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The '''cerebrex''' is a [[Prestige Class|prestige class]] presented in [[Body of Knowledge]], and article from [[Dragon Magazine]] number 317. Cerebrexes augment their central nervous systems with their magic, giving themselves enhanced logical abilities, preternatural senses, and greater control over the responses of the [[brain]].

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Tycho Geldnehar

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Tycho Geldnehar is a member of the [[:Category:The Fraternity of Shadows|Fraternity of Shadows]] that specializes in the geometry of space. He is the in-character avatar of [[User:Wolfglide|Wolfglide]].

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(D&D 3.5) [[Neutral Evil]] [[Darkon|Darkonese]] [[Male|male]] [[Wizard]] 5 / [[Cerebrex]] 8 / [[:Category:Fraternity of Shadows (Prestige Class)|Fraternity of Shadows]] 4

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Cerebrex

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Cerebrex

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Tycho Geldnehar

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Tycho Geldnehar is a member of the [[:Category:The Fraternity of Shadows|Fraternity of Shadows]] that specializes in the geometry of space. He is the in-character avatar of [[User:Wolfglide|Wolfglide]].

==Early Life==

==Education==

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==Current Sketch==

==Statistics==
(D&D 3.5) [[Neutral Evil]] [[Darkon|Darkonese]] [[Male|male]] [[Wizard]] 5 / [[Cerebrex]] 8 / [[:Category:Fraternity of Shadows (Prestige Class)|Fraternity of Shadows]] 4

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Category:Wolfglide's Timeline

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Wolfglide:

{{Netbook-canon}} {{Homebrew}}
A catalog of events pertaining to the [[Ravenloft]]-related works by [[User:Wolfglide|Wolfglide]].

==6th Century==
* [[568 BC]]: (False History) [[Federlin Cossutari]] is born in Darkon.
* [[583 BC]]: [[Ciphramir]] enters the [[Demiplane of Dread|Demiplane]] in the domain of [[Arak]].
* [[587 BC]]: [[Ciphramir]] and [[Federlin]] depart [[Arak]]. [[Charissa Schlosser]] accosts them on the road, scarring Federlin before being repelled by Ciphramir.

==7th Century==
* [[602 BC]]: [[Ciphramir]] and [[Federlin]] become husband and wife.

