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What are the questions to which there is no canon answer? I'm specifically looking for things that are raised in canon sources, but explicitly don't have answers beyond what the GM decides. (And let's just take questions about the Dark Powers as read, please).

e.g.

Who killed Ubel Ratik?

Where is Jacqueline Montarri's head?

Why do the paka hate humans?
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Ryan Naylor wrote:
Why do the paka hate humans?

At this point I'd argue that paka hating humans is a chicken and the egg kind of thing. Why do they keep trying to kill us? Because we keep trying to kill them wherever we find them. Why do we kill them wherever we find them? Because they keep trying to kill us!

Paka are great at holding a grudge and given Ravenloft humanity's tendency towards paranoia/discrimination regarding anything that looks almost but not quite completely human, well you can do the math.


What's are the names of Jacques Renier's siblings and are they true or infected wererats? What were they doing during Scholar of Decay?

Where did Inza find the mystical knife Novgor?

Why did Antonina Zolnik stay dead when Gregor killed her in the backstory to Dark Of The Moon given that in the Darklords book it expressly says that so long as Gregor is lord of the domain Ravenloft will automatically raise her from the dead if they are killed?
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That's not exactly what I was looking for (except perhaps the one about Inza), but thank you.
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What is the relationship between the vistani (or at least the Zarovan) and the Dark Powers?

Who was Ezra?

What is the backstory of the Nightmare Court?
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Who is Lucita Aderre's father?
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Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:Who is Lucita Aderre's father?
I wonder why that doesn't top the list!

A few more:
Who are the rest 8 children of the Gentleman Caller?
What is the time of unparallel darkness?
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alhoon wrote:
Who are the rest 8 children of the Gentleman Caller?
I'd especially like to know who was going to be the child from the one with the Shadowlands cluster in it.
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Ryan Naylor wrote:Who killed Ubel Ratik?
nitpick: Ratik Ubel.
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jamesfirecat wrote:Where did Inza find the mystical knife Novgor?
I believe she got it for selling Nabon to Azreal... the real question is where that crazy old badger got it.
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Resonant Curse wrote:
alhoon wrote:
Who are the rest 8 children of the Gentleman Caller?
I'd especially like to know who was going to be the child from the one with the Shadowlands cluster in it.
Seven, actually. The 13th is the Changeling.

The Shadowlands would probably have been in the same gazetteer as Odaire. Personally, I would have put them in Odaire rather than the Shadowlands for the fridge horror aspects. If I'd put it in Nidala, it would have been filling the same role as Theokos, I think. But although we would have revealed it's identity eventually (making it only a borderline Unsolved Mystery), we hadn't worked out the details exactly.
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Is Van Richten really dead? If so, what happened?


And there are many less sexy mysteries, such as:

Why is the Needle of the Ghaddar in Krezk still standing?

Where does Misericordia's Deathstone comes from?

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I find it kind of interesting that I've never developed headcanon for most of these mysteries. Except the Time of Unparalleled Darkness. That one I figured out.

I've just become fond of open-ended questions, I reckon. :)
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What is/who are the Order of the Ebon Guardian?
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Mangrum wrote:I find it kind of interesting that I've never developed headcanon for most of these mysteries. Except the Time of Unparalleled Darkness. That one I figured out.

I've just become fond of open-ended questions, I reckon. :)
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Ryan Naylor wrote:
Resonant Curse wrote:
alhoon wrote:
Who are the rest 8 children of the Gentleman Caller?
I'd especially like to know who was going to be the child from the one with the Shadowlands cluster in it.
Seven, actually. The 13th is the Changeling.

The Shadowlands would probably have been in the same gazetteer as Odaire. Personally, I would have put them in Odaire rather than the Shadowlands for the fridge horror aspects. If I'd put it in Nidala, it would have been filling the same role as Theokos, I think. But although we would have revealed it's identity eventually (making it only a borderline Unsolved Mystery), we hadn't worked out the details exactly.
Odaire? Ewww.
Given all the population are children, that says something horrible about the Gentleman Caller.
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