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She is based in [[Corvia]] and leads the Kargat throughout the [[Mountains of Misery]] of [[Darkon]]. | She is based in [[Corvia]] and leads the Kargat throughout the [[Mountains of Misery]] of [[Darkon]]. | ||
Being an old vampire, she is at the very least 200 years undead as of 756 BC. This puts her creation | Being an old vampire, she is at the very least 200 years undead as of 756 BC. This puts her creation prior to Darkon's creation in 579 BC, placing it in the [[false history]] of [[Darkon]]. Alternatively, since her point of arrival was the [[Mountains of Misery]], this puts her creation prior to Arak's creation in 575 BC, placing it in the false history of Arak. Either way there is a problem. For she is supposed to be an outlander who became a vampire nearly simultaneously with her entry into the [[Land of Mists]] somewhere about the [[Mountains of Misery]] which only came into existence 181 years ago at the most. And the problem with placing her memory of being an outlander in false history is that Darkon has rewritten her memory of her own past such that she thinks that she is a native. So for whom does this false history then actually exist? Probably only for the reader who is being told independent of her flawed memory and independent of the memory altering power of Darkon that she is in fact an outlander, which does not preclude sticking her in false history but makes the exercise of doing so a pretty pointless one, in effect a private joke at her expense. The solutions available are to reduce her from an old to a mature vampire or to place her entry into the [[Land of Mists]] in [[Barovia]] which came to be 404 years ago. | ||
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Revision as of 19:23, 2 February 2010
Beryl Silvertress is a hulzurdan ("dwarven vampire") obsessed with . . .
She is based in Corvia and leads the Kargat throughout the Mountains of Misery of Darkon.
Being an old vampire, she is at the very least 200 years undead as of 756 BC. This puts her creation prior to Darkon's creation in 579 BC, placing it in the false history of Darkon. Alternatively, since her point of arrival was the Mountains of Misery, this puts her creation prior to Arak's creation in 575 BC, placing it in the false history of Arak. Either way there is a problem. For she is supposed to be an outlander who became a vampire nearly simultaneously with her entry into the Land of Mists somewhere about the Mountains of Misery which only came into existence 181 years ago at the most. And the problem with placing her memory of being an outlander in false history is that Darkon has rewritten her memory of her own past such that she thinks that she is a native. So for whom does this false history then actually exist? Probably only for the reader who is being told independent of her flawed memory and independent of the memory altering power of Darkon that she is in fact an outlander, which does not preclude sticking her in false history but makes the exercise of doing so a pretty pointless one, in effect a private joke at her expense. The solutions available are to reduce her from an old to a mature vampire or to place her entry into the Land of Mists in Barovia which came to be 404 years ago.
Stats
Dwarf, old vampire, female, Ftr5/Ari5 [Gaz II, 36], NE [Requiem: The Grim Harvest - Necropolis, 18]
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