==8th Century==
* [[708 BC]]: [[Georg Talbann]] is born in [[Lamordia]].
* [[711 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn I|Lord Delthirius Valtyn]] slips out of [[Darkon]] during [[Vlad Drakov|Drakov's]] [[Third Dead Man’s War|third invasion]]. He marries the [[dread doppelganger|doppelganger]] [[Harriet Cadswell]] (Harcad) after erasing her from her clan's memory.
* [[712 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] (Delva) is born in [[Paridon]].
* [[713 BC]]: [[Cadzius Valtyn]] (Cadzva) is born in [[Paridon]].
* [[719 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] is born in [[Mordent]].
* [[723 BC]]: [[Nikolai Kazić]] is born in [[Borca]].
* [[728 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II|Delthirius II]] goes through Wakening. [[Risidia Lonvem]] leaves [[Martira Bay]] for [[Egertus]], where she meets [[Agnar Geldnehar]].
* [[730 BC]]: [[Tycho Geldnehar]] is born in the summer, and his father [[Agnar Geldnehar|Agnar]] is [[Darkon#Emergence_and_Azalin|Claimed]] by [[Darkon]] about a month later.
* [[731 BC]]: [[Cadzva]] goes through Wakening.
* [[733 BC]]: [[Cadzva]] murders [[Delthirius Valtyn I|Lord Delthirius]] during the [[Dark Kiss]], turning [[Harcad]] into a [[vorlog]]. [[Delthirius Valtyn II|Delthirius II]] leaves [[Paridon]] and enrolls in the [[University of Tvashti]].
* [[734 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] sees [[Georg Talbann]] perform in [[Mordentshire]].
* [[735 BC]]: The [[elan]] who would become known as [[Qualensturm]] enters the [[Demiplane of Dread|Demiplane]] in [[Barovia]].
* [[737 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] enters the [[University of Dementlieu]].
* [[738 BC]]: [[Georg Talbann]] suffers a stroke. Several months later, [[Ciphramir]] finds him and reverses his brain damage. [[Agnar Geldnehar]] discovers evidence that he was [[Darkon#Emergence_and_Azalin|Claimed]], but mistakes it for evidence that [[Tycho Geldnehar|Tycho]] is not his son, and separates from [[Risidia Lonvem|Risidia]].
* [[739 BC]]: [[Nikolai Kazić]] enters the [[University of Dementlieu]]. [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] graduates from the [[Great University of Tvashti]]. Near the end of the year, [[Victor Gagné]] enters an ill-fated exchange program with the [[University of Paridon]].
* [[740 BC]]: [[The Great Upheaval]]. [[Victor Gagné]] returns to Dementlieu as soon as the [[mistway|Mistways]] reopen.
* [[741 BC]]: [[Nikolai Kazić]] forges a warlock's bargain with the [[tsochar]] great noble [[Thlagderr Thraal]], who sends [[Zaxxott Ssentroi]] to assist him in piercing the [[Mists]]. [[Qualensturm]] is drawn into [[Bluetspur]], but causes enough trouble that he is able to escape back to the [[Core]]. He settles in [[Falkovnia]], takes his current name, and begins the construction of [[Untenturm]].
* [[742 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] dies in the [[Veidrava Salt Mine]] and returns to life as the first [[Veidrava vampire]]. [[Pauthrael]] [[transpossession|transposes]] into the [[Demiplane of Dread|Demiplane]], and both he and Delthirius enter the [[Shadow Rift]]. [[Nikolai Kazić]] leaves the [[University of Dementlieu]] for [[Ludendorf]].
* [[743 BC]]: [[Untenturm]] is completed, and [[Qualensturm]] becomes a [[psionic lich]].
* [[744 BC]]: [[Zaxxott Ssentroi]] betrays [[Nikolai Kazić]], who [[transpossession|transposes]] with a [[Far Realm]] [[abomination]] in [[Ludendorf]].
* [[745 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] graduates from the [[University of Dementlieu]] and moves back to [[Mordent]].
* [[746 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] becomes a [[mature vampire]].
* [[748 BC]]: [[Tycho Geldnehar]] matriculates at the [[University of Il Aluk]].
* [[749 BC]]: [[Ivar Skytte]] meets [[Rallux]], [[Xavan]], and [[Honored Mother]] as he attempts to flee [[Valachan]]. Later in the year<ref>The timeline in [[Conferences V]] lists these events as occurring in 750 BC, but this is a typographical error. (Note that there are two 750s listed in the timeline.) The mention of a ship-wrecking storm in [[The Tale of Ivar Skytte]] is meant to imply that their expedition may have coincided with the wreck of the [[Sunset Empires]].</ref>, Ivar embarks on his three doomed expeditions to the [[Wildlands]], [[Markovia]], and [[Demise]]. After rejecting [[Xavan]], he becomes a [[Tenobite (Order of Exclusion)|tyro]] of the [[Order of Exclusion]].
* [[750 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] becomes an [[old vampire]]. [[Ivar]] becomes a [[Cenobite (Order of Exclusion)|cenobite]] of the [[Order of Exclusion]], and [[Saecal Natormo]] is raised in [[Verbrek]]. [[Agnar Geldnehar]] happens to cross the border of Darkon and regain his memories. He assumes that [[Risidia Lonvem|Risidia]] must have been a witch that ensorceled him.
* [[754 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] becomes an [[ancient vampire]].
* [[755 BC]]: [[Ivar Skytte]] becomes a [[severant]] of the [[Order of Exclusion]]. [[Tycho Geldnehar]] relocates to [[Lamordia]] while studying the geometrical implications of the [[Weltaulkügel]]. He falls in love with [[Karola Zährenner]], daughter of [[astronomer]] (and member of the [[Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens]]) [[Ruprecht Zährenner]].
* [[758 BC]]: [[Ruprecht Zährenner]] forces [[Tycho Geldnehar]] out of [[Lamordia]]. Tycho becomes an adjunct lecturer at the [[University of Dementlieu]]. He continues to secretly meet with [[Karola Zährenner|Karola]] for a few years, until she is discovered to be [[pregnant]] and her father entirely cuts Tycho off. Her marriageability is salvaged by passing off her daughter, [[Lisette Zährenner|Lisette]], as her sister.
* [[759 BC]]: [[Tycho Geldnehar]] is inducted into the [[:Category:The Fraternity of Shadows]].

