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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8223779" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>[MEDIA=youtube]lWNOLqs1IPQ[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner[/URL]</p><p></p><p><strong>Jezra Wagner</strong> (born <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/399_BC" target="_blank">399 BC</a>, died <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/426_BC" target="_blank">426 BC</a>)<a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner#cite_note-MCI.26II_p.113.2C_died_at_the_age_of_27_some_75_years_after_Barovia_became_a_domain-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> is a <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Spectre" target="_blank">spectre</a> that resides on <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Mt._Baratak" target="_blank">Mt. Baratak</a> in <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Barovia" target="_blank">Barovia</a>.<a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner#cite_note-MCI.26II_p.112-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Her expedition up the <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Mountain" target="_blank">mountain</a> was doomed by an avalanche, leaving her fellow climbers dead and trapping her in a cavern. There she began freezing to death, but seeing the image of her presumed dead brother <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Giorggio_Wagner" target="_blank">Giorggio Wagner</a> shortly before her death. She called out for help, but she was not given succor by his image, but rather by a darker power, transforming her into one of the <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Undead" target="_blank">undead</a>.<a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner#cite_note-MCI.26II_p.113-3" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><p></p><p>The menace of Jezra Wagner is not unknown. The <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Vistani" target="_blank">Vistani</a> <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Song" target="_blank">song</a> <a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Regina_d%27Ghlaccio" target="_blank">Regina d'Ghlaccio</a> ("<a href="https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/The_Ice_Queen_(Song)" target="_blank">The Ice Queen</a>") describes her awful fate.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>I suggest some dark lords to become "demilords", and their "island of dread" a "floating demiplane", and this pocket universe sometimes can be closer to the material plane. Let's imagine a group of kenders exploring ruins of a haunted castle in the right time and place. Then they are abducted or sent to a region as Sithicus. This zone wouldn't be the true Sithicus in the demiplane of the dread, but a "clone demiplane". For a short time there is a "opened door" between Sithicus(Ravenloft) and Krynn(material plane), and this may be a double edged sword, because it may be an opportunity to escape but also menaces invading the material world. Usually local deities can se the future menaces with the gift of the prophecy and they agents to avoid it. Sometimes there is a planar gate between the death lands of Arthas (Dark Sun) and Sebua, the dessert dread domain ruled by the mummy Tiyet. </p><p></p><p>The (adventures in the) dread domains shouldn't be too linked to the darklords, because if Hasbro wants Ravenloft to become a multimedia franchise with their own action-live horror movies then the metaplot could be affected seriously. For example the final girl killing a low-level darklord, for example Maligno, the carionette darklord of Odiare (and I have added the dark talent to use children's bodies to create an army of doll half-golems. The good new is this can be almost totally reversible. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-G917DU_-2c/SU0uvwLwTCI/AAAAAAAAAzI/JaSSot3Zyrw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Maligno.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>I guess Diamabel, the darklord of Pharazia is an allegory of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridda_wars" target="_blank">falses prophets who fighted against Abu Bark, the first caliph, for the Ridda wars</a>. I would rather to alter the background to be more like an eviler version of Paul Atreides, from Frank Herbert's Dune saga, to avoid potential troubles about politically correctness. And Diamabel's pagan polytheism has to be clear and explicit. </p><p></p><p>Other idea to add is Ravenloft with its own version of the afterlife, a mixture of Ghostwalk(D&D 3.5), Kult: Lost Divinity and "Wraith: the Olvidion". And also other world as Innistrad, with high-level technology, but firearms totally forbidden for civilians because it a distopian dictatorship, with mad scientifics always openin the wrong planar gate to other worlds tainted by the Far Realm and Lovecraftian creatures. And the most of machine guns start to work wronly within certain "haunted zones". </p><p></p><p>Some "petitioners" can escape this nightmare realm to go the "classic Ravenloft", but this would become a poisonous gifts. These beings are as "sources" for the monsters, suffering a fate like the mythologic Prometheus' punishment (being killed and eaten by an eagle everyday). </p><p></p><p>And something like the "ganado", the monsters from Resident Evil 4, a parasite infecting humans for mind-controll, and used by undeads and other creatures for "food-harvesting".