Timeline for Where in the book can I find the origin of this Curse of Strahd character's deformity?
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 15:10 | history | edited | Sh4d0wsPlyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Comments made an excellent point that I wanted to include.
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | guildsbounty | @Sh4d0wsPlyr If you want a source on it: "Ravenloft Campaign Setting, p42-53" | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | Sh4d0wsPlyr | @guildsbounty Great point. I'll add some of this to the answer because it would certainly enhance it. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:21 | comment | added | T.J.L. | Indeed... Far more likely to be a gift from the Dark Powers than anything else. Strahd pretends to be the power in Barovia, but he really isn't... the Dark Powers rule even him. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:07 | comment | added | guildsbounty | Thus, it could be explained that Izek's life of cruelty and evil drew the attention of the Dark Powers, and they are gradually turning him into a creature like a Barbed Devil. Thus him having the arm of a Barbed Devil. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:07 | comment | added | guildsbounty | This is NOT in the book, it's fluff from AD&D 2E, but potentially applicable. In the Ravenloft Campaign setting, if you performed an act of deliberate evil, you ran the risk of attracting the attention of the Dark Powers. If that happened, they gave you a gift and a curse that was in-line with the sort of evil you were doing. If you kept being evil and kept drawing their attention, they gradually changed you into a monster of some sort. If you look at Izek's stat block and described appearance, his arm is a dead-wringer for the arm of a Barbed Devil. Even the 'Hurl Flame' action is the same. | |
| Nov 15, 2016 at 4:41 | vote | accept | LegendaryDude | ||
| Nov 11, 2016 at 22:15 | history | answered | Sh4d0wsPlyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |