This is several hours worth of changes I have made and they are all gone now. How do I revert this?
While I generally really like all the ideas MandyMod has, Vampyr was one that I felt was generally unnecessary.
However I do like the idea of including some kind of contact with the Dark Powers in the campaign while still sticking to the original intent of the campaign’s grim endings so I came up with this and I would like to know what y’all think about it.
The Dark Powers in my interpretation of Ravenloft exist to torment the Darklords. They are servants of the Raven Queen to create the opposite of Domains of Delight in the Domains of Dread. They create prisons to torment terrible villains to feed themselves on their pain and prevent them from causing more damage in the Material plane.
So Vampyr after seeing Strahd not die in a very long time and start to have a much easier time trying to get Tatyana without any major setbacks, starts trying to figure out how to make Strahd’s torment painful again.
It eventually comes to the realization that if it can get a group of adventurers to obtain the tools to defeat Strahd and generally weaken his hold on Barovia, it could make them reincarnate like Tatyana after they die, giving Strahd an eternal foe that will always prevent him from ever having things be “easy” for him, making Strahd’s torment continue to be fresh.
So essentially instead of it being random that the players and people in general from the Material plane keep getting into Barovia, it’s Vampyr actively trying to find a group of people that it can use to add to Strahd’s torment.
I have an idea to have some form of confrontation with Vampyr after the Amber Temple, before my players raid the castle in order to convince or fight Vampyr off from adding them to the cycle, so that Strahd can still remain the final boss and main villain.
I also had the idea of maybe Vampyr trying to create some kind of lookalike for Sergei who is in love with someone else, not Ireena, to try to feed Strahd’s delusion that Tatyana was always fated to be with him not Sergei but that might be excessive.
I’d like to know what y’all think about this. Is giving too much of a “personality” to Vampyr or do you think it’s just ill fitting or not?