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8223779, member: 6802378"] [MEDIA=youtube]lWNOLqs1IPQ[/MEDIA] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner[/URL] [B]Jezra Wagner[/B] (born [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/399_BC']399 BC[/URL], died [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/426_BC']426 BC[/URL])[URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner#cite_note-MCI.26II_p.113.2C_died_at_the_age_of_27_some_75_years_after_Barovia_became_a_domain-1'][1][/URL] is a [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Spectre']spectre[/URL] that resides on [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Mt._Baratak']Mt. Baratak[/URL] in [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Barovia']Barovia[/URL].[URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner#cite_note-MCI.26II_p.112-2'][2][/URL] Her expedition up the [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Mountain']mountain[/URL] was doomed by an avalanche, leaving her fellow climbers dead and trapping her in a cavern. There she began freezing to death, but seeing the image of her presumed dead brother [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Giorggio_Wagner']Giorggio Wagner[/URL] shortly before her death. She called out for help, but she was not given succor by his image, but rather by a darker power, transforming her into one of the [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Undead']undead[/URL].[URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Jezra_Wagner#cite_note-MCI.26II_p.113-3'][3][/URL] The menace of Jezra Wagner is not unknown. The [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Vistani']Vistani[/URL] [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Song']song[/URL] [URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Regina_d%27Ghlaccio']Regina d'Ghlaccio[/URL] ("[URL='https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/The_Ice_Queen_(Song)']The Ice Queen[/URL]") describes her awful fate. --- I suggest some dark lords to become "demilords", and their "island of dread" a "floating demiplane", and this pocket universe sometimes can be closer to the material plane. Let's imagine a group of kenders exploring ruins of a haunted castle in the right time and place. Then they are abducted or sent to a region as Sithicus. This zone wouldn't be the true Sithicus in the demiplane of the dread, but a "clone demiplane". For a short time there is a "opened door" between Sithicus(Ravenloft) and Krynn(material plane), and this may be a double edged sword, because it may be an opportunity to escape but also menaces invading the material world. Usually local deities can se the future menaces with the gift of the prophecy and they agents to avoid it. Sometimes there is a planar gate between the death lands of Arthas (Dark Sun) and Sebua, the dessert dread domain ruled by the mummy Tiyet. The (adventures in the) dread domains shouldn't be too linked to the darklords, because if Hasbro wants Ravenloft to become a multimedia franchise with their own action-live horror movies then the metaplot could be affected seriously. For example the final girl killing a low-level darklord, for example Maligno, the carionette darklord of Odiare (and I have added the dark talent to use children's bodies to create an army of doll half-golems. The good new is this can be almost totally reversible. [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-G917DU_-2c/SU0uvwLwTCI/AAAAAAAAAzI/JaSSot3Zyrw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Maligno.JPG[/IMG] I guess Diamabel, the darklord of Pharazia is an allegory of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridda_wars']falses prophets who fighted against Abu Bark, the first caliph, for the Ridda wars[/URL]. I would rather to alter the background to be more like an eviler version of Paul Atreides, from Frank Herbert's Dune saga, to avoid potential troubles about politically correctness. And Diamabel's pagan polytheism has to be clear and explicit. Other idea to add is Ravenloft with its own version of the afterlife, a mixture of Ghostwalk(D&D 3.5), Kult: Lost Divinity and "Wraith: the Olvidion". And also other world as Innistrad, with high-level technology, but firearms totally forbidden for civilians because it a distopian dictatorship, with mad scientifics always openin the wrong planar gate to other worlds tainted by the Far Realm and Lovecraftian creatures. And the most of machine guns start to work wronly within certain "haunted zones". Some "petitioners" can escape this nightmare realm to go the "classic Ravenloft", but this would become a poisonous gifts. These beings are as "sources" for the monsters, suffering a fate like the mythologic Prometheus' punishment (being killed and eaten by an eagle everyday). And something like the "ganado", the monsters from Resident Evil 4, a parasite infecting humans for mind-controll, and used by undeads and other creatures for "food-harvesting". [/QUOTE]
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