic [[hexad]]. Later source materials claims Azalin's flaw was to disrupt the verse order of the hexad's last two couplets, although the "correct" order of the verses themselves frequently changes from product to product.)

Azalin then initiated a side project aimed at circumventing his magical curse: he magically impregnated various women with clones of himself, then tried to harvest the clones' magical knowledge when they reached adulthood after a childhood of magical tutelage. Although this [[experiment]] failed, it did result in the creation of [[Lowellyn Dachine]], a clone (of sorts) of Azalin, and an important figure in later day Darkon.

He then toiled for 10 years in creating his "[[doomsday device]]", which would turn him into a [[demilich]] and allow his immaterial essence to escape. The prototype device turned [[Lowellyn Dachine]] into a [[negative energy elemental]] known only as [[Death]].

The second and full application of the machine caused the [[Requiem]], killing all life in [[Il Aluk]], the capital city, and shattering Azalin's essence and scattering it across Darkon. He remained in that state for five years before pulling himself together and taking over the corpse of his son, which had been lying in [[Castle Avernus]] for almost two hundred years. To this date, Irik's spirit haunts Azalin, reminding him constantly of his actions and urging his father towards redemption. Needless to say, Azalin gives this counsel limited heed.

During his absence, Il Aluk became an undead [[Necropolis]], ruled by [[Death]], and his Kargat lieutenants ran amok. Mortal agents loyal to Azalin helped to foil usurpation attempts by a rebel Kargat leader ([[Tavelia]]) and also by the new ruler of Il Aluk, Death. Although reinstalled as ruler of Darkon, Azalin's current concerns are the re-centralization of his power, the elimination of rebel Kargat officers, and the future of Necropolis, whose mere existence is a daily challenge to his own power.

=== Current ===
Today, Azalin's [[experiments]] seem to focus on more than just escape. The lich lord appears to have recovered some limited ability to expand his knowledge ever so slightly, by formulating new magic as long as it is strongly related to knowledge he already has, though this process apparently takes much longer than for a human mage. He also has gained several salient powers, including the ability to look into the mind, and alter the memories of, anybody in Darkon. His control over undead is still absolute, with no apparent limit to the number or power of slaves thus controlled, and his spellcasting largely seen as being second to none.

[[Azalin's Phylactery]] is an enormous golden dragon skull, which is almost immovably heavy. It also appears near indestructible. His dependence on it may be equal to or even less than most liches, some sources maintain that he will be instantly killed if it is destroyed, while others imply that he will survive as long as his physical body is not destroyed along with it. Like most liches, Azalin is extremely protective of his true name, although whether this is out of any true weakness (perhaps to spells such as Trap the Soul, which require the true name to be spoken) is debatable.

Currently, Azalin has commissioned the services of a scholar, known only as [["S"]], to travel and research the domains of Ravenloft. Speculation indicates that he is still searching for a method to escape Ravenloft. According to several products released recently, his current plan involves discovering a method to undo the magical bonds tying the [[Dukkar]], [[Malocchio Aderre]], to the domain of [[Invidia]]. Once free, Malocchio would have the ability to travel freely within and without the [[Land of Mists]], unstoppable to the [[Dark Powers]] and, most importantly, able to take even darklords with him. As well as finding a method to free the Dukkar, Azalin is also working towards making a deal with (or enslaving) Malocchio to ensure that he will allow Azalin to return to the world of [[Oerth]]. (Comments from the authors seem to indicated escape is not the goal of Azalin's current plan. This section needs to be rewritten in light of this.) [In game Azalin remarks that even dreams must die. The dream here is that of escape. For he has concluded that the Dark Powers would be able snatch him back at their leisure.]

==[[Creation of Azalin Rex]]==

==References==
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]''
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p19 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp12, 53, 55 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - pp4, 66, 93 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
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''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p91 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - p133 
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp17-21 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - p52 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - p5 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - p59 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - pp90-93 
''[[Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill]]'' - pp45, Poster [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp133-137
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp7, 11, 17-21, 27 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp13-18, 114, 117, 132 
''[[Death Ascendant]]'' - p57, 60 
''[[Death Unchained]]'' - p57 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp11-13, 52-56, 99 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - pp5, 84-87, 93-94 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - pp9-10 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Tales of Ravenloft: The Crucible of Dr. Rudolph van Richten]]'' - pp8-11 
''[[Tower of Doom]]'' - pp29-31 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - pp90-93, 117 
''[[Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill]]'' - pp39, 45 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp133-137 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p35-38, 49-50, 77-84, 87-175, 199-303
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Firan Zal'honan
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Azalin Rex

2014-01-16T14:37:56Z

CplEthane: More of the same.

[[File:Azalin.jpg|thumb|alt=Alt Azalin's Illusionary Living Face|Azalin's Illusionary Living Face]]
[[File:Azalin rex.jpg|thumb|alt=Azalin's True Undead Face|Azalin's True Undead Face]]

In the World of [[Greyhawk]] and [[Ravenloft]] campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Azalin Rex or "The Rex" is a wizard-king. He is the [[Darklord]] of the domain of Darkon. He is known by his subjects for his draconian rule.

== Description ==
As a [[lich]], an undead wizard, Azalin's true appearance resembles a skeleton or mummy. In his everyday appearance, however, Azalin maintains the illusion of a living king, closely mimicking his late-life persona: an elderly man with aquiline features and a piercing gaze, with unkempt dark hair topped by a heavy [[Iron Crown|iron crown]]. However, he can alter his appearance to resemble many humanoid individuals, even that of a different race or gender. Perhaps as a result of this in-game flexibility, official portrayals of Azalin differs greatly from artist to artist, much more so than portrayals of characters such as [[Lord Soth]] or [[Strahd von Zarovich]].

== History ==

=== Early life ===
Firan Zal'honan was born in the earldom of Knurl, a city-state in the eastern Flanaess. As the second of three sons of [[Lord Turalitan Zal'honan]], his political future was decidedly dim from his birth, and he spent much of his childhood overlooked by his parents. From an early age, Firan demonstrated a keen intelligence, marked with a distaste for his fellow men and their deviation from discipline and order, a revulsion that manifested itself in self-loathing several times for his own perceived weaknesses. Firan respected his father's strict rulership, as well as the prior claim to succession exercised by his older brother Ranald, but disliked his father's superstitions and his bans against magic. Perhaps in a display of rebellion, Firan entered the underworld of Knurl's mages, studying under the wizard [[Quantarius]].

As a youth, Firan seems to desire control over others and of himself above all else, although he also is given to angry outbursts and quick decisions which he later comes to regret. Even into his later lichhood and rulership status, these attributes recur, painting the portrait of a ruler demanding fealty and promising order, but secretly and constantly frustrated by the failings of his fellow men and of himself.

The only family member he loved without reservation was his younger brother, [[Irik]]. Where Firan was quick to anger and slow to forgive, Irik was the opposite. Firan pursued his studies and thirsted after[[knowledge]], but occasionally displayed an inability or ignorance of the potential repercussions. The death of Irik would prove a telling example: At 15, Firan called a [[demon]] that broke loose from his power and killed Irik. Firan's actions caused his father to expel [[Quantarius]] from the city, and Firan chose to follow him into exile, continuing his studies. In time, he would learn magics that few other mages could master (and which are actually largely beyond reach of normal D&D characters): he could permanently heal himself by stealing others' life forces, he could read minds and steal magical information, completely learning new spells with a thought, he could extend his own life by draining the vitality of enemies.

=== Rulership of [[Knurl]] ===
[[Ranald Zal'honan]] died as a result of a dissipate and gluttonous lifestyle, and Firan returned to his home, assuming the seat of power and ruling as "Azal'Lan," or wizard-king. His credits include reversing the decline that Knurl suffered under Ranald's reign, and returning it to economic and military significance. Also, under his reign, magic once again became an important part of Knurl's daily life.

Firan swore allegiance to the distant Malachite Throne of the [[Great Kingdom]], but conducted many unsanctioned military campaigns against the surrounding tribes, adding handsomely to Knurl's holdings. His reign was marked by prosperity and growth, but also by violence and dissent from the conquered tribes.

Firan was 60 when he married, as his life-extending spells started to fail and he needed an heir. His loveless marriage took 18 years to produce a son, with some saying his wife even sought magical wards against bearing his child. [[Olessa]] died in childbirth, cursing him. Firan named his son Irik, after his brother, but the name would carry greater resonance. His son inherited the kindness and generosity of Firan's brother, and would not follow his father's harsh footsteps, a trait Firan saw as weakness. When Irik was caught freeing political prisoners, Firan was faced with a choice: to pardon his son, or to kill him. In accordance with his own laws and as a symbol of his strict devotion to them, Firan not only permitted the [[execution]] but wielded the headsman's blade himself.

Although this act impressed upon his citizens the strictness of his rule, Firan himself was plagued with doubts over his own actions. He became obsessed alternately with finding a means to live forever, or finding a means to bring his son back from the dead to try to train him anew. As he lamented his failure as a father, a dark and nameless force presented him with the secret of lichdom.

Firan shed his mortality and changed his official title to Azal'Lan, ruling for 60 more years. During this time, [[Knurl]] became a major power in the Flanaess, even daring to renounce fealty to the Malachite Throne. Azal'Lan's military and trade power began to infringe on the territories of surrounding kingdoms, who sought ways to eliminate Azal'Lan. Assassins and armies alike seemed unable to topple him, but the course of his downfall would come from the minor tribes he had defeated early in his reign.

Azal'Lan was finally lured out of his defenses by the promise of a new magical spell that could allow a mage to restore true life to a corpse. Blinded by his hopes for restoring his son, Azal'Lan went forth with a small retinue of guards, and was then ambushed by a group of mercenaries. Fleeing their pursuit, he entered a dense fog to lose them. He was never to see Knurl again.

