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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7350056" data-attributes="member: 2209">Castles Forlorn<a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17476/Castles-Forlorn-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Castles Forlorn</a>2eRivalin ApTosh, Vampire: Rivalin had lain in the mud of the battlefield that day, hovering on the brink of death, until dusk descended. Hidden as he was by the muck of blood and rain, the warrior was overlooked by soldiers who came to collect the bodies of fallen comrades. Then, with the close of day came those that feed upon the dead—and upon those about to die. Thus the last of Rivalin's life force was drained away by a vampire. Two nights later, Rivalin arose with his own, aching thirst for blood. . . .Tristen ApBlanc, 4th-Magnitude Ghost: One dark night in the year 1609, when Tristen had reached his midteens, Rual's fears were realized. By the light of a baleful moon, she spied him in the woods, bent over the corpse of a young doe. She thought at first that he had been hunting, but when the boy arose from the body of the animal with a crimson-smeared face, Rual knew the boy's paternity was at last telling true. The toxins in Tristen's body were finally changing him into a vampire.Ironically, the draining of Tristen's blood while he simultaneously assimilated Rual's, infused with holy water, amounted to a transfusion that washed away the tainted poison which would have eventually turned him into a full vampire. The process was excruciatingly painful to Tristen, leading him to believe he was dying, but it was actually affecting a cure.Nevertheless, Rual set in motion the blurring of planar borders that would eventually draw Tristen and the surrounding lands into the demiplane of dread. Covered with unholy blood and outraged to the point of insanity by the murderous betrayal of her adopted child, the druid deprived Tristen of his cure and poisoned him again, this time with her deadly curse. As Rual laid her malediction upon Tristen, the sun sank below the horizon and her blood began to boil within his body. He fell to the ground and thrashed convulsively, screaming until his veins burst within him, and then he died.But death is a relative term among the cursed, and it was certainly not the end of Tristen. He arose as a ghost that same night, and he discovered that he could not leave the sacred grove where Rual's body and his own lay.Flora ApBlanc, 1st-Magnitude Ghost: Flora became a ghost because of the anguish she suffered wondering if her child would survive the mob that lynched her.Rual, 4th-Magnitude Ghost: Due to the emotionally charged nature of her murder at Tristen's hands (which occurred in the Forfar year 1609), Rual has returned from beyond the grave as a ghost of the fourth magnitude.Isolt ApBlanc, 3rd-Magnitude Ghost: The anguish and grief that Isolt felt as she died turned her into a ghost of the third magnitude.Gilan ApBlanc, 2nd-Magnitude Ghost: Gilan saw the whole thing as he was getting dressed that morning. Racing across the courtyard, he threw himself upon the wolves in an effort to save his beloved pet. The wolves turned on the boy, instead.Startled, Tristen called off the wolves, but it was too late. They had already torn the boy to pieces. Furious, he drew his sword and attacked them without quarter, but this only succeeded in sending a number of the beasts scuttling away from the keep. Some of them still carried pieces of the boy in their slavering jaws as they ran. As a result, there was little of Gilan left to bury.The savage attack that took Gilan's life drove him mad. His ghost has blocked out all memory of the events of his death and he believes the dog in his arms to be alive.Morholt ApBlanc, 2nd-Magnitude Ghost: He was 18 when he was killed, in Forfar year 1833. Doomed by the sudden nature of his death to become a spirit, the second son of Tristen and Isolt ApBlanc believes he is still alive. (Murdered in his sleep, Morholt never knew who his attacker was.)Aggie: ?Zombie Wolf: Zombie wolves are not created by a wizard or a priest, but are a creation of the domain of Forlorn itself.Zombie wolves rise from the dead when the body of any regular wolf in the domain of Forlorn is not decapitated after it is killed. If this gruesome task is not carried out, the corpse of the wolf rises as a zombie 2d8 days after it has died.It is generally thought that the creatures gain this strange form of existence from contact with the land itself, which channels energy from the Negative Material Plane. Some sages speculate that simply preventing the wolf carcass from having any contact with the ground for a full eight days will prevent it from rising as a zombie, but in the absence of any practical application of this theory, it remains unproven.Vampire: ?Treant Undead: ?Gregory, Geist: The spirit is the geist of Gregory, the druid who hid the horn of the sacred grove and later was torn to shreds by goblyns.Geist: Generally speaking, geists are relatively harmless spirits that are undead manifestations of a person caught between mortality and immortality at the moment of death.Haunt: ?Odem: ?</blockquote>

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