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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first was a Ravenloft tie-in novel called "Lord of Necropolis", focused on Azalin. In this novel, it's claimed that the Dark Powers are actually divided into two camps of different entities; one good and one evil. The benevolent entities, referred to as "The Others", seek to protect the innocent and punish the wicked, whilst the malevolent Dark Powers have the other intention, and seek to entice people to act with evil. The novel was panned, as much for defining who the Dark Powers were as for its ridiculous claims that the entire Demiplane of Dread was actually created solely to torment Azalin, which makes no sense given he's not the first Darklord or the most important.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first was a Ravenloft tie-in novel called "Lord of Necropolis", focused on Azalin. In this novel, it's claimed that the Dark Powers are actually divided into two camps of different entities; one good and one evil. The benevolent entities, referred to as "The Others", seek to protect the innocent and punish the wicked, whilst the malevolent Dark Powers have the other intention, and seek to entice people to act with evil. The novel was panned, as much for defining who the Dark Powers were as for its ridiculous claims that the entire Demiplane of Dread was actually created solely to torment Azalin, which makes no sense given he's not the first Darklord or the most important.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The second was the [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] adventure, </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Curse </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strahd</del>]], <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an updated re-release of the original </del>[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[I6</del>: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ravenloft]</del>]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Here</del>, the Dark Powers <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appear to be presented as being [[vestige]]</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like remnants of various evil entities, physically sealed inside amber sarcophagi which lie in a temple dedicated to their lingering evil, but </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is merely conflation because </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poor clarification</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5e had retconned </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strahd made </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deal to become a vampire with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vestiges which were situated in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">prime material plane instead </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beseeching </del>the Dark <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Powers</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>then the Powers <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stole </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">land of Barovia which happened </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be where </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vestiges were situated. So now we know slightly less about the nature </del>of the Dark Powers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Previews for ''</ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Masque </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Red Death</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' said the Red Death was a Dark Power exiled by the others for some unknown crime. This information is not remotely present in the final product</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though never contradicted and William Connors said </ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://web.archive.org/web/20120222014403/http</ins>:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?int_dnd30_WWC in an interview with Monte Cook</ins>] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Red Death being a Dark Power remained canonical</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While the exact nature of the Red Death isn't clear (in the sense it has no explicitly defined abilities or limits)</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it has a lot more said about it than </ins>the Dark Powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">proper, so the sub</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">setting might provide useful information if you treat </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bit </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">info as canonical</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of particular note is </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sealing away </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death is actually considered plausible by those in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">know, and ''successfully happened'' at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">end </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[RPGA]]'s ''Living Death'' series via an Epic Spell involving several artifacts. This indicates that if </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death is indeed a </ins>Dark <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Power</ins>, then <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sealing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">others may be plausible as well. That said, the Red Death differs from standard Dark </ins>Powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in one critical detail: Where </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death actively seeks </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">corrupt </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people of its prison (Any use </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">magic, even something as selfless as using Cure Light Wounds to save someone from an accident, provokes a dark powers check on Gothic Earth) </ins>the Dark Powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Ravenloft proper explicitly "never actively seduce the righteous into evil" (this may very well be the crime that got it banished in the first place)</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Additionally</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">previews for ''</del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Masque </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Red Death</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' said </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death was a Dark Power exiled by the others for some unknown crime. This information is not remotely present in the final product, though never contradicted and William Connors said </del>[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https</del>:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//web.archive.org/web/20120222014403/http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?int_dnd30_WWC in an interview with Monte Cook</del>] the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death </del>being <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a Dark Power remained canonical. While the exact nature </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Red Death isn't clear (</del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the sense it has no explicitly defined abilities or limits), it has </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lot more said about it than the Dark Powers proper</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so the sub-setting might provide useful information if you treat </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bit </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">info as