The Headless Horseman
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Overview
The darklord of the Winding Road. He seeks his lost head (see: Headless Horseman's Head). The Headless Horseman is a legendary figure throughout the Core and beyond, with an endless number of possible local variant origin stories.[1]
The Headless Horseman carries a wicked sickle that can cleave a person's head off with a clean blow much like a vorporal sword. He is not inhibited by most spells that impede movement, and he is unaffected by turning.[2]
The First and the Last to Follow
Just because the Headless Horseman has passed does not mean the danger is over. The First to Follow, a mob of reanimated heads of the Horseman's past victims, usually swarm the survivors of the Horseman's attacks en masse.[3] The truly unfortunate survivors of this second wave have to face a third wave of attacks from The Last to Follow. The Last to Follow is a group of flying reanimated heads but instead of normal humanoid heads, they are the heads of medusae and maedar.[4]
Activities During the Grand Conjunction
The Headless Horseman played a strange and anomalous role in the Grand Conjunction. Apparently serving the interests of Azalin, the Horseman began riding around causing havoc in order to lure out a group of heroes who would ultimately be used by Azalin to manipulate Hyskosa's Hexad. The heroes were directed to fight the Horseman by Soldani, where they were ultimately defeated and decapitated, and their heads delivered to Azalin through unknown means.
As out of character as it is for the bogeyman-like Headless Horseman to seemingly work for another darklord's benefit, this was not the only anomaly. Instead of the usual Last to Follow was replaced by a group of bounding beholders that finished off the last of the survivors of the Horseman's attack.[5]
References
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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From the Shadows - p58 Download Now! | |
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From the Shadows - p7 Download Now! | |
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Tales of Ravenloft:The Freak - pp222-250 | |
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Headless Horseman, The Headless Horseman |
