We’ve even created our own 5e stat blocks so you can easily use each darklord as an NPC in your own campaigns, just click through the page for the Darklord you want to use in your campaign to find out more about them and see their stat block. Below we’ve detailed all the darklords of D&D 5e though there are others that are undiscovered in the potentially endless mists of Ravenloft. None (though Alcio Metus, Darcalus Rex and Madame Talisveri Eris all vie for this title)Įach darklord rules over a domain of dread. There are 40 Domains of Dread detailed in the setting book with 18 of these (if you include the House of Lament) given detailed information about the Domain, its Darklord and the plot hooks you can use in your campaigns. Van Richten’s Guide to ravenloft updated the Ravenloft setting for 5th edition and updated with it the Domains of Dread. At this point, he made a pact with the Dark Powers, gaining immortality through vampirism and was taken into Ravenloft. When she refused his advances, he murdered the rest of his family and the castle staff.
Strahd Von Zarovich, the Darklord of Barovia, for example, murdered his brother to try and take his betrothed for himself. Often these are moments of terrible betrayal or evil unseen among most people of the universe. He even attempted to take his own life to escape the haunting only to come back as a ghost himself and for the hauntings to continue, and in this tortured state, he remains eternally.ĭarklords usually find themselves in a Domain of Dread as its ruler due to some great crime they’ve committed. Wilfred is tortured by the ghosts of his wife, daughter and others he has murdered. For example, Wilfred Godefroy is the darklord of Mordent, a haunted nation who’s people come back as ghosts when they die. Bluetspur article at Mistipedia, a wiki for the Ravenloft campaign setting run by The Fraternity of Shadows.The darklords are the rulers of each domain, though they rule in some kind of unrealised misery, not knowing that they’re being tortured.John Mangrum, Andrew Wyatt, Andrew Cermak (October 15, 2001).In 581 BC, illithids brought the realm of Bluetspur into existence. Following the domain's degeneration into an Island of Terror it began to be ravaged nightly by storms of such ferocity that survival on the surface was impossible.Īny creatures who dared to spend the night on Bluetspur would be plagued by nightmares of horrific creatures slinking out from the rocks and devouring all life. Whenever "night" came the domain became intensely dark and small, glowing lights moved through the land. When Bluetspur was part of the Core it was situated on the southeastern corner of the main continent, near the Balinok Mountains.īluetspur's landscape was a largely bleak and desolate stony wasteland, over which the sun never shined.
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