Easan the Mad

Overview

Easan the Mad is the darklord of Vechor. He is a short wood elf and former agitator for a war against Iuz the Evil. For his efforts, he was seemingly driven mad by the possession of a fiend. Now Easan only looks for a cure for his madness, but he is willing to tear many innocent lives apart, and maybe even reality itself, to find a cure.

Conflict with Iuz

On the outlander world of Oerth, Easan argued the cause for war to his colleagues among the rulers of a ting elf kingdom bordering Iuz's empire. To make an example of the upstart elf, Iuz ordered his agents to kidnap Easan. With Easan rendered helpless before him, Iuz bound a fiend to Easan.

The presence of the fiend within Easan began eating away at his mind. In an effort to find a way to free himself from the fiend, Easan visited an island of monks of St. Cuthbert. They managed to suppress the fiend for a time, but eventually the monks and their island were rent asunder by a disaster of mysterious circumstances. Only Easan came out of it alive.

Whereas Easan emerged from the disaster with his body intact, his mind had only deteriorated further. The fiend had returned, but Easan did not give up hope. Where religion had failed, Easan resolved to find a way to banish the fiend with perverse experiments. Easan sacrificed many lives in his pursuit for a cure before he was taken in by the Mists.

Easan the False God

Eventually, Easan noticed he was in a foreign, if familiar, land where he was viewed as a god. Indeed, he now had the power to warp reality (albeit slowly) within his own domain. Although he enjoys this from time to time, for the most part he remains obsessed with finding secrets of the soul. For all his power, he cannot seem to best his own inner demons, for he has all but forgotten the reasons why he began his foul research.

Statistics

Fiendish Wood Elf, Wizard 13, Chaotic Evil, CR 16

Dread Possibility

Easan never had a fiend implanted in him at all. It was all merely a deception to throw him off balance. Still, Easan's mind locked onto it, and when others couldn't detect the nonexistent affliction, Easan turned to his own methods for finding a cure.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Secrets of the Dread Realms Domains of Dread
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - p59 Domains of Dread - p82
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp57-59 Domains of Dread - pp81-82
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,57-59 Ravenloft Third Edition - pp144-145 Domains of Dread - pp81-82 Realm of Terror - p86