=== Arrival in Ravenloft ===
He appeared in [[Barovia]], whose inhabitants called him "Azalin" upon hearing his name. Continuing in his insatiable quest for knowledge, he terrorized several local boyars searching for magical texts. During this time, he apparently discovered something similar to the life restoration spell he sought, but whether he could learn it at all is unclear (see Memory anomalies below).

It was not long before he drew the attention, and grudging respect, of the domain's dark lord. Trapped in Barovia and suffering from a strange malady that prevented him from learning new spells Azalin entered into an uneasy alliance with Strahd. Azalin, who was a more powerful spell caster than the vampire, would instruct Strahd in the magic arts in exchange for his help in Azalin's [[experiments]] which were aimed at returning the lich lord to his own [[plane]]. This collaboration led to the first concerted attempt to break through the [[Misty Border]] surrounding Barovia and escape using an apparatus of Azalin's design.

This attempt resulted in the pair arriving in the outworld realm of [[Mordent]], which bore striking similarities to the town of Whitby in Britain, also a setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. There, [[the Apparatus]] split Strahd's personality into good and evil manifestations: Alchemist and Creature respectively. Azalin's role in this adventure ([[I10:The House on Gryphon Hill]]) appears to be largely observational. The Alchemist and Creature's attempts to destroy each other caused the escape attempt to fail, and forced Mordent into joining the Demiplane of Ravenloft.

===Memory anomalies===
After the failed Mordent incident, the already-tense relation between Azalin and Strahd frayed further. When the domain of Mordent actually appeared beyond Barovia's borders, Azalin deduced that the [[Misty Border]] of Ravenloft might hold other lands, free from Strahd's authority. He entered the mists alone, and emerged in a realm of his own: Darkon.

Here, the exact nature of Azalin's existence is unclear, on two counts. The first count is the issue of a personality split: one source ([[King of the Dead]], a canonical novel) maintains that a traveling wizard named Firan appeared at the border, while an undead lich-like creature named Darcalus materialized in Darkon's central castle, [[Avernus]]. Firan, a just and good [[adventurer]], eventually sought out the depraved tyrant Darcalus and confronted him, rather as the Alchemist Strahd and the Creature Strahd did in Mordent. However, few other Ravenloft products refer to this (although they do not explicitly contradict it). According to King of the Dead, Firan stumbled about Darkon with no memory, and did not regain his memory until he defeated Darcalus, whereupon the undead essence merged with his own and made him Azalin once again. The novel also depicts his rage at realizing he had come so close to escaping his despicable undead state as well as the burdens of rulership.

The second count is the question of Azalin's memory. As with many [[Darklord]]s, Azalin suffers a curse tailored to his personality, granted by the [[The Dark Powers]] of Ravenloft. In this case, one dimension of his curse is the inability to learn any new magic at all, a crippling blow to any wizard, and downright unbearable for a lich, especially one who has knowingly sacrificed his living self so he can pursue new magics for all eternity. All sources cite this handicap, but they disagree on the time it manifested. Some sources, including [[King of the Dead]], imply that he could not learn new magic from the moment he arrived in Barovia (such as the resurrection spell he found); others, such as the [[Gazetteers]] and campaign setting books, imply he must have been able to learn new magic while helping Strahd penetrate the Demiplane's magical secrets. The fact that he invented [[Bone Golems]] and [[Zombie Golems]] during his time with Strahd suggests that he had some ability to innovate after arriving in Ravenloft. [[I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin]] maintains that the curse struck Azalin immediately upon entering Barovia, and that the lich tutored Strahd in the arcane arts. Azalin had the [[vampire]] lord learn and cast any spells that Azalin devised but could not personally master.

What is certain is that by the time he assumed lordship of Darkon, his curse was firmly in place. Also, a similar curse strikes all travelers to [[Darkon]], who eventually lose their memories and gain false memories, a magical tome that records these true memories as they are lost, Âand it is implied that Azalin himself only rediscovered his true past after reading the book.

=== Rulership of Darkon ===
After a few years spent assembling the [[Kargat]] secret police, Azalin prepared for a massive [[invasion]] of Barovia to unseat his nemesis. The invasion was thwarted by [[Strahd]]'s minions, who struck at the Kargat leadership and disrupted Azalin's chain of command. Afterwards, the effort of rebuilding the Kargat, and the appearance of intervening domains such as [[Falkovnia]], put an end to Azalin's military interest in Barovia.

Azalin's rule over [[Darkon]] was absolute: all political, military, and Kargat matters ultimately reported to him. His rule was strictly lawful to the point of ruthlessness, but based in large part on deception, both in terms of Azalin's illusion of being a mortal king, and also in the artificial docility that his civilians displayed, thanks to their false memories. However, this concentration of power has its weaknesses, especially when Azalin has demonstrated several times his willingness to abandon his people and realm at a moment's notice if it means a chance of escape from Ravenloft.

Militarily, Azalin recognizes the futility of attempting to extend his borders through conquest. In defense, too, he has little to fear. On no fewer than four occasions, the neighboring country of [[Falkovnia]] to the south has declared [[war]], and Azalin's mastery of undead has easily repulsed their soldiers.

=== Escape Attempts ===
In the last 30 years, Azalin has tried to escape Ravenloft twice more.

The first attempt was in manipulating the [[Grand Conjunction]], wherein he sent powerful heroes back in time to steal key artifacts from the formation of Ravenloft. Azalin's actions split the Demiplane open, freeing all the Darklords to terrorize other worlds. However, his hatred for Strahd proved to be his undoing: Azalin returned to face his nemesis, giving the heroes their chance to reverse the Grand Conjunction and reform the prison of Ravenloft once more. Some Darklords escaped permanently; Azalin and Strahd were not among their number.

(The actual history of the Grand Conjunction involves six tenuously-related adventures, tied together by a poetic [[hexad]]. Later source materials claims Azalin's flaw was to disrupt the verse order of the hexad's last two couplets, although the "correct" order of the verses themselves frequently changes from product to product.)

Azalin then initiated a side project aimed at circumventing his magical curse: he magically impregnated various women with clones of himself, then tried to harvest the clones' magical knowledge when they reached adulthood after a childhood of magical tutelage. Although this [[experiment]] failed, it did result in the creation of [[Lowellyn Dachine]], a clone (of sorts) of Azalin, and an important figure in later day Darkon.

He then toiled for 10 years in creating his "[[doomsday device]]", which would turn him into a [[demilich]] and allow his immaterial essence to escape. The prototype device turned [[Lowellyn Dachine]] into a [[negative energy elemental]] known only as [[Death]].

The second and full application of the machine caused the [[Requiem]], killing all life in [[Il Aluk]], the capital city, and shattering Azalin's essence and scattering it across Darkon. He remained in that state for five years before pulling himself together and taking over the corpse of his son, which had been lying in [[Castle Avernus]] for almost two hundred years. To this date, Irik's spirit haunts Azalin, reminding him constantly of his actions and urging his father towards redemption. Needless to say, Azalin gives this counsel limited heed.

During his absence, Il Aluk became an undead [[Necropolis]], ruled by [[Death]], and his Kargat lieutenants ran amok. Mortal agents loyal to Azalin helped to foil usurpation attempts by a rebel Kargat leader ([[Tavelia]]) and also by the new ruler of Il Aluk, Death. Although reinstalled as ruler of Darkon, Azalin's current concerns are the re-centralization of his power, the elimination of rebel Kargat officers, and the future of [[Necropolis]], whose mere existence is a daily challenge to his own power.

=== Current ===
Today, Azalin's [[experiments]] seem to focus on more than just escape. The lich lord appears to have recovered some limited ability to expand his knowledge ever so slightly, by formulating new magic as long as it is strongly related to knowledge he already has, though this process apparently takes much longer than for a human mage. He also has gained several salient powers, including the ability to look into the mind, and alter the memories of, anybody in Darkon. His control over undead is still absolute, with no apparent limit to the number or power of slaves thus controlled, and his spellcasting largely seen as being second to none.

[[Azalin's Phylactery]] is an enormous golden dragon skull, which is almost immovably heavy. It also appears near indestructible. His dependence on it may be equal to or even less than most liches, some sources maintain that he will be instantly killed if it is destroyed, while others imply that he will survive as long as his physical body is not destroyed along with it. Like most liches, Azalin is extremely protective of his true name, although whether this is out of any true weakness (perhaps to spells such as Trap the Soul, which require the true name to be spoken) is debatable.

Currently, Azalin has commissioned the services of a scholar, known only as [["S"]], to travel and research the domains of Ravenloft. Speculation indicates that he is still searching for a method to escape Ravenloft. According to several products released recently, his current plan involves discovering a method to undo the magical bonds tying the [[Dukkar]], [[Malocchio Aderre]], to the domain of [[Invidia]]. Once free, Malocchio would have the ability to travel freely within and without the [[Land of Mists]], unstoppable to the [[Dark Powers]] and, most importantly, able to take even darklords with him. As well as finding a method to free the Dukkar, Azalin is also working towards making a deal with (or enslaving) Malocchio to ensure that he will allow Azalin to return to the world of [[Oerth]]. (Comments from the authors seem to indicated escape is not the goal of Azalin's current plan. This section needs to be rewritten in light of this.) [In game Azalin remarks that even dreams must die. The dream here is that of escape. For he has concluded that the Dark Powers would be able snatch him back at their leisure.]

