Prince Talgaard Bolshnik

Price Talgaard Bolshnik was the first son of Kethmar Bolshnik. He was born no later than 707, as his younger brother Othmar was born in 708. Always mentally unstable, Prince Talgaard began strangling people to death in 720 BC, killing dozens of victims before being identified as "the Kantora Strangler" and being confined in the the Clinic for the Mentally Distressed in 726 BC. He was still institutionalized there when all of the clinic's inhabitants disappeared in 749 BC, the lot being kidnapped by the Nightmare Court.

Potential Contradictions: The Book of Nightmares states that he killed people for six years, before being caught "three years ago;" the current year at the time of writing is presumably 749. This would put his murder spree from 740-746, twenty years after the dates listed above. It also says later that in the course of two years, he killed 18 people; it is unclear whether this is intended to describe the height of his murder spree, or to give an totally different span and number of victims.

Also, it is worth noting that he underwent considerable reform under Illhousen's care, to the point where his violent moods had all but disappeared, and he no longer desired to strangle anyone, until the Nightmare Court tortured him in his dreams and promised him peace only if he killed Illhousen's allies.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		The Nightmare Lands
		The Nightmare Lands:Book of Nightmares - p35
		The Nightmare Lands:Book of Nightmares - pp33-35
		The Kantora Strangler