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Pharaoh Anhktepot, Darklord of Har'Akir
Pharaoh Anhktepot, Darklord of Har'Akir
The seeking darklord
Sometime ruler of a mighty empire, now a greater mummy after his desire to escape death led to the ruin of his kingdom and his person being mummified alive. His curse is the desire to live again as a great ruler and king, but to never be able to truly achieve it.- Big Bad: Of the videogame Ravenloft: the Stone Prophet and the module Touch of Death.
- The Corrupter: An accidental case. A devout priestess of Osiris by the name of Isu Rehkotep happened to find a scroll which demonstrated how Anhktepot created his greater mummies. Although its evil power was too great for her to her to destroy it, she attempted to hide it so no one could ever use it again—but the damage was done. Over time, the dark sorceries she read about began to obsess her until she started studying the worship and magic of Set, at first in order to oppose it, but eventually she slid into worshippping the evil god as devoutly as she had Osiris, digging up the scroll and awakening Senmet.
- Create Your Own Villain: Well, arch-enemy. Anhktepot rather understandably thought he'd seen the last of the traitorous priest Senmet when he had him mummified and entombed alive. He never dreamed that someone else would stumble upon his method for making greater mummies and re-animate the guy.
- Damaged Soul: Going by Egyptian Mythology, Ankhtepot is missing his Ka, the vital spark that differentiates living souls from the dead. He desperately wants to find it.
- Entitled Bastard: The game notes that Ankhtepot, if he could become mortal again, would never be satisfied with "merely" being a commoner or tiny village headman. In his mind, he deserves the power and prestige of being again the mighty king of a mighty empire.
- Human Sacrifice: He can kill a sentient creature on one of the altars in his temple to drain their vitality and become human again for a day. However, while he is human, he loses all his powers and defenses, and if killed in this state he will only rise again as a mummy if he is mummified again. Furthermore, Har'Akir is tiny, and there is only a single mud-hut village nearby. If he kills too many, the village will die out and Anhktepot may never be able to become alive again at all.
- Lawful Evil: In-Universe, as an ex-tyrannical god-king.
- Maker of Monsters: He can create greater mummies, powerful creatures enslaved to him and capable of cleric spells.
- Mummy: A mixture of the Hollywood and Dungeons and Dragons versions.
- Necromancer: Ankhtepot controls many other mummies, some of whom are actually stronger than him, and he can make more by bringing back victims dying of his Touch of Death to be mummified alive.
- Nepharious Pharaoh: An undead tyrant and necromancer.
- Plague Master: Like all Ravenloft Greater Mummies, his touch causes the terrible disease mummy rot.
- Power of the Sun: He is still technically the priest of Ra, and, though Ra has abandoned him, the Dark Powers are the ones supplying clerics in the Demiplane of Dread.
- Rage Against the Heavens: When he was still pharaoh, he killed priests who could not make him immortal until he walked into the temple of Ra and raged that the gods had failed him. Ra, whose high priest he was, told him that he would live forever, but probably regret it, and gave him the Touch of Death that led to his ruin.
- Riches to Rags: From the ruler of a vast empire to occupying a mostly-empty tomb on the edge of a tiny patch of desert and mud with a single small village nearby that he doesn't so much rule as occasionally wander out to terrify.
- Shout-Out: Anhktepot is obviously meant to mimic the main character of The Mummy (1932).
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Anhktepot's damnation came from his desire for immortal life. Now, as a mummy, he believes that he would be satisfied with mortality, if he could only have a few more years of life. (Reigning as a mighty god-king, of course, and not as a lowly peasant.)
Diamabel, Darklord of Pharazia
Diamabel, Darklord of Pharazia
Formerly a nomadic desert raider and religious fanatic, he was killed and seemingly rose up as an angel, and now rules the city of Phiraz. However, he found his transformation came with a cost; every night, he transforms into a horrifying skeletal angel of death.- Blessed with Suck: Both forms are incredibly powerful, but the transformation between them is agonizing, and a constant reminder of his distance from his god. Indeed, his deity seems even more distant than before.