==[[Creation of Azalin Rex]]==

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==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]''
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p19 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp12, 53, 55 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - pp4, 66, 93 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - p58 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p91 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - p133 
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp17-21 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - p52 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - p5 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - p59 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - pp90-93 
''[[Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill]]'' - pp45, Poster [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp133-137
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp7, 11, 17-21, 27 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp13-18, 114, 117, 132 
''[[Death Ascendant]]'' - p57, 60 
''[[Death Unchained]]'' - p57 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp11-13, 52-56, 99 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - pp5, 84-87, 93-94 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - pp9-10 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Tales of Ravenloft: The Crucible of Dr. Rudolph van Richten]]'' - pp8-11 
''[[Tower of Doom]]'' - pp29-31 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - pp90-93, 117 
''[[Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill]]'' - pp39, 45 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp133-137 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p35-38, 49-50, 77-84, 87-175, 199-303
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Azalin Rex

2014-01-16T14:35:17Z

CplEthane: Edited for readability, removing excessively redundant links to other entries. "Strahd" was linked no less than 19 times. Once is enough.

[[File:Azalin.jpg|thumb|alt=Alt Azalin's Illusionary Living Face|Azalin's Illusionary Living Face]]
[[File:Azalin rex.jpg|thumb|alt=Azalin's True Undead Face|Azalin's True Undead Face]]

In the World of [[Greyhawk]] and [[Ravenloft]] campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Azalin Rex or "The Rex" is a wizard-king. He is the [[Darklord]] of the domain of Darkon. He is known by his subjects for his draconian rule.

== Description ==
As a [[lich]], an undead wizard, Azalin's true appearance resembles a skeleton or mummy. In his everyday appearance, however, Azalin maintains the illusion of a living king, closely mimicking his late-life persona: an elderly man with aquiline features and a piercing gaze, with unkempt dark hair topped by a heavy [[Iron Crown|iron crown]]. However, he can alter his appearance to resemble many humanoid individuals, even that of a different race or gender. Perhaps as a result of this in-game flexibility, official portrayals of Azalin differs greatly from artist to artist, much more so than portrayals of characters such as [[Lord Soth]] or [[Strahd von Zarovich]].

== History ==

=== Early life ===
Firan Zal'honan was born in the earldom of Knurl, a city-state in the eastern Flanaess. As the second of three sons of [[Lord Turalitan Zal'honan]], his political future was decidedly dim from his birth, and he spent much of his childhood overlooked by his parents. From an early age, Firan demonstrated a keen intelligence, marked with a distaste for his fellow men and their deviation from discipline and order, a revulsion that manifested itself in self-loathing several times for his own perceived weaknesses. Firan respected his father's strict rulership, as well as the prior claim to succession exercised by his older brother Ranald, but disliked his father's superstitions and his bans against magic. Perhaps in a display of rebellion, Firan entered the underworld of Knurl's mages, studying under the wizard [[Quantarius]].

As a youth, Firan seems to desire control over others and of himself above all else, although he also is given to angry outbursts and quick decisions which he later comes to regret. Even into his later lichhood and rulership status, these attributes recur, painting the portrait of a ruler demanding fealty and promising order, but secretly and constantly frustrated by the failings of his fellow men and of himself.

The only family member he loved without reservation was his younger brother, [[Irik]]. Where Firan was quick to anger and slow to forgive, Irik was the opposite. Firan pursued his studies and thirsted after[[knowledge]], but occasionally displayed an inability or ignorance of the potential repercussions. The death of Irik would prove a telling example: At 15, Firan called a [[demon]] that broke loose from his power and killed Irik. Firan's actions caused his father to expel [[Quantarius]] from the city, and Firan chose to follow him into exile, continuing his studies. In time, he would learn magics that few other mages could master (and which are actually largely beyond reach of normal D&D characters): he could permanently heal himself by stealing others' life forces, he could read minds and steal magical information, completely learning new spells with a thought, he could extend his own life by draining the vitality of enemies.

=== Rulership of [[Knurl]] ===
[[Ranald Zal'honan]] died as a result of a dissipate and gluttonous lifestyle, and Firan returned to his home, assuming the seat of power and ruling as "Azal'Lan," or wizard-king. His credits include reversing the decline that Knurl suffered under Ranald's reign, and returning it to economic and military significance. Also, under his reign, magic once again became an important part of Knurl's daily life.

Firan swore allegiance to the distant Malachite Throne of the [[Great Kingdom]], but conducted many unsanctioned military campaigns against the surrounding tribes, adding handsomely to Knurl's holdings. His reign was marked by prosperity and growth, but also by violence and dissent from the conquered tribes.

Firan was 60 when he married, as his life-extending spells started to fail and he needed an heir. His loveless marriage took 18 years to produce a son, with some saying his wife even sought magical wards against bearing his child. [[Olessa]] died in childbirth, cursing him. Firan named his son Irik, after his brother, but the name would carry greater resonance. His son inherited the kindness and generosity of Firan's brother, and would not follow his father's harsh footsteps, a trait Firan saw as weakness. When Irik was caught freeing political prisoners, Firan was faced with a choice: to pardon his son, or to kill him. In accordance with his own laws and as a symbol of his strict devotion to them, Firan not only permitted the [[execution]] but wielded the headsman's blade himself.

Although this act impressed upon his citizens the strictness of his rule, Firan himself was plagued with doubts over his own actions. He became obsessed alternately with finding a means to live forever, or finding a means to bring his son back from the dead to try to train him anew. As he lamented his failure as a father, a dark and nameless force presented him with the secret of lichdom.

Firan shed his mortality and changed his official title to Azal'Lan, ruling for 60 more years. During this time, [[Knurl]] became a major power in the Flanaess, even daring to renounce fealty to the Malachite Throne. Azal'Lan's military and trade power began to infringe on the territories of surrounding kingdoms, who sought ways to eliminate Azal'Lan. Assassins and armies alike seemed unable to topple him, but the course of his downfall would come from the minor tribes he had defeated early in his reign.

Azal'Lan was finally lured out of his defenses by the promise of a new magical spell that could allow a mage to restore true life to a corpse. Blinded by his hopes for restoring his son, Azal'Lan went forth with a small retinue of guards, and was then ambushed by a group of mercenaries. Fleeing their pursuit, he entered a dense fog to lose them. He was never to see Knurl again.

=== Arrival in Ravenloft ===
He appeared in [[Barovia]], whose inhabitants called him "Azalin" upon hearing his name. Continuing in his insatiable quest for knowledge, he terrorized several local boyars searching for magical texts. During this time, he apparently discovered something similar to the life restoration spell he sought, but whether he could learn it at all is unclear (see Memory anomalies below).

It was not long before he drew the attention, and grudging respect, of the domain's dark lord. Trapped in Barovia and suffering from a strange malady that prevented him from learning new spells Azalin entered into an uneasy alliance with Strahd. Azalin, who was a more powerful spell caster than the vampire, would instruct Strahd in the magic arts in exchange for his help in Azalin's [[experiments]] which were aimed at returning the lich lord to his own [[plane]]. This collaboration led to the first concerted attempt to break through the [[Misty Border]] surrounding Barovia and escape using an apparatus of Azalin's design.

This attempt resulted in the pair arriving in the outworld realm of [[Mordent]], which bore striking similarities to the town of Whitby in Britain, also a setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. There, [[the Apparatus]] split Strahd's personality into good and evil manifestations: Alchemist and Creature respectively. Azalin's role in this adventure ([[I10:The House on Gryphon Hill]]) appears to be largely observational. The Alchemist and Creature's attempts to destroy each other caused the escape attempt to fail, and forced Mordent into joining the Demiplane of Ravenloft.

===Memory anomalies===
After the failed Mordent incident, the already-tense relation between Azalin and Strahd frayed further. When the domain of Mordent actually appeared beyond Barovia's borders, Azalin deduced that the [[Misty Border]] of Ravenloft might hold other lands, free from Strahd's authority. He entered the mists alone, and emerged in a realm of his own: Darkon.

Here, the exact nature of Azalin's existence is unclear, on two counts. The first count is the issue of a personality split: one source ([[King of the Dead]], a canonical novel) maintains that a traveling wizard named Firan appeared at the border, while an undead lich-like creature named Darcalus materialized in Darkon's central castle, [[Avernus]]. Firan, a just and good [[adventurer]], eventually sought out the depraved tyrant Darcalus and confronted him, rather as the Alchemist Strahd and the Creature Strahd did in Mordent. However, few other Ravenloft products refer to this (although they do not explicitly contradict it). According to King of the Dead, Firan stumbled about Darkon with no memory, and did not regain his memory until he defeated Darcalus, whereupon the undead essence merged with his own and made him Azalin once again. The novel also depicts his rage at realizing he had come so close to escaping his despicable undead state as well as the burdens of rulership.

The second count is the question of Azalin's memory. As with many [[Darklord]]s, Azalin suffers a curse tailored to his personality, granted by the [[The Dark Powers]] of Ravenloft. In this case, one dimension of his curse is the inability to learn any new magic at all, a crippling blow to any wizard, and downright unbearable for a lich, especially one who has knowingly sacrificed his living self so he can pursue new magics for all eternity. All sources cite this handicap, but they disagree on the time it manifested. Some sources, including [[King of the Dead]], imply that he could not learn new magic from the moment he arrived in Barovia (such as the resurrection spell he found); others, such as the [[Gazetteers]] and campaign setting books, imply he must have been able to learn new magic while helping Strahd penetrate the Demiplane's magical secrets. The fact that he invented [[Bone Golems]] and [[Zombie Golems]] during his time with Strahd suggests that he had some ability to innovate after arriving in Ravenloft. [[I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin]] maintains that the curse struck Azalin immediately upon entering Barovia, and that the lich tutored Strahd in the arcane arts. Azalin had the [[vampire]] lord learn and cast any spells that Azalin devised but could not personally master.

