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Secrets of the Dread Realms
Secrets of the Dread Realms
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Count Strahd von Zarovich, Darklord of Barovia, Human Ancient Vampire Fighter 4/Wizard 16: ?
Azalin Rex, Darklord of Darkon, Human Lich Wizard 18: Firan tried to raise Irik in his own image, grooming him for the throne, but the boy had his mother’s kind heart, which Firan interpreted as weakness. When Irik was caught helping Firan’s political foes escape, Firan personally and publicly executed his son. That night, as Firan blamed himself for his failures as a father, a dark, nameless force visited the Azal’Lan and offered him the secrets of becoming a lich. It took him two years to complete the rites and shed his mortality.
Tristessa, Darklord of Keening, Sith Rank Five Ghost Cleric 6: Following the malevolent dictates of its goddess, the spider cult became decadent and depraved and grew increasingly brazen in its disregard of the Law of Arak. Over time, the spider cultists’ bodies slowly transformed to resemble those of drow. Threatened by the cult’s increasing power, Loht, the Prince of Shadows and leader of the Unseelie Court, took steps to stop the religion. Tristessa led her followers in a lengthy and bitter power struggle. For all the destruction caused and all the lesser creatures killed, not one drop of shadow fey blood was spilled in the conflict. Above all else, the millennia-old Law of Arak strictly forbade the killing of one shadow elf by another.
Tristessa’s child, a twisted little creature resembling a drider, was born shortly before the Unseelie Court finally defeated her cult. To mark his victory, Loht and his warriors dragged the captive Tristessa to the surface and, in violation of the sacrosanct Law of Arak, staked her and her deformed child to the slopes of Mount Lament, leaving them to boil away under the light of the sun.
When the sun rose, Tristessa and her child were consumed by the daylight. A sandstorm twisted to life fromTristessa’s dying scream. It swept through the mountain valleys, wiping out all surface life. History would record the storm as the Scourge of Arak. When the dust settled, Mount Lament had been shifted to anew domain. The Mists had given Tristessa’s spirit the small domain of Keening.
Lord Wilfred Godefroy, Darklord of Mordent, Human Rank Four Ghost Aristocrat 12: In the four centuries that the house had stood on Gryphon Hill, no inhabitant had ever actually taken a life. Godefroy’s murders woke something in the house that has never returned to its slumber. Godefroy escaped mortal justice, even shooting his best stallion to provide a scapegoat, but the house knew what he had done. The night after Estelle and Lilia were buried in the cemetery on the Gryphon Hill grounds, their spirits returned to haunt their killer. The ghosts returned to torment Godefroy every night for the rest of the year. Finally, facing another year of nightly torture, Godefroy committed suicide on New Year’s Day in 579 BC. In accordance with his will, Godefroy was interred in the Weathermay mausoleum near Heather House, far from his wife and child.
Baron Urik von Kharkov, Darklord of Valachan, Human Mature Nosferatu Vampire Fighter 11: When Morphayas felt his creation was properly “finished,” he arranged for Urik and Selena to have frequent chance encounters, Morphayas had designed Urik to both appeal and be attracted to Selena, and the pair soon became lovers, just as the wizard had planned. Morphayas waited until the two were locked in a lover’s embrace, then dispelled the magic that maintained Urik's humanity. The savage panther tore Selena to shreds.
Morphayas recovered Urik and bestowed human form upon him again, planning to use his assassin again. He did not, however, expect Urik to remember his prior human incarnation. Having never known of his true nature Urik was horrified by the uncontrollable beast within him. He escaped from the wizard and fled the country, burning with hatred and humiliation. In this state, he stumbled into a bank of fog and emerged in Darkon, where an impoverished bard told him legends of Azalin’s vampiric secret police. Urik sought out a vampire to induct him into the ranks. In undeath, Urik sought not just power and immortality, but control over the panther. What he received was 20 years of slavery to a Kargat master.
