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Into Unmapped Darkness by AshSlays
Fandoms: Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Curse of Strahd - Fandom
24 Aug 2025
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Summary
The devil Strahd has been slain, and the mists choking off Barovia have lifted, but all is not well…
Ismark Kolyanovich once dreamed of sunny days alongside his best friend, the preacher's boy, Doru. But since Doru was turned into a vampire spawn, he’s been confined to the church’s undercroft, where he's sentenced to a life in the dark. Seeking a cure, Ismark journeys to Castle Ravenloft to meet its new owner, only to discover an eccentric cleric with big plans to rebuild Barovia and make it a home for all things living and undead.
Doru pushes to very edge of his chains. He’s inches away from Ismark now, and Ismark can smell every day of imprisonment on him: his soiled clothes, his oily, matted hair, the mud crusted on his skin, the blood of vermin on his breath.
“Do it,” Doru begs. “Let me rest. For all the love you’ve ever held for me.”
Ismark holds the stake out, aiming its jagged toothy end at the center of Doru’s chest, right above where his cold, dead heart lies asleep behind a protruding rib cage.
Series
- Part 1 of A Fortress Called Home