- Chaotic Evil: His official In-Universe alignment.
- Cool Sword: Spiritburner, his +3 flame tongue sword.
- The Fundamentalist: Feels that the world is filthy and that his calling is to cleanse it, so that he may join his god in heaven.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: By day he possesses an angelic appearance, by night he appears to be a horrific zombie.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Regenerates two hit points a round, requires a +2 weapon to hit him, returns from the dead in a month if killed.
- Retcon: In the Quoth the Raven #21 netbook, which made Pharazia an Arabian Nights-themed domain, and Diamabel himself a more ambiguous figure. His dual forms are known to Pharazians, but his origin and nature are left open, turned into a Riddle for the Ages — even whether or not he's Pharazia's darklord — in an effort to move away from the unfortunate implications around his canon write-up as the sole Islamic-themed darklord.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The people of Pharazia love their divine protector, and fear the angel of death that stalks the night, never suspecting that they are one and the same.
Tiyet, Darklord of Sebua
Tiyet, Darklord of Sebua
Ruler of the wasteland realm of Sebua, Tiyet is a unique mummy with a sordid past, involving framing the wife of a pharoah's son so she could have him for herself, only to cheat on her husband with a priest of Set. With a prophetic vision, she had him make her into a unique mummy, allowing her to escape the execution she was supposed to receive when her adultery was discovered.- Beat Still, My Heart: How she feeds. Once she's paralyzed a victim, she sinks her hand into their chest and draws out their beating heart, then eats it.
- Death Glare: In a literal sense. Her glare can paralyze people and kill them via cardiac arrest—though since she can't eat stopped hearts, she's loath to do so.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: Haunted by a dream she had of her punishment in the afterlife, she pressured her lover to use the ritual that made her what she is today in order to avert it. So far.
- Driven to Suicide: After her adultery was discovered she begged for her lover to perform the immortality ritual upon her, but it could only be used on the recently deceased. When he refused to kill her, she grabbed a dagger and forced the matter.
- From a Single Cell: If reduced to zero hp, she turns to dust, and is defeated, but not destroyed. Her body reforms in a few days. The only way she can be slain permanently is by tricking her into eating her own heart, which is still in the temple where the mummification ritual was done. If it were ever offered to her, it would start to beat, and she would be unable to resist it, even though it would mean her doom.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: The only way to kill her for good is to make her eat her own heart (taken out as part of the above-mentioned ritual).
- Horror Hunger: Uncontrollably driven to devour human hearts.
- Karmic Death: She was sentenced to death for adultery, the same crime she framed her husband's first wife for in order to marry him.
- Mortality Phobia: After suffering from recurring nightmares of a horrific punishment in the Hall of Judgment (her society's version of Hell) the idea of dying terrified her, and she sought immortality, gaining it in the worst way.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Tiyet framed a woman for adultery (which got her thrown to jackals) in order to marry her husband, the pharaoh's son.
- Mummy: Although you wouldn't know it from looking at her.
- Necromancer: Controls undead within her domain, though she has to make mummies the slow way.
- Neutral Evil: In-Universe — it's the official Character Alignment given in her profile writeups.
- Picky People Eater: Hearts.
- Seductive Mummy: A mummy who has the appearance of an attractive woman.
- Summon Magic: Can summon a swarm of beetles.
- Terrible Ticking: The beating of human hearts is incredibly magnified for her, growing ever-louder depending on her hunger.
- Time Travel: She wasn't just sent far away from her home, she was also sent forward over a thousand years.
- Touch of Death: Her touch can inflict wounds, and her kiss can drain strength.
- Undead Barefooter: She doesn't wear shoes, as a way to show that she's undead.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting:
- Can turn into a monkey in order to blend in with Sebua's other monkeys.
- Her introductory supplement mentions that she can turn into an owl.
- Weather Manipulation: Can create sandstorms.