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Category:Wolfglide's Timeline

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Wolfglide:

{{Netbook-canon}} {{Homebrew}}
A catalog of events pertaining to the [[Ravenloft]]-related works by [[User:Wolfglide|Wolfglide]].

==6th Century==
* [[568 BC]]: (False History) [[Federlin Cossutari]] is born in Darkon.
* [[583 BC]]: [[Ciphramir]] enters the [[Demiplane of Dread|Demiplane]] in the domain of [[Arak]].
* [[587 BC]]: [[Ciphramir]] and [[Federlin]] depart [[Arak]]. [[Charissa Schlosser]] accosts them on the road, scarring Federlin before being repelled by Ciphramir.

==7th Century==
* [[602 BC]]: [[Ciphramir]] and [[Federlin]] become husband and wife.

==8th Century==
* [[708 BC]]: [[Georg Talbann]] is born in [[Lamordia]].
* [[711 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn I|Lord Delthirius Valtyn]] slips out of [[Darkon]] during [[Vlad Drakov|Drakov's]] [[Third Dead Man’s War|third invasion]]. He marries the [[dread doppelganger|doppelganger]] [[Harriet Cadswell]] (Harcad) after erasing her from her clan's memory.
* [[712 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] (Delva) is born in [[Paridon]].
* [[713 BC]]: [[Cadzius Valtyn]] (Cadzva) is born in [[Paridon]].
* [[719 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] is born in [[Mordent]].
* [[723 BC]]: [[Nikolai Kazić]] is born in [[Borca]].
* [[728 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II|Delthirius II]] goes through Wakening. [[Risidia Lonvem]] leaves [[Martira Bay]] for [[Egertus]], where she meets [[Agnar Geldnehar]].
* [[730 BC]]: [[Tycho Geldnehar]] is born in the summer, and his father [[Agnar Geldnehar|Agnar]] is [[Darkon#Emergence_and_Azalin|Claimed]] by [[Darkon]] about a month later.
* [[731 BC]]: [[Cadzva]] goes through Wakening.
* [[733 BC]]: [[Cadzva]] murders [[Delthirius Valtyn I|Lord Delthirius]] during the [[Dark Kiss]], turning [[Harcad]] into a [[vorlog]]. [[Delthirius Valtyn II|Delthirius II]] leaves [[Paridon]] and enrolls in the [[University of Tvashti]].
* [[734 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] sees [[Georg Talbann]] perform in [[Mordentshire]].
* [[735 BC]]: The [[elan]] who would become known as [[Qualensturm]] enters the [[Demiplane of Dread|Demiplane]] in [[Barovia]].
* [[737 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] enters the [[University of Dementlieu]].
* [[738 BC]]: [[Georg Talbann]] suffers a stroke. Several months later, [[Ciphramir]] finds him and reverses his brain damage. [[Agnar Geldnehar]] discovers evidence that he was [[Darkon#Emergence_and_Azalin|Claimed]], but mistakes it for evidence that [[Tycho Geldnehar|Tycho]] is not his son, and separates from [[Risidia Lonvem|Risidia]].
* [[739 BC]]: [[Nikolai Kazić]] enters the [[University of Dementlieu]]. [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] graduates from the [[Great University of Tvashti]]. Near the end of the year, [[Victor Gagné]] enters an ill-fated exchange program with the [[University of Paridon]].
* [[740 BC]]: [[The Great Upheaval]]. [[Victor Gagné]] returns to Dementlieu as soon as the [[mistway|Mistways]] reopen.
* [[741 BC]]: [[Nikolai Kazić]] forges a warlock's bargain with the [[tsochar]] great noble [[Thlagderr Thraal]], who sends [[Zaxxott Ssentroi]] to assist him in piercing the [[Mists]]. [[Qualensturm]] is drawn into [[Bluetspur]], but causes enough trouble that he is able to escape back to the [[Core]]. He settles in [[Falkovnia]], takes his current name, and begins the construction of [[Untenturm]].
