Sturm von Zarovich

[thespacevagabond]

[theravenloftwanderers]

Sergei Von Zarovich (The Ravenloft Wanderers ver 1 and 2)

(Please do not use it for your Curse of Strahd campaign without asking first)

[thecatslug]

Basically just War Against Azalin in a nutshell. And a depiction of current tensions between the two in my campaign✨

[beardedmrbean]

[strahdapologist]

ugly ass website but sUPER interesting esp as a means to cross-reference vampire mythos and trace the origins of certain vampire traits

[thatothervonzarovich]

[old-world-bird]

New Year - new piece with our beloved cursed man. This time in those days he wasn’t yet cursed - although the shadows might think otherwise. Oh, and his little brother was still alive, and his pretentious candelabras were not bat-shaped. Those were the days-

Thank you @thecheshiredragon​ once again for commissioning this piece!

Some details below the cut, as always.

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[aethermancy]

so i painted a certain vampire lord....

[thatothervonzarovich]

Ponderies

When you ship two characters as friends is that just a friendship?

[barov-von-zarovich]

I shall cite the old, forbidden magic of Tumblrloft for your answer my........"son". the old powers of this place called it a "Moirallegience".

[thatothervonzarovich]

What is Homestuck and why does it pop up when I google that?

[thatothervonzarovich]

Ponderies

When you ship two characters as friends is that just a friendship?

[thatothervonzarovich]

Hey friends and Barovians, What’s the weirdest thing in your fridge right now?

I have a pound of Garlic and at work sometimes the Goblin Intern.

[socialpsychopathblr]

[lookataleaf3000]

[thatothervonzarovich]

[yharnamsnewslug]

As much as I love that JK Rowling is being shredded for her transphobia, I'm begging y'all as a trans man to acknowledge that the fucking Hogwarts Legacy game is fucking antisemitism personified.

Jewish people are very often erased from this shit already, ACKNOWLEDGE that the entire game's premise is about it. Jesus fuck.

[kirkwallhellmouth]

This. The reason people should be boycotting the game is because of the game’s actually vile premise, not just because JKR is a transphobic asshole. She’s also an antisemitic, racist asshole.

When the game’s premise first came to light—before JKR’s infamous anti-trans diatribe that specifically targeted transmascs and especially autistic transmascs—a lot of people rightly decried it because of its blatant antisemitism and the fact that it’s premise encouraged genocidal actions against the Jewish-stereotyped goblins.

And then, somehow, for some people, JKR’s transphobia erased the fact that we already KNEW that the game was bad because of the inherent antisemitism of its narrative.

There’s more reasons to hate JKR and not buy things she’s responsible for than just her transphobia. She’s not just a TERF; she’s a racist, antisemitic TERF.

Don’t forget that, folks.

[thrumugnyr]

Rahadin and Ireena for an art trade I did with @palidoozy-art! This was so much fun to do and finally someone forced me to draw Ireena, thank you!

[thatothervonzarovich]

The Auditing team who go over your work in Barovia is awful. Not only do they anxiety-inducingly go over your work they bring a guy with an axe.

[barovianchickenandwaffles-deact]

Is it tax season already? Yikes. Gary the Illithid counts as 8 kids and 2Wash2Furious was a vet of the Strahd-Azalin war. Nobody ask me any questions.

[lordsothofsithicus]

I thought the Barovian auditing team was one old man chained up in Strahd’s library

[thatothervonzarovich]

He's an accountant for Strahd's personal wealth in castle Ravenloft. Other locations need accountants to keep track of taxes and the like and they get auditors.

[darklordazalin]

Been following you on Twitter for a while and now here and I was wondering what drew you to Azalin?

I know I’m not as active as I once so, so thank you for the continual support! Well, the reason I started the Azalin account was because I’m friends with the person behind the StrahdVonZ account on Twitter and he was, quite often, making fun of my favorite lich as Strahd, so I thought it would be fun to join in on the nonsense. In general, Azalin was one of the first characters I read a novel about that I identified with on many levels. His introverted nature, love of learning, and mostly asexual nature are very similar to my own. I also recognized my own faults within him - my tendency to judge others for their ignorance, need to have detailed plans and control of all aspects of my life, and my antisocial tendencies. I find him very interesting as a character. Imagine knowing you’re cursed to never be able to learn a new spell, yet you take the time every single day to test it. Every single day for centuries. That just speaks volumes about Azalin’s nature to never give up (and frankly a bit on the crazy side). Also, he’s a rather unique sort of lich. For one, he’s clearly guided by emotions more often than he would ever admit and for another, he did not choose lichdom. He became a lich because the Dark Powers tricked him into following their instructions to become one in order to return his son from the dead. The majority of liches become so because they sought it out specifically and wanted to for the power alone.