What is certain is that by the time he assumed lordship of Darkon, his curse was firmly in place. Also, a similar curse strikes all travelers to [[Darkon]], who eventually lose their memories and gain false memories, a magical tome that records these true memories as they are lost, Âand it is implied that Azalin himself only rediscovered his true past after reading the book.

=== Rulership of Darkon ===
After a few years spent assembling the [[Kargat]] secret police, Azalin prepared for a massive [[invasion]] of Barovia to unseat his nemesis. The invasion was thwarted by [[Strahd]]'s minions, who struck at the Kargat leadership and disrupted Azalin's chain of command. Afterwards, the effort of rebuilding the Kargat, and the appearance of intervening domains such as [[Falkovnia]], put an end to Azalin's military interest in Barovia.

Azalin's rule over [[Darkon]] was absolute: all political, military, and Kargat matters ultimately reported to him. His rule was strictly lawful to the point of ruthlessness, but based in large part on deception, both in terms of Azalin's illusion of being a mortal king, and also in the artificial docility that his civilians displayed, thanks to their false memories. However, this concentration of power has its weaknesses, especially when Azalin has demonstrated several times his willingness to abandon his people and realm at a moment's notice if it means a chance of escape from Ravenloft.

Militarily, Azalin recognizes the futility of attempting to extend his borders through conquest. In defense, too, he has little to fear. On no fewer than four occasions, the neighboring country of [[Falkovnia]] to the south has declared [[war]], and Azalin's mastery of undead has easily repulsed their soldiers.

=== Escape Attempts ===
In the last 30 years, Azalin has tried to escape Ravenloft twice more.

The first attempt was in manipulating the [[Grand Conjunction]], wherein he sent powerful heroes back in time to steal key artifacts from the formation of Ravenloft. Azalin's actions split the Demiplane open, freeing all the Darklords to terrorize other worlds. However, his hatred for Strahd proved to be his undoing: Azalin returned to face his nemesis, giving the heroes their chance to reverse the [[Grand Conjunction]] and reform the prison of Ravenloft once more. Some Darklords escaped permanently; Azalin and Strahd were not among their number.

(The actual history of the [[Grand Conjunction]] involves six tenuously-related adventures, tied together by a poetic [[hexad]]. Later source materials claims Azalin's flaw was to disrupt the verse order of the hexad's last two couplets, although the "correct" order of the verses themselves frequently changes from product to product.)

Azalin then initiated a side project aimed at circumventing his magical curse: he magically impregnated various women with clones of himself, then tried to harvest the clones' magical knowledge when they reached adulthood after a childhood of magical tutelage. Although this [[experiment]] failed, it did result in the creation of [[Lowellyn Dachine]], a clone (of sorts) of Azalin, and an important figure in later day Darkon.

He then toiled for 10 years in creating his "[[doomsday device]]", which would turn him into a [[demilich]] and allow his immaterial essence to escape. The prototype device turned [[Lowellyn Dachine]] into a [[negative energy elemental]] known only as [[Death]].

The second and full application of the machine caused the [[Requiem]], killing all life in [[Il Aluk]], the capital city, and shattering Azalin's essence and scattering it across Darkon. He remained in that state for five years before pulling himself together and taking over the corpse of his son, which had been lying in [[Castle Avernus]] for almost two hundred years. To this date, Irik's spirit haunts Azalin, reminding him constantly of his actions and urging his father towards redemption. Needless to say, Azalin gives this counsel limited heed.

During his absence, Il Aluk became an undead [[Necropolis]], ruled by [[Death]], and his Kargat lieutenants ran amok. Mortal agents loyal to Azalin helped to foil usurpation attempts by a rebel Kargat leader ([[Tavelia]]) and also by the new ruler of Il Aluk, Death. Although reinstalled as ruler of Darkon, Azalin's current concerns are the re-centralization of his power, the elimination of rebel Kargat officers, and the future of [[Necropolis]], whose mere existence is a daily challenge to his own power.

=== Current ===
Today, Azalin's [[experiments]] seem to focus on more than just escape. The lich lord appears to have recovered some limited ability to expand his knowledge ever so slightly, by formulating new magic as long as it is strongly related to knowledge he already has, though this process apparently takes much longer than for a human mage. He also has gained several salient powers, including the ability to look into the mind, and alter the memories of, anybody in Darkon. His control over undead is still absolute, with no apparent limit to the number or power of slaves thus controlled, and his spellcasting largely seen as being second to none.

[[Azalin's Phylactery]] is an enormous golden dragon skull, which is almost immovably heavy. It also appears near indestructible. His dependence on it may be equal to or even less than most liches, some sources maintain that he will be instantly killed if it is destroyed, while others imply that he will survive as long as his physical body is not destroyed along with it. Like most liches, Azalin is extremely protective of his true name, although whether this is out of any true weakness (perhaps to spells such as Trap the Soul, which require the true name to be spoken) is debatable.

Currently, Azalin has commissioned the services of a scholar, known only as [["S"]], to travel and research the domains of Ravenloft. Speculation indicates that he is still searching for a method to escape Ravenloft. According to several products released recently, his current plan involves discovering a method to undo the magical bonds tying the [[Dukkar]], [[Malocchio Aderre]], to the domain of [[Invidia]]. Once free, Malocchio would have the ability to travel freely within and without the [[Land of Mists]], unstoppable to the [[Dark Powers]] and, most importantly, able to take even darklords with him. As well as finding a method to free the Dukkar, Azalin is also working towards making a deal with (or enslaving) Malocchio to ensure that he will allow Azalin to return to the world of [[Oerth]]. (Comments from the authors seem to indicated escape is not the goal of Azalin's current plan. This section needs to be rewritten in light of this.) [In game Azalin remarks that even dreams must die. The dream here is that of escape. For he has concluded that the Dark Powers would be able snatch him back at their leisure.]

==[[Creation of Azalin Rex]]==

==References==
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[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Darklord]]
[[Category:Fiend Summoner]]
[[Category:Demonologist]]
[[category:Arcane Loremaster]]
[[category:Planar Mechanic]]
[[Category:Ravenloft Loremaster]]
[[Category:Inventor (Monstrous)]]
[[Category:Rex]]
[[Category:Ruler]]
[[Category:State of Darkon]]
[[Category:Noble of Darkon]]
[[Category:Wizard]]
[[Category:Lich]]
[[Category:Undead]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Lawful Evil]]
[[Category:Outlander]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Castle Avernus]]
[[category:Inhabitants of the Forest of Shadows]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Darkon]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]''
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p19 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp12, 53, 55 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - pp4, 66, 93 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - p58 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p91 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - p133 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - cover
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp17-21 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - p52 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - p5 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - p59 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - pp90-93 
''[[Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill]]'' - pp45, Poster [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp133-137
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp7, 11, 17-21, 27 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp13-18, 114, 117, 132 
''[[Death Ascendant]]'' - p57, 60 
''[[Death Unchained]]'' - p57 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp11-13, 52-56, 99 
''[[Roots of Evil]]'' - pp5, 84-87, 93-94 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[From the Shadows]]'' - pp9-10 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Tales of Ravenloft: The Crucible of Dr. Rudolph van Richten]]'' - pp8-11 
''[[Tower of Doom]]'' - pp29-31 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - pp90-93, 117 
''[[Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill]]'' - pp39, 45 [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp133-137 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p35-38, 49-50, 77-84, 87-175, 199-303
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Firan Zal'honan
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Category:Undead Treant

2014-01-15T23:37:09Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

An [[Undead Treant]] is the undead form of a [[Evil Treant]]. It is considered a species of [[Dread Plant]]. How an Evil Treant transforms into such a state is currently unknown, but it is speculated that it is a reward by the [[Dark Powers|powers]] that control [[Ravenloft]].

The appearance of an Undead Treant is that of a dead or leafless winter tree. Like a humanoid [[vampire]], Undead Treants subsist on the blood of sentient creatures. They congregate with their Evil Treant brethren, usually regarded as a leader. They can cast some [[druid]] spells, and cannot be turned by [[priest|priests]] or [[paladin|paladins]].

[[Category:Dread Plant]][[Category:plant]][[category:undead]][[category:treant]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp51 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Treant, Undead" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp51 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Treant, Undead" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p123
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp51 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Treant, Undead" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp114, 122-123
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Monsterous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp51 
''[[Monsterous Compendium I]]'' - "Treant, Undead" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp122-123
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Category:Recluse

2014-01-15T04:41:53Z

CplEthane: Expanded entry.

A [[Recluse]] a female [[Vistani]] who has forsaken her tribe in favor of communing directly with the spirits of the land. These shamanistic outcasts of the Vistani do not suffer the stigma of ''[[mortu]]'' or [[static burn]], and they enjoy all the powers of their Vistani brethren and are masters of the [[evil eye]]. Their continual contact with the spirit world has rendered them completely mad and relatively harmless to anyone who simply leaves them be, however, those who do attack and harm a recluse are inviting certain disaster.

The Recluse can be a valuable, if unreliable mediator with the spirit world to those who require such information, but it comes at a price. In this capacity they are similar to [[Voodan]] such as [[Chicken Bone]].

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]''
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p93
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p93
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p93
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[[Category:vistani]][[Category:humanoid]][[Category:human]][[category:female]]

Talk:Guardian Balor

2014-01-15T04:28:48Z

CplEthane: Created page with "What's the source on this, if any? --CplEthane"

What's the source on this, if any? --CplEthane

Elsepeth

2014-01-15T04:27:19Z

CplEthane: Added information about her gate ability.

Elsepeth is a [[succubus]] that entered the [[Land of Mists]] via [[transposition]] in the year 729. Since her imprisonment on the demiplane, she has been responsible for the temptation and deaths of many of its denizens.