canonical</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of particular note is </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sealing away </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death is actually considered plausible by those </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">know, and ''successfully happened'' at the end </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[RPGA]]'s ''Living Death'' series via an Epic Spell involving several artifacts. This indicates that if </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death is indeed a </del>Dark <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Power</del>, then <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sealing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">others may be plausible as well. That said, the Red Death differs from standard Dark </del>Powers <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in one critical detail: Where </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Red Death actively seeks </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">corrupt </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people of its prison (Any use </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">magic, even something as selfless as using Cure Light Wounds to save someone from an accident, provokes a dark powers check on Gothic Earth) </del>the Dark Powers <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Ravenloft proper explicitly "never actively seduce the righteous into evil" (this may very well be the crime that got it banished in the first place)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] adventure</ins>, [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Curse </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strahd</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, an updated re-release of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">original [</ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I6</ins>: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ravenloft]</ins>]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, appears to present </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Powers as </ins>being <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[vestige]]-like remnants </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">various evil entities, physically sealed inside amber sarcophagi which lie </ins>in a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">temple dedicated to their lingering evil</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may be merely conflation because </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poor clarification</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5e had retconned </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strahd made the deal to become a vampire with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vestiges which were situated </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">prime material plane instead </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beseeching </ins>the Dark <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Powers</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>then the Powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stole </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">land of Barovia which happened </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be where </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vestiges were situated. So now we know slightly less about the nature </ins>of the Dark Powers.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[Van Richten's Guide]] to Ravenloft'' reveals more information about the Dark Powers than any previous book but also says that it is up to the DM to decide what the true nature of the Dark Powers and provides three different suggestions about what their true nature is so don't take what it reveals as absolute fact. The Dark Powers may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the Darklords but not caring about the suffering they cause within their prisons. Or they may be evil architects tormenting the Darklords for their amusement or to feed on them or test them for worthiness for promotion to Dark Power. Or they may be undying remnants of evil gods locked in amber sarcophagi like those in the Amber Temple scattered throughout the domain of dread that are trying to revive themselves. The book reveals the names of the Dark Powers include [[Osybus]], [[Shami-Amourae]], and [[Orcus|Tenebrous]] and that Osybus is a former mortal priest of the Dark Powers who became a Dark Power himself after his disciples betrayed and killed him. His disciples were cursed to lose the immortality he had given them when they least expected it. The Dark Powers told them they they would be free from the curse if they helped the Dark Powers take over the world by creating a vessel for them to inhabit. They chose Strahd to be the vessel and caused his fall into evil and his discovery of the Amber Temple where he became a vampire, but the Dark Powers imprisoned Strahd in the mists instead. The priests of Osybus are still trying to find a way to release Strahd from the mists to conquer the world in the name of the Dark Powers to get their immortality back.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[Van Richten's Guide]] to Ravenloft'' reveals more information about the Dark Powers than any previous book but also says that it is up to the DM to decide what the true nature of the Dark Powers and provides three different suggestions about what their true nature is so don't take what it reveals as absolute fact. The Dark Powers may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the Darklords but not caring about the suffering they cause within their prisons. Or they may be evil architects tormenting the Darklords for their amusement or to feed on them or test them for worthiness for promotion to Dark Power. Or they may be undying remnants of evil gods locked in amber sarcophagi like those in the Amber Temple scattered throughout the domain of dread that are trying to revive themselves. The book <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seems to mainly treat the last option as the "correct" one. It </ins>reveals <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that some of </ins>the names of the Dark Powers include [[Osybus]], [[Shami-Amourae]], and [[Orcus|Tenebrous]] and that Osybus is a former mortal priest of the Dark Powers who became a Dark Power himself after his disciples betrayed and killed him. His disciples were cursed to lose the immortality he had given them when they least expected it. The Dark Powers told them they they would be free from the curse if they helped the Dark Powers take over the world by creating a vessel for them to inhabit. They chose Strahd to be the vessel and caused his fall into evil and his discovery of the Amber Temple where he became a vampire, but the Dark Powers imprisoned Strahd in the mists instead. The priests of Osybus are still trying to find a way to release Strahd from the mists to conquer the world in the name of the Dark Powers to get their immortality back.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[Van Richten's Guide]] to Ravenloft'' reveals more information about the Dark Powers than any previous book but also says that it is up to the DM to decide what the true nature of the Dark Powers is so don't take all of what it says as fact. The book give three possible suggestions about the nature of the Dark Powers. They may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the Darklords but not caring about the suffering they cause within their prisons. Or they may be evil architects tormenting the Darklords for their amusement or to feed on them or test them for worthiness for promotion to Dark Power. Or they may be undying remnants of evil gods locked in amber sarcophagi like those in the Amber Temple scattered throughout the domain of dread that are trying to revive themselves<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The truth about the Dark Powers that the book reveals appears to be a combination of the second and third options</del>. The book reveals the names of the Dark Powers include [[Osybus]], [[Shami-Amourae]], and [[Orcus|Tenebrous]] and that Osybus is a former mortal priest of the Dark Powers who became a Dark Power himself after his disciples betrayed him. