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Bonus Art #6 - Leo Dilisnya, the Gallows Speaker

Added 2023-10-31 16:00:08 +0000 UTC

Happy Halloween! Enjoy a bit of bonus art, courtesy of a deep cut into Barovian lore:

Gallows speakers arise from places of mass death or sites where creatures regularly meet their doom. Over time, pain-wracked phantoms and lingering souls combine into an entity that knows death in myriad forms. Such amalgamated spirits are tormented by their collective pain, endlessly moaning disjointed final thoughts as they lash out at the living. Having known untold deaths, gallows speakers can predict suffering, foreseeing dooms leveled against them and overwhelming their foes with visions of innumerable violent deaths. - Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

Leo Dilisnya was a fascinating character from the game's lore - an assassin who conspired with a number of Strahd's personal guards to wipe out the Von Zarovich line - unfortunately for Lord Leo, he picked the fateful wedding day of Sergei and Tatyana to do the deed, and his plans went bloodily awry. The Wedding Day Massacre of Castle Ravenloft is legendary and Leo Dilisnya only delayed his inevitable fate by running...

In Curse of Strahd: Reloaded, Leo is now the mouthpiece of the massacred, of both conspirators and the innocent, and each has a tale to howl at the unwary. Having been cursed, trapped by the Wachter family, and now consigned to the Border Ethereal, Leo and his doom-spitting cabal throw their snares onto any hapless wanderer until they, too, join the throng...