Alondrin the Betrayer

Alondrin is a fictional character first appearing as the main antagonist of the Ravenloft (Product Line) novel Dance of the Dead (Novel), where he serves as the primary nemesis of Larissa Snowmane. Alondrin is mentioned in Snowmane's background as part of her writeup as an NPC in the 2nd Edition Champions of the Mists sourcebook.

In world, Alondrin ("Lond" as he preferred to be called) was a necromancer who reanimated the crew of the River Dancer into zombies for Captain Raoul Dumont in exchange for being smuggled out of Souragne. Both he and Dumont met their ends when Larissa Snowmane performed her Dance of the Dead.

Biography

Alondrin the Betrayer, as he would eventually become to be known, was not always the evil man whom wielded blood magic and so casually violated the dead. At one time, he was the bocoru (shaman) of Port d'Elhour. He was the student, the best student, and even the lover, of the Maiden of the Swamp. However, the powers to make life grow and work magic in line with nature eventually failed to satisfy Alondrin's thirst for power. The magic taught to him by the Maiden could not be used to bind the world to his selfish desire, so he turned elsewhere.

To feed his lust for power, Lond took up blood magic and necromancy, turning his back on his former duties and upon the Swamp Maiden herself. Lond achieved great power with the "magic of blood and bone, more so than if he had stayed with "fruit and flower" magic. However, trafficking with such dark forces came a horrible price, as his body became scarred as he accessed the blood and his body warped with the gradual loss of his humanity. Alondrin took to covering his body in heavy robes in order to disguise his disfigurement. His soul and mind became twisted as well, as he sought to feed upon human emotion much the feu follet or the , but he only succeeding in gaining sadistic glee from inflicting pain upon others. With Alondrin's betrayal of his post, his people were left without a connection to the ways of nature and the spirits. Disease overtook the unfortunate, and the misfortune of the swamp overtook the ignorant to its dangers.