* [[742 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] dies in the [[Veidrava Salt Mine]] and returns to life as the first [[Veidrava vampire]]. [[Pauthrael]] [[transpossession|transposes]] into the [[Demiplane of Dread|Demiplane]], and both he and Delthirius enter the [[Shadow Rift]]. [[Nikolai Kazić]] leaves the [[University of Dementlieu]] for [[Ludendorf]].
* [[743 BC]]: [[Untenturm]] is completed, and [[Qualensturm]] becomes a [[psionic lich]].
* [[744 BC]]: [[Zaxxott Ssentroi]] betrays [[Nikolai Kazić]], who [[transpossession|transposes]] with a [[Far Realm]] [[abomination]] in [[Ludendorf]].
* [[745 BC]]: [[Victor Gagné]] graduates from the [[University of Dementlieu]] and moves back to [[Mordent]].
* [[746 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] becomes a [[mature vampire]].
* [[748 BC]]: [[Tycho Geldnehar]] matriculates at the [[University of Il Aluk]].
* [[749 BC]]: [[Ivar Skytte]] meets [[Rallux]], [[Xavan]], and [[Honored Mother]] as he attempts to flee [[Valachan]]. Later in the year<ref>The timeline in [[Conferences V]] lists these events as occurring in 750 BC, but this is a typographical error. (Note that there are two 750s listed in the timeline.) The mention of a ship-wrecking storm in [[The Tale of Ivar Skytte]] is meant to imply that their expedition may have coincided with the wreck of the [[Sunset Empires]].</ref>, Ivar embarks on his three doomed expeditions to the [[Wildlands]], [[Markovia]], and [[Demise]]. After rejecting [[Xavan]], he becomes a [[Tenobite (Order of Exclusion)|tyro]] of the [[Order of Exclusion]].
* [[750 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] becomes an [[old vampire]]. [[Ivar]] becomes a [[Cenobite (Order of Exclusion)|cenobite]] of the [[Order of Exclusion]], and [[Saecal Natormo]] is raised in [[Verbrek]]. [[Agnar Geldnehar]] happens to cross the border of Darkon and regain his memories. He assumes that [[Risidia Lonvem|Risidia]] must have been a witch that ensorceled him.
* [[754 BC]]: [[Delthirius Valtyn II]] becomes an [[ancient vampire]].
* [[755 BC]]: [[Ivar Skytte]] becomes a [[severant]] of the [[Order of Exclusion]]. [[Tycho Geldnehar]] relocates to [[Lamordia]] while studying the geometrical implications of the [[Weltaulkügel]]. He falls in love with [[Karola Zährenner]], daughter of [[astronomer]] (and member of the [[Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens]]) [[Ruprecht Zährenner]].
* [[758 BC]]: [[Ruprecht Zährenner]] forces [[Tycho Geldnehar]] out of [[Lamordia]]. Tycho becomes an adjunct lecturer at the [[University of Dementlieu]]. He continues to secretly meet with [[Karola Zährenner|Karola]] for a few years, until she is discovered to be [[pregnant]] and her father entirely cuts Tycho off. Her marriageability is salvaged by passing off her daughter, [[Lisette Zährenner|Lisette]], as her sister.
* [[759 BC]]: [[Tycho Geldnehar]] is inducted into the [[Fraternity of Shadows]].

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Member of [[:Category:The Fraternity of Shadows (Real World)|Fraternity of Shadows (Real World]] since 2021, personified as [[Tycho Geldnehar]] in [[:Category:Netbook Canon|netbook canon]] and as [[Benjamin Bauml]] in real-world canon.

