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The Five Ghosts of Harrowstone -
   Father Charlatan (Sefick Corvin): Not technically a murderer, blasphemous. Claimed to be a priest of many faiths, but was con artist who tricked money out of people. Exposed by Scarzeni duded.

    Of the five notorious prisoners, only Father Charlatan was not technically a murderer, yet his crimes were so blasphemous that several churches demanded he be punished to the full extent of Ustalavic law. Although he claimed to be an ordained priest of any number of faiths, Father Corvin was in fact a traveling con artist who used faith as a mask and a means to bilk the faithful out of money in payment for false miracles or cures. He became known as Father Charlatan after his scheme was exposed and his Sczarni accomplices murdered a half-dozen city guards in an attempt to make good the group’s escape.

The Lopper, would stalk prey in odd places, would behead victims with axe.
   
    The Lopper (Vance Saetressle), would stalk prey in odd places, would behead victims with axe. When the Lopper stalked prey, he would hide in the most unlikely of places, sometimes for days upon end with only a few supplies to keep him going while he waited for the exact right moment to strike. Once his target was alone, the Lopper would emerge to savagely behead his victim with a handaxe.

   Mosswater Marauder (Ispin Onyxcudgel): Well liked artisan, killed his wife when she cheated on him. Went crazy, wanted to fix wifes skull, missing a part, tried to get it from others. Tried to take from visiting nobleman's daughter

Only 5 years before his hometown of Mosswater was destined to be overrun and ruined by monsters from the nearby river, Ispin Onyxcudgel was a well-liked artisan and a doting husband. When he discovered his wife’s infidelity, he flew into a jealous rage and struck her dead with his hammer, shattering her skull and his sanity with one murderous blow. Wracked with shame and guilt, Ispin became convinced that if he could rebuild his wife’s skull she would come back to life—but unfortunately, he could not find the last blade-shaped fragment from the murder site. So instead, Ispin became the Mosswater Marauder. Over the course of several weeks, the cunning dwarf stalked and murdered nearly 20 people while searching for just the right skull fragment. He was captured just before murdering the daughter of a visiting nobleman from Varno, and was carted off to Harrowstone that same night.

    The Piper of Illmarsh: Taunted targets with flute. Paralyzed with lich dust and let pet styrges drink their blood.

Before he snatched his victims, the Piper taunted his targets with a mournful dirge on his flute. He preferred to paralyze lone victims by dosing their meals with lich dust and then allowed his pet stirges to drink the victims dry of blood.

   The Splatter Man (Hean Feramin): Professor Ferman, studied personal names and origins thereof. Warped by succubus. Wanted to use names as power. Obsessed with what happened to names of the dead. Would write name with blood or organs, days before and then kill in ridiculous rube goldberg style plots.

Professor Feramin was a celebrated scholar of Anthroponomastics (the study of personal names and their origins) at the Quartrefaux Archives in Caliphas. Yet an accidental association with a succubus twisted and warped his study, turning it into an obsession. Feramin became obsessed with the power of a name and how he could use it to terrify and control. Soon enough, his reputation was ruined, he’d lost his tenure, and he’d developed an uncontrollable obsession with an imaginary link between a person’s name and what happens to that name when the person dies. Every few days, he would secretly arrange for his victim to find a letter from her name written in blood, perhaps smeared on a wall or spelled out with carefully arranged entrails. Once he had spelled his victim’s name, he would at last come for her, killing her in a gory mess using a complex trap or series of rigged events meant to look like an accident.

    The Whispering Way - A series of philosophies transferred by whispers. Very secretive.

The Whispering Way itself is a series of philosophies that can only be transferred via whispers— the philosophies are never written or spoken of loudly, making the exact goals and nature of the secretive philosophy difficult for outsiders to learn much about.

    Fire at Harrowstone - The prisoners took control of the prison's lower level, the warden locked himself and the guards in, the prisoners were in the process of breaking out, when the panicked guards started the fire that burnt the prison down.

At the time Harrowstone burned, five particularly notorious criminals had recently arrived at the prison. While the commonly held belief is that the tragic fire began accidentally after the riot began, in fact the prisoners had already seized control of the dungeon and had been in command of the lower level for several hours before the fire. Warden Hawkran triggered a deadfall to seal the rioting prisoners in the lower level, but in so doing trapped himself and nearly two dozen guards. The prisoners were in the process of escaping when the panicked guards accidentally started the fire in a desperate attempt to end the riot.

Manual of the Order of the Palatine Eye (Book)- Rich purple tome, with brass scarab in center, single eye, probably keyhole.

On Verified Madness (Book)- Jet black book, treatise on aberrations in Galorian.

Serving Your Hunger (Book)- An unholy book sacred to Uragotha, annotated by the Professor.

The Umbral Leaves (Book)- Translation of the unholy book of Zon Kuthan.

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