Editing Broken One (section)

==Broken One Creators==
Needless to say, those who create broken ones are particularly twisted individuals, usually either mad scientists or dark mages of some sort. In Ravenloft, broken ones can be found in any domain with a particularly strong association with mad science or dark magic, and they have been encountered in Darkon, Falkovnia, Forlorn, Lamordia, Hazlan, Nova Vaasa, and the Shadow Rift.

Various individuals in Ravenloft are particularly associated with broken ones:

First and foremost, there is the [[Darklord]] Frantisek Markov; a sadistic former pig farmer with a crazed amateur's enthusiasm for surgery, he became the Darklord of Markovia after brutally murdering his wife by performing his ghastly "surgeries" on her. Like Dr. Moreau, whom he is an obvious expy for, Markov is obsessed with the idea of augmenting animals to achieve the human form through grisly surgical means. That's not to say he doesn't "devolve" the odd human into a man-beast when he catches one, just that his creations are usually uplifted animals and not cursed men. In fact, Markov's broken ones are so unique that [[Books of S|The Book of Sacrifices]] actually contains a variant broken one template specifically to describe Markovian Broken Ones, who ''are'' true to the original "Animal Men" fluff of AD&D and not the "Fleshcrafted Horror" fluff of 3rd edition. Such is Markov's basis to Moreau that his sole "starring" adventure, "Neither Man Nor Beast" (1996), reads pretty much like a tweaked variant of the original novel, with players being stranded on his island domain and ultimately escaping by assisting the broken ones in turning against their hated master.

Another [[Darklord]] who produces broken ones is Hazlik, the Thayan Red Mage who rules over Hazlan. Whilst they are not his obsession the way that they are for Markov, Hazlik's temper and taste for dark magic causes him to produce more than his fair share of twisted once-men and once-beasts.

Likewise, Dr. Mordenheim, the [[Darklord]] of Lamordia, produces many scientific broken ones as side-effects of his cursed experiments in attempting to resurrect his dead wife.

The [[illithid]]s of Bluetspur are known to create Broken Ones, as mentioned above.

Arguably ''the'' non-Darklord major producer of broken ones in the [[Demiplane of Dread]] is Falkfuhrer Doktor Vjorn Horstman, head of Falkovnia's Ministry of Science. In order to please his mad master, and for his own sadistic pleasures, Doktor Horstman performs twisted experiments on human victims to create super-soldiers; so far, the best he has officially come up with are artificial [[therianthrope]]s and broken ones, although a [[Quoth the Raven]] article does give him some more unique monsters.