Yoshtoi Petrovna

Yoshtoi Petrova was born in Barovia in the years immediately prior to 674 BC. He had not less than one sister and two brothers. The Petrovna family had belonged to the nobility of Barovia (Prime Material Plane) and perhaps remained part of the nobility of Barovia three centuries later. It had, however, isolated itself in the mountains and had succumbed, at least to a degree, to the evils of inbreeding. His younger brother Yagno, among a family that probably had more than its fair share of madness, was deemed to be deranged. Yagno carried on discourses with non-existent people and cowered before non-existent creatures. Yoshtoi bullied and beat Yagno. One night Yoshtoi locked Yagno out in the Barovian night. Terrified, Yagno ultimately took shelter in a small cave where he eventually succumbed to exhaustion and sleep. In the morning, he found the word Zhakata scrawled upon it wall. He imagined that Zhakata was a god that had protected him from the creatures of the night and he entered gladly into the service of the deity. Yagno at the age of twenty-two had found his calling. He build an altar in the cave and began sacrificing animals to Zhakata. Sadly, the word had been put upon the wall by Yoshtoi. When Yoshtoi was murdered by parties unknown, suspicion fell on Yagno, and he may well have sacrificed his brother on that same altar.

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