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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonsterEnvy" data-source="post: 6916870" data-attributes="member: 6706188">Jealousy is about losing something you have. Envy is about coveting what others have and wishing ill on them because of it. The thing is Strahd was never a good person. He was a ruthless warlord. After conquering his land he proceed to be even harsher then the old lords. For example in I, Strahd a well received book that goes deeply into his character and is portrayed from his perspective. His first action as ruler of Barovia is to go and visit all the towns in his land. While they are celebrating his arrival for freeing them from their previous tyrants. He meets with the Burgomaster and then gets mad at them for saying they want to make his birthday a holiday. (Even when he was younger Strahd had a thing about this age and hated it being mentioned or anything related to it.) Then he started bring up that the Burgomaster of the town had been embessling funds as they had not gotten the amount of taxes they really should have and the Burgomaster house was much nicser then it should be with what his funds should be. Stahd forces the Burgomaster to strip and kneel with the impression he was going to be whipped. (Which the Burgomaster was someone happy about as the old punishment for theivery used to be getting your hand chopped off.) Instead Stahd had his head chopped off in front of the town. After which he started moving to the next one with the implication he had executed the the Burgomaster of each town he had visited. This is before we get into Sergei coming to live with him. And when he does Strahd hates him because he is young, handsome and kind. With Strahd cursing him for being naive and that he hopes that when he joins the clergy to become a cleric as is tradition of the third son that experience teaches him the way of the world and that he loses those traits. Eventually Sergei falls in love with Tatyana, Strahd is very against it on the grounds that she is a commoner as he is going to join the clergy he is going to be celebate. Which leads to Sergei stating he is not going to join the clergy anymore. Which also fuels Strahds anger as Sergei just deciding not to do what was expected of him is an insult to Strahd who felt he had to waste most of his life in war. Strahd eventually becomes nicer when he meets Tatyanna and finds himself lusting after her. More or less giving Sergei and her whatever they wanted, partially in hopes she would choose him instead. While at the same time hating how they did things. Looking down on them preforming charity and stuff. Eventully his envy and realizing that Tatyana was not going to pick him (Strahd thinking it's because of his age.) leads him to becoming a vampire and murdering Sergei on his wedding day. Luring Sergei into the chapal while the party is going on for a private meeting before stabbing and blaming him for it saying he should have just become a priest. Before heading off to frame one of his guards for the crime.</blockquote>

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