![[RondalWaggledustPathfinder-v1.webp]] # Rondal Waggledust _Gnome Wizard | [[Order of the Celestial Arcanum]] | [[Amber Temple]]_ ## Summary A gnome wizard of the [[Order of the Celestial Arcanum]] at the [[Amber Temple]], and a distant ancestor of Logrim. He helped [[Exethanter]] become a lich, crafted the ritual components for [[Strahd von Zarovich]]'s dark pact, and guided Strahd to the [[Dark Powers]]. Strahd murdered him in [[Castle Ravenloft]]; his dying prayer became the Waggledust family curse. %% ## Connections **Logrim** — descendant, bearer of the family curse. **[[Exethanter]]** — colleague; Rondal helped him achieve lichdom. **[[Strahd von Zarovich]]** — guided him to the [[Dark Powers]]; later his murderer. ## Background **No innocent:** Rondal took pride in his role in Strahd's fall, treating it as proof his magical theories were sound. He promised Strahd immortality and Tatyana's love and delivered him to the [[Dark Powers]]. **The murder and the curse:** When Tatyana killed herself rather than submit, the newborn vampire murdered Rondal in [[Castle Ravenloft]]. With his dying breath he prayed to "Mysterion" — in truth [[Baba Yaga]] — that his bloodline would undo his work. She answered by binding the Waggledusts with a generational curse drawing them toward Barovia and the [[Amber Temple]] to make it right. Logrim later handed that curse back to Baba Yaga for a map of her hut, and refused it when she offered it again at the end. %%