![[VampyrPathfinder.webp]] # Vampyr _Vampire Vestige | [[Dark Powers]] | [[Amber Temple]]_ ## Summary The vampiric vestige among the [[Dark Powers]] imprisoned in the [[Amber Temple]]. Vampyr granted [[Strahd von Zarovich]] undeath in exchange for his brother [[Sergei von Zarovich|Sergei]]'s blood, making him the first vampire and first darklord. In the finale's collision of timelines, Vampyr moved to court the dying human Strahd back into monstrousness — but the party polymorphed Strahd into a T-Rex, and the temptation never landed. %% ## Now Still bound in the amber of the [[Amber Temple]]. Denied its bid to remake Strahd; the [[Dark Powers]] gained no new darklord. ## Personality Patient and predatory. It offers exactly what a mortal fears losing most — here, escape from death — and asks a price that damns them. It does not force the bargain; it waits for the desperate to choose it. ## Background **The first pact:** Terrified of aging and death and unable to win [[Ireena|Tatyana]], Strahd took Vampyr's offer, murdered [[Sergei von Zarovich|Sergei]] on his wedding day, and drank his blood to seal the bargain — rising as the first vampire and the first darklord in [[Baba Yaga]]'s Domains of Dread. **The second offer:** When the merging timelines dropped the mortal Strahd into the present-day Amber Vault, Vampyr and the other [[Dark Powers]] moved to tempt each broken figure into taking [[Azalin Rex]]'s place. Vampyr aimed to court Strahd again. The party denied it the chance by polymorphing Strahd into a dinosaur. %%