Secrets of the Dread Realms
3.0
Count Strahd von Zarovich, Darklord of Barovia, Human Ancient Vampire Fighter 4/Wizard 16: ?
Azalin Rex, Darklord of Darkon, Human Lich Wizard 18: Firan tried to raise Irik in his own image, grooming him for the throne, but the boy had his mother’s kind heart, which Firan interpreted as weakness. When Irik was caught helping Firan’s political foes escape, Firan personally and publicly executed his son. That night, as Firan blamed himself for his failures as a father, a dark, nameless force visited the Azal’Lan and offered him the secrets of becoming a lich. It took him two years to complete the rites and shed his mortality.
Tristessa, Darklord of Keening, Sith Rank Five Ghost Cleric 6: Following the malevolent dictates of its goddess, the spider cult became decadent and depraved and grew increasingly brazen in its disregard of the Law of Arak. Over time, the spider cultists’ bodies slowly transformed to resemble those of drow. Threatened by the cult’s increasing power, Loht, the Prince of Shadows and leader of the Unseelie Court, took steps to stop the religion. Tristessa led her followers in a lengthy and bitter power struggle. For all the destruction caused and all the lesser creatures killed, not one drop of shadow fey blood was spilled in the conflict. Above all else, the millennia-old Law of Arak strictly forbade the killing of one shadow elf by another.
Tristessa’s child, a twisted little creature resembling a drider, was born shortly before the Unseelie Court finally defeated her cult. To mark his victory, Loht and his warriors dragged the captive Tristessa to the surface and, in violation of the sacrosanct Law of Arak, staked her and her deformed child to the slopes of Mount Lament, leaving them to boil away under the light of the sun.
When the sun rose, Tristessa and her child were consumed by the daylight. A sandstorm twisted to life fromTristessa’s dying scream. It swept through the mountain valleys, wiping out all surface life. History would record the storm as the Scourge of Arak. When the dust settled, Mount Lament had been shifted to anew domain. The Mists had given Tristessa’s spirit the small domain of Keening.
Lord Wilfred Godefroy, Darklord of Mordent, Human Rank Four Ghost Aristocrat 12: In the four centuries that the house had stood on Gryphon Hill, no inhabitant had ever actually taken a life. Godefroy’s murders woke something in the house that has never returned to its slumber. Godefroy escaped mortal justice, even shooting his best stallion to provide a scapegoat, but the house knew what he had done. The night after Estelle and Lilia were buried in the cemetery on the Gryphon Hill grounds, their spirits returned to haunt their killer. The ghosts returned to torment Godefroy every night for the rest of the year. Finally, facing another year of nightly torture, Godefroy committed suicide on New Year’s Day in 579 BC. In accordance with his will, Godefroy was interred in the Weathermay mausoleum near Heather House, far from his wife and child.
Baron Urik von Kharkov, Darklord of Valachan, Human Mature Nosferatu Vampire Fighter 11: When Morphayas felt his creation was properly “finished,” he arranged for Urik and Selena to have frequent chance encounters, Morphayas had designed Urik to both appeal and be attracted to Selena, and the pair soon became lovers, just as the wizard had planned. Morphayas waited until the two were locked in a lover’s embrace, then dispelled the magic that maintained Urik's humanity. The savage panther tore Selena to shreds.
Morphayas recovered Urik and bestowed human form upon him again, planning to use his assassin again. He did not, however, expect Urik to remember his prior human incarnation. Having never known of his true nature Urik was horrified by the uncontrollable beast within him. He escaped from the wizard and fled the country, burning with hatred and humiliation. In this state, he stumbled into a bank of fog and emerged in Darkon, where an impoverished bard told him legends of Azalin’s vampiric secret police. Urik sought out a vampire to induct him into the ranks. In undeath, Urik sought not just power and immortality, but control over the panther. What he received was 20 years of slavery to a Kargat master.
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