Meistersinger Harkon Lukas

Harkon Lukas is the meistersinger of the Kartakan village of Skald. He is also a wolfwere and the darklord of Kartakass. He owns and resides at the Old Kartakan Inn and Taverna. Akriel Lukas and Casimir Lukas are two of his notable children. However, he has sired numerous offspring, which has spawned an entirely new type of wolfwere, the greater wolfwere.

Harkon Lukas plays a large role in the adventure module Feast of Goblyns, where he plays out his game of intrigues with Akriel. The novel Heart of Midnight features his equally rebellious son Casimir whereas Death of a Darklord features Harkon Lukas' efforts to escape the Land of Mists.

Background

Harkon Lukas hails from the country of Cormyr on the subcontinent of Faerun on the world of Toril. There he sought to unite his fellow wolfweres under his leadership, but they snubbed his advanced. His rage caused Lukas to run rampant throughout rural Cormyr, killing any humans he came across. After his rage subsided, he became fascinated with humanity and traveled among them, posing as a wandering minstrel. As Lukas conspired to take over Cormyr, the Mists rolled in and took him into Barovia, where he encountered (and was nearly destroyed by) Strahd Von Zarovich. Driven into the Mists, Lukas came out into the domain of Kartakass, a backwoods land that severally disappoints him in its remoteness. The year of Kartakass' formation was 613 BC.

Since its formation over a century ago, Harkon Lukas has remained darklord, although the decentralized distribution of authority and the political independence of the realm's communities has made it such that there is no single political ruler of the domain. According to "S", the realm's emergence from the Mists seems to coincide with local stories of the burning of Dargacht Keep and the disruption of the Invidian Occupation, although "S" discounts the though of the Invidian's culpability as occupiers to be a matter of false history. Nonetheless, the remains of the Keep still exist today in Dargacht Plaza.

A bard named Harkon Lukas is said to have roused the Kartakans to destroy the Keep, Many decades later, Harkon Lukas would claim to Casimir that he only was only "mildly responsible" do with the burning of the Keep. The stories of Kartakan history speak of several incidents of Harkon Lukas showing up, though most Kartakans assume this to be a mythical persona (not too disimilar from the Grandfather Wolf archtype) adopted by several people over the span of many years.

In the early 8th century of the Barovian Calendar, the Falkovnian Army attempted to seize control of the Crimson Road in Kartakass by setting up a fortress therein. Wolves snuck in the fortress and butchered the soldiers therein after one of the gates was left open. Harkon Lukas was the probably insitigator of this event, calling up wolves or wolfwere minions.

Statistics

male wolfwere Bard 8, Neutral Evil

TSR Collector Card

Harkon Lukas' TSR 1991 Collector Card number is 486.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Secrets of the Dread Realms Domains of Dread Feast of Goblyns Download Now! Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - p31 Domains of Dread - p64 Realm of Terror - p101 Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I - p146
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp30-33 Domains of Dread - p64 Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - pp70-72 Realm of Terror - pp101-103 Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I - pp145-147
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,30-33 Ravenloft Third Edition - pp18,126 Domains of Dread - pp64-65 Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - pp18-20,35,70-72 Feast of Goblyns - pp10-11,26,81 Download Now! Realm of Terror - pp101-103 Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I - pp145-147