==Background==

Elsepeth entered the [[Land of Mists]] through the temptation of [[Ammie Weaveron]], a resident of [[Falkovnia]]. Her sister, [[Tasha Weaveron|Tasha]] noted the gradual and [[transposition | evil transformation]] of Ammie, but was helpless to stop it. Once the [[transposition]] was complete, Elsepeth killed Tasha and then staged Ammie's death.

Since her arrival, Elsepeth has been active mostly in the [[domain|domains]] of [[Borca]], [[Falkovnia]] and [[Darkon]], but these are not the only domains she has visited; she has spent at least a short amount of time in [[Kartakass]]. [[Rudolph van Richten]] discovered proof of her existence in the city of [[Nartok]], after she had slain [[Tomas Tennemen]] and [[Helga Tennemen]]. Tomas had entered some sort of carefully worded contract with Elsepeth, dooming him and his wife.

Elsepeth enjoys trapping the souls of her victims within ceramic [[doll | dolls]], in which the victims are left aware and to suffer. She may be harvesting and collecting these souls so that when she returns to the [[Abyss]] she has something to show for her time in the [[Land of Mists]], however her escape from the grip of the [[Dark Powers]] is highly unlikely given her rather high [[corruption index]].

==[[Phylactery]]==

[[Elsepeth's phylactery]] is a small stuffed [[doll]].

==Current Sketch==

Elsepeth's whereabouts are currently unknown.

==Abilities==

Out of all the known demons roaming Ravenloft, Elsepeth is one of the most corrupted by the land. In addition to all the powers inherent to succubi, she also has the ability to perform a ''banshee's wail'', a ''siren's song'', and use the spell-like ability of ''forget''. She has the power to tempt or outright slay her victims, but on occasion she will enter in a binding contract with the unfortunate soul. Her reality wrinkle is 100 yards in diameter.

Like all succubi, Elsepeth is able to [[gate]] a [[Balor]] in once per day. It is highly unlikely that she would ever employ this ability, even in desperation, given that the gated balor would be trapped in the [[Demiplane]] alongside her and would undoubtedly be none too pleased with this arrangement.

[[Category:Seducer]]
[[Category:Temptress]]
[[Category:succubus]]
[[category:demon]]
[[Category:Fiend]]
[[Category:Outsider]]

Baltoi

2014-01-15T04:18:29Z

CplEthane: Fixed a major error on my part when I initially wrote this entry regarding Baltoi's Corruption Index.

Baltoi is a [[tanar'ri]] [[marilith]] who resides in a dormant state within the mine shaft in the eponymous [[the Sleeping Beast Mountains|Sleeping Beast Mountains]] in [[Lamordia]]. She was a major tactician in the ongoing [[Blood War]] that takes place in the lower planes. Under her leadership, the armies of [[Chaos]] suffered a major defeat and as punishment, she was imprisoned in [[Ravenloft]] by a major evil power, and was also stripped of her ability to [[gate]] in Tanar'ri reinforcements. The [[Demiplane]] saw fit to replace this loss with a gift in growth of her overall size and power, making one of the most deadly enemies on the Demiplane even more dangerous.

Upon discovery of her, she was sealed into her mountain lair by a sorceress named [[Eserine]]. She is currently asleep, but the power of this spell is waning daily.

== Other Notes ==

Baltoi's current [[Corruption Index]] is 20, which suggests that Baltoi has visited more than just Lamordia upon her arrival to the Demiplane. Her land-based powers are ''cause insanity'', ''confusion'', ''corrupt life'', ''hyper-regeneration'', and ''mass charm''. Her reality wrinkle is 80 feet in diameter. She is the most powerful evil outsider residing in Ravenloft at the present.

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Sleeping]]
[[Category:Imprisoned]]
[[Category:Marilith]]
[[Category:Demon]]
[[Category:Fiend]]
[[Category:Outsider]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Nova Vaasa]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
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''[[Adam's Wrath]]''
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Adam's Wrath]]'' - p46
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Adam's Wrath]]'' - p46
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Adam's Wrath]]'' - p42,44-46
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|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
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The Sleeping Beast
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Category:Will O'Sea

2014-01-15T03:15:55Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

A Will O'Sea is an [[aberration]] related to the [[Will O'Wisp]] that haunts the depths and surfaces of [[Ravenloft|Ravenloft's]] temperate and tropical oceans. It feeds on the terror of sentient creatures, especially those who are in risk of dying of drowning.

The Will O' Sea is capable of an electrical attack that is so powerful it can set wooden vessels alight. It despises cold and is never found in arctic waters.
==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
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|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]''
|-valign="top"
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p121
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p121
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p121
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|}


[[Category:aberration]]

Category:Cannibal Zombie

2014-01-15T02:39:14Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

Cannibal Zombies exist in a class aside from the typical [[zombie]]. They are not the product of magical creation by evil wizards and [[necromancer|necromancers]], but are a self-propagating form of [[undead]] via disease that is transmitted by bite (providing the victim isn't consumed before this takes place.) They are a social undead, but out of convenience only; a group of undead have a better chance of taking down prey than a solitary undead would. And as is already explained, they are motivated by cannibalistic hunger for other humanoids and not the whims of another creature. This driving hunger is such that they will turn on another cannibal zombie in their group if they cannot find any living prey. Finally, they are marginally intelligent and can be spoken to with a ''[[speak with dead]]'' spell.

Cannibal Zombies will perish if they cannot find anything to eat after three nights. Cannibal Zombies have been known to associate with and serve [[Zombie Lord|Zombie Lords]].

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]''
|-valign="top"
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p122
|-valign="top"
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p122 
''[[Bleak House:Homecoming]]'' - p20
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p122
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|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
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Zombie, Cannibal
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|}

[[Category:undead]][[Category:zombie]][[Category:Humanoid]][[Category:Cadaver]]

Category:Zombie Fog

2014-01-15T02:23:21Z

CplEthane: Fleshing out the information of this entry. See what I did there? Get it? Thank you, you're a wonderful audience, I'm here all week

The Zombie Fog is a nocturnal, barely sentient [[Mist Creature]] that survives by consuming the death energies of living creatures and controlling them as a type of [[zombie]] known as a [[Fog Cadaver]]. These Fog Cadavers are controlled only within the Zombie Fog itself, and they are instructed by it to attack and kill other sentient creatures it comes across in order to feed the Fog. If it can gather more cadavers within it s thrall, the more powerful it becomes; conversely the less it can control, the weaker it becomes unto the point of perishing itself.

The Zombie Fog can only manage its Fog Cadavers at night. During the day, it is harmless.

It is believed that the Zombie Fog and the [[Mist Horror]] are related creatures.

[[Category:undead]][[Category:fog]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
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|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
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|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p124 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p174
|-valign="top"
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|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p124 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp173-175
|-valign="top"
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|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
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''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p124 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp173-175
|-valign="top"
|}

Talk:Forlorn

2013-01-09T14:51:59Z

CplEthane: Created page with "Going from the Gazetteer, the map is incorrect - Forfarmax village should reside in Hazlan. --CplEthane"

Going from the Gazetteer, the map is incorrect - Forfarmax village should reside in Hazlan. --CplEthane

Forlorn

2013-01-09T14:49:16Z

CplEthane: Pertinent info added.

'''Forlorn''' is a tiny domain mainly inhabited by [[goblyn| goblyns]], monstrous [[slaves]] created by [[Create Goblyn | dark magic]]. A handful of humans live in the woods and underground, fighting the goblyns. The [[darklord]] is a cursed individual named [[Tristen ApBlanc]], [[vampyre]] by day, [[ghost]] by night, who inhabits a castle caught in [[Temporal Flux | temporal flux]] due to the massive amounts of [[ethereal resonance]] created by the ghosts there. Those who enter [[Castle Tristenoira]] are subject to [[time travel]] to one of three time-lines, each fundamental to the [[creation]] of the [[domain]].

As such, Forlorn maintains no ties with any other domain and none of the other lords or lands pay it any heed.

{{dombox
|picture=Forlorn.png
|culture_lvl=Iron Age (3); the ruins in Forlorn indicate a Medieval (7) culture
|ecology=Full Ecology
|terrain=Temperate Temperate Forests, Hills, and Plains
|year_formed=[[547 BC]] (1,934 by the Forfarian calendar)
|population=2,023
|races=94% [[Goblyn]], 6% Human
|languages=[[Forfarian]]
|religions=[[Forfarian druidism]]
|government=Anarchy
|ruler=None
|darklord=[[Tristen ApBlanc]]
|analog=Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
}}
[[Category:The Core]]

==Geography==

Forlorn is a hilly, mountainous terrain with wooded lowlands. Mounts Arawn and Mathonwy reside at the center of the domain, Arawn in particular permanently enshrouded in a sickly yellow fog.

===[[Weather]]===

Forlorn is almost always overcast, and often raining accompanied by thunder and lightning. In the summer months, the clouds give way to the sun to produce a hot muggy climate, but this doesn't last for long.

===Terrain===

Muddy, with bogs and marshes dotting the region.

====Lakes====

The [[Lake of Red Tears]] at the northern part of the domain is the source of the [[Musarde River]], and home to [[Aggie]], an undead sea serpent.

===Landmarks===

Two haunted, mostly abandoned keeps are located at the north and south ends of the domain: [[Castle Tristenoira]] and [[Castle Forfarmax]].

====Rivers====

The [[Musarde River]] begins at the northern end of the domain, and [[Kendall Creek]] passes through the southern end.

====Settlements====

There are no permanent settlements in Forlorn proper, but its culture thrives (so to speak) in the hamlet of [[Forfarmax]] which resides in the relative safety on the border of Forlorn, in [[Hazlan]].

[[druid|Druids]] also maintain a small presence in the domain, in a hidden [[sanctuary]].

