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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6852318">See, I don't see Nu Strahd as being "born evil".  I see him as a more typified example of classic European, particularly Eastern European nobility.  He wasn't born evil, he was born rich.  Worse than being born rich, he was born a lord.  His job was to rule the people who under common belief at the time, were too stupid to rule themselves and of course, owed every last drop of their meager existence to their Lords.  This sets up a very strange mindset in people.  As  [MENTION=2067]I'm A Banana[/MENTION] points out, Strahd doesn't think about people like you and I think about people.  They're not people to him, they're subjects and Strahd is tasked with the difficult position of having to protect them from without and protect them from within.  Much like Anakin he does this in a creepy possessive way.  Meanwhile, he younger brother doesn't have to do jack squat!  He gets to romance the ladies, get drunk at parties and nobody really cares because it's Strahd who has to be the heir and his brother is just a backup.  Strahd is resentful of his role but knows nothing else.  For him there is no escape, so much like Barovia, there is no escape for anyone else.  Strahd will become King.  Barovia will become his.  Tatyana will love him.  It is merely a matter of applying enough pressure over enough time.  And as Nu Strahd shows, the amount of pressure is ever increasing, but upon him, and the pressure he is exerting.  Plus, also as  [MENTION=2067]I'm A Banana[/MENTION] points out, the Nu Strahd story eliminates the "victim blaming" of "I went evil because I got friendzoned, so it's not really my fault, it's her fault for not loving me!"  That's fine to have Strahd think that, but to have it written as actual backstory is just terrible.Well then I suggest you crawl a little deeper in your cave there, because I'll give you a heads up: It hasn't stopped and it isn't going to.  But if its any consolation, the One More Day thing was undone.There are great excuses for ignoring canon.  X-men, Superman, Spiderman, Iron Man, Batman are all great examples for ignoring canon, because after 800+ issues, the ground has been covered.  The story has been told.  They've fought the gods and lost.  They've fought the gods and won.  They've rewritten history so they never existed, they've rewritten history so they always exited.  They've been to the future, they've been to the past.  They've blown up the universe.  They're remade the universe.  There's volumes upon volumes of bad writing, metgaming, powercreep, sexism, racism, and god knows what else in there.Ravenloft is no exception.</blockquote>

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