Café de Nuit

Please oh please oh please oh please tell me you didn't actually recommend using the "Wereswine" lycanthrope, which is simply Hoggish Greedly with fangs.

We already have a blurb for the hoard scarab on page 1...

The Ancient Dead struck me as being more of the epitome of Sloth, especially what with the way Ankhtepot spends most of his time slumbering within his tomb, dreaming of his glory days being alive, and being the Pharoah.

Guardian of Twilight wrote:

Dominique wrote:See, the problem with Mordent is that you'd have to be very, very, very careful to not die while you're anywhere near Mordentshire.

Yeah, but isn't that true anywhere?

Except for Necropolis.

Also, even if Easan intended to use his Apparatus to exorcise himself of his personal demon...
He can't, given as how Ami Vanjuko thanked Easan by destroying the entire estate and his Apparatus in a fit of rage.
...
Either that, or when Easan rebuilt everything, including his infernal machine, he ...

Easan had his own version of the Apparatus, while the original is still on Gryphon Hill.

Scarab, Monstrous
"For our crime of trespass, the nomads' chieftain said we would be made pure by their god, "Khepri," whatever it was. Once judgement had been made, we were tied to a pair of stone pillars at the bottom of a boulder-filled gorge, then doused with a ceremonial... potion made from ...

Actually, Abd-al Mamat was the vizier to a desert chieftain who usurped control of his tribe by framing the chieftain's only son for the murder of the son's lover. After his chieftain died, Abd-al Mamat lead the tribe to found a city, where he became a harsh tyrant, who saw to it that all wrong ...

Just to nitpick, but, "books" in Asian cultures tended to be scrolls, sometimes very elaborate scroll with borders pasted in, but, scrolls, not "leather-bound tomes".
Usually they were made out of paper, but the oldest ones were made from wooden, sometimes bone strips tied together.

And what if the Dark Powers wanted to play with you for the rest of time?

Well, the Black Box said that he was weaker-willed than Strahd.

Gundar was said to be a vampire far older than Strahd, and yet, was far weaker. He fought with Strahd after having been stranded in Barovia one night, and then he fled back into the mists, whereupon Gundarak formed.

What's the domain lord for Fortjusande Skog?

Plague Spewer
"As we travelled deeper through the bowels of that infernal tomb, the rotting talons of a gigantic beast burst through a false door. As the walls collapsed around it, we could see that it was the still-moving corpse of a tremendous dog. At least I thought it was a dog: it wore a ...

Spectral Lyrist
The harpist produced a surprisingly large lyre from her dress. As she smiled, her face flushed a deep red, matching the red of her blouse.
May I sing you a song?
We nodded our approval, and her smile stretched wider, just like the rictus grin of a skull.
-Excerpt from "The ...