[[Category:domain]][[Category:The Core]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_domain.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp7,50 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp13,17,121 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p65 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp24-27 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp16-17 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p70 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp62-84 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - pp179-203
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_map.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - pp8-9 
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - inside cover 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p43 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]''- poster map 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Melancholy Meetings]]'' - p32 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting]]'' - poster map 
''[[Feast of Goblyns]]'' - poster map [http://web.archive.org/web/20100329193632/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Download Now! ] 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p70 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p65
|-valign="top"
|}

Tristen ApBlanc

2013-01-09T14:33:19Z

CplEthane:

'''Tristen ApBlanc''' is the [[darklord]] of [[Forlorn]], the second [[domain]] to join the [[Demiplane]] after [[Barovia]]. During the day, he is an living [[vampyre]] and at night a powerful [[ghost]]. He resides at [[Castle Tristenoira]] in the northern part of his tiny domain.

Tristen was born to [[Flora ApBlanc]] and [[Rivalin ApTosh]] several hundreds of years ago. Rivalin became a vampire after a battle, but could not bring himself to abandon his wife even in undeath, and his wife could not bear to turn him away. She allowed him to feed on her while she was pregnant with Tristen, which tainted him in the womb to become a [[vampire]]. When the townspeople found out, they killed and beheaded Rivalin and lynched Flora on the tree in the sacred grove, but not before she gave Tristen to a druid named [[Rual]] to raise.

Rual knew of Tristen's tainted being and researched ways to spare him from this fate. One day, she caught the 15-year old Tristen drinking the blood of a slain forest animal. In fear, Tristen attempted to murder her at the same tree his mother was lynched at, and in the process drank her blood - but not before she had drank holy water, which turned out to be poison for him. As both laid there, with Rual dying, she cursed him to never leave the sacred grove (that is, no more than 100 feet from the same tree.)

As it turns out, the holy water-infused blood that he drank turned out to affect a cure of sorts for his vampirism, instead turning him into a living vampire, or a [[vampyre]]. The curse Rual laid on him, however slayed him that evening and to rise as a ghost -- only to rise as a vampyre again the next morning. This day-and-night cycle would rule his existence for the rest of his days.

Over the years, and through theft and murder, Tristen built himself castle and a noble name on where the grove once stood. He also married [[Isolt ApBlanc|Isolt]] and had three children: [[Gilan ApBlanc]], [[Morholt ApBlanc]], and [[Brangain ApBlanc]]. Everyone in Tristen's immediate family met their tragic end and became resident [[ghost|ghosts]] due to Tristen's evil ways, with the exception of Brangain who escaped and survived, and currently resides somewhere in the [[Demiplane]].

== Current Sketch ==

Tristen lives by himself in the castle, commanding the [[goblyn|goblyns]] to deforest the domain and find any remaining [[druid|druids]] who survive in his domain. If he is aware of his status as a Darklord or any other lords or domains of Ravenloft, he has yet to show it.

==Statistics==
[[Vampyre]] / [[Ghost]], [[Bard]] 6 / [[Fighter]] 4, [[Neutral Evil]]

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Darklord]]
[[Category:Music Composer]]
[[Category:Epicist]]
[[Category:Poet]]
[[Category:Musician]]
[[Category:Bagpiper]]
[[Category:Harpist]]
[[Category:Lutist]]
[[Category:Melodist]]
[[Category:Singer]]
[[Category:Composing Artist]]
[[Category:Performing Artist]]
[[Category:Artist]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Bard]]
[[Category:Fighter]]
[[Category:Vampyre]]
[[Category:Monstrous Humanoid]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:Former Human]]
[[Category:Neutral Evil]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Castle Tristenoira]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p48 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p13 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p10 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p131
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p47 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp16-23 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp128-133
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p7 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp16-17,47-49 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - throughout 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p8 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp128-133 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p213
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
The Solleyder
|-valign="top"
|}

Tristen ApBlanc

2013-01-09T14:33:00Z

CplEthane:

'''Tristen ApBlanc''' is the [[darklord]] of [[Forlorn]], the second [[domain]] to join the [[Demiplane]] after [[Barovia]]. During the day, he is an living [[vampyre]] and at night a powerful [[ghost]]. He resides at [[Castle Tristenoira]] in the northern part of his tiny domain.

Tristen was born to [[Flora ApBlanc]] and [[Rivalin ApTosh]] several hundreds of years ago. Rivalin became a vampire after a battle, but could not bring himself to abandon his wife even in undeath, and his wife could not bear to turn him away. She allowed him to feed on her while she was pregnant with Tristen, which tainted him in the womb to become a [[vampire]]. When the townspeople found out, they killed and beheaded Rivalin and lynched Flora on the tree in the sacred grove, but not before she gave Tristen to a druid named [[Rual]] to raise.

Rual knew of Tristen's tainted being and researched ways to spare him from this fate. One day, she caught the 15-year old Tristen drinking the blood of a slain forest animal. In fear, Tristen attempted to murder her at the same tree his mother was lynched at, and in the process drank her blood - but not before she had drank holy water, which turned out to be poison for him. As both laid there, with Rual dying, she cursed him to never leave the sacred grove (that is, no more than 100 feet from the same tree.)

As it turns out, the holy water-infused blood that he drank turned out to affect a cure of sorts for his vampirism, instead turning him into a living vampire, or a [[vampyre]]. The curse Rual laid on him, however slayed him that evening and to rise as a ghost -- only to rise as a vampyre again the next morning. This day-and-night cycle would rule his existence for the rest of his days.

Over the years, and through theft and murder, Tristen built himself castle and a noble name on where the grove once stood. He also married [[Isolt ApBlanc|Isolt]] and had three children: [[Gilan ApBlanc]], [[Morholt ApBlanc]], and [[Brangain ApBlanc]]. Everyone in Tristen's immediate family met their tragic end and became resident [[ghost|ghosts]] due to Tristen's evil ways, with the exception of Brangain who escaped and survived, and currently resides somewhere in the [[Demiplane]].

== Current Sketch ==

Tristen lives by himself in the castle, commanding the [[goblyn|goblyns]] to deforest the domain and find any remaining [[druids|druid]] who survive in his domain. If he is aware of his status as a Darklord or any other lords or domains of Ravenloft, he has yet to show it.

==Statistics==
[[Vampyre]] / [[Ghost]], [[Bard]] 6 / [[Fighter]] 4, [[Neutral Evil]]

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Darklord]]
[[Category:Music Composer]]
[[Category:Epicist]]
[[Category:Poet]]
[[Category:Musician]]
[[Category:Bagpiper]]
[[Category:Harpist]]
[[Category:Lutist]]
[[Category:Melodist]]
[[Category:Singer]]
[[Category:Composing Artist]]
[[Category:Performing Artist]]
[[Category:Artist]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Bard]]
[[Category:Fighter]]
[[Category:Vampyre]]
[[Category:Monstrous Humanoid]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:Former Human]]
[[Category:Neutral Evil]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Castle Tristenoira]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p48 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p13 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p10 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p131
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p47 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp16-23 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp128-133
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p7 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp16-17,47-49 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - throughout 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p8 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp128-133 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p213
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
The Solleyder
|-valign="top"
|}

Isolt ApBlanc

2013-01-09T14:31:27Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

'''Isolt ApBlanc''' was the wife of [[Tristen ApBlanc]], the [[darklord]] of [[Forlorn]]. After Tristen caused the deaths of two of his children and the disappearance of the third, along with Isolt's knowing the truth about Tristen, caused her to commit suicide by jumping from a castle spire. She is now a ghost of the halls of [[Castle Tristenoira]], doomed to hunt forever for her daughter [[Brangain ApBlanc]].

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p58
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp57-58 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp133-134
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp12-13, 57-59 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p10 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp133-134
|-valign="top"
|}

Castle Forfarmax

2013-01-09T14:25:51Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

'''Castle Forfarmax''' is an abandoned keep on the southwestern border of the [[domain]] of [[Forlorn]]. It is haunted by the ghosts of [[Duncan MacFarn]] and the [[Ghosts of Hospitality]], of whose existence act as a deathtrap for the unwary.

[[Niall MacGranin]], the current lord of the hamlet of [[Forfarmax]], vies for the keep to be his home but can't muster a solution to the haunting.

[[Category:fortress]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_location.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Children of the Night: Ghosts]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Children of the Night: Ghosts]]'' - pp78-82 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p83
|-valign="top"
|}

Brangain ApBlanc

2013-01-09T08:09:40Z

CplEthane:

{{Canon}}
'''Brangain ApBlanc''' was the daughter of [[Tristen ApBlanc]]. She was secretly raised and trained as a a 4th level [[cleric]] of [[Diancecht]] by her mother, [[Isolt ApBlanc]]. Brangain attempted to use her clerical abilities to redeem the many [[ghost|ghosts]] haunting [[Castle Tristenoira]], eventually coming across the ghost form of her father, [[Tristen ApBlanc]]. This resulted in Tristen imprisoning his only daughter in the dungeon below the castle, where due to intervention by adventurers she later escaped not only her imprisonment but her own time period and now lives in [[Ravenloft|Ravenloft's]] modern day.

{{Potential-canon}}
Brangain survived the events of [[Castles Forlorn]] due to outside intervention, and went on to become a [[paladin]] operating in the domains surrounding [[Forlorn]], known as "The Weeping Knight." A tragic figure, Brangain now faces the struggle to keep her [[half-vampyre]] nature from emerging and causing her to fall from her paladin status. <ref>Unused [[Gazetteer I]] material revealed by [[Chris Nichols]] in a [http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54129#54129 Post] on the [[Cafe de Nuit]] forum</ref>

<references/>

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Cleric]]
[[Category:Half-Vampyre]]
[[Category:Half-Human]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Former Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p64
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp64-65
|-valign="top"
|}

Talk:Brangain ApBlanc

2013-01-09T07:58:03Z

CplEthane:

From a post I made on Cafe de Nuit:

''To add additional complexities to the original Castles Forlorn boxed set, I strongly recommend, if I may so immodest, that you read the Forlorn chapter of Ravenloft Gazetteer 1. This chapter presents several new facets to Forlorn, as well as combining numerous facts about Forlorn from other Ravenloft sources, such as the Van Richten's guides, CotN:Ghosts, and I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin.''

