Emil Bollenbach

WIKISEED FROM CATALOGUE : Former assistent to Dr. Rudolph van Richten(Please edit freely, then remove this note and WIKISEED label)

WIKISEED FROM CATALOGUE : Fascinated by Flesh Golems(Please edit freely, then remove this note and WIKISEED label)

WIKISEED FROM CATALOGUE : Created the Doppleganger Golem(Please edit freely, then remove this note and WIKISEED label)

Emil Bollenbach is the premier crafter of golems in the Land of Mists.

His native language is Darkonese so he is presumably Darkonian. He probably learned Lamordian at a young again age and also commands Balok, Mordentish, and Zherisian. Money never seems to be much a problem for him yet he has none of the manners of the nobly born. A fairly wealthy middle class background is conceivable.

Emil was a gifted young medical student studying in Darkon when, in 734 BC, he attended a lecture by the visiting Dr. Rudolph Van Richten on the question of golems. Fascinated, Emil volonteered to help the doctor and divided his time for the next two year between the good fight and his studies. In 736 BC Emil was driven mad when a murderous golem was tracked back to his medical school, one of his professors proved to be its creator, and the golem's head turned out to be that of a close friend who had gone missing. The confrontation between the golem and van Ritchen in the professor's laboratory touched off an explosion that not only covered the maddened flight of Emil into the night but invited the ideas that had been consumed by it.

The gifted but now insane medical student put his new learnt skills to work on a project of utter folly. He would rid the world of golems by building golems, or more precisely, a super-golem.

, and volunteers to aid the good doctor. [CotN:C pg. 49] = 734 Emil Bollenbach, a young medical student in Darkon, attends a lecture by Dr. Van Richten on the topic of golems, and volunteers to aid the good doctor. [CotN:C pg. 49]

In 738 BC, Emil Bollenbach engineered the kidnapping of Dr. Rudolph van Richten to the end of seizing his brain for transplantation into a super-golem.

Strahd von Zarovich, with the assistance of Emil Bollenbach and creation Tom, poisoned Lyssa von Zarovich, condemning her to sleep long after sunset.

In 753 BC Emil Bollenbach was lured to Paridon and recruited by Sodo. The darklord offrered the doctor the alchemical, technological and physical resources of Paridon for the construction his perfect golem in return for it to Sodo for a week.

his city if the scientist would build him a super golem that he could use for a week. Confident that he

Time

734 Emil Bollenbach, a young medical student in Darkon, attends a lecture by Dr. Van Richten on the topic of golems, and volunteers to aid the good doctor. [CotN:C pg. 49]

736 Dr. Van Richten & Emil Bollenbach track down the murderous creator of a flesh golem; the horrors Emil witnesses drive him mad. Although Emil is thought to have died in the fiery destruction of the golem creator’s lab, he survives, dedicated to the insane goal of creating a “super-golem” to destroy all Created. [CotN:C pp. 49-50]

738 - Neuf - Emil Bollenbach creates his first “super-golem,” but fortunately his attempt to tranplant Dr. Van Richten’s brain into his creation is thwarted by adventurers. Emil escapes death, but keeps a low profile for more than a decade. (Chilling Tales: “The Surgeon’s Blade”) [CotN:C pg. 50; CT pg. 32 places this adventure 8 years after Emil’s disappearance (i.e., 746), but the dating used in CotN:C fits VR’s chronology better.]

752 - - Doppleganger Golem

753

Mangrum's Timeline

734 Emil Bollenbach, a young medical student, attends a lecture by Dr. Van Richten on the topic of golems, and volunteers to aid the good doctor. [CotN:C pg. 49]

736 Dr. Van Richten & Emil Bollenbach track down the murderous creator of a flesh golem; the horrors Emil witnesses drive him mad. Although Emil is thought to have died in the fiery destruction of the golem creator’s lab, he survives, dedicated to the insane goal of creating a “super-golem” to destroy all Created. [CotN:C pp. 49-50]

738 Emil Bollenbach creates his first “super-golem,” but fortunately his attempt to tranplant Dr. Van Richten’s brain into his creation is thwarted by adventurers. Emil escapes death, but keeps a low profile for more than a decade. (Chilling Tales: “The Surgeon’s Blade”) [CotN:C pg. 50; CT pg. 32 places this adventure 8 years after Emil’s disappearance (i.e., 746), but the dating used in CotN:C fits VR’s chronology better.]

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Children of the Night: Vampires Children of the Night: The Created Chilling Tales
		Children of the Night: The Created - p49 Chilling Tales - p 38
		Children of the Night: The Created - pp49-50 Chilling Tales - inside cover, p 38
		Children of the Night: Vampires - p21 Children of the Night: The Created - pp49-50 Chilling Tales - p 38