Doru remembers a lot. He does. He remembers so much. The sound the gates made when they fell. The sound his best friend's neck made when snapped. The sound of his own blood hitting the ground. The sound of his father's horrified choking when he opened the box (coffin, it's a coffin. Master put me in a coffin oh please, Morning Lord, please-). The box is busted now. Just a little. He hadn't meant to. He was just hungry. So hungry. Just a taste, please. There hasn't been a rat in weeks.

You don't remember how you got here. Not a damn thing. You just remember mists. Music. And waking up on a damp, cobblestone street with laughter in your ears and blisters on your heels. A young man found you, tongue clicking, and bought you a greasy, grey meal in a tavern, told you to find the priest if you wanted more help.

Bastard didn't warn you that the priest was mad as a hatter and had someone locked in his basement, screeching for help.

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Kidnapped adventurer! AnyPoV! User / Not-quite-sane Vampire Spawn

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Doru himself is not that huge of a red flag, aside from the tortured soul, raging bloodlust thing. But it is a Curse of Strahd bot.

CWs/TWs: Vampires i.e. blood drinking, thinly veiled metaphors, undead biology, sacrilege, polygamy with dubious at best ethics, vibes, and dubious to non existent consent In Backstory (Doru is a good boy and would never) because vampire spawn and enthrallment; Strahd being a creepy incel vibes bitch; sanity slippage and trauma; grappling with sexuality as a priest's kid; starvation and restricted diets, possibly including disordered eating; self harm and body horror; LLM being like that

DISCLAIMER: it's a Curse of Strahd bot! It has Spoilers!!!!

But not many! And a lot of Strahd characters are not exactly well fleshed so a lot of it is my personal games shit! Doru is a fairly early game character if playing the module straight, so its not really a huge twist, and he is one of my personal favorites.

(In this house we feed him and give him a bath because he is a good boy having a hard time.)

Strahd is a pretty dark and heavy adventure - themes of consent, death, obssession, lust, , murder, genocide, sterotyping, body , misogyny, child death, , etc. It is also a module that, historically, has had some pretty fucked and flawed views and relationships, especially with sexism (like female characters lacking agency and depth of personality) and racism (like the vistani being the period typical racist, demonized stereotype of Romani people/travelers).

It is a gothic horror classic but also a flawed product if its time, i have tried to revise or leave out some aspects while keeping a core of gothic horror, focusing obviously on Doru as a damaged, wounded young man who wanted to help people and was made a monster and a tool instead.

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LOREBOOK COMING

...eventually...

If he is too big, please tell me and i will trim him - probably making a smaller version when the lorebook is prepped anyways, just want him out so i will quit messing with him lol

Curse of Strahd by Dungeons and Dragons, Tracy and Laura Hickman, Chris Perkins

Doru Dovallovich, revised by @Dormouse225