Benjamin Bauml

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The Conferences of Victor Gagné V

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A [[Netzine article|netzine article]] in [[Quoth the Raven Issue 28]]. ''The Conferences of Victor Gagné Part the Fourth; Part the Last: Our Final Confrontation'' is a collaborative effort between series creator [[Benjamin Bauml]] and [[M.H. Bartels]]. The story details the further misadventures of protagonist [[Victor Gagné]] after his escape from [[the Red Haunt]].

==Summary==
Victor awakens in [[Paridon]], in the company of [[Paloma]]. Although the two of them plan to flee the [[Zherisia Cluster]] by ways of the [[Mordent|Mordentish embassy]], they are soon separated due to an attack by [[dread doppelganger|dread doppelgangers]], who seek to capture Paloma.

Victor is saved by a man out of his past; the great composer and musician Georg Talbann, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances years ago. Georg helps Victor reach '''Twice-Risen Manor''', an [[oubliette]] created by [[Ciphramir]], the same man who helped him to escape the [[Shadow Rift]] before. Ciphramir offers Victor his hospitality and help in pursuing [[Zaxxott Ssentroi]], the [[tsochar]] who tormented him and is responsible for the [[Transposition|transposition]] of his old friend [[Nikolai Kazić]]. Some of the help is mundane, in the form of supplies. Some is arcane, as Ciphramir grants Victor the use of an evil artefact, related to a mighty [[rakshasa]] beyond the [[Mists]]. And finally, some is lugubrious, as Ciphramir arranges access to Georg, whose rare blood disease requires him to regularly siphon off excess blood before it can congeal in his veins; this access can keep Victor fed with blood without having to take the step of assaulting innocents.

Victor is unaware that Ciphramir has desires all his own, which he is feeding without Victor's knowledge or consent. Ciphramir is himself a [[rakshasa]] [[Margrave]] and an [[Ultimate Magus]], who is an expert in gathering the stories of others, as he forever seeks the right tale to involve himself with. While Victor is held in sorcerous sleep by Ciphramir's [[Sloth]] [[Imp]] [[Minion|minion]], the Marquis magically disassembles a prisoner taken during an assault on faraway [[Castra]] to magically hook Victor up to a vile [[construct]] known as '''the Scrivener''', which transcribed Victor's whole life up to his arrival at Twice-Risen Manor--and perhaps beyond--for Ciphramir's reading pleasure.

Even while Victor is deciding what the best way forward might be, a holy amulet he received at '''the Retreat''' spell-binds the mind of the Sloth Imp into a [[Nightmare|nightmare]] from which it cannot wake itself. As the Imp's reality wrinkle forms the basis for Twice-Risen Manor, that very foundation falls under the sway of the power animating the amulet. Reality twists and changes around Victor, and he is subjected to hideous visions of a woman tortured and abused, then confronted by a flame-haired [[Succubus]] - and [[Genevieve Schlosser]], the one [[Good]]-aligned identity of the Red Haunt. It conspires that the Succubus may be an [[Avatar|avatar]] of [[Brightwell]], who gives Victor several cryptic warnings before Georg finds Victor in the shifting labyrinth and helps Ciphramir to locate and expel Victor.

Victor and Georg emerge in [[Darkon]], a fair distance away from where Zaxxott Ssentroi was last seen. Victor succumbs to the hunger for blood, consuming some of the vitae bottled by Georg for his convenience, and resolves to pursue his enemy.

==Epilogue I==
In Paridon, Ciphramir and the Red Haunt confront one another in battle. The Red Haunt gains an advantage by releasing [[Opium|opium]] gas into the area, weakening Ciphramir enough for [[Charissa Schlosser]] to be able to beat him bloody under cover of an antimagic ward raised by [[Imogen Schlosser]]. Ciphramir is undaunted, revealing faces of the mighty [[Tanar'ri|tanar'ri]] he has defeated before her, then withdraws under the power of his infernal artefact. Unknown to Ciphramir, the [[Devoratrix]] had arranged for the other [[Centurions of the Night]] to observe the confrontation, after Ciphramir had assaulted Castra in retribution for his previous bout with the Red Haunt. While the Margrave is alive and well, he is now on the Centurions' black list.

