One of the players in my #Darkon game I am getting up to speed with some text-based RP before they formally join us next week and I was very excited to be able to bring back #TheRavenQueen since they are playing a Shadar-Kai.
Now in the continuity of games I DM, #Strahd is officially dead for good. And something that The Raven Queen did when he finally died permanently was scoop his ass up and so now he has to serve her for eternity or however long it takes him to atone. Whichever comes first.
I decided to put together a timeline to try to keep things at least somewhat consistent in my #Darkon game.
In the official materials they actually use BC for Barovian Calendar, but I decided that's might be a little confusing for players since we use that in real life so I changed it to BA.
And yes The Fellowship of the Raven is the adventuring party that my Ireena originates from.
Putting in another plot hint in the next issue of the in-universe newspaper and I couldn't resist a blatant Edgar Allen Poe reference.
Madame Talisveri is actually all of her "family members" using various disguises. She was turned invisible by a curse and uses elaborate stage craft to pretend to be different people.
The fact that I mentioned Talisveri first is supposed to be a huge clue that it's all bullshit.
More from the in-universe newspaper from my #DnD5e#Darkon campaign. It's a single image but image descriptions have a character limit so I split it in two.
We can add this to the folder of "things I wrote when I should have been sleeping" this time about my Ranger meeting the head of Martira Bay's Kargatane in #Darkon.
It actually allowed me to establish a personality for Marco which I hadn't really done yet. And he definitely ended up with some Harlan Ellison inspired personality traits.
Another character sketch of an NPC for my upcoming #Darkon campaign. Gerta is actually a character whose history goes all the way back to 2nd edition #Ravenloft when she was introduced as a child and she has more or less aged in real time since. My version is slightly older.
And as much as someone's hair turning white overnight from stress sounds like a trope out of a Victorian novel, it's actually documented to have happened to Marie Antoinette, among other people.
Sometimes, characters just spring fully formed from my head lime Athena from the head of Zeus.
Priscilla von Aubrecker is one of them. She's the granddaughter of Vilhelm von Aubrecker, former ruler of #Lamordia, and arrived in #Darkon as a young child when her family was forced to flee. She was taken in by Alcio Metus, an officer in the Kargat who provided protection to her family on behalf of Azalin Rex. She grew up wanting to emulate her idol Alcio and become a member of the Kargat.