''Further, there are a number of elements that had to be removed from Gaz 1 due to space considerations or because we ran out of time. Most never got past the "pile of notes" stage.''

''* Brangain was to have survived due to outside intervention (hinted in the published text), and gone on to become a paladin operating in the domains surrounding Forlorn. Brangain would have faced the struggle to keep her half-vampyre nature from emerging and causing her to fall from her paladin status. A tragic figure, I was considering giving Brangain the ephitet "The Weeping Knight."''

Hopefully this potential-canon (?) can be included in the Brangain ApBlanc article. --[[User:ChrisNichols|ChrisNichols]] 21:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Personally, I always preferred the idea that Brangain, of all the characters, managed to make good her escape before Tristen and Forfar fell into the Demiplane and live happily ever after (so to speak) in the Prime Material plane. Also, Brangain's entry in The Weeping Land sourcebook of Castles Forlorn specifically stated that she was not a vampyre, and I'd think that if she suffered being a half-breed then it would have mentioned her as such. Just my thoughts on the matter. --CplEthane Edit: Just re-read through the first Gazetteer again. Nevermind me. --CplEthane

Morholt ApBlanc

2013-01-08T09:07:34Z

CplEthane:

[[Morholt ApBlanc]] was the second child of [[Tristen ApBlanc|Tristen]] and [[Isolt ApBlanc]]. In an attempt to please both his sadistic father and religious mother, Morholt decided to join the order of the Celtic warrior goddess, [[Morrigan]]. On the night before the morning that he was to leave, he allowed a member of the order, [[Duncan ApDuguid]], to sleep in his bed while Morholt slept in the guest chambers of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Tristen, as a ghost, ran into the young cleric who burned Tristen with [[holy water]]. Out of vengeance, Tristen took his sword and went to where he thought the cleric was resting -- in the guest room -- and cleaved him in two with a sword. This, however, was Morholt, who died immediately.

==Current Sketch==

Morholt is now a 2nd-magnitude [[ghost]] who haunts Castle Tristenoira, but rarely can be found venturing around the domain of [[Forlorn]]. He looks like a well-muscled youth from the waist up, but below his entrails are strung out and disappear into mist. He will challenge any warrior he comes across to a duel. He is unaware of his own death and status as a ghost, but if informed of such (which isn't hard, all one has to do is point to how he looks below the waist) he will immediately leave to find his killer. Once he accomplishes that, he will not be seen again.

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]][[category:Male]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p63
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p62 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p133
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp62-64 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - pp11-12 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p133
|-valign="top"
|}

Morholt ApBlanc

2013-01-08T09:00:25Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

[[Morholt ApBlanc]] was the second child of [[Tristen ApBlanc|Tristen]] and [[Isolt ApBlanc]]. In an attempt to please both his sadistic father and religious mother, Morholt decided to join the order of the Celtic warrior goddess, [[Morrigan]]. On the night before the morning that he was to leave, he allowed a member of the order, [[Duncan ApDuguid]], to sleep in his bed while Morholt slept in the guest chambers of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Tristen, as a ghost, ran into the young cleric who burned Tristen with [[holy water]]. Out of vengeance, Tristen took his sword and went to where he thought the cleric was resting -- in the guest room -- and cleaved him in two with a sword. This, however, was Morholt, who died immediately.

==Current Sketch==

Morholt is now a 2nd-magnitude [[ghost]] who haunts Castle Tristenoira, but rarely can be found venturing around the domain of [[Forlorn]]. He will challenge any warrior he comes across to a duel. He is unaware of his own death and status as a ghost, but if informed of such (which isn't hard, all one has to do is point to how he looks below the waist) he will immediately leave to find his killer. Once he accomplishes that, he will not be seen again.

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]][[category:Male]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p63
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p62 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p133
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp62-64 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - pp11-12 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p133
|-valign="top"
|}

Talk:Brangain ApBlanc

2013-01-08T07:46:14Z

CplEthane:

Brangain ApBlanc

2013-01-08T07:38:09Z

CplEthane:

{{Canon}}
'''Brangain ApBlanc''' was the daughter of [[Tristen ApBlanc]]. She was secretly raised and trained as a a 4th level [[cleric]] of [[Diancecht]] by her mother, [[Isolt ApBlanc]]. Brangain attempted to use her clerical abilities to redeem the many [[ghost|ghosts]] haunting [[Castle Tristenoira]], eventually coming across the ghost form of her father, [[Tristen ApBlanc]]. This resulted in Tristen imprisoning his only daughter in the dungeon below the castle, where she later mysteriously escaped long before [[Forlorn|Forfar]] joined the [[Demiplane]].

{{Potential-canon}}
Brangain survived the events of [[Castles Forlorn]] due to outside intervention, and went on to become a [[paladin]] operating in the domains surrounding [[Forlorn]], known as "The Weeping Knight." A tragic figure, Brangain now faces the struggle to keep her [[half-vampyre]] nature from emerging and causing her to fall from her paladin status. <ref>Unused [[Gazetteer I]] material revealed by [[Chris Nichols]] in a [http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54129#54129 Post] on the [[Cafe de Nuit]] forum</ref>

<references/>

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Cleric]]
[[Category:Half-Vampyre]]
[[Category:Half-Human]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Former Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p64
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp64-65
|-valign="top"
|}

Gilan ApBlanc

2013-01-08T02:51:19Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

'''Gilan ApBlanc''' is [[Tristen ApBlanc|Tristen ApBlanc's]] firstborn son, who died at 12 years old. He is currently a 2nd-Magnitude [[ghost]] who resides in all three time periods of [[Castle Tristenoira]].

==Background==

As a child, Gilan adored dogs, especially his own, a terrier named Petitcrieu. One day, the evil ghost [[Rual]] enticed Petitcrieu to snap at Tristen's heels, enraging the [[vampyre]]. Tristen called on the local wolf packs to maul the little terrier, but Gilan was witness to this and attempted to save his pet. In the process, the wolves turned on Gilan and ripped him apart before a horrified Tristen could intervene.

==Current Sketch==

The trauma of the event has resulted in Gilan as a ghost driven mad. He carries around the spectral corpse of Petitcrieu wherever he goes, and treats him as if he was also alive. He remembers nothing of Petitcrieu's or his own death. He occasionally enjoys playing tricks on the adventurers and others, but for the most part he poses no threat or danger.

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Human]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p61
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p60 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p133
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp60-61 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p11 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p133
|-valign="top"
|}

Castle Tristenoira

2013-01-08T02:37:21Z

CplEthane:

Castle Tristenoira, located in [[Forlorn]], is the fortress of the [[darklord]] [[Tristen Apblanc]]. It is unique in the fact that the castle exists within three wholly separate time periods, two of these periods extending directly into the [[Prime Material Plane]].

==Description==

The castle itself is built around what once used to be a grove inhabited and protected by [[druid|druids]], but now only one tree is left. Tristen is bound to this particular tree and is unable to leave the vicinity of it. Its appearance changes to suit which time period it has shifted to, but adventurers will always arrive at the castle in its final, modern state.

Those who specialize in time magic and the like will find the castle to be a very interesting locale, despite the danger. The time shift of the castle is inherent and happens quickly and in order. The earliest period in the Prime Material Plane was a relatively happier time when the castle was new and inhabited by Tristen and his human family, and long before its appearance in [[Ravenloft]] proper -- but clearly showing the ability of the Demiplane to secure its interests even beyond time itself. Everything and everyone can move in and out of the castle premises freely, except for the player characters and Tristen himself. Doing so would provide a very easy escape from Ravenloft. Despite this, actions taken by the player characters can directly affect events that occur in the Prime Material Plane during that long-past time period.

The second period is a later, darker period and still in the Prime Material Plane, but with the castle practically uninhabited and on the brink of Forlon's appropriation by the Demiplane. The third period is the modern-day, and the only time period where explorers can leave the castle.

The castle's time-shifting ability is unknown to Tristen. Also unknown to him is the very tree that binds him (and causes him great pain when it is harmed) will actually free him if it is ever destroyed. This action will trigger a separate time shift into the far, grim future. It is possible for the characters to shift back to the pivotal moment of Tristen's life, where he is still an infant, and only through this can escape from the Demiplane be achieved.

The castle is home to a great many ghosts, all of whom came into being due to Tristen's evil. Many of them are not even aware that they are dead.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Locations in Forlorn]]
[[Category:fortress]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_location.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - reference card
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p84
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - p121 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p16 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp66-92 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p70, reference card 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp83-84 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p200
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_map.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn:Poster Map]]'' 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - reference card
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
Lord's Tower 
Castle ApBlanc
|-valign="top"
|}

Tristen ApBlanc

2013-01-07T13:49:48Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

'''Tristen ApBlanc''' is the [[darklord]] of [[Forlorn]], the second [[domain]] to join the [[Demiplane]] after [[Barovia]]. During the day, he is an living [[vampyre]] and at night a powerful [[ghost]]. He resides at [[Castle Tristenoira]] in the northern part of his tiny domain.

Tristen was born to [[Flora ApBlanc]] and [[Rivalin ApTosh]] several hundreds of years ago. Rivalin became a vampire after a battle, but could not bring himself to abandon his wife even in undeath, and his wife could not bear to turn him away. She allowed him to feed on her while she was pregnant with Tristen, which tainted him in the womb to become a [[vampire]]. When the townspeople found out, they killed and beheaded Rivalin and lynched Flora on the tree in the sacred grove, but not before she gave Tristen to a druid named [[Rual]] to raise.