==Epilogue II==
Paloma awakens in Paridon, having been saved by [[Simon Keysmith]] and his [[Caliban]] friend, Pjotr. She is welcomed into the ranks of the [[Divinity in All]], and proceeds to warn her new comrades about everything she has learned in the dungeons of the Retreat, not to mention what she knows of dread doppelganger society in Paridon.

==Introduced in this Article==
* New spells and magic items, including a fiendish artefact.
* Various subtypes of [[Imp]].
* Character profiles for [[Ciphramir]], [[Federlin]], more of the identities of [[the Red Haunt]], and [[Victor Gagné]] himself.

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Victor Gagné

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Victor Gagné is the protagonist of the '''Conferences of Victor Gagné''', a series of articles in [[Quoth the Raven]]. He was created by [[Benjamin Bauml]].

==History and Education==
Victor was born ([[719 BC]]) and raised in Mordent. He was educated at the [[University of Dementlieu]], but also participated in an exchange program to [[Paridon]] in the [[Zherisia]] [[Cluster]]. Victor was present at the time that the Zherisian countryside disappeared, and had to take refuge in the Mordentish Embassy there until he could be evacuated back to the [[Core]].

Although he was allowed to graduate on its merits, Victor's graduation project, the '''Exudate''', was suppressed by the University council. This formula would enable anyone who drank a potion augmented with it to transfer the potion's effects to the people around them, rather than themselves. Although Victor did not agree with the council's concerns, given damaging area of effect-spells were a well-established phenomenon, he decided not to contest their decision and accepted his degree.

In due time, Victor became a member of the professorial staff at the [[University of Mordent]], where he taught [[alchemy]]. He fancied that his students would have been shocked to learn he knew any swearwords, indicating he made an effort to present himself in a dignified manner.

==Adventures and Misadventures==
Victor suffered his first loss during his education, as his dear friend [[Nikolai Kazić]] disappeared, and it fell to him to breach the news to Nikolai's devastated parents. Witnessing their grief convinced Victor not to have a family of his own, as he dreaded suffering similar hurt.

===Conference I===
Victor's life took a grim turn when he accepted an invitation from a reclusive alchemist who dwelt in [[Falkovnia]]. Rather than simply being a hermit, Victor's host turned out to be a [[Psionic Lich]] by name of [[Qualensturm]], who wished to demonstrate a series of High Alchemy formulas capable of reanimating dead tissue.

===Conference II===
Although he managed to escape Qualensturm, Victor had an unfortunate encounter with a [[tsochar]], sequestered in the body of a traveller. The parasite transferred into Victor during his sleep, revealing its influence on - and tentacle in - the disappearance of Nikolai Kazić. Only by cunning did Victor manage to get rid of the parasite, as he summoned a [[Shadow Demon (disambiguation)|shadow demon]] that the [[aberration]] had mentioned forcing into a [[transposition]] with a spell of ''sending''.

===Conference III===
Still Victor's fates had not reversed themselves; the shadow demon [[Pauthrael]] abducted him into the [[Shadow Rift]], where it delivered him into the hands of its [[Veidrava]] [[Vampire]] 'ally', [[Delthirius Valtyn II]]. During a brief moment he was left alone, Victor unknowingly managed to repeat his tactic of contacting a demon to secure aid, as he used one of Delthirius' magic items to speak with [[Harmony Schlosser]], persona of [[the Red Haunt]], who promised to send help. Help ''did'' arrive, but not before Victor had been turned into a [[Veidrava]] [[Vampire]] and forced to feed. His first victim, a mother of young twins, died due to his feeding. [[Ciphramir]] was part persuaded, part deceived by the demoness to extract Victor, which he did. At this point, the Red Haunt's guises [[Mother/Madam Schlosser|Mother]] and [[Charissa Schlosser]] extracted Victor from Ciphramir's grasp.

