Denizens

CRIMSON KNIGHTS

Acolytes of Bahal, now corrupted by the demonic Crimson Bishop, believing themselves the only pure humans in existence. The Crimson Bishop controls them with rhetoric, sorcery, and an elite cadre called the Sons of Bahal. His dark enchantments prevent the Knights from recognizing these Sons of Bahal as undead. Only casting dispel magic on a Crimson Knight will enable them to see the truth.

CAPTAIN FARDR

Once the commander of the Crimson Knights, Captain Fardr’s mind was shattered by years of witnessed atrocities. He is now left to his own devices, but seldom leaves his quarters (Area 10). He is able to perceive the Sons of Bahal as undead, and laments their existence bitterly.

SONS OF BAHAL

Crimson Knights infected with the Deathless Plague and transformed into rotting, undead monstrosities dressed in shining armor. They serve as the Bishop’s most trusted henchmen. The Crimson Bishop’s sorcery prevents the living Crimson Knights—Captain Fardr—from recognizing the Sons of Bahal as undead.

PRIESTS

The priests who remained faithful to Bahal were slain. Some few remain prisoners, viewed by the Knights as traitors and examples of their leader’s mercy. Unaffected by the Crimson Bishop’s sorcery, they see the Sons of Bahal in their true form: as undead monsters. Such sights, along with the other depredations, have driven them to the brink of sanity.

PRISONERS

Uninfected, innocent victims, tortured into making false confessions that they are infected, spreading the Plague, or even already undead. They are then burned alive, fed to the Sons of Bahal, or converted into undead minions. Any freed by the party flee the cathedral, gibbering with mindless terror.

THE CRIMSON BISHOP

The demon who first spawned the Plague to create an earthly domain of hellish pestilence. The demon soon realized that the hands of the Church once healing, now bloodied would make perfect tools. He murdered the real Crimson Bishop, assumed his form, and seized control of the Church, purging all dissent ers. He now uses torture and murder to terrorize the land and build his undead army. His only goal is spreading Plague and undeath.