#firan

[wazzaldorps-comic-hole]

RAVE/EVAR

[themonsterghost]

found yourself in yet another situation, hm?

[thyeternalhunger]

Hour of Ascension

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

[bloodfool]

My beloved Curse of Strahd NPCs!

[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.

[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

[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.

[theoscout]

Connecting the books to the games

I've noticed that the Strahd as written in PN Elrod's novels is pretty different to the Strahd written in the other novels, to the point where I feel like it would change the whole damn storyline. But I've come up with an explanation with this change in personality which only uses published events.

Strahd and Azalin end up in Mordentshire after their portal thing goes wrong, and they decide to build the apparatus in order to try and turn themselves back into humans again. Strahd ends up splitting himself in two and the events of Gryphon Hill happen. Azalin is possibly the first to use the machine, but ends up teleporting somewhere else as a side effect and Strahd fixes the thing that made him teleport without using it on himself. The events of King of The Dead happen before the events of Gryphon Hill, while Strahd is making modifications to the machine.

Alchemist is every good quality about Strahd, and also his ideal form that he created for himself.

At the end they both fall off the cliff, but since they're already separated, Creature is unaffected by Alchemist's death and survives, but barely. Alternatively he dies but since he's far more darklord than Alchemist is, the mists resurrect him back in Barovia without Alchemist.

So Alchemist represented everything good and lawful about Creature, even if it wasn't much, was all gone. That's why the Strahd which went from calling wolves his 4 legged children and adoring them, looking after small children, shapeshifting into mist to avoid hurting bats and just not being evil for the sake of evil ended up turning into the thing from curse of strahd, and the Strahd from VOTM that summoned wolves and had them cannabalise each other for no reason aside from showing off his power.

[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.

[fall0utboi12]

Three characters from my book “The Runaway Prince”. Háldaer, Arriah and Emrin are the elder siblings to the MC Jayden. They are also 3 of the main ‘antagonists’ (the last being the king)

[wazzaldorps-comic-hole]

Fan Service

[themonsterghost]

Pieta

[thyeternalhunger]

Dawn in Flaness

where Azal'Lan overlooks from his castle

[robert7979]

New Post has been published on Budowa i remont

New Post has been published on https://remont.biz.pl/kuchnia/jaka-powinna-byc-firana-do-kuchni/

Jaka powinna być firana do kuchni?

Jaka powinna być firana do kuchni?

Firana w przestrzeni kuchennej pełni kilka funkcji. Z jednej strony pozwala uchronić nas przed wzrokiem osób z zewnątrz, a z drugiej dodaje wnętrzu przytulności i elegancji. Powinniśmy zatem dokładnie zastanowić się nad tym, jaka powinna być firana do kuchni i jaki model spełni nasze oczekiwania. O czym pamiętać podczas doboru?

[enzomancer]

It happened guys, we had the combination funeral/beach episode and it was every bit as messy as you might expect given that the party has a Decanter of Endless Wine.

The body of a certain vampire twink was burned, fish were caught, the lake was swum, revelations were made, and the party cleric, the CLERIC, drunkenly fired off a sending to a certain Firan Zal’honen requesting a meeting, which he promptly granted.

And so the lads rolled up to the estate of a Darkonian noble, sloshed and soggy, feelings bruised (in my wizard, Lorenzo’s case) ready to get down to the business of plotting the downfall of Strahd von Zarovich.

(manifesting the dnd session I want to have in the group chat like-)