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Island of Terror: Lavania

The Land: Lavania during the day is made up of gently sloping hills and meadows rising in the west toform beautiful picturesque mountains, the whole beauty of the place is breath taking. However whennightfalls the atmosphere is most different, grass becomes a vile red and twitches like the limbs of a dying

person, hills become ragged and broken, even the distant mountains take on a sinister air.The one settlement (Lavan) in Lavania is also affected by this change, changing from a lovely

village, to a place of dark alleys and ramshackle houses, even the population of the village is not safe

from the changes for every night they too change in to blood crazed maniacs intent on killing alloutsiders.The one place that is not affected is the beautiful palace of Alfrado Davasconchalous, the renown

artist and architect.Cultural level: Medieval although Alfrado is RenaissanceThe folk: Lavanians are quite unassuming people, that express only a willingness to help and befriendstrangers. They dress in bright joyful colours and never show any signs of ill will or violence to anyone.However when night falls the peoples nature changes and they become blood raving maniacs, hell benton killing any stranger they meet, they use any weapon that comes to hand and will not stop their killingspree until dawn break. Where they revert back to their old self with no memory of what happened, theysimply block out the memories of the night, unconsciously removing all traces of any visitors beforedawn. As to when they sleep the villagers have taken to a mid-day sesta custom, enhance by their trueneed for sleep.Native players: There are no native characters from Lavania, due to their curse and also their disposition

during the day makes them very unsuited to an adventurous lifestyle.Personalities of note: The only person of note other than Alfrado, is the mayor of Lavan, FrederickAlashona. Frederick is a kind man, and always speaks highly of Alfrado. However of late he has realisedhis people may be cursed and now tries to warn visitors to leave the village before nightfall. He has nottold his fellow villagers might think him mad and he himself is not sure that he correct.The Law: The village of Lavan has a duly appointed mayor, Frederick and a two man police force whocollect to tax for Alfrado in the form of raw materials for his art works. The land of Lavania is the fief ofAlfrado granted to him by his king.Encounters: There are no encounters during the day, only at night where the very earth seems to comelive, and all life in the domain becomes hostile. As the creator of the Glass Golem, Alfrados palace iscovered with stain glass windows each with several golems in them.Further reading: Alfrado was mention as the creator of the Glass Golem in the Ravenloft monstrouscompendium I.

Alfrado Davasconchalous0-level human, lawful evilArmour class 10 Str 9Movement 12 Dex 15Level/hit Dice 0 Con 11Hit points 8 Int 11THACO 20 Wis 13

No. of attacks 1 Cha 18Damage/Attack By weaponsSpecial Attacks Art attack Special Defences See belowMagic Resistance Nil

Alfrado appears to be in his late twenties. He is 6 feet tall and has an angelic appearance, with brilliantblue eyes and shining gold hair. He dresses in dapper clothing marred only by the odd mark of paint ormarble dust. His charm and wit hide the dark truth about his true nature, that of a man long gone withsuffering and hatred of those who have the love of others.

Background: Alfrado was the royal artisan of an unknown world in a kingdom that has longceased to exist. Alfrado was born in to as hard working peasant family that crafted many fine vases and

pots for their community. But as fate would have it when Alfrado was taught how to make the vases, hefashion the most beautiful things that had every come from the kiln of the workshop, so great was histalent the he received a summons from the king of this small kingdom.

Journeying from his small village he arrived at the capital of Lavania, where the king, promisedto grant him the tittle of royal artisan if he could produce twelve vases of unequalled beauty. Alfradowhen to the workshop that the king had provide for him and within one year produce the most beautifulvases the world had ever seen, anxious to see the limits of his new artisan the king ask that if Alfrado

could paint the vases so beautiful could he not paint a painting just as beautifully. Alfrado thought uponthis most carefully before replying I will paint you thirteen paintings within two years the last will be a

painting of you and your queen so realistic that you would swear that it was your own reflection, in returnfor a small fief. The king agreed that should the painting look as realistic as he claimed he would get hisland.

Diligently Alfrado pursued his paintings and finished twelve within the first year, but when itcame to the king and queens portrait it required time in their company, and during that time he noticed

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the kings daughter, the beautiful princess Althelia and was hopelessly in love with her and she to fell inlove with him. The two lovers started to secretly see each other while they could and Alfrado promisedto her that after the portrait was finished; he would ask the king for her hand in marriage.

Two years to the day of the challenge he presented the portrait to the king, and it was every thinghe had promised. But when he asked for the princess hand in marriage the king laughed at his face andtold him the only princess a lowly peasant, no matter how talented, deserved was one far beyond his reachwith a heart of stone.

Alfrado when to his workshop and in the sorrow of the news created a perfect marble statue ofthe princess, but in his abject sorrow he did not realise the change of the statues eye upon it completion,they became living human eyes. Later that day sorrow descended on the palace as news of the princessspread, for she had lapsed into a coma and could not be wakened. The king fearing that Alfrado mayhave hurt his daughter to spite him for rejecting him as a suitor, rushed to the workshop only to find himasleep at the base of a statue of his daughter, and then to his horror the eyes of the statue moved. Theking quickly summon the guards and had Alfrado place in the dungeon. The royal wizard, later announcethat the princess soul had be imprisoned inside the immobile statute by Alfrado and that the only wayfree it was to shatter the statue. This passed around the palace until they reached Alfrado, who new in hisheart that only he could truly release the princess soul, so he set to work creating several glass figures outof the materials in the dungeon each time feeling the need to escape an rescue his love, and thus he

breathed life into the glass and the figures rose and freed him.But to late for as he entered the main hall with his glass figures behind him he saw the bed in

which his beloved was in and which the king and his wife were crying over and the remains of the marblestatue were shattered shards. At the sight of his loves death he ordered the one thing he could not stop,the glass golems to attack and kill every one!

As he knelt on the floor of the hall holding the shatter statue to mists surrounded him andbrought to the Demiplane of Dread.Current Sketch: When he reached the Demiplane of Dread, he found himself in his small fief near thevillage of his birth. His loves living body lying in the highest room in the west tower. Near him was asmall pedestal with the face of the statue on it. Picking up the fragment it spoke to him find the rest, andI will be yours. Since that time sent his golems looking for the other fragments of the statue in order toreunite his beloved with her soul.

Alfrado has also discovered that his ability to paint has also changed since his imprisonment inthe Demiplane, to the extent of never being able to paint anything as it is only as a nightmaric version ofthe true thing, so far this has not disturbed him to much for the paintings are beautiful if only fromdisturbing point of view. This ability he has put down to he distress over the loss f his love.

Alfrado spends most of his time searching for fragments of his loves statue and painting, so farhe has painted nearly every square inch of his land, thus causing it to change during the night as all his

paintings do during the night.Closing the borders: When Alfrado wishes to close the borders any that attempt to enter them, for oneturn suffer a fear test, for two turns a horror test and for three or more a madness test, as every where theylook they see altered images of themselves, which become worst at they journey further into the mist.Combat: If Alfrado paints a PC that PC will that on the likeness the Alfrado has painted until they leavethe domain with the painting or Alfrado destroys the painting. But other than that he leave his fighting tohis loyal glass golems. If Alfrado is kill his spirit infuses on of his golems and after 1D6 days the golem

begins to look like him. During those D6 day the border remains down, but any PC that escape this waythat has be painted by Alfrado remains the way they were painted unless they have they painting.