[Accessory] [9331] Darklords.pdf

Introduction ............. 4

Hags ................. 36

Using Darklords ............ 4

Appearance ............... 36

Powers and Destruction ...... 4

Background .............. 36

Current Sketch ............ 39

The Domain .............. 40

Confronting the Hags ....... 41

Creating Your Own Lords ..... 4

The Mood of Ravenloft ....... 5

Headless Horseman ....... 44

Anhktepot .............. 6

Appearance ................ 6

Background ................ 6

Background .............. 44

The Domain .............. 44

Confronting the Horseman ... 44

The First to Follow ......... 46

The Last to Follow ......... 46

The Winding Road .......... 47

Current Sketch ............. 8

Confronting Anhktepot ....... 9

A Recipe for Mummification .. 11

Banshee .......

House of Lament ......... 48

Background .............. 48

Current Sketch ............ 50

Confronting the House ...... 51

Destroying the House ....... 52

Appearance ...............

Background .............. 12

Current Sketch ............ 14

TheDomain .............. 14

The City of Dead ........... 16

TheHand ................. 17

Confronting Tristessa ....... 20

Bluebeard .............. 22

Von Kharkov ............ 54

Appearance ............... 54

Background .............. 54

Current Sketch ............ 56

Confronting Von Kharkov .... 56

Castle Pantara ............. 58

Appearance ............... 22

' Background .............. 22

Current Sketch ............ 24

, Bluebeards Castle .......... 25

Confronting Bluebeard ...... 26

Ebonbane ... ... 28

Merilee ...... ..... 60

Background .............. 60

Current Sketch ............ 62

Confronting Merilee ........ 62

An Account of My Meeting with

the Child Vampire .......... 63

...... 60

Appearance ..... ....... 28

Background .............. 28

Current Sketch ............ 30

The Four Keys ............. 31

rw The Domain .............. 31

Appearance ......

Confronting Ebonbane ...... 32

Shadowborn Manor ......... 33

Monette .............. .64

Appearance. ............. .64

Background ............. .64

Current Sketch ........... .66

The Domain ............. .66

credits

Design: Andria Hayday (Banshee, Bluebeard,

Hags, Headiess Horseman, House of

Lament, Introduction, Phantom Lover,

“Recipe for Mummification,” Tiyet, Zolnik)

Confronting Monette. ....... 67

Excerpts from a Ship’s Log. .. 67

Additional Design: William W. Connors

(Ebonbane, Merilee, Monette), Bruce

Nesmith (Anhktepot, Von Kharkov), and

James Lowder (D’ Polarno)

Phantom Lover. ........ .68

Appearance.. ............ .68

Editing: Mike Breault

Cover Art: Tim Hildebrandt

Interior Art: Stephen Fabian

Cartography: David C. Sutherland 111

Graphic Design: Roy E. Parker

Typesdtting: Tracey Zamagne

Production: Paul Hanchette

Invaluable Assistance: Troy Denning

Special Thanks: Karen Boomgarden

Background ............. .68

Current Sketch ........... .68

The Domain ............. .70

Confronting the Phantom. ... 71

Fragments of a Diary ...... .73

D’Polarno.. ........... .74

Background ............. .74

Current Sketch ........... .77

The Domain ............. .77

Confronting D’Polarno ...... 79

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Tiyet ................ .80

Appearance. ............. .80

Background ............. .80

Current Sketch ........... .84

The Domain ........

... 85

Confronting Tiyet ....

... 88

Zolnik ............... .90

Appearance. ............. .90

Background ............. .90

Current Sketch. ........... .93

Gregor’s Children .......... 94

The Domain ............. .94

Confronting Gregor. ........ 94

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ke one that on a lonesome road

Doth walk in fear and dread,

And having once turned round

lord were attempting to harness the forces of

that city?

Anhktepot, lord of Har’Akir, is a mummy

described in this book. He has slumbered in his

tomb for nearly a century. In the adventure

Touch of Death, someone-or something-is

attempting to usurp Anhktepot’s power. The

usurper drives the plot of the adventure, not

Anhktepot himself.

waUcs on,

And turns no more his head;

Because he knows a frightfid fiend

Doth close behind him tread.

-Coleridge

Within this book are tales of 16

dark lords and ladies, each

imprisoned in the shadowy abyss

called Ravenloft, each waiting to be

loosed in your campaign. Patience

is perhaps their only virtue. What

mortals blithely call “forever” is no

more than a moment in their bleak

and dreary existence. Still, they

know that the time to emerge is nearing. By

opening this book, you have opened a door into

Darkness, releasing the horrors that lurk within.

Powers and Destruction

arklords have an ally that most creatures

do not have: the Land of Ravenloft itself.

0 The darklords can be assumed to have

any power that logically fits the mood and tone

of their realm. For example, if it is important to

an adventure that Strahd can sense the use of

magic in Barovia, then grant him that ability.

This is not to say that he can do

anything-merely that you can be more flexible

with darklords than with other creatures.

If player characters kill a lord, and you’d like

to use that lord again, that too is possible in

Ravenloft. In fact, many of the lords, as written,

are rarely destroyed even if they disappear.

Three hags rule Tepest, for example. If two are

killed, the third can conjure them up again in

her cauldron of regeneration. In the desert

kingdom of Sebua, the lord may turn to

glittering sand, dispersed by the wind, only to

be formed again later by the land. Rebirth as

well as reincarnation are possible in Ravenloft.

Using Darklords

he more powerful a lord in Ravenloft is,

the more daunting and hopeless an

T encounter with that lord may seem. Lords

need not always take center stage, however. In

fact, it can be more interesting if they linger in

the background like a malevolent threat,

intruding into the foreground only when

adventurers foolishly provoke their attention.

For example, Keening’s banshee is a deadly

force: to enflame her wrath is to join her other

victims as spirits and other undead. But she

rarely attacks anyone who stays away from her

mountain. Even by day (when she is able to

walk about), she may not attack unless

someone disturbs her. What role could she then

serve in an adventure? The banshee has an

enmity with the drow of Arak. What if the PCs

unwittingly aid the banshee in exacting her

revenge-or vice versa? Keening has no living

inhabitants, only a city filled with undead that

listlessly continue the routines of their former

lives. What if a necromancer serving another

Creating Your Own lords

he RAVENLOW boxed set offers several

tips for DMs who wish to create their own

T lords. A detailed history, which explains

how the villain became a lord, is one of those

elements. When creating such tales, keep in

mind that the Dark Powers and the Mists of

Ravenloft rarely trick or entice a lord into their

midst. A character is not offered power, for

example; he demands it. He willingly takes the

step that seals his fate: the Dark Powers

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