Yagno Petrovna
Yagno Petrovna was born in Barovia in 674 BC. He had at least one sister and two brothers. Although bright, he was born with neither the vitality nor the strength typical of his family, and was moreover clumsy and painfully thin. Throughout his childhood and youth, he was bullied and beaten by his brothers. The Petrovna family had been belonged to the nobility of Barovia (Prime Material Plane) and perhaps remained part of the nobility of Barovia three centuries later. It had, however, isolated itself in the mountains and had succumbed, at to a degree, to the evils of inbreeding. Yagno, among a family that probably had more than its fair share of madness, was himself judged to be deranged. He carried on discourses with non-existent people and cowered before non-existent creatures. One night he was locked out in the Barovian night by his older brother Yoshtoi. Terrified, he ultimately took shelter in a small cave where he eventually succumbed to exhaustion and sleep. In the morning, he found the word Zhakata scrawled upon it wall. He imagined that Zhakata was a god that had protected him from the creatures of the night and he entered gladly into the deity's service. Yagno at the age of twenty-two had found his calling. Sadly, the word had been placed upon the wall by his older brother. Yagno set to sacrificing animals on an altar that he had constructed in the cave. Five years later, he attempted to do the same with his sister's newborn child, for which he was put to flight by his family. He entered the Mists on the northern frontier of Markovia where the domain of G'Henna came into being with him as its darklord.
References
Gazetteer I, p. 15.
Circle of Darkness, p. 2-3.
Statistics
Male Human, Cleric 12 of Zhakata, Lawful Evil, CR 14
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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