Editing Darklord (section)

==Councilor Dominic d'Honaire==
The darklord of Dementlieu. Originally born in Mordentshire, Dominic led his nanny to suicide at age 7 and then manipulated his family to move away to avoid the Mordentshire police, with the mists giving him the domain of Dementlieu. Dominic is not the domain's temporal leader but does serve as an adviser for Marcel Guignol, Dementlieu's head of state. However, Dominic has much more power than his official position would suggest. The darklord's power is domination over the minds of other people on a prodigious scale. A great many in the land, including its recognized head, are his obedients and through this network he knows whatever goes on in his land. 

His personal curse is that any woman he woos sees him as more repulsive the more he is attracted to her. Also, for some time his rule is challenged by an entity who is called (and virtually is) the Living Brain (re: ''Sherlock Holmes''' Moriarty), the last remains of Rudolph von Aubrecker, the youngest son of Lamordia's political ruler.
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===5e===
'''Saidra d'Honaire''' grew up on a tiny farm, raised by her widower father, who filled her head with stories of her noble bloodline - he claimed to be a duke that had been ousted from his rightful throne by a vicious younger brother. Life was hard, especially as Saidra's sincere belief in her father's stories meant she alienated her peers, and only got worse when Saidra's father married a prosperous merchant woman with two daughters from her previous marriage, all of whom tormented Saidra and forced her to work as their personal servant, ala Cinderella. One day, a nearby duke perished, and when Saidra wondered if it had been her father's evil little brother, she was forced to confront the cruel truth: her father's stories had all been a pack of lies, and he was nothing more than a common-born servant who had fled to save his neck after trying to nick silverware from the duke's kitchen.

Saidra went to her mom's grave to beg her mother's spirit for help, which was when a "kind, grandmotherly figure" appeared and granted Saidra her wish, clothing her in a magnificent gown and fine jewelry before conjuring a stately carriage to carry her to the masquerade ball that was being held to celebrate the coronation of the new duke. We don't know who this figure was, but it's interesting to note that Saidra's version of Dementlieu contains a [[hag]] coven who basically love to pretend to be Fairy Godmother figures so they can mess with people. Anyway, off Saidra went to the ball, plotting to kill the new duke and claim his title. When she got there, she swiftly seduced the new duke, so successfully that she began contemplating if it mightn't be better to wed the duke instead. Things were going smashingly... until the clock chimed midnight and the whole party began dropping dead of a sudden, fast-acting plague, which rather put a downer on things. The kicker, for Saidra, was as she and the duke lay dying in each other's arms and he confessed that he ''wasn't'' noble-born, but instead a commoner who had been adopted by the previous duke. In fact, he was actually Saidra's long-lost brother.

Enraged at this second "betrayal", Saidra stabbed her brother in the heart with the last of her strength and then tried to stagger away from the corpse, only to collapse dead on the stairs leading into the palace.

And then she woke up as a [[wraith]], the new spectral queen of Dementlieu, a shabby and impoverished town whose populace struggle to fake the appearance of being more important than they truly are, all the while risking Saidra's deadly wrath: she '''hates''' pompous fools who pretend to be what they aren't, aspire to higher station than they deserve, and fail to maintain the appearance of normalcy.

...Well, yeah, she wouldn't be a ''darklord'' if she wasn't at least a little bit of a hypocrite, now would she?

Saidra is a [[wraith]] who has the ability to cast free Disintegrates (DC 18) at anyone who had revealed themselves to be lying about who they are. When not hosting balls, she wonders the poorest parts of the city as a bloody shadow, where all the unmasked fakers inevitably end up, searching for her hated dad. She lives in constant terror of being exposed as a fraud herself, and in fact, she can only be killed permanently if she is revealed to be a fraud first. Related to that, she lives in terror that her hated stepmother and stepsisters are still alive somewhere in Dementlieu. Finally, almost tangentially, her status as a wraith means her beloved masquerade balls are a complete waste of time, as she can't enjoy any of the physical pleasures associated with them.

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