The domain of Velkaarn (might as well name it for the DL) languishes in the Mists to this day. The happy ending of the book was not the one that occured, but instead the vampire darklord slew Randar and Krug with the bloodknife they hoped to use against him. Only too late did Velkaarn realize that the brothers had prepared a dying Vistani curse in the case of their failure: as Velkaarn had condemned the land to perpetual night, so he would be condemned to grope in darkness for his prey. Velkaarn and his vampire legions cannot see the living whose blood they crave.The Giamarga wrote:What happened to that domain, and the young half vistana hero who found the bloodknife and his wolf brother? How did knowledge of the Bloodknife find it´s way into the University of Dementlieu´s Guignol Museum?
With the most intelligent undead in the domain unable to find them, and the other undead easy to fool, the human population has rebounded. Humans still struggle in perpetual darkness, but they cling to hope, and pass down the legend of the gypsy-princes that gave their lives to cripple the blood-tyrant. With human pickings slim, Velkaarn has been forced to destroy all of his vampire servants and even hibernate while his undead servants round up enough humans to feed him. During one of these hibernations, a few daring villagers stole the bloodknife and fled into the Mists following visions of the reincarnated heroes of long ago. The knife was brought to the Guignol Museum on the advice of the Vistani, and a handful of villagers still wait and watch discretely for some museumgoer to stare at the knife not with wistful wonder, but daring recognition....
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RLMCIII says that the wizard Faylorn created the boneless while staying at Avernus as a guest of Azalin, when he discovered that he could animate the bones and flesh of a corpse independently, to create two undead instead of one. What happened to Faylorn? If he perished--possibly at the hands of a jealous Azalin who couldn't bear to see someone else discover something--does some other fragment of his dark legacy continue? If he survives in some form, where is he? Is he now one of the many liches that wander the realms under another name?