Rual knew of Tristen's tainted being and researched ways to spare him from this fate. One day, she caught the 15-year old Tristen drinking the blood of a slain forest animal. In fear, Tristen attempted to murder her at the same tree his mother was lynched at, and in the process drank her blood - but not before she had drank holy water, which turned out to be poison for him. As both laid there, with Rual dying, she cursed him to never leave the sacred grove (that is, no more than 100 feet from the same tree.)

As it turns out, the holy water-infused blood that he drank turned out to affect a cure of sorts for his vampirism, instead turning him into a living vampire, or a [[vampyre]]. The curse Rual laid on him, however slayed him that evening and to rise as a ghost -- only to rise as a vampyre again the next morning. This day-and-night cycle would rule his existence for the rest of his days.

Over the years, and through theft and murder, Tristen built himself castle and a noble name on where the grove once stood. He also married [[Isolt ApBlanc|Isolt]] and had three children: [[Gilan ApBlanc]], [[Morholt ApBlanc]], and [[Brangain ApBlanc]]. Everyone in Tristen's immediate family met their tragic end and became resident [[ghost|ghosts]] due to Tristen's evil ways, with the exception of Brangain who possibly escaped and survived before land was wholly taken by Ravenloft.

== Current Sketch ==

Tristen lives by himself in the castle, commanding the [[goblyn|goblyns]] to deforest the domain and find any remaining [[druids|druid]] who survive in his domain. If he is aware of his status as a Darklord or any other lords or domains of Ravenloft, he has yet to show it.

==Statistics==
[[Vampyre]] / [[Ghost]], [[Bard]] 6 / [[Fighter]] 4, [[Neutral Evil]]

[[category:Character]][[category:NPC]]
[[Category:Darklord]]
[[Category:Music Composer]]
[[Category:Epicist]]
[[Category:Poet]]
[[Category:Musician]]
[[Category:Bagpiper]]
[[Category:Harpist]]
[[Category:Lutist]]
[[Category:Melodist]]
[[Category:Singer]]
[[Category:Composing Artist]]
[[Category:Performing Artist]]
[[Category:Artist]]
[[Category:ApBlanc Family]]
[[Category:Bard]]
[[Category:Fighter]]
[[Category:Vampyre]]
[[Category:Monstrous Humanoid]]
[[Category:Ghost]]
[[Category:Former Human]]
[[Category:Neutral Evil]]
[[Category:Forfarian]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Castle Tristenoira]]
[[Category:Inhabitants of Forlorn]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_npc.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p48 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p13 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - p10 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p131
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p47 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp16-23 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp128-133
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Secrets of the Dread Realms]]'' - p7 
''[[Domains of Dread]]'' - p66 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - pp16-17,47-49 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - throughout 
''[[Castles Forlorn: Eve of Sorrows]]'' - p8 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp128-133 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p213
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
The Solleyder
|-valign="top"
|}

Castle Tristenoira

2013-01-07T13:09:59Z

CplEthane: Fleshing this out some more

Castle Tristenoira, located in [[Forlorn]], is the fortress of the [[darklord]] [[Tristen Apblanc]]. It is unique in the fact that the castle exists within three wholly separate time periods.

==Description==

The castle itself is built around what once used to be a grove inhabited and protected by [[druid|druids]], but now only one tree is left. Tristen is bound to this particular tree and is unable to leave the vicinity of it. Its appearance changes to suit which time period it has shifted to, but adventurers will always arrive at the castle in its final, modern state.

Those who specialize in time magic and the like will find the castle to be a very interesting locale, despite the danger. The time shift of the castle is inherent and happens quickly and in order. The earliest period in the [[Prime Material Plane]] was a relatively happier time when the castle was new and inhabited by Tristen and his human family, and long before its appearance in [[Ravenloft]] proper -- but clearly showing the ability of the Demiplane to secure its interests even beyond time itself. Everything and everyone can move in and out of the castle premises freely, except for the player characters and Tristen himself. Doing so would provide a very easy escape from Ravenloft. Despite this, actions taken by the player characters can directly affect events that occur in the Prime Material Plane during that long-past time period.

The second period is a later, darker period and still in the Prime Material Plane, but with the castle practically uninhabited and on the brink of Forlon's appropriation by the Demiplane. The third period is the modern-day, and the only time period where explorers can leave the castle.

The castle's time-shifting ability is unknown to Tristen. Also unknown to him is the very tree that binds him (and causes him great pain when it is harmed) will actually free him if it is ever destroyed. This action will trigger a separate time shift into the far, grim future. It is possible for the characters to shift back to the pivotal moment of Tristen's life, where he is still an infant, and only through this can escape from the Demiplane be achieved.

The castle is home to a great many ghosts, all of whom came into being due to Tristen's evil. Many of them are not even aware that they are dead.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Locations in Forlorn]]
[[Category:fortress]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_location.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' 
''[[Castles Forlorn]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - reference card
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - p84
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - p121 
''[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens]]'' - p16 
''[[Castles Forlorn: The Weeping Lands]]'' - pp66-92 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p70, reference card 
''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I]]'' - pp83-84 
''[[I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin]]'' - p200
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_map.gif]]
|
''[[Castles Forlorn:Poster Map]]'' 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - reference card
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
Lord's Tower 
Castle ApBlanc
|-valign="top"
|}

Category:Jack Frost

2013-01-07T02:48:10Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

[[Category:Sylvan Fey]][[Category:fey]][[Category:Cold Creature]]

'''Jack Frost''' is a term for malicious [[fey]] that abide in arctic regions and mountaintops. They subsist on the body warmth of other creatures and delight in tormenting them to death in the process. They speak their own language, which is unknown to others. They may be either male or female, despite the masculine name.

A group of Jack Frosts is referred to as a flurry.

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p63 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p85
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p63 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp85-86
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p63 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp85-86
|-valign="top"
|}

Category:Elemental Lich

2013-01-06T09:24:31Z

CplEthane: Initial entry.

Out of all of the known types of [[lich|liches]], the '''Elemental Lich''' are the most closely tied to the [[Demiplane]] and arguably the most powerful type for it. They are able control the very elements of [[Ravenloft]], that being [[mist]], [[grave]], [[blood]], and [[Pyre Elementals|pyre]] and either use these as a form of devastating physical attack or summon the [[elemental|spirits]] of each into battle. What is particularly dangerous about these creatures is their power over the Mists and the creatures that inhabit them.

One of the trade-offs for this power is a diminished ability to control [[undead]] as well as other liches are able to.

The Elemental Lich is able to become a [[Demilich]], but where it moves onto from here is unknown, given its strong connection to the Demiplane.

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p73
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 73-74
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - pp 73-74
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|

Lich, Elemental
|-valign="top"
|}






[[category:lich]][[category:undead]]

Category:Nosferatu Vampire

2013-01-06T03:22:47Z

CplEthane:

[[Category:Vampire strain]]

'''Nosferatu''' are a strain of [[vampire]] that are somewhat weaker than their typical brethren, but by no means a pushover. Instead of life levels, they drain constitution. Their attacks and weaknesses are much the same as other vampires, including requiring to rest in a coffin daily with at least a handful of soil from their original grave.

Nosferatu are able to subsist on animal blood for a time, but not as a permanent replacement for humanoid blood.

==In Literature==

''[[Interview with a Vampire]]''

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I]]'' 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p109 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p144 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p153
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I]]'' - pp103-104 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p109 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p144 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp149, 151-153, 164
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I]]'' - pp103-104 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III]]'' - p109 
''[[Vampire of the Mists]]'' - p46 
''[[Realm of Terror]]'' - p144 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp149, 151-153
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_alias.gif]]
|
Akara
Vampire, Nosferatu
|-valign="top"
|}


[[Category:vampire]]

[[category:undead]]

Category:Ghoul Lord

2013-01-06T00:04:56Z

CplEthane:

{{Canon}}

''Ghoul Lords'' are much more powerful and intelligent forms of the [[undead]] [[ghoul|ghouls]] and unique to the [[Demiplane]]. Unlike their lesser brethren that they rule over, they do not come about in the same manner but were created by a single incredibly evil [[necromancer]] who is also rumored to be the current [[darklord]] of the [[Nightmare Lands]]. As such, there is a limited number of them.

==Descriptive Text==

{{Homebrew non-canon}}

''“I am the lady of all I survey”, she stated with manifest glee as her barely clothed arm, with that leathery skin and taloned hand, cut a grandiose arc over the vast graveyard, leaving greenish wisps of vapour in its wake. She continued, “A small kingdom it is, but it is mine and we do eat good, very good.” Then she turned her ill eye upon me, “Your slave is sick and fearful in my presence, but you not. I know why. You share the hunger. You would sup with me. What would you have my slaves fetch us?”''

- ''[[Interview with a Ghoul]]''

Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure | cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum | John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).

==In Literature==

''[[Interview with a Ghoul]]''

[[Category:undead]]
[[Category:ghoul]]
[[Category:Grave Robber]]
[[Category:Digger]]

==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



{|
|-valign="top"
|[[Image:rldb_monster.jpg]]
|[[Image:rldb_primary.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp24 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I]]'' - "Ghoul Lord" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]''
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_art.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp24 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I]]'' - "Ghoul Lord" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - p65
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_stats.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp24 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I]]'' - "Ghoul Lord" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp64-66
|-valign="top"
|
|[[Image:rldb_desc.gif]]
|
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]]'' - pp24 
''[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I]]'' - "Ghoul Lord" 
''[[Denizens of Darkness]]'' - pp64-66
|-valign="top"
|}