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===The Barons Gustav===
Darklords of Gustavstan.

Baron Gustav the Elder is a male human ghost who once ruled a small kingdom in his homeland. Though he had intended to pass his holdings on to his younger brother Klaus, the younger sibling had no interest in ruling, so the elderly Gustav took a wife and fathered a son, Gustav the Younger. Then, when his son was fifteen, Gustav the Elder stepped on a snake in his garden and was fatally bitten.

Gustav the Younger (male human [[Fighter]]) was inconsolable, his mind fracturing under the sudden death of his beloved father. In his grief, he refused to take up the throne, forcing his uncle Klaus to become Baron in his place - as well as to wed Ingrid, Gustav the Elder's widow and Gustav the Younger's mother, to secure the Younger's inheritance. Unfortunately, this gesture was misunderstood by ''both'' Gustavs; the Younger began to despise his uncle and mother for their apparent disloyalty, whilst the Elder's restless spirit also became incensed at Klaus's apparent betrayal. He seized upon the idea of exploiting his son's fractured mind to both weaponize him against Klaus and to make him vulnerable, so the Elder could live again by stealing his son's body.

This domain is basically [[grimdark]] Hamlet, in case it's not obvious already.

So Gustav the Elder manifests to his son, lies that he was murdered by Klaus, and convinces his half-crazed son that Klaus wants to steal the throne for himself. Klaus the Younger swallows this bullshit hook, line and sinker, and pretending to be even madder than he actually was, he began preparing to kill his uncle and his mother both - ignoring that Gustav the Elder wanted Ingrid spared, having figured that once he stole his son's body, [[/d/|he could reclaim her as his wife]].

This led to Gustav the Younger murdering the father of Elaine, the woman he loved, and driving her so insane that she ended up committing suicide by throwing herself off the battlements of the castle - which didn't do Gustav Junior's sanity any great shakes. Instead, it provoked him into finally battling his uncle, killing Klaus and his mother in the process. Which was when Gustav the Eldler showed up and, horrified at his wife's death, he revealed the truth about how he'd played his son for a fool. Enraged, the son attacked his father's ghost, and that was when Gustavstan was snatched up by the mists.

Gustav the Younger now burns with the urge to hunt his father's spirit down and destroy him, a task not helped by his paranoia. Every night, he is haunted by the angry ghosts of Elaine and Klaus, who spend the night cursing him out for their murders.

Gustav the Elder now spends his days haunting the local insane asylum, where Ingrid - who actually survived her son's attack, but was left a raving madwoman - is now kept. At night, he strives to manipulate others into killing his son.

Neither darklord can be permanently destroyed by violence; they regenerate and revive from destruction. Only by killing Ingrid will their resurrective regeneration cease... but doing this will cause the killer to immediately suffer a failed [[Powers Check]], whilst those who watch get to roll one.