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Those </del>disciples <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then tried </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">escape </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">curse Osybus put on </del>them <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by turning Strahd into a vessel of the </del>Dark Powers they would <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use to conquer </del>the world by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">corrupting him </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">luring him to </del>the Amber Temple where he became a vampire, but the Dark Powers imprisoned <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">him </del>in the mists instead. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Those </del>priests of Osybus are still trying to find a way to release Strahd to conquer the world in the name of the Dark Powers <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in order </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">break Osybus's curse</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[Van Richten's Guide]] to Ravenloft'' reveals more information about the Dark Powers than any previous book but also says that it is up to the DM to decide what the true nature of the Dark Powers is so don't take all of what it says as fact. The book give three possible suggestions about the nature of the Dark Powers. They may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the Darklords but not caring about the suffering they cause within their prisons. Or they may be evil architects tormenting the Darklords for their amusement or to feed on them or test them for worthiness for promotion to Dark Power. Or they may be undying remnants of evil gods locked in amber sarcophagi like those in the Amber Temple scattered throughout the domain of dread that are trying to revive themselves. The book reveals the names of the Dark Powers include [[Osybus]], [[Shami-Amourae]], and [[Orcus|Tenebrous]] and that Osybus is a former mortal priest of the Dark Powers who became a Dark Power himself after his disciples betrayed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and killed </ins>him. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His </ins>disciples <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were cursed </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lose </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immortality he had given </ins>them <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when they least expected it. The </ins>Dark Powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">told them they </ins>they would <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be free from the curse if they helped the Dark Powers take over </ins>the world by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">creating a vessel for them to inhabit. They chose Strahd to be the vessel and caused his fall into evil </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his discovery of </ins>the Amber Temple where he became a vampire, but the Dark Powers imprisoned <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strahd </ins>in the mists instead. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>priests of Osybus are still trying to find a way to release Strahd <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from the mists </ins>to conquer the world in the name of the Dark Powers to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">get their immortality back</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first was a Ravenloft tie-in novel called "Lord of Necropolis", focused on Azalin. In this novel, it's claimed that the Dark Powers are actually divided into two camps of different entities; one good and one evil. The benevolent entities, referred to as "The Others", seek to protect the innocent and punish the wicked, whilst the malevolent Dark Powers have the other intention, and seek to entice people to act with evil. The novel was panned, as much for defining who the Dark Powers were as for its ridiculous claims that the entire Demiplane of Dread was actually created solely to torment Azalin, which makes no sense given he's not the first Darklord or the most important.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first was a Ravenloft tie-in novel called "Lord of Necropolis", focused on Azalin. In this novel, it's claimed that the Dark Powers are actually divided into two camps of different entities; one good and one evil. The benevolent entities, referred to as "The Others", seek to protect the innocent and punish the wicked, whilst the malevolent Dark Powers have the other intention, and seek to entice people to act with evil. The novel was panned, as much for defining who the Dark Powers were as for its ridiculous claims that the entire Demiplane of Dread was actually created solely to torment Azalin, which makes no sense given he's not the first Darklord or the most important.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A little bit more information and some unconfirmed possibilities are revealed in </del>''[[Van Richten's Guide]] to Ravenloft''. [[Osybus]], [[Shami-Amourae]], and [[Orcus|Tenebrous]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are names for some </del>of the Dark Powers. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>Dark Powers may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the Darklords but not caring about the suffering they inflict within their prisons. Or they may be evil architects tormenting the Darklords for their amusement or to feed on them or test them for worthiness for promotion to Dark Power. Or they may be undying remnants of evil gods locked in amber sarcophagi scattered throughout the domain of dread that are trying to revive themselves<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[Van Richten's Guide]] to Ravenloft'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reveals more information about the Dark Powers than any previous book but also says that it is up to the DM to decide what the true nature of the Dark Powers is so don't take all of what it says as fact</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The book reveals the names of the Dark Powers include </ins>[[Osybus]], [[Shami-Amourae]], and [[Orcus|Tenebrous]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and that Osybus is a former mortal priest </ins>of the Dark Powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who was promoted to a full Dark Power after helping to cause Strahd's fall</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It also gives support to the interpretation that the vestiges in the amber temple are the same thing as the </ins>Dark Powers<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Some alternatives that the book suggests are that </ins>may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the Darklords but not caring about the suffering they inflict <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">within their prisons. The book also give three possible suggestions about the nature of the Dark Powers. They may be amoral guardians protecting the multiverse from the dark lords but caring about the suffering they cause </ins>within their prisons. Or they may be evil architects tormenting the Darklords for their amusement or to feed on them or test them for worthiness for promotion to Dark Power. Or they may be undying remnants of evil gods locked in amber sarcophagi scattered throughout the domain of dread that are trying to revive themselves</div></td></tr>
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