Professor Erik van Rijn

Erik van Rijn is a former member of the [Fraternity of Shadows] whose spectacular falling-out with the Fraternity hierarchy is the event precipitating the Fraternity's in-game series of Gazetteers, as they search the lands of Ravenloft for their former colleague. Frustrated by his inability to achieve the highest levels of the Fraternity, due to his being a transmuter rather than an illusionist, he betrayed the Fraternity to the [Unholy Order of the Grave] in exchange for the secret of lichdom. He is now engaged in building [Azalin]'s [Doomsday Device] at the behest of [Death], although he may have his own plans for the Device...