Salizarr

Salizarr is a Meazel, formerly residing in the sewers beneath Il Aluk in Darkon. He is an outlander, originally from Cormyr, a country in Faerun. Salizarr arrived in Ravenloft in 734 BC. Salizarr was subject to the memory distortion effects of Darkon and believed himself to have always lived there, becoming a serial killer and preying upon surface-dwellers when he tires of the food he can find below ground. Salizarr's presence left a mark on the populace, for word spoke of a horrible bogeyman haunting the night. Salizarr was later transformed into a Necropolitan Ghoul by the Requiem. Other than having to compete with other ghouls and some of his abilities and weapons not working as well before, Salizarr operates much as he did when he was living. His name still inspires fear among Necropolis' inhabitants.

In Van Richten's Guide to the Mists

An alternate and contradictory take on Salizarr (here referred to as Salissar) portrays him as a Mist Creature rather than one of the Slain. As related in her account in Van Richten's Guide to the Mists (Item), Gennifer Weathermay-Foxgrove confronts this version of Salissar in Richten Haus and seemingly destroys him, though at the dire cost of the opportunity to learn the house's mysteries. Despite this sacrifice, Salizarr may yet survive.

Regardless of his eventual fate at the hands of Gennifer, the VRGttM version of Salizarr had survived the Requiem mortality intact because the Mists had taken him to Richten Haus, now an oubliette floating in the Mists with no darklord presumably following the presuming destruction or incapacitation of Madame Radanavich. There, Salizarr was trapped in the hated sunlight, hunted by the spirits of dead heroes. He sometimes gained brief succor from these attacks when he was delivered to the sewers of different places throughout the Core, where he resumed hunting and killing humanoids as he previously had done in Il Aluk. The string of bodies left in his wake spawned several legends of fear and horror in the lands he visited, yet always after being the predator for a time the Mists always took him back to Richten Haus to be the prey. This formed a cycle of torment over the years, and Salizarr developed Multiple Personality Disorder. Somehow, Salizarr's alternate identities manifsted a few unusual characteristics. They came to mimic the figures of legend he spawned throughout the Core. These include Old Scrabbling Sally, Little Hollow Ivil, and Cellar Bones. In addition, Salizarr is unusual in that his alternate personalities know each other exists and can even converse with each other. He seems to have developed these alternate guises for company in his time of suffering.

The VRGttM version of Salizarr obviously contradicts the version from Gazetteer III. Author Rucht Lilavivat acknowledges this as a mistake that would have been rectified had Van Richten's Guide to the Mists (Book) been officially published.

Game Statistics

• 2nd Edition: male meazel, Chaotic Evil
• 3rd Edition:
  • (as one of the Slain): male meazel Necropolitan Ghoul rogue 2; Chaotic Evil
  • (as Mist Creature): male meazel rogue 2/Reaping Mauler 5; Chaotic Evil

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp100-101 Monsterous Compendium II - "Meazel (Salizarr)"
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp100-101 Monsterous Compendium II - "Meazel (Salizarr)"
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp100-101 Monsterous Compendium II - "Meazel (Salizarr)"
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp100-101 Monsterous Compendium II - "Meazel (Salizarr)" The Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - p13