#firan

[wazzaldorps-comic-hole]

The Power Couple, 4 da real OGs

[themonsterghost]

found yourself in yet another situation, hm?

[quettzals]

my vision

[bloodfool]

My beloved Curse of Strahd NPCs!

[thyeternalhunger]

Hour of Ascension

Finished an old art from last year. It was partly inspired by Amorphis - Sampo

[idknonnie]

SHICCHAN IL OVE U

[itsmalachitenow]

Both are Ravenloft era.

Reblog for sample size please!

[tea-with-eleni]

This week in Barovia Darkon....

Compiled from like four maps, including the VRGTR one. I had a proper think, read three of the Ravenloft books that detail information on Darkon/Azalin, read the VRGTR chapter on the topic and discarded most of it, and read part of an AD&D adventure set in Darkon/Barovia and discarded a lot of that, too.

Anyway. A few towns have flipped which side of the river they're on and I'm not 100% sure I have ALL small settlements, but if you want a high resolution map of Darkon for your adventures, hit me up?

But I digress.

This week, my players headed to Tempe Falls and were shocked to find a relatively normal town. Like. Okay, it's boring, but that seemed to be the worst of it. There was way more racial diversity than they're used to (Barovia being almost entirely humans with the odd dusk elf for variety). The innkeeper cheerily sold them four rooms and they settled in to enjoy some decent dwarven alcohol.

(Their was a funny moment when everyone collectively realized that a: they have a TON of gold and jewels from the amber temple and b: they probably can't use the gold because it all has Strahd's face on it and all they know about Darkon is that it went to war with Barovia at some point in the past.)

There were some people in the inn: assorted traders, a clerk who appeared to be staying in town while doing some audits or paperwork or something, and a couple of guard/soldier types with some kind of chain denoting rank as part of their uniform. They also had a chat with a somewhat disoriented sorcerer, one Firan Zal'honen. He claims to have only emerged from the mists himself a few weeks ago. I'm sure he's nothing to worry about. It's fine.

Anyway.

The party traded gold for a carriage and two draft horses, on the grounds that they now have

the cleric

the rogue

the fighter

the artificer

the wizard

the bard

Ireena Kolyana

Ludmilla Vilisevic

Volenta Popofsky

and of those, the wizard, the artificer, and the two vampires have issues with sunlight. Oh, and Darkon has an excess of suns. It's fine.

They then decided that they ought to try and find a larger town. The innkeeper gave them the skinny and said that Corvia is a decently big place, but Il Aluk is an actual city. She also warned them to please, fucking PLEASE follow the laws or else they're likely to end up in a world of trouble. The party did briefly lose their minds when they noticed a piebald raven flying around town that headed back to the inn where they're staying. Again, it's fine.

Then they headed out of the Balinok mountains and into the foothills and the town of Mayvin. It's a gnomish town with a massive clocktower and patent hall; the artificer is delighted.

The local scuttlebut is that something really fucking bad happened in Il Aluk and the golden star in the sky overhead appeared shortly thereafter. So naturally my players are like, "WELL WE GOTTA GO THERE!" They also heard the name "Castle Avernus" and the fighter (originally and quite recently from the Forgotten Realms) started freaking out about Elturel. The players also noticed something really off about the (as yet unnamed) Kargat stationed in Mayvin. I ruled that they have no good way of knowing exactly what the Kargat are, though, since the concept of ghouled mortals is basically nonexistent in DnD. (I saw a sidebar in the Ravenloft Gazetteer and thought it was interesting enough to include it...)

My reading list for this week is the first half of The Neverending Story, because I feel like The Nothing is a decent analogue for what's happening, slowly, to Avernus while Firan is swanning about near the borders.

[demiplanardemagogue]

Despite quite a divided Azalin market, these costumes nonetheless sold very well this year. Guess the popularity of this costume must be solid as a rock.

[syrips]

happy christmas, happy holidays!!

PADORU JUMPSCARE part 1

i asked my friends for their favorite cos npcs/pcs and i did this without telling them. if you dont know this meme then consider yourself fortunate!!

feel free to share or use as emojis/emotes or profile pics!! hehe

in order:

Doru, Escher, Firan, Ireena, Lugh (PC), Ozan (PC), Strahd, Victor

[ravenloftbythelamplight]

I can't come up with a good caption for this but I hope you guys think this is as funny as I do

Under-the-cut bonus because I was going over the sketch with clean lineart to make two alternate versions, one with Irik and Az alive and one with them in their respective undead states, but I didn't really like how it looked, but I figure since I had already mostly-ish finished the Irik lineart I'd share it too

[wazzaldorps-comic-hole]

RAVE/EVAR

[themonsterghost]

Pieta

[darklordazalin]

How old was Irik when he passed?

No lead up to this, just come out and ask me it? This of all things? Excuse me, I have...something incredibly important I need to attend to that isn't this.

OOC (spoilers for King of the Dead novel):

I assume you mean Irik, Azalin's son, and not his beloved brother. His son was 19 when he was executed as a traitor to the crown by Azalin's (or The Azal'Lan as he was known as at the time) own hand.

Irik, his younger brother, was 12 when he was possessed by a demon that a 15 year old Firan Zal'honan had a part in summoning. Irik was ultimately killed by their father who thought him to be an actual demon (by then he looked very much like one) even as Firan tried to explain that it was Irik and the master wizard Firan had brought to prevent further damage could save him. Said master wizard was knocked unconscious by his father's men and his father decapitated Irik.

[dipetschmot]

Tak minie mi ten dzień w pracy

[thyeternalhunger]

Dawn in Flaness

where Azal'Lan overlooks from his castle