===[[The Conferences of Victor Gagné IV|Conference IV]]===
To his dismay, Victor was brought not back to life but to half-life as a [[dhampir]] by the power of [[Brightwell]] as provided by [[Lillian Schlosser]]. He misunderstood an explanation by [[Genevieve Schlosser]] that some foul entity had been ''watching'' and waiting to 'twist' his resurrection, obliging the Red Haunt to preemptively warp his existence to prevent this greater evil from doing so. He assumed this to mean that Qualensturm, Zaxxott Ssentroi or Delthirius had been somehow keeping an eye on him, when the Red Haunt actually detected the interest of [[Dark Powers|the Dark Powers]] for his plight.

Victor unintentionally shared information on his misadventures with the Red Haunt. He managed to escape the fiend's [[Oubliette]] [[lair]] with the help of [[Paloma]] and the [[World Engine]], but not before learning of the [[Centurions of the Night]] and their intention to launch a world war.

===[[The Conferences of Victor Gagné V|Conference V]]===
Separated from Paloma, Victor found himself a guest of Ciphramir. He remains unaware that the [[rakshasa]] has extracted a record of his full history from him, and also that the Margrave wished to weaponize him against the Red Haunt. He was released from Ciphramir's care in part due to that monster's own intentions, and in part due to what may have been an intervention by [[Brightwell]], who gave Victor a series of cryptic warnings, including what may be a prophecy that "All words end".

==Current Sketch==
Now free to travel the Core again, Victor seeks to confront the parasite that ruined his dear friend's life and is itself plotting the destruction of the [[Demiplane of Dread]] by summoning abominations from the [[Far Realm]].

He is currently unaware - willfully, as he refused to accept a warning from Brightwell - that he has become a father, his child born from the dark womb of the Red Haunt. He is also unaware that he ''has'' been weaponized, as he has started drinking blood tainted with a disease especially dangerous to [[Evil]] [[Outsider|Outsiders]].

==Statistics==
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Victor Gagné

2021-11-11T07:57:25Z

Wolfglide:

{{Netbook-canon}}
Victor Gagné is the protagonist of the '''Conferences of Victor Gagné''', a series of articles in [[Quoth the Raven]]. He was created by [[Benjamin Bauml]].

==History and Education==
Victor was born ([[719 BC]]) and raised in Mordent. He was educated at the [[University of Dementlieu]], but also participated in an exchange program to [[Paridon]] in the [[Zherisia]] [[Cluster]]. Victor was present at the time that the Zherisian countryside disappeared, and had to take refuge in the Mordentish Embassy there until he could be evacuated back to the [[Core]].

Although he was allowed to graduate on its merits, Victor's graduation project, the '''Exudate''', was suppressed by the University council. This formula would enable anyone who drank a potion augmented with it to transfer the potion's effects to the people around them, rather than themselves. Although Victor did not agree with the council's concerns, given damaging area of effect-spells were a well-established phenomenon, he decided not to contest their decision and accepted his degree.

In due time, Victor became a member of the professorial staff at the [[University of Mordent]], where he taught [[alchemy]]. He fancied that his students would have been shocked to learn he knew any swearwords, indicating he made an effort to present himself in a dignified manner.

==Adventures and Misadventures==
Victor suffered his first loss during his education, as his dear friend [[Nikolai Kazić]] disappeared, and it fell to him to breach the news to Nikolai's devastated parents. Witnessing their grief convinced Victor not to have a family of his own, as he dreaded suffering similar hurt.

===Conference I===
Victor's life took a grim turn when he accepted an invitation from a reclusive alchemist who dwelt in [[Falkovnia]]. Rather than simply being a hermit, Victor's host turned out to be a [[Psionic Lich]] by name of [[Qualensturm]], who wished to demonstrate a series of High Alchemy formulas capable of reanimating dead tissue.

===Conference II===
Although he managed to escape Qualensturm, Victor had an unfortunate encounter with a [[tsochar]], sequestered in the body of a traveller. The parasite transferred into Victor during his sleep, revealing its influence on - and tentacle in - the disappearance of Nikolai Kazić. Only by cunning did Victor manage to get rid of the parasite, as he summoned a [[shadow demon]] that the [[aberration]] had mentioned forcing into a [[transposition]] with a spell of ''sending''.

