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===Sir Trevor Godwyn "The Mirror Man"===
Darklord of Vultharesk. There are many crimes that can earn one the unwanted title of Darklord. The ranks of the tormented "rulers" of the [[Demiplane of Dread]] include murderers of all stripes, countless variations of cannibals and torturers and sadists, and more than a few implicit rapists. But Sir Godwyn belongs to a particularly small but repugnant group: the [[Satanic Panic|authoritarian moral guardians]].

Sir Godwyn was born on a realm far removed from the Mists, to what was basically a pastiche of the Victorian British Empire; a highly technological advanced nation that began a far-reaching campaign of imperialist expansion, justifying its efforts all the while as being "for the sake of the heathens" - in their propaganda, their efforts were to bring civilization and "proper" behavior to the unfortunates beyond their boundaries, by any means necessary.

The damnation of Sir Godwyn began when he and his entire extended family were sent to a small mountain town called Vultharesk, which lay upon the very fringes of the empire's territory at the time. A true believer in the "noble cause", Sir Godwyn was assigned as the town's military governor and took to his role with brutal dictatorship, demanding execution for not only the traditional capital offenses, but all manner of moral offenses, from adultery and worship of the proscribed non-Imperial deities down to lying. Ten years, Sir Godwyn held court, determined to civilize the people of Vultharesk even if it meant killing them all himself. And then he met Olyana Volienska: a beautiful native woman.

Despite the fact they were both married, Sir Godwyn lusted after Olyana, and within weeks he succumbed to temptation and began an illicit affair with her - one that Olyana went along with in hopes of using this to seduce a better life for herself and her family. After only a handful of trysts, however, her husband suspected her of cheating on him, and managed to find her out. He didn't discover who Olyana's lover was, but he found enough to prove her guilt, and he dragged her to Sir Godwyn's court, demanding the "lord's justice". Terrified that his hypocrisy might be revealed, Trevor Godwyn agreed immediately, and executed her on the spot.

That evening, however, when Sir Godwyn glanced up at his mirror from his washbasin, he saw not his own reflection, but the shocked, accusing visage of Olyana. For months, every reflective surface in Sir Godwyn's view depicted Olyana's face, although only to him, and the haunting drove him increasingly mad. He became more vicious and brutal a ruler than ever before, executing dozens for imaginary transgressions and slaughtering Olyana's entire family in an effort to end the curse. Naturally, it failed.

Six months after Olyana's execution, damnation finally claimed Trevor Godwyn. On an unusually foggy summer's eve, as mists poured in from the mountain's peak and smothered Vultharesk, Trevor snapped and demanded his wife come to his room and look into the mirror. But when she told him that she saw nothing but their reflections, as she had done a hundred times before, Trevor grabbed her and began ramming her face into the glass over and over again, shattering the mirror and fatally cutting her to pieces on the jagged glass, all the while screaming at her to open her eyes and ''look''. And then, once he had smashed the mirror to pieces and dropped his wife's corpse on the floor, he realized that Olyana still stood in the now empty, jagged shard-lined framed. He had time for one final scream as she reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him into the mirror.

Ever since then, Trevor Godwyn has become the curse of Vultharesk. The citizens do not remember he once ruled over them, and his living relatives do not believe the "Mirror Man" is anything other than a phantom cooked up by their superstitious followers; they cannot see his face when it appears in the reflective surfaces of their domain, and he is either unable or unwilling to haunt them the way he does everybody else.

Sir Godwyn is now condemned to a life as a phantom inside of a hazy, mist-shrouded netherworld, only able to perceive the mortal world by peering through reflective surfaces, forever haunted by Olyana's sobs. To try and distract himself, he flits from reflection to reflection, looking for any who might dare to commit even the most mild of immoral acts. He punishes these individuals by afflicting them with a curse of misfortune for so long as they remain in Vultharesk - and if they ever get near a reflective surface large enough, Trevor Godwyn can step forth into the material world and attempt to banish them into the mirror world forever.

When manifesting, Sir Trevor Godwyn is a unique kind of spectral undead. He appears as a tall man dressed in a black, high-collared and longtailed frock coat trimmed in silver, with matching leather boots and pants of midnight blue. His hair, hovering on the border between blond and white, is pulled back tightly into a tail; his eyes are an utterly empty shade of icy blue. Though traces of the handsome man he once was can still be seen in his sharp features, his face now appears to be that of a man dead by starvation; skin is pulled tight over his skull, as though most of the muscle and flesh were sucked out from beneath it. Unless he actively wills it into some other expression, the tightness of his skin constantly pulls his mouth into a rictus grin.

Once he manifests, Sir Godwyn can be slain, but he can only be harmed by weapons that aren't reflective - anything made of metal will have no effect on him unless it has been dyed, blackened or otherwise made unreflective. There is no known means of killing him permanently; he will reform at the next full moon. One possibility might be exposing his history to the people of Vultharesk, robbing him of his twisted position as enforcer of morality.

Fortunately for those who have angered Godwyn, he can only close Vultharesk's borders during the 12 hours he is permitted to remain in the material world after banishing a rule-breaker. When he does close the borders, they flood with mist, and any who try to flee the village instead find themselves spat back out at their initial entry point.