Lorenth Fyrirenn

Lorenth Fyrirenn, by Talon Dunning

Description

Lorenth is a tall, gaunt figure with white hair, although his true age is uncertain. He keeps a trimmed beard and mustache, but the rest of him has a manic feel. His eyes are vivid and wild, and so is the way he carries himself. He wears dull white clerical robes with gold trim that cover most of his scarred skin. He is the Darklord of Bileplate

History

Early life

Lorenth Fyrirenn was high priest of a deity of wine and earthly pleasures. When Lorenth tired of the pleasures of women and drink and those of love and art, he began a descent into morbid and forbidden pleasures. He would torture people and even use self-mutilation to give him new delights. Soon he and those of his followers who did not turn on him started to preach that the temple should include the other, and to them more truthfully pleasurable, pursuits of agony and madness. Soon the whole kingdom was but a mad gallery of Lorenth’s sick idea of the true pleasures and delights. When the curiosities stopped holding his interest, he demanded his god let him experience the pleasures in a more fulfilling way. He became cursed to only dully feel through his minions. This lets him feel their pleasures, both those of joy and pain, but he is never satisfied, always craving more, becoming more of a monster as he lost knowledge of his past, unable to discern his original thoughts from those of what he has become.

Arrival in Ravenloft

His temple and city was drawn into the Demiplane of Dread, resting in a crater in a domain that is as chaotic and insane as his mind. His domain has split realities: the physical plane that feels as stale and used-up as the pleasures he discarded, and The Otherworld, the mental reality that is his insane paradise of the perverse, where he can create new levels of pleasure through agony and madness and feel them through those that suffer them. Lorenth feels that he is a god himself now and with his powers many would agree.

Rulership of Bileplate

No formal government. Those trapped form mutual protection agreements, though the chances of betrayal is often high. Those possessed or having their souls twisted serve the Lorenth's will.

Current

Lorenth is trying to start a religion to the ideals he preaches; he is not a god but he believes perhaps he was awarded as such to replace the gods. He seeks out those who would make good disciples, and also those who need a guiding hand deeper into madness. He plots to find a way to affect the realities beyond Otherworld.

Border Closure

In the physical reality, the borders, if closed, just make the PC turn back towards the domain, an endless desert each way, where tracks are eaten by the sand. They will eventually find the crater and hopefully some more respect for the salvation of not being lost in an endless desert. In Otherworld, the border is an endless maelstrom of sand which cannot be penetrated, and the only escapes from within Otherworld are rumored portals or by the Darklord's will.

Darklord's Curse

Lorenth has the need to be always self-conscious, needing to explain that what he does is not insane, but exploring the truth of the world, pleasures and emotions, and the mind. How would you understand the pleasures if you do feel them all? Lorenth is constantly trying to prove himself and his ideas sane, and takes great offense if accused of being such. He just wants to enlighten the people for their own good, to the wonders they strive to escape from. He always takes the role of being a leader of men or preacher of the truth, and believes this completely.

He can only feel pain and pleasure through his minions. Minions themselves barely register to him but the pain they inflict is like a drug to him. He tries not to go as far as killing a victim but keeps a status quo, retreating from them so he can savor once again. He believes that by inflicting pain, his victims will see the pleasures from it.

Because most of his memories are lost to him, finding relics in Otherworld that remind him of his past may be his undoing. If he ever regains his memories, he would switch his alignment to chaotic evil and also be vulnerable to being forever destroyed. He used to be a good-aligned priest and still believes he is such; once he learns the truth, he can be pulled back into reality and then destroyed. Killing the Darklord without collecting all the relics first just causes him to disappear for a day as he reconstructs his consciousness to reappear once again. His minions will retreat into the labyrinth and wait for his return.

Creations of Lorenth

Lorenth created creatures that roam the otherworld reality, they in turn are able to create more of their own. The Attendant, Otherworld's Binder, Otherworld Sculptor, Twisted Soul, Otherworld Juggernaut, The Contorted, Living Column, Vargouille(Otherworld), Crimson Bones(Otherworld), Elemental(Otherworld), Stitched(Otherworld) are some of the creature created by him.

Chronology

• 684 BC -Bileplate appears.
• 740 BC - The Great Upheaval causes the domain to vanish.

Appearances

Netbooks

Quoth the Raven Issue 22: Domains that Came Before