===Conference III===
Still Victor's fates had not reversed themselves; the shadow demon [[Pauthrael]] abducted him into the [[Shadow Rift]], where it delivered him into the hands of its [[Veidrava]] [[Vampire]] 'ally', [[Delthirius Valtyn II]]. During a brief moment he was left alone, Victor unknowingly managed to repeat his tactic of contacting a demon to secure aid, as he used one of Delthirius' magic items to speak with [[Harmony Schlosser]], persona of [[the Red Haunt]], who promised to send help. Help ''did'' arrive, but not before Victor had been turned into a [[Veidrava]] [[Vampire]] and forced to feed. His first victim, a mother of young twins, died due to his feeding. [[Ciphramir]] was part persuaded, part deceived by the demoness to extract Victor, which he did. At this point, the Red Haunt's guises [[Mother/Madam Schlosser|Mother]] and [[Charissa Schlosser]] extracted Victor from Ciphramir's grasp.

===[[The Conferences of Victor Gagné IV|Conference IV]]===
To his dismay, Victor was brought not back to life but to half-life as a [[dhampir]] by the power of [[Brightwell]] as provided by [[Lillian Schlosser]]. He misunderstood an explanation by [[Genevieve Schlosser]] that some foul entity had been ''watching'' and waiting to 'twist' his resurrection, obliging the Red Haunt to preemptively warp his existence to prevent this greater evil from doing so. He assumed this to mean that Qualensturm, Zaxxott Ssentroi or Delthirius had been somehow keeping an eye on him, when the Red Haunt actually detected the interest of [[Dark Powers|the Dark Powers]] for his plight.

Victor unintentionally shared information on his misadventures with the Red Haunt. He managed to escape the fiend's [[Oubliette]] [[lair]] with the help of [[Paloma]] and the [[World Engine]], but not before learning of the [[Centurions of the Night]] and their intention to launch a world war.

===[[The Conferences of Victor Gagné V|Conference V]]===
Separated from Paloma, Victor found himself a guest of Ciphramir. He remains unaware that the [[rakshasa]] has extracted a record of his full history from him, and also that the Margrave wished to weaponize him against the Red Haunt. He was released from Ciphramir's care in part due to that monster's own intentions, and in part due to what may have been an intervention by [[Brightwell]], who gave Victor a series of cryptic warnings, including what may be a prophecy that "All words end".

==Current Sketch==
Now free to travel the Core again, Victor seeks to confront the parasite that ruined his dear friend's life and is itself plotting the destruction of the [[Demiplane of Dread]] by summoning abominations from the [[Far Realm]].

He is currently unaware - willfully, as he refused to accept a warning from Brightwell - that he has become a father, his child born from the dark womb of the Red Haunt. He is also unaware that he ''has'' been weaponized, as he has started drinking blood tainted with a disease especially dangerous to [[Evil]] [[Outsider|Outsiders]].

==Statistics==
(D&D 3.5) [[True Neutral]] [[Mordent|Mordentish]] [[Male|male]] [[Dhampir]] [[Wizard]] 9 / [[Alchemical Philosopher]] 3

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The Bloody Cobbler

2019-08-13T23:06:45Z

Wolfglide: Added information relating to the relationship between the Cobbler, the Whispering Beast, and Peradur. Also removed the fey speculation, which seems unfounded.

{{canon}}
[[The Bloody Cobbler]] was a mysterious creature that roamed [[Sithicus]]. He was known to graft the skin from the soles of those who died with unfinished business onto those without purpose, mystically transferring that purpose in the process. <ref>[[Spectre of the Black Rose]]</ref> He is revealed to have been a manifestation of [[Lord Soth]]'s son, [[Peradur]], along with [[the Whispering Beast]]; the two merge to take Peradur's shape in [[Isolde Denissa|Isolde's]] arms during the [[Hour of Screaming Shadows]].<ref name="Spectre of the Black Rose p. 304-310">Spectre of the Black Rose p. 304-310</ref>

{{ref}}
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==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==



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